Archive for the Telecom Category
International phone calls up 12% in 2008
Cross-border telephone traffic grew 14% in 2007 and is estimated to have grown 12% in 2008, to 384 billion minutes. Due to declining call prices, however, revenues have largely been flat. While intern...
Average Brit spends 7 hours 9 minutes watching TV
Every day in 2007, an average UK consumer spent 7 hours and 9 minutes watching TV, on the phone, using the internet or using other telecom services, Ofcom reports. But the average UK household spend o...
US small businesses to spend $280 bln on IT by 2012
US businesses are expected to spend $688 bln on information and communications technology in 2008. Small businesses will boost ICT budgets by up to 8% a year, spending $280 bln by 2012, Compass Intell...
35.3 mln cable and 29.7 mln DSL subscribers in the US in Q2 2008
The 20 largest cable and telephone companies added a net 887,000 high-speed Internet subscribers in Q2 2008, according to Leichtman Research Group. Cable companies now have 35.3 mln broadband customer...
Total spending in network services to reach $9.1 bln in 2012 in Asia
According to IDC, over 70% of respondents in markets such as Australia, China, and India indicated that solutions pertaining to the network were either important or very important. Total spending in N...
Telecom spending to reach $923.91 bln in 2008
Total communications spending is projected to increase 5.4% to $923.91 bln in 2008, as strong gains in the institutional and alternative media sectors offset the downward pressure of declining traditi...
4.2 mln Internet users signed up for fiber in Q1 2008
Fiber providers added 4.2 mln customers in Q1 2008, while 2.5 mln customers signed up for cable modems, according to Point Topic. The bulk of the new fiber subscribers are in China, where 2.5 mln sign...
EMEA router market generated $1.01 bln in Q1 2008.
The router market in EMEA continued to grow in Q1 2008. The enterprise router market grew by 8.4% from $933 mln in 4Q 2007 to $1.01 bln in Q1 2008, according to IDC. Compared to Q1 2007, the router ma...
44% of North American ISP traffic is peer-to-peer
P2P applications represent 44% of all bandwidth consumed on networks operated by North American Internet service providers, up from around 41% in 2007, according to Sandvine....
US cable companies added 1.19 mln new broadband subscribers in Q1 2008
Largest cable companies in the US added 1.19 mln broadband subscribers in Q1 2008, according to Leichtman Research Group. Phone companies added 1.01 mln DSL customers in Q1 2008. Since Q3 2004, phone ...
Asia telecommunications market will grow 36% in 2007-2011
Telecommunications market of Asian countries (defined as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam) will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36% from 2007-2011, according to IDC. The dat...
$1.5 bln spent on telecom and IT in Pakistan in 2007
Small and medium businesses in Pakistan invested more than $1.5 bln on ICT (info-communications technology) in 2007, AMI Partners said. Only 14% of SBs in Pakistan have adopted computers at present....
19 mln new broadband lines in EU in 2007
European Union added 19 mln broadband lines in 2007, the equivalent of more than 50,000 households a day. Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg and France ...
Colombian telecom market reached $5.48 bln in 2006
Colombian telecommunications services market earned revenues of over $5.48 bln in 2006 and estimates this to reach $7.12 bln in 2012. Going forward, the voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) segment is ...
US telecom industry to grow at 7.2%
According to TIA, the US telecom industry will grow at an average annual rate of 7.2% in the period 2008-2011, reaching $1.3 trillion in 2011, compared with an average rate of 10%, reaching $3.6 trill...
$17 bln worth of routers to sell by 2012
Worldwide router market growth accelerated in 2007, and router sales are projected to grow by almost 50% over the next 5 years to reach $17 bln by 2012, Dell'Oro Group says....
IT market growth of 5% in 2008
Worldwide IT market will grow 5% in 2008, down from 2007 pace of 6%, according to IDC. Global IT spending is now projected to reach $1.38 trillion in 2008, up from just over $1.3 trillion in 2007. In ...
19% of direct assistance users throught it was free
More than 50% of directory assistance users underestimated the actual cost of mobile directory assistance charges; of that group, almost 19% thought it was free, according to V-ENABLE. Another 18% did...
Asia/Pacific telecom services market was worth over $215 bln in 2007
Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) telecom services market was worth over $215 bln in 2007, according to IDC. In terms of infrastructure, the networking equipment market grew 13% to $6.6 bln in 2007 while...
UK SMB spending on managed security reached $42 mln in 2007
Small and medium businesses (SMBs, or companies with up to 999 employees) in the United Kingdom spent $12 bln on IT services in 2007, up some 8% over 2006. Up to 29% of the over $40 bln in IT and tele...
US telecom to spend $347.5 bln on IT in 2008
The communications industry is projected to spend $347.5 bln in 2008 on IT (hardware, software, IT services, internal services and telecommunications). The compound annual growth rate from 2006 throug...
Telecom operations support spending to reach $46 bln in 2008
The global market for operations support systems (OSS) -- the computing and software IT infrastructure that performs engineering, provisioning, and management functions in telecommunications networks...
Asia-Pacific softswitch architecture grew 36% in 2007
Revenue from softswitch architecture in Asia/Pacific, excluding Japan, will grow by 36% in 2007, to $1.5 bln. It will keep growing strongly, to hit $3.6 bln in 2011, Gartner says....
Fibre Channel switch port shipments up 30% in Q3 2007
According to Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, shipments of Fibre Channel switch ports continued to rise in Q3 2007 and ...