26th July 2010: Slovenia had the highest monthly MoU among the nine other Eastern Europeans countries in the European Union, as of 1Q10. Slovenians, on the average, spent 151.1 minutes per month talking...

25th June 2010: Despite a challenging economic environment for the region, broadband usage among the EU 27 member states continued to grow at around 9% year-on-year, propelled by double-digit subscriber...

10th May 2010: The German telecom market had an estimated worth of €42.4bn in 2009, 2.5% less than the previous year. In particular, the fixed telephony market experienced an 11% fall in revenues brought...

14th April 2010: Telecom Italia is disposing of its international broadband units as part of the carrier’s strategy to reduce its €34bn debt and to focus on its core markets in Italy and Brazil....

24th February 2010: In Germany, 6 companies have applied to participate in the auction of the new frequencies of the “Digital Dividend”. Until end of February/early March, the German telecom regulation authority...

31st January 2010: New online and mobile distribution models have emerged in the different content markets, for instance online personal radios such as Last.fm in the music market; or e-book reding offers...

18th December 2009: Traditionally, the development of a new phone model line or a new product line drives the introduction of innovations, with new, original and, sometimes creative improvements in mobile...

26th November 2009: A set of basic features are already widely available within most IPTV offers in many developed TV markets worldwide. Features such as EPG (Electronic Programme Guide), Video-on-demand (VoD), DVR/PVR and Information Services are now included in entry-level IPTV service offers...

29th October 2009: During the first half of 2009, most of the European carriers have put their M&A plans on-hold due to the economic crisis...

30th September 2009: The broadband market growth in the US continued to slow down (2Q09) as the number of broadband connections experienced an 8% growth YoY, almost half of the YoY growth experienced in 2Q08...

31st August 2009: Western Europe continues to experience a steady decline in call minutes and revenues in the fixed telephony sector...

11th August 2009: Cloud gaming is an emerging innovative application for online gaming where cloud computing is used to stream video games...

6th July 2009: According to InfoCom evaluation, monthly minutes of use (MoU, excluding Internet dial-up calls) per fixed line subscriber in Western Europe, have declined by 1.7% YoY (2007 to 2008) to about 380...

30th May 2009: In Germany, there are very few online storage offers for private customers, which provide online storage as an independent product in German and many photo services offer it for free for only a certain time...

23rd April 2009: Many European telecom operators seem to currently adopt a “wait-and-see” approach as regards residential fixed mobile convergent (FMC) and substitution (FMS) services...

31st March 2009: InfoCom’s latest Quarterly Fixed Line Monitoring Service (4Q08) with focus on Asia, shows how different the telecom realities are in the region and how the fixed line density is impacted by the different local environment...

5th March 2009: Among the countries monitored in Eastern Europe, Slovenia exhibited the highest IPTV subscriber increase in 3Q08 recording about 46.4% growth from 2Q08 to 3Q08....

28th January 2009: Koryolink (CHEO Technology), the first 3G carrier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has eventually launched its services...


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