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| Capex and Equipment Market Update: 2Q08 |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/09 |
| Strong growth in global wireline equipment sales continued in 2Q08, as revenues grew 18.1% versus the year-ago period and 10.4% sequentially. The optical networking, switching and routing, and cable TV segments were up 17% or more each versus 2Q07, and br ... |
| Capgemini |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/09 |
| Capgemini is following a multi-pronged approach to strengthen its business in the global recession. It is sensibly focusing on sectors resilient to the downturn, increasing its offshore business mix and introducing services based on cloud computing and Sa ... |
| Fujitsu Vendor Profile |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/09 |
| Fujitsu, the Tokyo-headquartered IT infrastructure and services player, has experienced a relatively poor fiscal 2008 growth-wise, and is embarking on a restructuring programme to support an ambitious drive outside its home market. ... |
| Italy (country regulation overview) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/09 |
| At the end of 2008 Italy had 22.6 million fixed lines. Telecom Italia (TI), the local incumbent, still dominates the market for fixed telecoms despite facing increasing competition in the access market. ... |
| Malaysia Mobile Market |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/09 |
| In 2009 Malaysian mobile operators have been reconfiguring their strategies to fit a maturing mobile market, with a focus on cost management and segmentation. Key recent growth drivers have included 3G - especially mobile broadband - and enterprise servic ... |
| Market Segment Profile: Carrier Ethernet |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/09 |
| The carrier Ethernet application segment addresses a wide set of carrier needs that require capabilities available on products that fall within traditional switching and routing, wired and wireline access, and optical networking technology segments. Carri ... |
| Microsoft's Security Strategy |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/09 |
| Microsoft is the largest software vendor, but most people still do not think of it as a security vendor. Attitudes need to change. Its ' Trustworthy Computing' initiative has transformed its business, and it now has a massive security-related operation. ... |
| Optimising Business Models for Online Video |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/09 |
| Making money from online video is proving difficult, because audiences have not yet reached a critical mass that can generate profits from transactional or ad-supported business models; a situation exacerbated by content acquisition problems and the slow ... |
| Telkom Indonesia |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/09 |
| Telkom Indonesia has seen strong subscriber growth but has found it hard to convert that into revenue growth due to intense competition. To compensate, it is looking for growth in ' new-wave' business within Indonesia. ... |
| Belgacom |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| Belgacom, the Belgian incumbent operator, provides domestic fixed, mobile and wholesale services and international wholesale services. Belgacom' s top-level financials for the first six months of 2009 have been relatively positive. ... |
| Belgacom International Carrier Services (BICS) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| BICS is an international wholesaler with a good breadth of services, a strong track record in providing good customer service, and a focus on serving mobile operators. The entity, which incorporates the international wholesale activities of Swisscom and ( ... |
| Belgium (country regulation overview) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| The market for fixed-line telecommunications was liberalised on 1 January 1998 in accordance with the EU directive. Since that time, the incumbent operator, Belgacom, has lost market share to alternative operators. ... |
| BT |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| BT has had a difficult year, with a number of contract reviews at its Global Services division contributing heavily to it recording a net loss during the year ended March 2009. BT faces challenges, but there are positive aspects in its performance. ... |
| Denmark (Country Regulation Overview) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| Denmark' s pro-competitive regulatory framework has encouraged an extensive and diverse range of competitors to tackle incumbent TDC' s dominance in fixed services. As of December 2008, TDC led the fixed-line market with an 82.1% market share. ... |
| Germany (Country Regulation Overview) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| Germany' s PSTN market opened up to competition on 1 January 1998 in accordance with the EU directive. Prior to this, only the data and mobile markets faced any form of competition from new operators. ... |
| IBM Builds Up its Cloud Offering |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| In June 2009, IBM announced yet another string of Cloud computing-related offerings. More will follow. They are key deliverables in IBM' s cautious, pragmatic progression into the cloud. ... |
| Informatica Vendor Analysis |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| Informatica, one of the few remaining data integration software pure plays left in the market, seems to be doing a good job of riding out the macroeconomic storm. ... |
