Posted by: Bappy on: May 28, 2009
With stronger competitive pressure from internet players, telecom operators are giving more attention to the option of transformation through unified operations support systems over the best of breed approach.
For Clarity International CEO Tony Kalcina, much of the push is from the web players’ successes in OSS and billing, which ironically take off from the achievements [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 28, 2009
New research from Wireless Intelligence has revealed that the world’s largest mobile handset vendors are facing severe financial pressures as they continue to invest in their product portfolios during the market slowdown. We estimate that the average operating margin at the top five vendors – Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and LG – declined to [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 28, 2009
The principal performance benefit femtocells bring to LTE is to ensure more users receive peak data rates more of the time, especially inside buildings where the most mobile broadband data is consumed and where the service quality is lower than outside.
Femtocells achieve this by maximising spectrum re-use and by ensuring power, and therefore network capacity, [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 28, 2009
European researchers believe they have achieved what has remained an almost impossible dream in the wireless world: powerful mobile services that work simply, seamlessly and intuitively. European researchers have developed a mobile services platform that is generating a lot of excitement among fellow researchers and developers. It already works with Windows Mobile and Symbian, two [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 28, 2009
Indonesian market leader Telkomsel saw another excellent quarter for customer growth in Q1 09. In fact, its figure of 6.83m net additions was the second highest ever recorded behind its own Q3 08 boost of 8.06m. At the end of the quarter, it had 72.13m customers. Despite the strong quarterly performance, Telkomsel fell from 6th [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 28, 2009
Egypt’s Orascom Telecom has reported a 66 percent drop in its first-quarter profits to US$72 million – largely due to local currency devaluations against the US Dollar. Revenues dropped by 4 percent to US$1.2 billion.
In US$, revenues for Mobilink decreased by 1% in local currency vs. a decrease of 23% in US$, revenues for Tunisiana [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 28, 2009
The latest data from IMS Research shows that the SIM card market continues to defy the economic downturn that is currently hitting the mobile market. Total shipments of SIM cards in 2008 grew to reach the record number of 3.07 billion. This is in marked contrast to the numbers from manufacturers which showed handset shipments [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 28, 2009
Ultra low-cost handsets (ULCH) – those selling for $35 or less – will determine the success of operators and vendors in emerging markets, according to a report from the Strategy Analytics Emerging Markets Communications Strategies service. More than half of the 300 million ULCH expected to be sold in 2013 will go to emerging markets, [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 25, 2009
Annual revenues from value-added services upsold through downloaded apps are expected to exceed $14bn by 2014, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The mobile applications report found that storefronts are increasingly likely to offer the facility to upsell premium content from within the app itself (including the App Store, starting later this year). [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: May 25, 2009
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has reported that its fourth fiscal (1st calendar) quarter’s underlying net profit fell 0.9 percent to S$959 million (US$657 million) from a year ago impacted by the weak Australian dollar and major regional currencies.
For the full year, the Group’s operating revenue was stable at S$14.93 billion (US$10.2 billion). The strong Singapore dollar [...]
