May 18, 2013
Telecom Lead America: Latin American mobile enterprise services market will be mainly driven by the increasing relevance of SMEs and the dissemination of voice and data solutions, including M2M, and innovative mobile applications and cloud services, said a recent report from Frost & ...
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Telecom Lead America: T-Mobile’s long-term initiatives with its network modernization, new Simple Choice plans, and the integration of MetroPCS in 2H13 will help the operator recover in 2014; however, short-term growth will be limited due the competition’s time-to-market advantage over T-Mobile ...
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Telecom Lead America: Samsung remains a strong contender in LTE and continues to land contracts with new operators and gain market share globally. The vendor expanded into Latin America in Q1 2013 via an LTE contract from Telefonica in Chile. Samsung’s focus remains on adding customer accounts, ...
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Telecom Lead America: AT&T will continue to post positive revenue and subscriber results, though the results are overshadowed by the success Verizon is having in the wireless market. AT&T reported positive results including subscriber growth and revenue growth in 1Q13, yet continued to ...
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Telecom Lead America: Ericsson’s focus on North America for revenue growth while it protects its European customer base will pay off during 2013. Despite shrinking gross and operating margins, TBR believes Ericsson’s 1Q13 results provide a reaffirmation of the company’s strategy to protect its ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: Nokia Siemens’ long-term strategies are going to assist the mobile broadband specialist to gain. Nokia Siemens Networks began a year of transformation with gross and operating margin growth spurred on by the well-executed restructuring activities of 2012. While sales fell ...
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Telecom Lead America: Verizon is gaining in the LTE / 4G market. Verizon continues to lead the U.S. industry in terms of both revenue and subscribers due to its time-to-market lead in LTE, shared data plans that are spurring increased connected device adoption, in addition to its superior ...
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Telecom Lead America: With its purchase of Microsoft’s Mediaroom properties, Ericsson not only will become the leading player in the market for Internet-Protocol Television (IPTV) set-top box (STB) middleware, it also will be able to expand its IPTV offering into a complete, integrated solution ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: On 8 March 2013 the Czech Telecommunication Office (CTO) took the decision to halt the Czech Republic’s multi-band auction for spectrum at 800MHz, 1800MHz and 2.6GHz frequencies. Mark Colville, senior manager at Analysys Mason, says the decision may raise some eyebrows ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Will Huawei, ZTE and Samsung will gain in LTE in 2013? 2013 will mark the first year in which telecom equipment vendors will leverage LTE revenues to compensate for declining legacy technology revenues (GSM and CDMA), bolstered by the continuance of LTE deployments in North ...
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Telecom Lead America: T-Mobile’s network upgrades, merger with MetroPCS, and introduction of the iPhone will help the operator recover from current weak financials. T-Mobile’s Q4 2012 results included an accelerated 8.9 percent year-to-year service revenue decline and high postpaid subscriber ...
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Telecom Lead India: The so called success story of the Telecom sector, in terms of regulation and execution, has been brought into complete disrepute ever since 2004 when the UPAI came to power. Of course they did not start the Nadir Shah like plunder and massacre of this sector immediately, ...
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Telecom Lead India: Analysys Mason has challenged Cisco’s latest mobile data traffic forecasts published on 6 February 2013. Cisco’s mobile data traffic forecasts show substantial downward revision of traffic volumes for 2012 for Western Europe, and lesser, but significant downward revisions ...
Read MoreAlcatel-Lucent’s $2.1 billion credit facility from Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse provides the company with a degree of financial security it was lacking after burning through cash since the merger of Alcatel and Lucent. To secure the loan, Alcatel-Lucent put up its patent portfolio as ...
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Telecom Lead India: Ovum predicts turbulence for the Internet economy, as more than two-thirds of consumers say no to Internet tracking. Digital consumers around the world are starting to tire of their personal data being collected across the Internet, says Ovum. The global industry analysts ...
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Telecom Lead America: Oracle has announced its intent to acquire Acme Packets in a deal valued at $2.1 billion. Ovum analysts discuss software market opportunities. Dana Cooperson, principal analyst, Ovum, says the acquisition should strengthen Oracle’s hand both with enterprises and carriers ...
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