Articles tagged with: Fmc
UK enterprises wasting £264 million per year on mobile costs
A survey of UK businesses has suggested that companies are wasting money by not deploying fixed-mobile convergence systems within their offices. The research showed that on average large enterprises were spending £209,150 each year on mobile calls, yet the IT directors surveyed estimated that 42% of their employees' mobile calls were being made from within the office. more
Related Tags: fixed-mobile-convergence, femtocell, security, UK
FMC and femtocell equipment forecast to hit $7.4 billion in 2013
Sales of fmc network element equipment and femtocell equipment will grow to $7.4 billion worldwide by 2013, forecasts Infonetics Research. They also report that the number of 2G and 3G femtocells sold for use in mobile networks will increase five-fold from 2009 to 2010. more
Related Tags: fixed-mobile-convergence, femtocell
Partnerships Facilitate the Deployment of Next-Gen Enterprise FMC Solutions
Although markets worldwide were impacted by the global economic slowdown during the end of 2008, the world enterprise fixed-mobile convergence (fmc) markets have registered stable growth. The cost and productivity benefits offered by enterprise fmc solutions have considerably defused the negative effects on the segment. In fact, fmc solutions have become one of the most sought-after technologies by IT departments to tackle escalating mobile costs, poor in-building coverage, less-than-optimal productivity, and integration of enterprise capabilities and applications with mobile communications. more
Related Tags: fixed-mobile-convergence, base, presence
Enterprise FMC Will Grow at a CAGR of 27%, Reaching Over 27 Million by 2014
In a new study from ABI Research, fmc (Fixed-Mobile Convergence) handset voice connections for business customers are forecast to rise from 6.3 million in 2009 to more than 27 million by 2014. fmc voice connections include Wi-Fi fmc connections as well as cellular fmc connections using picocells and femtocells. more
Related Tags: fixed-mobile-convergence
3G Networks Drive Fixed/Mobile Service Offer in Latin America
Convergent Fixed-Mobile service offer is still embryonic in Latin America, with Brazil as the market providing the greatest range of such services, reports Signals Telecom Consulting. The report also says that Fixed/Mobile Convergence (fmc) services will record CAGR of 14.8% over the 2009-2014 period, and that Mexico will account for only about 11% of fmc lines in Latin America in 2014. more
Related Tags: fixed-mobile-convergence, presence, Brazil
Hike in telecom capex expected in 2H09, though overall capex still down in 2009
Market research firm Infonetics Research has reported that global service provider capex (capital expenditures) hit a plateau at $298 billion in 2008, marking the end of a five-year investment cycle. This represented a 12.9% increase in capex spending from the previous year, with much of the growth due to currency appreciation against the US dollar, which peaked in July 2008. more
Related Tags: infonetics-research, capex, mobile-internet, sprint, weather, storm
Study Finds Large Cost Savings for Migrating Heavy Data Users to Femtocells
Signals Research Group has completed a whitepaper on the business case for femtocells as part of its ongoing femtocell business modeling initiative with the trade group, the Femto Forum. The study found, across a wide variety of scenarios considering different regions of the world, the business case for femtocells is strong---often doubling the customer lifetime value---and does not depend on any one critical factor or assumption in order to generate a favorable outcome. Further to this, the research demonstrated that femtocells can dramatically reduce the growing financial costs made by heavy mobile broadband data users on the mobile network. more
Related Tags: sim, eu, arpu, ict, tim, mts, hspa, ovi, iden, mobile-broadband, femtocell, 3, femtocells, ev-do
OnRelay Trials Enterprise FMC with BT Global Services
OnRelay, a provider of cellular Fixed Mobile Convergence (fmc) software, has announced that they have entered into a customer trial agreement with the international services arm of UK landline operator, BT Global Services. more
Related Tags: unified-communications, landline, bt, fixed-mobile-convergence
FMC and femtocell equipment markets poised to take off in face of downturn
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released a report on fmc and Femtocell Equipment, which forecasts that combined, sales of fmc network element equipment and femtocell equipment are expected to grow at a healthy rate through the economic downturn and really take off in 2011, reaching nearly $8 billion worldwide by 2013. more
Related Tags: orange, t-mobile, 3g, nokia, apple, driving, lte, iden, vas, rogers-wireless, ran, infonetics-research, femtocell, rogers, radio-network-controller
Record year for GSM rollouts, more to come with 3G buildouts in China, India
Market research firm Infonetics Research released the fourth quarteredition of its Mobile Infrastructure and Subscribers report and noted that the worldwide mobile network infrastructure equipment market grew 6% to US$50.8 billion in 2008 over 2007, and will continue to grow in 2009 and 2010. more
Related Tags: 3g, nokia, huawei, alcatel-lucent, ericsson, nortel, ran, infonetics-research, gsm, siemens, nokia-siemens, China