| Juniper Security Products |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| Juniper Networks is a network infrastructure vendor that offers extensive security functionality in its switches and routers. It has an innovative approach to simplifying data centre infrastructure. It has important partnerships with major IT vendors. ... |
| KPN |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| The year 2008 marked a change in KPN' s strategy, away from ' Attack, defend, exploit' to ' Back to growth' . However, in light of the economic downturn, KPN' s strategy has been revised once again, with a focus on cutting costs and increasing customer va ... |
| Location Intelligence: A Supply-Side Analysis |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| Enterprises now have access to ever-increasing volumes of business data. But to get maximum value from this, they need to make better use of location to drive deeper business insights that improve their competitiveness and business performance. ... |
| Mexico (Country Regulation Overview) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| In the early 1990s the Mexican government privatised fixed incumbent Telmex, giving it seven years to invest in infrastructure before opening the market to competition. Since 1997 Mexico has had a competitive market for fixed long-distance services. ... |
| Retail Channel Strategies in Emerging Markets |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| In emerging markets, it is essential for operators to identify the most successful distribution channels for marketing and selling their products in order to grow their customer base quickly and efficiently due to the high proportion of customers from the ... |
| SMEs in the UK: Attracted to Managed Services |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| UK SMEs are aware of the benefits that new technology brings to their business. They are attracted by predictable monthly charging models and are good targets for bundled, managed and hosted services. There is clearly an opportunity for service providers ... |
| Telecom Argentina |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| Telecom Argentina is delivering solid mobile and broadband growth, and has had good success with bundled services in its home market. It is starting to look outside of its borders into highly competitive neighbouring markets for new opportunities. ... |
| Value-added Services for Big-Screen Mobile Broadband |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/08 |
| Mobile operators have spoken of the potential to boost revenues and margins by selling a range of value-added services. However, the potential options are unlikely to have a dramatic impact. Therefore, operators must focus on stringent network efficiency. ... |
| America Movil |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| America Movil remains the undisputed leader of the South & Central American telecoms markets. It is currently focusing on data services, expanding network capacity to accommodate its rising subscriber base, and targeting the under-penetrated markets. ... |
| China Telecom's Strategy Targets Mobile Growth |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| Following the restructuring of China' s telecoms market in 2008, China Telecom now has access to China' s immense mobile market. However, its lack of scale and mobile experience means that it is certainly the underdog in China' s mobile market. ... |
| Cloud Computing in IT Services: A Primer |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| Cloud computing dominates discussions among enterprise IT customers as they look for better and more cost-effective ways to operate IT services. But there is still far too much hype for surrounding what constitutes a cloud and how this will evolve. ... |
| Datang Mobile: a TD-SCDMA leader |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| Datang Mobile is a leader in the TD-SCDMA market in China, with a significant market share. It has strong R&D capabilities and is participating in TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE standard development. ... |
| Finland (country regulation overview) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| The fragmented nature of the Finnish fixed market has led to competition between former local and long-distance operators branching out into each other' s markets. This competition has been healthy for the development of the fixed market in Finland. ... |
| France Telecom (wholesale) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| France Telecom has an extensive, well-developed international wholesale operation and a national wholesale unit. Both units achieved positive revenue growth in 2008. ... |
| Global Mobile Market Outlook: 2009-14 |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| With the publication of Ovum' s latest mobile forecasts it is appropriate to provide a perspective on the story behind the numbers. This report looks at the issues shaping our latest wireless figures during the next five years. ... |
| IBM Security Products |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| IBM has built a comprehensive suite of security products through the acquisition of several vendors, notably ISS, and by organic development in Rational and Tivoli. It is now a major player in the sector. This detailed survey examines its capability. ... |
| IBM Smarter Cities - an invitation to change |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| IBM' s Smarter Cities campaign is a rich showcase for IBM' s capabilities. There is a compelling case to be made that Smarter City-type thinking will gain the upper hand, but that doesn' t mean it will happen fast enough for IBM' s liking. ... |
