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Articles tagged with: Infonetics Research
Operators increasing spending on subscriber data management services
Although many mobile network operators are lowering their capital expenditure budgets for 2009 and early 2010, spending on subscriber data management (SDM) software will actually increase, reports Infonetics Research. more
Related Tags: subscriber-data-management, opex
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: capex, mobile-internet, fmc, sprint, weather
Microwave equipment market hits $4.9 billion in 2008, led by Ericsson and NEC
Market research firm Infonetics Research is reporting that worldwide microwave equipment sales hit $4.9 billion in 2008, up 23% from the previous year. Despite a tough macroeconomic climate, mobile operators continue to invest in mobile backhaul to accommodate rapidly rising mobile broadband traffic -- the primary driver behind strong microwave equipment market growth. more
Related Tags: ericsson, nec, microwave, ethernet, backhaul, wimax,, 4g, bandwidth
Telecom carriers spent $62 billion on outsourced services in 2008
Market research firm Infonetics Research is reporting that telecom carriers spent US$62 billion on outsourced services in 2008, and have plans to increase that spending. The report noted that the top revenue-generating tasks outsourced by service providers in 2008 include network maintenance, application service delivery, network build, and network planning and design. more
Related Tags: alcatel-lucent, cisco, ericsson, fujitsu, hp, huawei, -ibm, microsoft, motorola, nec, nokia-siemens-networks, nortel, bharti, siemens, opex, nokia-siemens
Smartphone sales buck the recession
A report by Infonetics Research is forecasting an 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide (down from 1.2 billion in 2008), in line with predictions from Nokia, among others. Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the only segment to show unit and revenue growth in the second half of the year as the world economy entered recession. more
Related Tags: android, nokia, iphone, smartphone, samsung, wimax, motorola, eu, w-cdma, ict, smartphones, tim, cdma, hspa, ericsson, lg, symbian, open-source, wimax,, gsm, operating-system
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, femtocell, fmc, rogers, radio-network-controller
Recession isn't holding back mobile broadband subscribers
Market research firm Infonetics Research released the fourth quarter (4Q08) edition of its Mobile Broadband Cards, Routers, Services, and Subscribers report last week. The report found that worldwide, the number of mobile broadband subscribers (including W- CDMA/HSPA and CDMA2000/EV-DO) jumped 125% in 2008 over 2007, hitting 210.5 million, and are expected to top 1 billion by 2013. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, wimax, huawei, cdma, hspa, ericsson, mobile-broadband, sony, wimax,, ev-do
Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, NEC lead fast growing microwave equipment market
Market research firm Infonetics Research released an update of its Microwave Equipment Market Outlook report last week after receiving new guidance from a number of vendors in this space, which significantly altered the market share landscape and overall market size. Highlights from the market share and forecast report follow. more
Related Tags: ethernet, nokia, wimax, eu, driving, lte, ericsson, nokia-siemens-networks, nec, microwave, backhaul, siemens, nokia-siemens, bandwidth
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, fmc, gsm, siemens, nokia-siemens, China
IMS equipment market up 94% in 2008, subscribers to triple in 2009
Communications market research firm Infonetics Research says in a report that worldwide sales of IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) equipment, including HSS (home subscriber servers) and CSCF servers, nearly doubled in 2008 over 2007, up 94%. Fixed-line VoIP is remaining the primary application deployed over IMS. more
Related Tags: nokia, eu, voip, huawei, alcatel-lucent, ericsson, ims, rcs