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Articles tagged with: Capex and Opex
Telco revenue growth skidded to halt in 4Q '08
..h in 4Q07. However, growth in operating expenses for the same period was just 1.4%, and capex dropped 2.3%. While the capex decline – which has worsened in early 2009 – is certainly unwelcome news to vendors, the net impact of telcos' cost reduc 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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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
Related Tags: ethernet, edge, tim, lte, ovi, microwave, switches, backhaul
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
Related Tags: t-mobile, 3g, base-station, eu, rural, vodafone, o2, lte, abi-research, telenor, 3, backhaul, tele2, infrastructure-sharing
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
Related Tags: mobile-tv, ovi, iden, telegent, play
Study Projects Positive Femtocell Business Case
The Femto Forum has published the results of research into the femtocell business case that it commissioned from Signals Research Group (SRG), a US-based wireless telecommunications consultancy. The report found that femtocells can generate attractive returns for operators by significantly increasing the expected lifetime value of a subscriber across a range of user scenarios. Subscribers in turn could realize cost savings and other benefits from femtocells. more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, mobile-data, wimax, itu, lte, mobile-broadband, femtocell, femto-forum, femtocells
The case for network sharing gets stronger
..need to achieve nationwide roaming, lowering capex and opex cost is the primary reason for MNOs to share their network infrastructure. Several MNOs have already signed such network-sharing deals. These could be just a wholesale roaming deal, sh more
Related Tags: orange, t-mobile, roaming, 3-uk, vodafone, teliasonera, ovum, t-mobile-uk, tim, eu, ran, yoigo, 3, tele2
Tunisian Operator Upgrades GPRS Core Network
Tunisian mobile operator, Tunisiana has modernized its GPRS core network following an upgrade contract which was awarded to Nokia Siemens Networks. The company installed its Flexi ISN, which performs GPRS Gateway Service Node (GGSN) and data charging functionalities, and is fully integrated with the existing Nokia Siemens Networks charge@once prepaid solution to enable flexible charging of data services. more
Related Tags: intel, mms, core-network, vas, orascom-telecom, nokia-siemens-networks, ben, siemens, gprs, tunisiana, nokia-siemens, orascom, wap, Tunisia
Huawei Shows 3G/2G Software Defined Radio Single RAN
Huawei, working with Vodafone, has announced the launch of the industryÃ's first 3G / 2G Software Defined Radio (SDR) Single RAN product. The development is one of the first products from Huawei and VodafoneÃ's Radio Mobile Innovation Centre based in Madrid, Spain. more
Related Tags: base-station, rsa, huawei, vodafone, ran, radio-access-network, software-defined-radio, Spain