Articles tagged with: Ovum and Opex

Telco revenue growth skidded to halt in 4Q '08

According to a study from ovum, telecom service providers underlying 4Q08 performance has been surprisingly strong, despite chaos in credit markets, a drop in consumer confidence, and macroeconomic uncertainty. Large write-downs in some markets do not negate this underlying strength.  more

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Mobile broadband to be worth $137 billion by 2014

Users of mobile broadband services (3G and 3G+ technologies) will grow from 181 million in 2008 to over 2 billion in 2014, growth of 1024%, according to ovum's latest research. more

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The case for network sharing gets stronger

Opinion piece by Emeka Obiodu, senior analyst at ovum

With a mature market, declining voice revenues and now the economic downturn, the argument for European mobile network operators (MNOs) to share their networks has never been stronger. Although there have been several network-sharing initiatives, what is needed is a more coherent commercial and regulatory framework across the EU to make network sharing the norm rather than the exception.  more

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T-Mobile and Three to Merge their 3G Radio Access Networks

Hutchison 3G UK (3) and T-Mobile UK have signed an agreement to combine their 3G access networks in a collaboration which they say will lead to almost complete population coverage for 3G services across Britain by the end of 2008 with significant fill in and improvement to dense urban in-building coverage in 2009.  more

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