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| ICT market news from InfoCom, January 31st, 2010 — Issue No. 32 |
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- On-going digitisation of the content industry: opportunities and challenges
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Orange UK and T-Mobile UK to merge in 2010 From Telecoms Strategies & Trends Each of the four — out of five — mobile operators in the UK had almost a quarter share of the 78.1 mn mobile subscribers (3Q09) indicating intense competition in the market. However, the mobile market structure in the UK is expected to change as Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom, which respectively own the third and fourth largest mobile operators T-Mobile UK and Orange UK, are to merge their mobile operations in the country in a 50:50 joint venture company. Should the merger, which is awaiting approval from relevant authorities, push through in 1H10, it will create the largest mobile operator in the UK with approximately a 42% share of the mobile subscriber base. | |||||||||||||||
Eastern European markets still driven by mobile and broadband services From Teleseeq Interactive Dataroom The net service revenues of the Eastern European telecommunications market are expected to have grown by 7.3% y-o-y, from €60.8bn in 2008 to €65.3bn in 2009. Among the different sectors, only fixed telephony revenues are forecasted to have declined. And are expected to show a decrease at a rate of over 2% y-o-y due to continuous fixed to mobile substitution, falling tariffs and fixed-line cancellation. Meanwhile, the datacom and mobile revenues of the region are projected to have increased by 15% and 9%, respectively. These growths are attributed to the continued take up of broadband services in Eastern Europe as well as to the increase in the mobile penetration rate of the region — from over 110% in 2008 to nearly 117% in 2009 — as well as a steady raise in the ARPU. It is expected that the datacom and mobile sectors will continue to be the driving factors for the growth of the Eastern European telecommunications market. | |||||||||||||||
More vivid experience leads innovation in 2H09 From Telecom Innovations Spotlights — Strategic Overview The promise of a richer, better and more realistic communication experience was driving innovations in the second half of 2009. In the mobile sector, South Korean telecoms operators were the first to integrate Rich Communication Suite (RCS) with their mobile services. RCS provides users with enhanced address book, messaging and enriched call services which can be interoperable with other networks. In the meantime, mobile operator Orange launched the first High Definition (HD) voice service that uses Wideband Adaptive Multi-rate (WB-AMR) speech codec, which has a wider speech bandwidth compared to the current narrowband speech codec used. In the broadcast sector, UK will be the first country to experience 3D TV with Sky, a satellite and CaTV operator, launching the service this 2010. | |||||||||||||||
Further decline in fixed line traffic volume and revenues in Western Europe From Quartely Fixed Line Traffic Monitoring Service Western Europe continues to experience a restless decline in fixed telephony call volume and revenues. Decline in fixed telephony traffic is still impacted by the growing usage of mobile telephony and continuous decline in the volume of Internet dial-up minutes. While call usage generated via traditional fixed telephony (PSTN and ISDN) has been declining, calls through the Internet (VoIP) has been exhibiting growth, although the significant increases in VoIP usage was still not able to mitigate further losses in traffic generated from fixed voice services*. In France, for instance, VoIP usage is growing about 10% year-on-year (2Q08 to 2Q09) while the total fixed voice minutes in the country still posted a decline by over 5% year-on-year (2Q08 to 2Q09). Strategies used by telecom operators and regulators in order to curb losses in the fixed telephony sector include bundling schemes and specific discounted tariffs for fixed calls. For instance, Telenor began offering lower call rates for calls made from fixed lines to other non-Telenor mobile networks in Norway. In Germany, Deutsche Telekom offers special flat rates for calls made from its fixed network towards its mobile network. Other carriers, such as TeliaSonera, despite efforts to mitigate further revenue decline by increasing tariffs (1H09), experienced total fixed telephony revenues decreasing further by 15% (2Q08 to 2Q09). *Note: According ro Teleseeq’s definition, fixed telephony traffic volume includes VoIP calls. | |||||||||||||||
