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3G Migration Strategies in China

US$ 1,495.00

In order to continue the strong mobile revenue growth seen in China, operators are driving 2G to 3G migration in saturating urban markets. In the medium term, 3G mobile data and value-added services a...

May 2010 17 pages

Smartphone and Smart Device Platform Profile: MeeGo

US$ 1,495.00

This profile looks at the newly announced MeeGo platform for smartphones and other consumer electronics devices. It considers the platform from a telecoms operator, handset manufacturer, and applicati...

May 2010 16 pages

Delivering a Positive Customer Experience Through Service Assurance

US$ 1,495.00

A telco’s service assurance team’s primary task is to ensure that end users receive a predefined level of service. Traditionally this meant ensuring that the telco’s network was functioning optimally....

May 2010 16 pages

New Intermediaries Re-Define Wholesale Telecoms

US$ 1,495.00

Twenty-first century wholesale telecoms is evolving to address the needs of an emerging class of enterprise intermediaries. These customers look like multinational corporations, but behave a lot like...

May 2010 16 pages

UAE (Country Regulation Overview)

US$ 1,495.00

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) telecoms market is a duopoly, with incumbent Emirates Telecommunication Corporation (Etisalat) and Dubai-based Emirates Integrated Telecommunication (EITC) offering a fu...

May 2010 15 pages

Peru (Country Regulation Overview)

US$ 1,495.00

Liberalization of the telecoms market in Peru began in 1991 with the passing of the Telecommunications Law and was completed in 1999, when the local and long-distance voice telephony markets were open...

May 2010 15 pages

BSNL

US$ 895.00

BSNL is plagued by declining fixed-line revenues and shrinking mobile market share. This and an increasing cost base are squeezing the company’s margins. To offset this decline and compete with the pr...

May 2010 14 pages

The Elusive Next-Gen ROADM

US$ 895.00

Reconfigurable add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) technology continues to evolve. Though existing components were deemed sufficient for deployment in optical networks, system vendors and carriers requested...

May 2010 14 pages

Twitter Grows Up And Gets Serious

US$ 895.00

Twitter is no longer a start-up with a service that many assumed was a fad that would quietly disappear, along with the company. Its user base is growing at a rate reminiscent of Facebook; it has a st...

May 2010 13 pages

Korean Handset Players’ Key Strengths

US$ 895.00

The global recession decreased global handset demand in 2009, but some handset vendors have fared better than others. While Sony Ericsson and Motorola sales have been flat, Samsung Electronics and LG...

May 2010 12 pages

The Fall of Bebo: What it Says About Social Networks and AOL’s Strategy

US$ 895.00

In April 2010, AOL announced that it is set to sell or shut down Bebo, the social network site aimed at children and teenagers that it acquired for $850 million in March 2008. This was without doubt a...

May 2010 11 pages

SP Switching & Routing Market Tough, Even for Huawei: Subregional View

US$ 895.00

Huawei and ZTE have emerged as credible competitors in the market for service provider switching and routing (SPSR), accounting for 12% and 3%, respectively, of 2009 revenues. But a subregional analys...

May 2010 10 pages

UK General Election 2010: Impact on the Regulation of Telecoms and Media

US$ 895.00

While telecoms and media have not featured as campaign issues, they will nevertheless be hot political topics in the near term following the election. Given the way in which the Digital Economy Bill w...

May 2010 10 pages

Telco Global Data Centers Become Service Hubs

US$ 395.00

Telcos are riding a new wave of investment in global data centers. With the emergence of increasingly complex hosting, IT services, and cloud services, all global carriers are now adding to their data...

May 2010 9 pages

Aircel

US$ 395.00

Aircel's transition from a regional player to a national-level operator has been rapid, although we suspect it has been costly too. It has done well to expand its addressable market by venturing into...

May 2010 9 pages

GCash: Mobile Money Case Study

US$ 395.00

GCash, a Philippine mobile money service offered by Globe Telecom, is one of the first such services in the emerging markets and is widely considered a success, together with its local peer Smart Mone...

May 2010 7 pages

Reformatting News and Magazine Media: Pay-Walls, Application Stores, And Tablets

US$ 2,495.00

The report description and TOC are upon request.

May 2010 37 pages

The Role of Public Access Wi-Fi in Mobile Operator Strategy

US$ 1,495.00

The report description and TOC are upon request.

May 2010 26 pages

Support For Device Management In Mobile Handsets: 2008–2011 (1Q09 update)

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The report description and TOC are upon request.

May 2010 21 pages

PCCW: Convergent Service Strategy

US$ 1,495.00

The report description and TOC are upon request.

May 2010 19 pages

Telefonica

US$ 895.00

The report description and TOC are upon request.

May 2010 19 pages

Emerging Technology To Business Solution: The Evolving Speech Analytics Market

US$ 895.00

The report description and TOC are upon request.

May 2010 18 pages

NGA Deployment: Lessons From France

US$ 1,495.00

The report description and TOC are upon request.

May 2010 16 pages

Chile (Country Telecoms Regulation Overview)

US$ 1,495.00

The report description and TOC are upon request.

May 2010 14 pages

Do You Really Want 2.0 With Your Intranet?

US$ 395.00

The report description and TOC are upon request.

May 2010 8 pages

UK ITO and Infrastructure Services Trends: 2010–13

US$ 1,495.00

This slide deck provides Ovum's views on the current and forthcoming trends that will affect the UK infrastructure services (IS) and IT outsourcing (ITO) services markets over the period 2010–13.

