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Articles tagged with: Bric
Over 230,000 New Base Stations to Be Added Next Year in the Four Largest Emerging Markets
While many sectors of the economy are languishing in the global recession, wireless infrastructure is relatively healthy. This also holds true in the world's major "emerging markets." Base station deployment continues in many countries, and the four largest markets - Brazil, Russia, India, and China, known collectively as the "bric" group - are expected to see more than 230,000 of them being deployed during 2010. more
Related Tags: base-station, abi-research, wimax,, Brazil
Shipment of Taiwan's Basic/Feature Phone Industry Exceeds Forecasts
According to research of the Taipei-based Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC), shipment volumes of the Taiwanese basic/feature phone industry in the first quarter of 2009 has been estimated at 10.21 million units. Even though shipment volume declined sequentially in the first quarter, it was still higher than the 9.42 million units originally forecast. more
Related Tags: motorola, nokia, edge, cdma, wcdma, mic, Taiwan
Radiocomp Demos Protocol-Agnostic Remote Radio Head for LTE Networks
Infrastructure vendor, Radiocomp says that it has developed the world's first protocol-agnostic remote radio head (RRH) for mass deployment of LTE infrastructure. Radiocomp is using PMC-Sierra's PM7832 bricTM 2 interface controller to implement a multi-mode RRH platform that supports both CPRI (v2.1, V3.0, & V4.0) and OBSAI RP3-01 v.4.0 protocols. more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, base-station, wimax, ict, lte, chipsets, 4g
IDC Predicts Worldwide Mobile Phone Shipments To Fall 8.3% in 2009
The worldwide mobile phone market felt the full effects of the economic crisis in the fourth quarter of 2008 as shipments fell 11.6% year over year, marking the first time the holiday quarter has not recorded double digit growth in seven years. This closed out a year that was dismal at best, yet overall 2008 managed to grow 4.3% over 2007. This has set the stage for what IDC predicts to be a very rough 2009, with the most recent market forecast anticipating growth of -8.3% for the year. more
Related Tags: iphone, smartphone, eu, apple, ict, smartphones, idc, seven, apple-iphone
BRIC Economies to Experience Strong Mobile User Growth, Reaching 1.64bn by 2013
The increasing availability of broadband-enabled mobile networks, aided by falling prices of sophisticated handsets and data charges, will underpin continued strong growth in mobile phone usage in Brazil, Russia, India and China (collectively referred to as the bric markets), from 1.21 billion in 2008 to 1.64 billion by 2013, according to a report published by Juniper Research. more
Related Tags: juniper-research, mobile-data, andrew, Brazil
Perhaps no single planning IT objective was a greater casualty of the economic turmoil of 2008 than the cause of green IT. Back in July, peaking energy prices driven by hypergrowth in China and India prompted the urgency for businesses to formulate "green" planning, and for vendors such as IBM to promote the role of information technology in helping businesses reduce their carbon footprints and costs. Fast-forward a couple of months to the collapse of Lehman, and suddenly a new wave of events triggers oil prices to undergo a 75% decline in less than six months. more
Related Tags: edge, ibm, lte, ran
Revenues From Mobile Data Services to Underpin Continued Growth in BRIC Economies
Increasing adoption of messaging and content services, aided by increased availability of 2G and 3G-based mobile networks, is expected to push operator-billed data revenues in the mobile markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China (collectively referred to as the bric economies) from $26.2 billion in 2008 to more than $48.3 billion by 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research. more
Related Tags: mobile-data, andrew, Brazil
Worldwide mobile cellular subscribers to reach 4 billion mark late 2008
ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré announced in New York that worldwide mobile cellular subscribers are likely to reach the 4 billion mark before the end of this year. Dr Touré was speaking at the high-level events on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in New York, where he also participated in UN Private Sector Forums addressing the global food crisis and the role of technological innovation in meeting the MDGs. more
Related Tags: rsa, rural, driving, rcom, mobile-broadband, m-commerce, ict, itu, compete, new-york
Mobile Subscribers to Hit 5.2 Billion in 2011
Communications market research firm Infonetics Research reports there were 3 times more mobile subscribers than access line subscribers worldwide in 2007 (3.3 billion vs. 1.1 billion), and expects continued strong growth in mobile subscribers, mainly driven by basic voice service needs in bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). more
Related Tags: voip, mobile-broadband, infonetics-research
India to be the largest market for Mobile WiMAX by 2013
Mobile WiMAX may not succeed in mature mobile broadband markets, but it will have a future in bric countries, especially in India according to an analysis made by Cantab Wireless. The analysis made by Cantab Wireless revealed that Mobile WiMAX cannot fulfil all the expectations placed upon it. It is a powerful technology with many excellent qualities; yet Mobile WiMAX also has some serious limitations. more
Related Tags: mms, mobile-wimax, mobile-broadband, India