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Fixed Services |
Carrier Ethernet: a bright future
with some initial hurdles
- Introduction
- Providers and offers overview: EoMPLS most often offered
- EoSDH v. EoMPLS
- EoDWDM: for high bandwidth
- Native Ethernet: no clear definition
- VPN v. P2MP: P2MP so far most often sold
- Market drivers and obstacles Drivers: demand and supply meet
- Obstacles: various obstacles
- Outlook — Market sizing and forecast: strong growth, gradually increasing
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Fixed telephony traffic trends in
2008: continuing decline
- Fixed telephony distribution per type of call: calls to national fixed lines still dominating
- Monthly MoU and traffic ARPU trends
- Outlook
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Broadband, Internet & VoiP |
Broadband in Latin America:
strong growth with DSL dominating
- Latin America in a global context
- Zooming into the region
- DSL as the dominant technology
- Outlook
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Continued growth in the top-10
fixed broadband countries in
2008
- Fixed broadband in 2008: continued growth, DSL dominant
- Broadband penetration rates: increasing but with wide differences
- Outlook: fibre optic to grow over proportionately
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2008 fixed broadband in South-
East Asia: growth all round
- Broadband penetration rates: still wide discrepancies between countries
- Fixed broadband connections: xDSL dominates strongly
- Outlook: more growth expected also thanks to mobile and wireless technologies
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Content & TV |
On-going digitisation of the content industry: opportunities and challenges
- Impact of the on-going digitisation on the different content markets
- Music: an early digital market
- TV: the conquest of the next frontier
- Games: reaching a new audience
- Publishing: shaking established mindsets
- New modes of consumption and services driven
by innovation in the end-user device
- Device manufacturers positioning as multimedia
brands
- Telecom operators betting on multi-screen strategies
- Outlook
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IPTV strategies: developing premium content and new features
- Healthcare and education emerge as new markets
- Outlook: the business models are still evolving
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Top-10 IPTV in 2008: strong growth
all-round
- Top-10 IPTV providers: trends between 2007 and 2008
- Customer acquisition strategies: Deutsche Telekom and AT&T
- Outlook: radical changes in 2009 ranking expected
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Satellite pay-TV players in Europe:
the sky is the limit
- Western Europe satellite pay-TV market
will remain static while Eastern European market
will continue to grow
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Mobile Services |
Mobile software management:
A growing trend providing valuable additional benefits to
manufacturers and mobile operators
- Embedded software (firmware): pre-loaded on mobile phones
- The rise of application stores to customise mobile phones
- Mobile software management to help customer care
- Regional differences
- Japan: advanced mobile market also for mobile software management
- The USA: Apple has been a game-changer
- Western Europe: less widespread mobile software management
- Africa: mobile software for more basic phone models
- Outlook
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Mobile Western Europe: slow but
steady trend towards postpaid
- Total and postpaid penetration
- Increasing share of postpaid
- Postpaid subscribers generate more revenues
- It’s not all about the revenues
- Outlook: proportion of postpaid subscribers will continue to rise
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3G users: strong growth at last
- The early struggles and the take-off of the total 3G market
- 3G population penetration at the different stages of growth
- Outlook
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3Q08 mobile overview for the
top-5 Western European countries,
the US and Japan
- Market leaders still dominate but lose share
- Mobile penetration still increasing
- Prepaid penetration still increasing and breadth of prepaid offers a driver for overall penetration
- Mobile operators market share: market leaders losing some share but remaining very dominant
- Outlook: penetration to slow down with market leaders continuing on losing somewhat to competitors
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China: the mobile sector’s sleeping
giant awakens
- Largest market worldwide but still potential growth
- Main players and market shares: China Mobile dominates
- The evolution of mobile technology in China
- Recent developments and outlook: entry of a new mobile operator and attribution of 3G licenses should drive growth
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Mobile music downloads — Still
need some fine tuning
- Mobile music services — Usage-based pricing still prevailing
- DRM or not DRM
- Additional service features: music is not only songs buta complete experience
- New partnerships and new entrants changing the landscape
- Mobile music markets: Japan leading
- Conclusion: mobile music has potential but is still in its infancy
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Mobile TV: reception still not
good enough
- Mobile TV broadcast standards
Countries with the largest broadcast-based mobile TV users
- Major mobile TV services in Japan, South Korea and Italy
- Failed mobile TV services
- Key factors for mobile TV adoption
- Conclusion: increasing users is one thing, increasing
- ARPU and achieving profitability another
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Mobile highlights: growth at last in
India
- India’s mobile industry: its beginnings and regulatory framework
- Prepaid vs. postpaid subscriptions: overwhelming prepaid domination
- Market landscape
- Outlook
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Services: Cross Segment |
Bundling strategies marketed to create value for customers in Spain and Sweden
- The market for triple or quadruple play is still in an early stage
- Residential offers in Spain
- Residential offers in Sweden
- Outlook
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E-health: potential but searching
for a mass-market driving application
- Introduction
- E-health potential: benefits and challenges
- Mobile carriers main providers of e-health solutions
- Applications: tele-monitoring most successful
- Outlook
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Telecom Innovations: mobile
experience to become richer
- Mobile remains the most innovative sector of the telecom industry
- Rich Communication Suite: mobile experience becomes even richer
- Outlook
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Financial results of key European
incumbents: 3Q08 update
- Revenues: by and large stable overall, international sales increasing
- EBITDA and EBITDA margin on the whole stable
- Conclusion and outlook: innovations and international expansion to sustain growth
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3Q08 fixed and mobile UMTS broadband penetration grow in the EU-25
- Continued increase in broadband penetration
- Fixed broadband slowing down
- Mobile broadband growing very fast but not catching up with fixed broadband
- Outlook
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Equipment & Infrastructure |
Contact centre markets in EEMEA:
strong growth driven by offshoring
- Relative market size and growth: strong growth recent years, Russia by far largest market in EEMEA
- Market shares: Avaya by far the largest vendor but Genesys growing strongly and narrowing the gap with Avaya
- Pros and cons of offshoring: lower costs yes but
- Conclusion: more moderate growth ahead
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Company & Country Profiles. |
Country snapshot: Brazil
An emerging giant in the global
telecom industry
- Telecom market milestones (1940 to present)
- Fixed telephony penetration decline
- Mobile telephony, main driver of the telecom market
- Broadband Internet spreads but quality of service is an issue
- Outlook: Mobile and broadband main drivers
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