April 2010 22 pages

Telecom Industry Health Check (1q10) – Part 1: Financial Deals Tracker

US$ 3,495.00

This presentation analyzes M&A, vendor financing, private placements, and public offerings in telecom during 1Q10, along with the trend for the last eight quarters, detailed by sector, geography,...

April 2010 59 pages

LTE Case Study: Assessing Teliasonera’s First-Mover Advantage

US$ 1,495.00

In December 2009, TeliaSonera became the first operator in the world to commercially launch LTE services. The operator plans to expand LTE coverage significantly from its limited starting points in Os...

April 2010 17 pages

Mobile Broadband Industry Survey, Asia-Pacific: 2009–10

US$ 1,495.00

Results from Ovum and Telecom Asia’s Asia-Pacific mobile broadband industry survey show a maturing industry. Although respondents in our 2009–10 survey still believe mobile broadband is good news, the...

April 2010 16 pages

Interoute (wholesale)

US$ 1,495.00

Interoute, like other European and global wholesale operators, aims to grow new revenues by building on its reputation for quality, responsiveness and security, as well as addressing nascent demand fo...

April 2010 20 pages

Deutsche Telekom (wholesale)

US$ 895.00

Following another reorganization, Deutsche Telekom has dissolved its former combined national and international Wholesale Center. The International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS) international w...

April 2010 25 pages

Software development in the product lifecycle

US$ 2,495.00

Software is changing the nature of engineered products. The level of software content in engineered products has grown to the point that software is defining the product, its performance characteristi...

April 2010 32 pages

How BI could energize complex events processing

US$ 1,495.00

Volatility in world financial markets is one of the trends that has helped raise awareness of the need to sense and respond to events. In spite of growing awareness, adoption of complex event processi...

April 2010 22 pages

Profiting from CRM outsourcing opportunities in the US public sector

US$ 1,495.00

Although contact center outsourcing began largely in commercial enterprises, the government sector has emerged as a bourgeoning market for outsourcing in recent years, with agencies under constant pre...

April 2010 20 pages

HCL Technologies

US$ 895.00

HCL is continuing to grow aggressively, and has managed to gain a lead through its innovative and flexible engagement philosophy. However, as HCL increasingly competes against the truly global players...

April 2010 18 pages

Industrialization in application management services

US$ 1,495.00

While the industrialization of application development is well understood and widely practiced by application development services (ADS) vendors, the reuse and repeatability of assets in application m...

April 2010 17 pages

Supporting CRM with mobile operations (Analyst Insight)

US$ 1,495.00

Over the past decade, forces including globalization and hyper-competition have made it a matter of critical importance to stay in close contact with colleagues, customers, and partners. CRM solutions...

April 2010 16 pages

Capita

US$ 895.00

Capita continues its domination of the UK BPO market with several big contract wins, along with acquisitions that have boosted its scale and scope of offerings. With BPO revenues of ?1.64 billion, Cap...

April 2010 12 pages

SON, a critical enabler for future wireless networks

US$ 1,495.00

SON (self-organizing networks/self-optimizing networks) is the new buzz word of the moment. The arrival of LTE means the addition of a new network and a set of new requirements, resulting in increased...

April 2010 25 pages

Hutchison Whampoa’s mobile activities

US$ 1,495.00

With telecoms operations in 13 markets across Europe and Asia-Pacific, Hutchison Whampoa is now an experienced telecoms player. Despite this, it continues to act like a new entrant by focusing on grow...

April 2010 21 pages

Bahrain (country regulation overview)

US$ 1,495.00

Bahrain is among the most liberalized telecoms markets in the Middle East. The regulator, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), is encouraging further competition through new licenses as...

April 2010 20 pages

New mobile entrants in India: success to date and future outlook

US$ 1,495.00

Many new players entered the Indian mobile industry in 2008. Although India already had five national players and many regional players at that time, potential for further growth due to low teledensit...

April 2010 19 pages

Adjacent player profile: Google

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Of all the adjacent players, Google is the one that poses the greatest long-term threat to telcos and to the broader telecoms ecosystem. The company’s ambition and its willingness to invest massively...

April 2010 19 pages

Reliance Communications

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Reliance Communications is the second-largest telecoms service provider in India. The impact of the price war in the market has started to show in RCom’s financials, with both revenues and margins shr...

April 2010 17 pages

Bharti Airtel

US$ 895.00

Bharti has maintained its position as the market leader in an intensely competitive Indian mobile market. Going forward, 3G, broadband, and pay-TV services will be key opportunities, while increasing...

April 2010 16 pages

Revenue assurance strategies for recession and recovery

US$ 895.00

Telcos are increasingly viewing revenue assurance (RA) as a lever for growth in these times of recession and recovery. It has moved from being a “billing issue” that is the responsibility of the CIO,...

April 2010 15 pages

The role for telcos in cloud computing

US$ 895.00

Over the last two years, cloud computing has grabbed the attention of the IT industry because of its potential to offer a new model for the provision of computing and applications to enterprises. More...

April 2010 15 pages

Tata Teleservices

US$ 895.00

Tata Teleservices’ launch of GSM services has helped straighten its position in the Indian telecoms market. Its very aggressive pricing strategy has helped it gain a large number of subscribers, but i...

April 2010 15 pages

Mobile application developer survey: network and channel requirements

US$ 895.00

Device vendors, Internet players, and mobile operators are all vying to be the development platform and distribution partner of choice for mobile application developers. Mobile operators, who have lon...

April 2010 14 pages

Stars aligning for IP and optical transport convergence, and wide-scale IPoDWDM

US$ 895.00

Reducing the expense of expanding and operating IP and optical networks has been challenging in IP network evolution because operators needed to accommodate multipurpose network architectures. However...

April 2010 13 pages

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