| Integrated Vendors for Integrated Security |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| Security products are increasingly being sold as integrarted product suites, sometimes bringing in products beyond the security domain. This report examines how far users want this process to go and the implications for the businesses that buy them. ... |
| IP Peering: Priorities and Developments |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| Carriers use IP to carry increasing volumes of traffic, necessitating the efficient exchange of IP traffic between ISPs. The largest ISPs are becoming more restrictive over whom they will peer with, and smaller ones are becoming more open. ... |
| Is the 'mobile-only' telco dead? |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| Recently, members of Ovum' s mobile strategy team brainstormed on the future of 'mobile-only' operators. These slides are a summary of our deliberations and what we see as the future for such operators. ... |
| KPN (wholesale) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| KPN International' s strategy focuses on the combination of enterprise and wholesale customers, meanwhile KPN is revamping its national wholesale business by investing in a next-generation network. ... |
| Mobile Application Stores: BlackBerry App World |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| Since the launch of RIM' s on-device application store, BlackBerry App World, Ovum has tried out the service and looked more closely at its implementation. This report can be read in conjunction with Ovum report Mobile application stores: BlackBerry. ... |
| Next-Generation Access Country Overview: Korea |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| Korea is one of the most advanced broadband markets in the world, with fibre-based subscriptions constituting 44.5% of total broadband subscriptions as of March 2009. Almost all of the Korean operators have focused on infrastructure-based competition. ... |
| ON Vendor Profile: NEC |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| NEC has solid technology, R&D operations, corporate backing, and tier-1 experience in two of the world' s largest optical networking markets. Over the last few quarters, its global position has improved. ... |
| Red Hat turns Open Source into Big Business |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| With $653 million in revenues in fiscal 2009 (ended February), Red Hat is well on its way to fulfilling becoming the first $1 billion open source software vendor. To continue apace it needs to tighten up execution and improve marketing. ... |
| Regional Telecoms Trends: Eastern Europe |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| With low fixed-line penetration in Eastern Europe(average 27% in 2008, compared to 49% in Western Europe) and competitive pressure from mobile in the form of high fixed-to-mobile substitution (FMS), fixed revenues continue to decline. ... |
| SAP |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| SAP holds an enviable position at the top of the enterprise applications market. Its business rests on two strong, stable pillars: software products and software support services. However, the recession has taken a toll. ... |
| SMEs in India: A Diverse Market |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| SMEs in India are highly price sensitive, less exposed to the global market, and are optimistic about spending in the current economic crisis. There is a great diversity of suppliers and SMEs are keen to move to more opex-based models. ... |
| Telecom Italia Sparkle |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| Telecom Italia Sparkle' s performance in 2008 was slightly disappointing, with a single-digit fall in wholesale revenues. However, the company continues to build on its strengths in the Mediterranean and South & Central America. ... |
| Telefonica Latin America |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| Telefonica Latin America is now Telefonica' s biggest unit, and is the company' s growth engine in terms of both subscribers and revenues. Its converged offering is performing well despite the high levels of competition in the market. ... |
| Telmex and Telint |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex), the leading player in the Mexican fixed-line market, is focusing on broadband services and the enterprise segment to drive growth. Its main challenges remain declining revenues and competition from cable-TV operators. ... |
| The Cloud Computing Landscape: A Market Scan |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| Cloud computing has now become part of the IT lexicon, but what is it, how is it relevant to the enterprise and who are the players? This report presents a quick introduction to cloud computing and offers some perspective for enterprises. ... |
| The LTE Business Case: Finance |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| This report examines the finance sector' s perspective on LTE and how deployments are to be financed. Our research reveals a great deal of scepticism towards LTE among the financial sector, not helped by current macroeconomic conditions. ... |
| The LTE Business Case: Networks |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| Almost all of the main CDMA and GSM/UMTS operators have announced their commitment to deploy LTE technology. However, even for 3GPP players, the introduction of LTE services is not as ' smooth and natural' as claimed. ... |
| The LTE Business Case: Services and Business Models |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| LTE is currently in hype phase and we have yet to see some concrete evidence of new services and revenues to support the business case. Many operators are committing to LTE in their roadmaps, but in most cases planned services are sketchy at best. ... |
