Telecoms & Broadband Business Newsletter - October 2008

Publication Overview

Australia's first newsletter on national and international management and business applications in broadband, voice, data and video communication. Trends and developments in telecommunications, wireless communication, broadband and data services, fibre-to-the-home and satellite-based services. It describes business opportunities and provides updates on deregulation in the Australasian region and around the globe.

Executive Summary

Australia's first newsletter on national and international management and business applications in broadband, voice, data and video communication. Trends and developments in telecommunications, wireless communication, broadband and data services, fibre-to-the-home and satellite-based services. It describes business opportunities and provides updates on deregulation in the Australasian region and around the globe.

Table of Contents

• 1. EDITORIAL
  
  • 1.1 Business models for the digital economy
• 2. STRATEGIES
  
  • 2.1 Wholesale market moving into 2009
  • 2.2 ‘We have no word for knowledge’
  • 2.3 Why bothering building Next Generation Telecommunications?
  • 2.4 New era for Australian broadband politics
  • 2.5 The rebirth of the innovative individual
  • 2.6 The telcos’ triple play model has failed
  • 2.7 Crunch time for Australia’s Next Generation Telecoms Network
  • 2.8 Enlisting in Gordon Cook’s guerilla army
  • 2.9 Professor Carlota Perez
  • 2.10 Instability in the Caucasus a worry for Euro telcos, but TeliaSonera emerges a winner
  • 2.11 A profitless industry?
• 3. TELECOMMUNICATIONS
  
  • 3.1 Update – Fibre-to-the-Farm
  • 3.2 Speech recognition based on ‘grammatical inference’ technology
  • 3.3 HD Voice in Japan
  • 3.4 Three-tiered Internet developments in Asia
  • 3.5 170 Asian operators – the world’s telecom powerhouses
  • 3.6 Fixed infrastructure in the Middle East
• 4. Wireless markets
  
  • 4.1 Mobile phone service subsidised by advertising
  • 4.2 Solar powered GSM platform
  • 4.3 Asia: the mobile explosion continues
  • 4.4 Lower voice roaming tariffs exposing excessive data charges
  • 4.5 Russia – largest mobile market in Europe
  • 4.6 Nigeria – nearly one new mobile customer per second
  • 4.7 Iraq – major changes in mobile licences
• 5. BROADBAND
  
  • 5.1 BuddeComm gets Naked
  • 5.2 3G the broadband fix for Asia
• 6. Digital media
  
  • 6.1 The digital TV switchover in 2013 will prove challenging
  • 6.2 The future of video in telecoms
  • 6.3 Digital TV explosion in Western Europe and US
  • 6.4 From telecommunications to information highway
• 7. CONTENT AND SERVICES
  
  • 7.1 Telads Communications Group
  • 7.2 The Australian calling card market
  • 7.3 Australian prepaid electronic payment services market
  • 7.4 Contactless Mobile Payments
  • 7.5 Is there a need for video?
  • 7.6 IPTV finally breaking into the TV market
  • 7.7 Prepaid web based services
• 8. BRIEFS
  
  • 8.1 Disney World 3D in Google Earth
  • 8.2 Satellite tracking messenger service