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Articles tagged with: Ict and Africa
Nokia 1st-Quarter Profit Plunges by 90 Percent
.. our sales volumes in the quarter. However, it has also resulted in the demand picture becoming more predictable as we enter the second quarter." Nokia's Devices & Services net sales were EUR 6.2 billion, down 33% year on year and more
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Yankee Group Predicts No Capex Growth Until 2011
Yankee Group is predicting 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 2008 to 14.1 percent in 2009, again reflecting conservative but necessary cuts for carriers, but also signaling tough times ahead for vendors. more
Related Tags: eu, itu, driving, tim, lte, capex, yankee-group
Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Down by 5% in Q4 '08
..om 81 million in the third quarter of 2008 to 79 million in the fourth quarter of 2008," said Anshul Gupta, principal analyst for Gartner, based in Mumbai. However, weak consumer confidence resulted into poor replacement sales, as consume more
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Northern Europe Tops ICT Developments Index
ITU has published an ict Development Index (IDI), which compares developments in information and communication technologies (ict) in 154 countries over a five-year period from 2002 to 2007. The Index combines 11 indicators into a single measure that can be used as a benchmarking tool globally, regionally and at the country level. These are related to ict access, use and skills, such as households with a computer the number of Internet users; and literacy levels. more
Related Tags: 3g, eu, itu, 3g-license, driving, mobile-broadband, benchmarking, wired, digital-divide, connect
Telecom Operators in Emerging Markets to Benefit from Technology Transfer in 2009
..5 years in the developing world is a testimony to the unpredictability and yet, the phenomenal potential of this industry for accelerating economic development. Reaching out to the unconnected will be easier with more government policy foresigh more
Related Tags: 3g, wimax, voip, rural, edge, wimax,, caribbean
Hosted IVR Services Offer Tremendous Growth Potential in Markets across EMEA
..ullivan Research Director Ashwin Iyer. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan predicts this market to be one of the largest and fastest growing markets for contact center technologies in EMEA. "Although enterprises in EMEA are relatively unf more
Related Tags: sim, eu, itu, driving, contact-center, outsourcing, ivr
Positives for the African ICT Sector Despite the Global Crisis
The African ict industry has been quite sheltered from the global economic downturn. Despite the disruptions in markets around the world, African ict industries have remained fairly robust and should witness continued growth. more
Related Tags: orange, itu, lte, mtn, outsourcing, zain, vodacom, tigo
East African ICT sector earnings to hit $788m by 2014
APA - Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Earnings in the ict sector in East Africa will rise from $164 million in 2007 to a $788 million by 2014 due to a favourable business environment for Internet service providers and growth in broadband connections, according to a just released report by market analyst Frost & Sullivan. more
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Mobile Messaging Revenues to Defy Economic Downturn
..tunities for service providers. Based on the 2008/2009 New Year SMS figures alone, Acision predicts messaging and its associated revenues will continue to soar globally despite the economic downturn. Acision has compiled its mobile predictions more
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Ericsson Announces Plans to Cut 5,000 Jobs
..s are fairly loaded. It remains, however, difficult to more precisely predict to what extent consumer telecom spending will be affected and how operators will act. To date, our infrastructure business is hardly impacted at all, but it would be more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, asia-pacific, 3g-license, driving, ericsson, mobile-broadband, sony, 3g-licenses, 2g
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