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Digital Media - IPTV

Europe and Asia have had the most dynamic IPTV markets over the past few years, but recently in the USA the telcos’ IPTV plans, on the back of their fibre deployments, have started to gather significant momentum. However on the whole, around the world, customers continue to be more interested in the web based broadband video applications rather than IP based TV. The economic downturn may also deter telcos from expanding their IPTV coverage over the next couple of years and subscriber growth could be curbed as consumers’ reign in their spending on luxury services. This report includes brief case studies of key markets and broad statistics and forecasts. For information on online video services over the web see separate report.

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Last Updated: Monday, 22 February 2010
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Number of Pages: 19
Global - Broadband - FttH Overview & Statistics

In 2009 Japan continues to lead the world in terms of FttH subscribers, but South Korea has the highest penetration in the world. The USA and parts of Europe are also rapidly rolling out. It is the countries that recognise the importance of a fibre optic telecoms infrastructure for healthcare, education and e-government, as well as for their economy, that are leading developments in FttH. This report provides analysis of the market, including a look at the various business drivers, future opportunities and current business models. The report also identifies the leading markets and provides statistics and forecasts.

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 27 October 2009
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Global - Broadband - High Level Overview

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People are beginning to change their mindset regarding broadband. The discussions of the past were all about high-speed Internet access and the level of speed provided. However Internet access will be just one of many services that will be delivered over broadband infrastructure. Far more importantly, other services that depend on high quality broadband infrastructure include telehealth, e-education, e-business, digital media, e-government, smart meters etc. In countries where the national telco is lagging behind we see that local governments have no choice other than to take a leadership role, as they have done with similar infrastructure over the last 100 years. This report analyses the various functions of broadband infrastructure, why cities should become involved, and what the role of the telcos should be.

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Last Updated: Friday, 20 November 2009
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Global - Industry - An Introduction to Telecommunications

Telecommunications started in the nineteenth century with the telegraph, and developed through the telephone and radio to TV to satellites and the Internet etc. The data transmitted has advanced from signals (Morse code) through voice to pictures and data and, with the development of convergence, to combinations of these. Every year, new technologies increase the services available and the speed of delivery. A combination of factors is resulting in the ever-decreasing cost of these services. This free report gives an overview of this development, and the role of regulators to control it.

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Last Updated: Saturday, 22 November 2008
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Global - Industry - Key Telecoms Statistics & Trends at a Glance

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This report provides a valuable summary of key worldwide telecoms statistics and trends, including the number of fixed lines; mobile subscribers; 3G subscribers (including HSPA); text messages sent; Internet users and worldwide broadband subscribers (including DSL statistics). Also provided are statistics on worldwide telecoms capital expenditure (CAPEX), overall telecoms spending and revenues and key satellite services statistics. Information on the top 15 carriers’ worldwide and top 15 carriers in emerging markets is also provided along with outsourcing and MVNO market statistics. Please note: The focus of this report is on global statistics. Please refer to separate reports for regional and country specific statistics.

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Last Updated: Saturday, 6 March 2010
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Global - Industry - The Telecoms Markets in the Emerging BRIC Economies

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It is not surprising that the world has turned its attention to the BRIC countries and the potential opportunities in terms of telecommunications. Brazil’s telecom market is expected to continue growing despite the global downturn; Russia has the largest mobile market in Europe due to size of its population and India and China are some of the fastest growing telecoms markets in the world. This report contains a unique overview and insight into the telecoms industry in the BRIC economies, including information on fixed line, mobile and broadband services; impact of the global financial crisis; regulatory background and key highlights and statistics.

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Last Updated: Wednesday, 9 September 2009
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Global - Industry - Wholesale Markets

Wholesale Internet (IP Transit) bandwidth prices continued to fall in 2009 due to declining unit costs and rising competition. Despite the economic crisis, bandwidth price declines have not yet sped up – due partly to yearly bandwidth contracts that are still to be renewed. The growing Internet economy will ensure that the increased demand for wholesale IP bandwidth will continue in the longer term, with a forecast growth of over 30% through to 2015. A number of countries around the world now operate successful FttX networks based on wholesale models. This report provides an overview of the wholesale market with a focus on international wholesale. It also includes case studies on developments in Australia, Japan and Europe.

