Articles tagged with: Capex
Emerging Markets Cautious About Telecoms CAPEX for 2009
.. and 20% respectively, other regions are expected to report broadly stable-to-declining capex in 2009," noted Priya Gupta, Director in Fitch's Asia-Pacific Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) team. "Russia, in particular, more
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Tekelec Wins Additional Signaling Business With Wataniya Telecom
..said Hisham Sibilini, chief technology officer of Wataniya Telecom, "saving capex and opex and giving us the tools to improve our services' portfolio as we continue to grow." Wataniya will also use Tekelec to balance traffic for SMS ne more
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Tower Sharing Could Save $8 Billion Over 5 Years in MEA Region
..rkets is making operators consider it in order to achieve significant savings in capex and opex. In some cases, infrastructure sharing is the only viable way to access rural areas and penetrate lower end segments", says Victor Font, Managi more
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Competition Brings Big Changes to South Africa's Telecom Sector
..works has triggered a wave of WiMax and other fixed-wireless access (FWA) capex, allowing operators to bypass Telkom's former monopoly of the last mile. "Operators that previously relied on Telkom's network such as MTN and Vodacom are now more
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Carrier Ethernet market defying downturn
..provider investment in carrier Ethernet equipment is growing faster than overall telecom capex. Carrier Ethernet is one of the key technologies globally integral to IP next gen network transformation projects pushing the move from TDM to packet ba more
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Active RAN Sharing Could Save Operators $60 Billion
A new study from ABI Research finds that the worldwide combined OPEX and capex savings from active infrastructure sharing could amount to as much as $60 billion over the next five year period. The study finds that operators could enjoy at least 40% cost savings in addition to those available from passive site sharing. more
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Yankee Group Predicts No Capex Growth Until 2011
.. that telecommunications carriers globally will show measured caution in capital expenditures (capex) in 2009, decreasing from $284 billion in 2008 to $272 billion this year. Capex, as a percentage of revenue, will decline from 15.2 percent in more
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Syrian Network Orders Network Optimisation Software
Network optimisation vendor, Optimi says has been selected by MTN Syria to provide a software solution for automated network optimization. As part of this agreement, Optimi will supply its xParameters solution for automated optimization of key radio resource management parameters in multi-vendor networks, in order to improve the performance of the existing network infrastructure and therefore reduce the need for future capital outlays. more
Related Tags: tim, mtn, ovi, iden, mtn-syria, optimi, Syria
Free-to-air mobile TV services hold the key to the consumer adoption
Industry momentum is gathering behind the need for a free component that will drive the mass adoption of mobile TV. Last week the president of the FLO Forum, an organisation supporting one of the emerging mobile TV standards, endorsed the view that mobile TV needs a free element if it is going to develop and thrive. Telegent Systems, the company that has already enabled free-to-air mobile TV on 20 million handsets around the world, welcomes the viewpoint that free services will play a vital role in developing the market and provide the launch-pad for paid-for elements. more
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Dot com diet keeps telecoms in good shape
..try, will always require a significant amount of debt. The industry has been fortunate in 2008 in that the total amount of debt falling due was less than in previous years. However the longer term trend will reassert itself as €47bn falls due i more
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