Stuttgart, Germany and Manila, Philippines — Incumbents around the world increasingly shift their strategy towards fibre deployments away from providing just the “dumb pipe” to a more complex approach where “content is king”. Carriers are actively seeking to move away from the previous strategy — where their role was predominantly confined as access provider only — and move towards a more complex...
Stuttgart, Germany and Manila, Philippines — The VoIP emerging market Brazil proved to deliver high subscriber growth, as America Movil and Vivendi groups managed to improve their respective VoIP market positioning in 2Q11. This was revealed by InfoCom’s latest release of the Global Top-10 VoIP* groups. InfoCom points out that aside from the effectiveness of product bundling strategy, the...
Stuttgart, Germany — Western Europe posted over 182m TV households at end-2010, 40% of which are watching TV via terrestrial platforms, 27% via CaTV, and about 26% through satellite, either free-to-air or through paid subscription. The IPTV subscriber base represented about 7% of the total base. InfoCom expects that by 2015, satellite TV will overtake CaTV in terms of TV households, with...
Manila, Philippines — From 2011 to 2015, the Chinese telecom industry will grow by a compounded annual average rate (CAAGR) of 3%. Mobile services and datacom will grow at a rate of 3% while Internet at 9%. Fixed telephony, on the other hand, will steadily decline at a CAAGR of about 3%. In mobile services, competition will revolve around providing differentiated, innovative and relevant data 3G...
M2M Taiwan in the race of Asian economies with the highest fibre optic penetration — Fibre revenues mostly subscriber-driven and result of carriers’ aggressive promotions — Increasing 3G subscriptions and widening demand for smartphones — Mobile non-voice revenues successfully offsetting decline in voice revenues — Smartphone-related applications and software services make Internet access, photo...
M2M is a fast growing and increasingly strategically important market — Most active players are large network operators, especially mobile ones — Development partnerships and cooperation crucial to exchange know-how — Active players include M2M vendors, software providers and resellers, but also a wide variety of different kind of players. Stuttgart, Germany — According to a recent research...
Stuttgart, Germany — Spain telecom market is set to continue to decline in the next coming years according to InfoCom’s latest released figures on the Spanish market through TELESEEQ. From well above the €28,6 billion in 2008, the Spanish telecom market tumbled to €27,5 billion in 2009, and is expected to continue falling to €27 billion by the end of 2010. The telecom industry is expected to...
Stuttgart, Germany — InfoCom is launching a new product, the Series FTTx 2010, a series of topic-focused papers, covering all aspects around FTTx and presenting strategic assessments of relevant technologies and impact of deployments on existing markets, related regulatory issues, available services as well as successful killer applications. The reports look into the most interesting business...
Stuttgart, Germany and Manila, Philippines — According to one of InfoCom’s latest studies on the mobile market, the management of software updates for mobile phones not only bring value to the user, providing faster and improved software on its mobile phone, but may reveal as an additional revenue stream for the mobile carrier as well as produce positive effects on brand loyalty. Yet, this also...
Stuttgart, Germany and Manila, Philippines — According to InfoCom latest study “IPTV — Operator Strategies and Trends — Maximising the value of IPTV”, a set of basic features are already widely available within most IPTV offers in many developed TV markets worldwide. Features such as EPG (Electronic Programme Guide), Video-on-demand (VoD), DVR/PVR and Information Services are now included in...