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Trends in security attacks and incidents
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IT systems have been under attack since they became connected to the Internet. Indeed, they suffered from insider misuse before then. Many organizations produce regular reports on the threat landscape...
March 2010
17 pages
PCCW
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PCCW maintains a dominant position in the Hong Kong fixed-line market. As competition intensifies in Hong Kong’s key markets, PCCW is gearing up to the fight with its unique quad-play offering and new...
March 2010
15 pages
Smartphone platform profile: Windows Phone OS
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This profile is focused on Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS software platform for mobile devices, both in its current incarnation as Windows Mobile 6.5 and in its forthcoming major refresh as Windows Phon...
March 2010
17 pages
The impact of net neutrality on content delivery networks
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The debate over net neutrality has largely focused on regulatory issues, rather than what steps operators who wish to prioritize services or reduce network loads might actually take. Content delivery...
March 2010
12 pages
NGA deployments in Europe and North America: analysis
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Ovum’s new bi-annual NGA tracker provides key insights into the development of fixed high-speed broadband. It contains detailed rollout and investment information on individual markets and leading mar...
March 2010
32 pages
Poland (country regulation overview)
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The Polish telecoms market has seen significant activity in 2009. With the entry of two new mobile network operators (MNOs) as well as several mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), competition in...
March 2010
21 pages
Telco strategies for recession and recovery
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With the world’s economies expected to return to growth in 2010, we examine how the economic downturn has impacted service providers and how they are shaping up for recovery.
March 2010
14 pages
Government enterprise insights
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Insights into the government technology landscape during the first quarter of 2010, including recommendations for vendors.
March 2010
33 pages
Core network power reduction will take holistic change
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For our second annual network power research project, we delved into near-term improvements that can be made at the sub–network element (NE), NE, and network (super-NE) level. Our initial network mode...
March 2010
31 pages
Femtocell market update: slow but steady progress
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Femtocells took a break from the limelight in 2009 as operator trials took place behind closed doors. They are now reappearing in the public domain, but this is not a sign of an impending rapid increa...
March 2010
23 pages
Vodafone
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Vodafone is the second-largest mobile operator in the world in terms of subscriber numbers. It has the largest geographic footprint and wields immense influence in the industry. After years of geograp...
March 2010
21 pages
WiMAX in India: an assessment
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WiMAX has generated a lot of interest in India. Due to limited 3G spectrum and low broadband penetration, India is expected to be a key growth market for the technology. Many industry players believe...
March 2010
21 pages
Telefonica International Wholesale Services
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This strong Latin America player with a Central and Eastern European arm has moved from being a network provider to a regional service supplier, and now aims to become a global service provider. TIWS...
March 2010
20 pages
Commercial voice biometrics in 2010
US$ 395.00
Despite enterprise contact center investments in technologies designed to cut costs, commercial deployments of voice biometrics have been left out in the cold. In the past, this was because of the tec...
March 2010
9 pages
Trends in 2010: South and Central America telecoms markets
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South and Central America has seen impressive growth rates in mobile revenues and subscribers over the last decade and the telecoms sector has not been as badly hit by the recession as some other sect...
February 2010
10 pages
Trends in 2010: Middle East and Africa telecoms markets
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As is our tradition at this time of year, in this report we outline our views on the key trends that will influence telecoms markets in the Middle East and Africa in 2010. These will also shape the co...
February 2010
13 pages
Turkcell
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Turkcell has done well to retain its position as the dominant operator in the highly contested mobile market in Turkey. Going forward, increasing mobile penetration and declining margins will continue...
February 2010
15 pages
Telstra: enterprise strategy review
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Telstra’s strategic priorities are to capture large network outsourcing deals and grow revenues on network applications and services. It is building a future service delivery platform based on IP mult...
February 2010
20 pages
Wholesale in emerging markets
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Emerging markets are considered attractive for telecoms investment. However, their wholesale markets are still in their early stages of evolution as carriers mainly offer traditional wholesale voice a...
February 2010
17 pages
T-Mobile
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T-Mobile is the mobile arm of Deutsche Telekom and is one of the largest mobile operating groups, particularly across Central and Eastern Europe. T-Mobile’s operations have seen some turbulent times d...
February 2010
15 pages
IT consulting: focusing on growth strategies
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Global IT consulting firms have spent the better part of 2009 trying to regain momentum. The global recession hit consulting firms harder than most, as many CIOs and IT managers were forced to cut wha...