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Global - Infrastructure - Functional and Structural Separation

Structural separation - or at least full-blown operational or functional separation - is required to advance the entire industry and to create new business opportunities and innovations which will benefit our society, our economy and ultimately our industry. There is increased global consensus that the real solution is structural separation; in 2009 developments are taking place across Europe, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore. With broadband rapidly becoming the major driver in the telco industry, there is a growing demand for new services, which cannot be delivered by the telcos. In order to properly address new customer demand, horizontal business structures instead of vertical structures are required. This report provides critical analyses of the importance of structural separation for the future of the telecommunications industry and includes case studies of the developments in selected countries.

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Last Updated: Monday, 23 February 2009
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Global - Infrastructure - National Broadband Networks (NBN)

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The most critical element to the success of National Broadband Networks (NBN) will be the infrastructure company that will run the network. They will have to make the critical architecture and design decision for the open wholesale-only services which will form the basis of this new infrastructure for at least the next 25 years. Essential here will be that the network will facilitate the vision laid down by governments which include multiple use of the network by other sectors such as healthcare, education, energy, etc. At the same time the company will need to ensure that it remains an infrastructure company and doesn’t become another telco.
Australia was the first country to get the (national purpose) vision right, thanks to government leadership. The USA soon followed and is now showing real leadership as well. The Netherlands and New Zealand also are on the right track. Economic and trans-sector innovations are now key items on the political agenda of these countries. There is no silver bullet and each unique situation generates its own alternatives, which in turn inform others involved in similar national projects. The vision gives rise to the creation of social and economic strategies that need to be taken into account in the design and architecture of the infrastructure. Pragmatic solutions need to be developed to maximise the use of existing infrastructure and other resources. Un(der)served areas need to receive priority and local communities and councils can play a key role in this. Wireless broadband can play a major role as well. These early projects could also be an ideal testing ground for trans-sector applications.

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Last Updated: Wednesday, 27 January 2010
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Global - Infrastructure - National Broadband Rollouts Design and Deployment Strategies

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After the vision comes the actual design and the roll out of the national broadband networks. Australia was the first country to get the (national purpose) vision right; thanks to government leadership. The USA soon followed and is now showing real leadership as well. The Netherlands and New Zealand are certainly also on the right track. Economic innovation and trans-sector innovations are now key items on the political agenda of these countries. There is no silver bullet and each unique situation brings with it their own alternatives; which in turn assist everybody involved in such national projects, where ever they are. The vision creates social and economic strategies which need to be taken into account in the design and architecture of the infrastructure. Pragmatic solutions need to be developed that allows maximizing the use of existing infrastructure and other resources. Un(der)served areas do need to get a priority and local communities and council can play a key role in this. Wireless broadband can play a key role here. These early project could also be an ideal testing ground for trans-sector applications.

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Last Updated: Wednesday, 16 December 2009
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Global - Infrastructure - Next Generation Telecoms

The financial crisis has led some governments around the world to reconsider how to best counter the downturn and reposition for growth in the future. As a result, infrastructure investment, and in particular, broadband development, has become a key focus for some countries such as the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand etc, which have included broadband networks in their economic stimulus packages. This will help to further facilitate the continuing move to a Next Generation Telecoms environment based on All-IP Next Generation Networks and Fibre-to-the-Home. E-health, e-education, media and sustainability are also the key reasons developed nations need NGNs. In this report we explore the next generation infrastructure of the future including Fibre (FttH), IP, VPLS and Unified Communications. The report also includes analyses, key trends and brief case studies on broadband developments in selected markets around the world.

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Last Updated: Friday, 23 October 2009
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Number of Pages: 16
Global - Infrastructure - Open Networks

Open networks are the next step in the evolution of telecoms infrastructure as it gives users full control of the services and applications that can be made available over high-speed broadband infrastructure. Open networks also means a democratisation of the telecoms infrastructure. The topology and the architecture of the open network should be such that infrastructure, service and content providers can all offer higher quality and different ‘premium’ products and services. This report analyses the importance of Open Networks for a successful telecoms industry and provides an example of Open Access Principles. The report also discusses how it is time the USO and USF polices were reviewed. This report and in particular the Open Access principles are currently discussed in the USA and in Europe.