| The LTE Business Case: Spectrum |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| LTE looks set to be deployed on the 2.6GHz band and the digital dividend spectrum. While several auctions have signalled that the appetite for high spectrum prices remains, Ovum does not expect a repeat of the high prices previously paid for spectrum. ... |
| The LTE Business Case: Survey |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| We recently surveyed our clients regarding the LTE business case, giving respondents the chance to voice their opinions on the topic. This report summarises the responses received for the survey and highlights the most common and atypical views. ... |
| Unleashing China's Rural Mobile Market |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| Fixed and mobile services are now well established in China' s urban regions. The outlook of intensifying competition and slowing growth in urban regions is in stark contrast to rural regions where there is still an abundance of new customers. ... |
| What next for BT Global Services? |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/07 |
| While there may be operational and strategic consolidation to come at BT Global Services, we still expect that it will defend its strong position as a global market leader under ownership of BT. ... |
| Autonomy |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Autonomy, the UK' s second biggest software company, has continued to beat market expectations and trends with a record rise in profits and revenues driven in part by firms scrambling to address EDD and comply with US eDisclosure regulations. ... |
| Capex and Equipment Market Update: 1Q09 |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Wireline equipment sales fell 13% in 1Q09, with all segments down. There was strong capex growth in India, China, and South America, weak growth in Europe, and declines in North America and Asia-Pacific. Emerging markets will be key to growth in 2009. ... |
| Forecast: Enterprise Ethernet Services, Asia-Pacific |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| AP' s Ethernet market continues modest growth in Japan on a large base: revenues of $5.1B in 2008 will reach $7.5B by 2014. A few other developed markets have high penetration rates but bandwidth growth and new verticals will push these markets as well. ... |
| FTTx in Asia-Pacific: Singapore and Taiwan |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Ovum conducted its third independent assessment of broadband deployments and service drivers in AP, with a specific focus on FTTx. This report is an update to the study we published in April 2008. This section covers Singapore and Taiwan. ... |
| Global Crossing (wholesale) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| This global service provider has built and maintained a profitable mix of enterprise and wholesale businesses since emerging from bankruptcy. Consolidated revenues have returned to growth. ... |
| Ireland (country regulation overview) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| In June 2003 ComReg awarded 70 organisations with general and basic licences to provide telecoms network services in Ireland. However, Irish incumbent Eircom remains in a strong market position. ... |
| Japan (country regulation overview) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| The telecoms market in Japan was liberalised in 1985 and competition was further promoted by splitting NTT into NTT East and NTT West in 1999. Other pro-competitive measures were then introduced including local loop unbundling and carrier pre-selection. ... |
| Logica |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Logica is making many of the right moves to tackle the recession head-on, through extensive restructuring, investments in sales growth, cost reduction, and a focus on outsourcing. ... |
| Lufthansa Systems |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| German IT services supplier Lufthansa Systems, the IT arm of Lufthansa Group, is feeling the effects of the current financial crisis. It is trying to counterbalance this by raising its overall profitability by expanding offshore and nearshore resources. ... |
| Market Trends for Optical Amplifiers |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| The amplification market is very competitive and dominated by incumbent suppliers. Opportunities exist for new entrants and technologies, particularly for per-channel and narrowband amplification. ... |
| Millicom |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Millicom is a diverse and geographically spread mobile operator, with the bulk of its operations in South & Central America. It has invested heavily into African markets where it has been achieving good growth. ... |
| Mobile Money in Emerging Markets |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Activity in mobile payment services (and more broadly mobile money services) is accelerating in many emerging markets. The market is still in its infancy, yet it has the potential to become a mass-market service. ... |
| Multi-Screen Video: Matching Demand to Devices |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Ovum recently conducted a consumer survey into online video and the ways consumers view and move video across multiple devices. The ability to view the same video content on multiple devices is now a central plank of many content providers' strategies. ... |
| Oi |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Oi has emerged as the leading telecoms service provider in Brazil through a series of recent acquisitions. Its focus on converged multi-play offerings as well as the mobile segment is expected to drive its growth. ... |