February 2010
20 pages
Smartphones in China: market overview
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The three Chinese operators have been readying their smartphone portfolios and services since the 3G licences were awarded in 2009. Here we analyse the different smartphone strategies of China Mobile,...
February 2010
14 pages
Leveraging Jamaica as a nearshore BPO delivery location
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Jamaica’s government’s efforts to develop a strong BPO and IT services sector on the island nation have become more aggressive of late. In Ovum’s view there is significant value that outsourcers can d...
February 2010
15 pages
3G in Australia: HSPA mobile broadband marches on
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In Australia, mobile broadband connections for netbooks, laptops, PCs and other devices grew around 81% in the year to December 2009. However, competition is fierce, service differentiation is difficu...
February 2010
23 pages
Examining the operator-operator franchise model
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Operator-operator franchises in the mobile telecoms industry are not new. Leading players have licensed their brand or branded products to other market players for more than ten years. Vodafone remain...
February 2010
18 pages
EMC
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Despite some problems sustaining its profit margins, EMC has put on an impressive performance in the midst of the recent economic gloom. It continued to lead the information storage industry in 2008,...
February 2010
18 pages
Norway (country regulation overview)
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Norway is one of the most liberalised telecoms markets in the world. Although it is not a member of the European Union (EU), Norway adheres to the EU’s regulatory framework as a member of the European...
February 2010
17 pages
Telstra
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With Telstra’s transformation programme in its last year of implementation, the operator has begun to cut costs and generate new value for customers. However, government intervention in the broadband...
February 2010
11 pages
International calling market in the UK: a snapshot
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The international calling market in the UK has undergone significant transformation as new options come into use. Prepaid calling cards, ethnic MVNOs, VoIP services and access numbers now compete with...
February 2010
11 pages
Disruptive business models and the evolving telco
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In this report we look at the various waves of competitors the traditional telco has faced, focusing on the latest range of competitors enabled by broadband access, and how the telco is evolving to me...
February 2010
23 pages
SP switching and routing vendor profile: Huawei Technologies
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Huawei’s service provider switching and routing (SPSR) revenue growth continues in China, but has slowed elsewhere as market demand fell by more than 20% from last year. Huawei is a formidable competi...
February 2010
24 pages
China mobile market overview
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In 2008, China’s telecommunications industry was restructured to create three integrated 2G operators. In 2009, all three operators launched their new 3G services. The new entrant China Telecom has gr...
February 2010
17 pages
Broadband access vendor profile: ZTE Corporation
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ZTE stands at the cusp of becoming a global broadband access leader. Long the third-ranked vendor in the DSL market, in the past two years it has made considerable market share gains in both DSL and F...
February 2010
26 pages
Update on Huawei’s wireless infrastructure strategy
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This report provides an update on Huawei’s wireless infrastructure strategy, covering 3GPP, 3GPP2 and WiMAX technologies. Huawei’s success in the wireless infrastructure segment is due to a combinatio...
February 2010
28 pages
Du - Company Report
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In the three years since its launch in 2007, Du has carved itself a 30% share in the UAE telecoms market, achieved a sustainable operational scale and turned a profit. Despite having a similar product...
February 2010
14 pages
VoIP interconnect: the end of the minute is approaching
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More and more voice traffic is migrating from traditional time division multiplexing (TDM) technologies to a multiplicity of different VoIP implementations. Efficient and secure interconnection of the...
February 2010
26 pages
North America regional telecoms overview
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This report provides an overview and analysis of the financial and operational performance of major telcos and cable operators in North America.
The following companies are included in the r...
February 2010
45 pages
Global mobile market outlook: 2009–14
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Global mobile connections are set to reach 6.49 billion in 2014, with revenues over $1,000 billion. However, over the coming five years, strategic challenges and intense competition awaits operators i...
February 2010
45 pages
China broadband market overview
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The Chinese fixed broadband market is the world’s largest in terms of number of subscribers. Despite its size and rapid growth, it still has significant potential for network operators and equipment v...
February 2010
17 pages
Symantec
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Symantec, the fifth-largest software vendor in the world, continues to be the largest software vendor in the security, data protection, storage management and business continuity sector of the market...
February 2010
13 pages
More fibre for next-generation mobile broadband backhaul
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Considerable hype surrounds LTE and, in particular, its capability to offer 100Mbps speeds wirelessly. If such performance levels are offered to customers, mobile operators would inevitably require si...
February 2010
19 pages