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Mobile Backhaul Asia 2010
 Bandwidth hungry devices and applications are driving an increased need for increased wireless backhaul capacity. In a recent Infonetics Research report, an AT&T Mobility executive revealed that 50 percent of the traffic on their mobile backhaul network is iPhone-generated, even though only a few million of their 78 million wireless subscribers are iPhone users. For more information please see attachment Mobile Network Performance 2010
 IIR’s Mobile Network Performance 2010 is the key industry event for networking, learning and sharing information on the latest developments in network performance measurement and service quality management. For more information please see attachment Mobile Internet 2010
 Are you under intense pressure to defend roaming revenues and cut costs? Book you place before 22nd January 2010 to take advantage of the early bird special rate at IIR's Mobile Internet 2010 Conference. Learn, discuss and explore the challenges and commercial opportunities that exist within the mobile internet ecosystem and make the most of best-practice perspectives over a two day period offering a programme packed with case studies, roundtable discussions, industry snapshots, masterclasses and fishbowl sessions. For more information please see attachment IPTV World Forum 2010
For more information please see attachment LTE Forum 2010
 The LTE Forum 2010 will help operators to identify the evolutionary steps to 3G LTE (Long Term Evolution), to understand the drivers for migrating, and to determine what they need to be doing now to ensure their network remains competitive. Presentations from mobile operators and other industry experts will help delegates to understand why, when and how to migrate to 3G LTE, and what they should be doing now to ensure their networks remain competitive into the future. For details, visit www.lteforum2010.com or contact hassan.claussen[at]hansecom.net. Telecoms CEM, CRM & Retention
 With 11 operator case studies on the two conference days, an interactive workshop and a collaborative learning session, this event will offer you ample opportunity to learn, network and exchange ideas. Download the brochure at http://www.iir-events.com/IIR-Conf/page.aspx?id=24249 Building and maintaining profitable customer relationships can result in a win-win situation for both you and your customers– by providing your customers with the services and experiences they seek, you can ensure that they remain both profitable and loyal. IIR’s Telecoms CEM, CRM and Retention conference will examine how operators are developing and adopting novel CRM and CEM approaches in order to enhance customer relationships and maximise customer retention as well as customer lifetime value. For more information please see attachment Billing and Revenue Assurance 2010
 2010 offers many exciting opportunities for the telecoms industry and also many big challenges. The launch of LTE services, the growth of apps stores, and the emergence of new cloud services are just some of the forces set to shake up the industry this year. For more information please see attachment | |||||||||||||||
24th - 25th January 2010, Tehran, Iran Telecoms Business Customer Summit 25th - 28th January 2010, Sheraton Park Lane Hotel, London, UK  FTTH Conference 2010 24th - 25th February 2010, Lisbon, Portugal  Social TV Forum 15th - 16th March 2010, Olympia, London, UK  Social Media World Forum Europe 15th - 16th March 2010, Olympia, London, UK  Social TV Forum Europe 16th March 2010, Olympia, London, UK  Cloud Computing Congress Europe 16th March 2010, Olympia, London, UK  Enterprise Social Media Europe 15th March 2010, Olympia, London, UK  Mobile Social Media Forum Europe 16th March 2010, Olympia, London, UK  Satellite 2010 16th - 18th March 2010, Gaylord National Convention Center, National Harbor, MD  Telecoms Regulation Forum 22th - 24th March 2010, London  Number Portability Middle East 18th - 20 April 2010, Sharq Village & Spa, Qatar  Roaming World Congress 2010 19th - 22nd April 2010, Hilton Hotel, Barcelona, Spain  Mobile Money World Asia 2010 21st - 23rd April SUNTEC Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre  Packet Transport Networks 19th - 21st April 2010, Le Meridien Gallia, Milan, Italy  Managed Services & Network Sharing 19th - 21st April 2010, Hilton London Tower Bridge Hotel, London, UK  Embedded Mobile & M2M Services 26th – 28th April 2010, Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski, Munich, Germany 
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