| ON Vendor Profile: Ciena |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Ciena is a global provider of optical, broadband, and data equipment targeted at specific applications. Ciena has relied heavily on its home market of North America, however, the company has made strides in expanding into EMEA and Asia-Pacific. ... |
| Red Hat (vendor analysis) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Verizon Business is one of the first vendors to offer on-demand provisioning of computing resources over the web in a service aimed at enterprise customers. ... |
| SAS |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| As one of the few remaining independent business intelligence (BI) and analytics vendors left in the market, over the past decade SAS has consistently ridden the peaks and troughs of the BI and analytics market with modest ease. ... |
| SMEs in China: promising in mobility |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| SMEs in China are less exposed to the global market and are optimistic about spending in the economic crisis. They are keen to move to opex-based models and are increasing their expenditure share of mobile services to support their growing mobility. ... |
| SMEs in Singapore: keen on managed services |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Here we present the views of the 100 SMEs in Singapore who took part in our SME survey. SMEs in Singapore are highly exposed to the global market but are still optimistic about spending in the current economic crisis. ... |
| Software AG |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Software AG has continued its success story into 2009, with the company maintaining the consistently positive financial performance that it has realized since the 2007 acquisiton of webMethods. ... |
| Sopra Group |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Sopra Group, the French IT services player, continues to show good results: its success mostly attributed to its ability to nurture key accounts, which is providing it with a steady revenue stream. ... |
| South Africa (country regulation overview) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| With the liberalisation of the fixed-line market in 2006, the second licence was awarded to Neotel (a subsidiary of India-based Tata Communications), which ended the incumbent Telkom South Africa' s decade-long monopoly. ... |
| Spain (country regulation overview) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| The Spanish fixed market was fully liberalised in December 1998. Telefonica remained a monopoly operator until January 1998, when Retevision (Auna) was awarded a fixed network licence. For 11 months, the companies operated in a duopoly. ... |
| Steria |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Steria provides IT-enabled business services including IT and business process outsourcing to the public, financial, manufacturing, utilities, transport and telecommunications sectors in Europe. Its strongest markets are the UK, France and Germany. ... |
| Telecom Egypt |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Telecom Egypt has the largest fixed-line customer base in the Middle East, high margins, low debt and good cash-generating ability. However, revenue growth in its core business has stagnated. ... |
| Telefonica |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| Telefonica is the world' s fifth largest telecoms service provider and a top 100 company worldwide (based on revenues for 2008) and in the top 50 companies by market capitalisation. ... |
| TeliaSonera |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| TeliaSonera is a diverse operator, with a large number of fixed and mobile operations spanning both Europe and Asia. ... |
| The Role of Proprietary Software in BPO |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/06 |
| This report is part of Ovum' s ongoing ' sustainable BPO' research theme. It seeks to demystify the convergence of IT and BPO through examples of IT and BPO service providers' use of proprietary software to support BPO services. ... |
| ALM and SOA: lifecycles in a parallel universe? |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| One of the main purposes of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to slice through software silos to help organizations grow more Agile in automating their business processes. Effective governance is essential if SOA is to deliver on these promises. ... |
| BI makes sustainability sense |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| Attention is being given to how software can be used to help companies implement and monitor environmental sustainability efforts. BI and analytics technologies allow companies to report their carbon emissions and track and analyse ' green' initiatives. ... |
| Cable & Wireless (wholesale) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| Acquisitive long-established telco takes actions to focus on larger, more sustainable business from enterprise and wholesale customers. However, it continues to be reticent about its commitment to the wholesale market. ... |
| Cable migrates toward all-IP with DOCSIS 3.0 |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| 50 - 100+Mbps ultra-fast data services get the hype, but DOCSIS 3.0 helps MSOs improve even their lowest tier offerings as they strategically convert spectrum from video to IP. What they really want is the ability to offer interactive value-added services ... |
| FTTx in Asia-Pacific: China and Hong Kong |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| Ovum conducted its third independent assessment of broadband deployments and service drivers in the AP region, with a specific focus on FTTx. This report is an update to the study we published in April 2008. This section covers China and Hong Kong. ... |