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 1 September 2009
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Global - Infrastructure - Submarine Cables

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Activity in the submarine cable sector continued throughout 2009 with many cable build-out announcements coming from around the world. Network upgrades are also on the agenda for some existing systems. Collaboration continues as companies work together to share building costs in the current economic climate. One of the big developments in global telecoms is that many African countries are gaining access to fibre optic international submarine cables for the first time. This report provides a high-level overview of the submarine cable sector, with a focus on developments since the last boom. It includes examples of major in-service and proposed submarine systems and data on global submarine investments and costs.

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 1 December 2009
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Global - Investing in the Communications Revolution

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this report is that the views of Professor Carlota Perez as expressed here were written well before the financial crisis. This makes this report all the more poignant. At the same time it validates that telecoms has a key role to play in the economic revival. However, this will need to be done in a totally new framework in order to get us through the transition period of the communications revolutions. We are now moving towards what she calls the mass deployment phase, which will be accompanied by unprecedented social and economic benefits – not just for individual nations but, if we do it right, for the global community also.

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Last Updated: Monday, 23 February 2009
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Global - Mobile Broadband - HSPA, LTE, WiMAX & IMS

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Operators continue to move forward with HSPA in 2010 and there are now hundreds of commercial deployments around the world. Operators are also looking to the future with over 100 operators committed to deploying LTE and over 500 WIMAX deployments taking place worldwide. Operators are also contemplating and deploying IMS; a mobile platform that makes seamless communications possible between fixed and mobile networks. The lure of interoperability of applications over the various networks is a very powerful tool for telcos in their battle to maintain their position in the market. This report includes information and broad statistics on the key mobile broadband markets, including HSPA, LTE, WiMAX and LTE.

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Last Updated: Saturday, 6 March 2010
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Global - VoIP - Overview & Statistics

Improved technology solutions have led to a robust VoIP market in recent years and this growth is continuing in 2009 despite the economic downturn because VoIP offers a cheaper alternative. While security and reliability concerns still need to be resolved; consumers and business are turning to VoIP in an effort to save costs. Japan, China and the USA continue to be some of the world’s hottest markets for IP telephony. Over the last couple years, Europe has also become a prime innovator in VoIP services, whether stand-alone, bundled as a triple play offer, or through fixed-mobile convergence packages. One of the other challenges for the VoIP market is establishing the extent to which it can and should be regulated. This report provides an introduction and overview of the worldwide VoIP market including information and statistics on the leading markets, VoIP providers and worldwide VoIP subscribers.

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Last Updated: Friday, 6 November 2009
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Number of Pages: 11
Smart Cities, Buildings & Communities

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The concept of smart communities is based on intelligent infrastructure such as broadband (FttH) and smart grids, so that connected and sustainable communities can be developed. However, before these smart communities can be built, trans-sector policies and strategies need to be developed. They can’t be built from the current silo structure that dominates our thinking; but require a holistic approach which includes environmental issues such as self sufficient energy buildings, energy exchanges for renewable energy and e-cars, delivery of e-health, e-education, e-government services as well as digital media and Internet services. This report discusses and provides examples of some of the developments taking place around the world towards building smart cities and communities.

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Last Updated: Wednesday, 27 January 2010
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Smart Grids - Grid IT - Where Energy Meets Comms

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There is now widespread agreement of the need for smart grids; however the regulatory system and the risk adverse electricity distribution structure are hampering a more rapid deployment. This is creating opportunities for other telcos and companies such as Google and Microsoft to enter this market. Energy and comms technologies offer a powerful coalition that could lead to an energy/comms revolution, resulting in unprecedented new opportunities that will benefit the planet, save energy and thus lower costs and create new business opportunities. This report also discusses how renewable energy can be incorporated (use generated energy) through a far more distributed network architecture (Energy Exchanges).

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Last Updated: Wednesday, 27 January 2010
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Number of Pages: 8