| FTTx in Asia-Pacific: India |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| Ovum conducted its third independent assessment of broadband deployments and service drivers in the Asia-Pacific region, with a specific focus on FTTx. This report is an update to the study we published in April 2008. This section covers India. ... |
| Hong Kong prepaid mobile market |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| Hong Kong is one of the most competitive and mature telecoms markets in the Asia-Pacific region. Although Hong Kong operators have traditionally received more revenues from postpaid services, prepaid is becoming increasingly important. ... |
| iBasis (wholesale) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| iBasis continues to hold its own in a competitive wholesale market, although revenue in 2008 slipped about 5% to $1.32 billion. iBasis should invest in increasing its portfolio of non-voice services. ... |
| IMS: operator strategies and business cases |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| The frantic buzz that surrounded IMS from 2004 to 2007 has died down, and it would be easy to think that it had fallen entirely by the wayside. But in fact operators still see IMS as a crucial part of their future network architectures. ... |
| Malaysia (Country Regulation Overview) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| Malaysia has three fixed line voice service providers, with the incumbent Telekom Malaysia holding more than 90% market share in December 2008. Telekom Malaysia lost its monopoly status in 1993 when the second licence was awarded to Maxis Communications. ... |
| New dynamics in digital advertising |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| The digital advertising industry is changing fast, sending reverberations down the length of the value chain. With consumers taking greater control of their viewing, companies are re-evaluating their digital media assets and finding new ways of engaging. ... |
| Novell: towards managing the data centre |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| In 2007 Novell published a system management blueprint that highlighted the wide gap between its ambitions and its capabilities. In 2008 the company narrowed the gap, mostly via acquisitions. However, it still has a long way to go. ... |
| Oman (country regulation overview) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| In the fixed line market, the incumbent Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) has maintained its monopoly status since the launch of its services in 1999. In November 2008 the TRA awarded the second fixed line licence to Nawras. ... |
| ON Vendor Profile: Tejas Networks |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| Little known globally, Tejas is #2 in India and #1 within incumbent operators. Its past focus on India' s aggregation (multiservice SDH) market is broadening on top of this success and steady support from a mix of global investors (VC firms and vendors). ... |
| Sage |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| The Sage Group continues to deliver respectable results amid the deepening economic crisis, due to its diverse product portfolio, a mix of business models and wide geographic coverage. However, the firm's North America business remains a sore spot. ... |
| Saudi Telecom |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| Saudi Telecom Company (STC), the Saudi Arabian incumbent, is one of the largest players in the region. Yet new competitors, fixed-to-mobile substitution and the economic downturn threaten its core domestic growth. ... |
| Six technology trends that BI cannot ignore |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| The IT industry has a habit of pairing off old and new technologies. Here we take a practical look at some of the latest technology developments and trends that might impact the business intelligence (BI) software market. ... |
| Telco TV success indicators |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| Telco TV success or failure hinges on the combination of drivers and barriers in a given market. In this report Ovum identifies seven key criteria that will help navigate a pathway for new entrants into the pay-TV market. ... |
| Teradata |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| Teradata, a company that has traditionally focused on large-scale data warehouses, is expanding its product line to support users that do not require the full range of enterprise-class scalability and features of its full-blown product. ... |
| The Cloud: a Wi-Fi wholesaler case study |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| Having established a strong set of operator relationships while using multiple business models and delivery channels to bring wireless access to the mass market, The Cloud is poised to become the leading pan-European Wi-Fi wholesaler. ... |
| The triple-play opportunity for satellite operators |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| Moving into any broadband market will carry significant risks and satellite operators must plan their strategies carefully and cautiously. Partnership seems to make sense now, but may not last and the satellite operator may not be the main beneficiary. ... |
| UAE (country regulation overview) |
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| Table of Contents Published: 2009/05 |
| The United Arab Emirates (UAE) telecoms market is a duopoly, with incumbent Emirates Telecommunication Corporation (Etisalat) and Dubai-based Emirates Integrated Telecommunication (EITC) both offering fixed line, mobile and data services. ... |
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