SAN JOSE, USA: Multimedia Research Group Inc. (MRG) announced that its new report on global growth of IPTV will reach 102 million subscribers in 2014, a 25 percent CAGR.
By 2014, Europe will have 45 percent of the global market, Asia 31 percent, North America 19 percent and ROW about 5 percent. IPTV operators are using "discreet upgrades" to match and surpass cable competition. However the expected fast-growth in China IPTV growth has not materialized, due largely to regulatory barriers that favor the large cable competitors.
The Eastern European IPTV market is moving quickly to early maturity, while ROW markets show faster gains than other regions. "As late as 2007, Eastern Europe had only a few IPTV trials or startups. Now, there are 16 fully operating IPTV Operators and another three to six in trial," says Jose Alvear, IPTV analyst with MRG. "These Operators continue to grow their service base, because they have much greater technical and creative control over their service than their cable competition."
High ARPUs still favor Europe and US IPTV markets, with largest service and systems revenues also coming from these regions. Of the specific CapEx items tracked by the report, expenditures will grow from $3.1 billion in 2010 to $5.1 billion in 2014; and service revenue will grow from $17.5 billion to $46 billion in 2014. Over 50 companies are profiled in the report, including many in emerging markets in Eastern Europe and ROW.
In the North American markets, since Verizon stopped signing new franchise agreements outside its existing footprint, speculation is growing that Verizon will switch from its QAM/IPTV architecture to an all IPTV (fiber-based) architecture for future franchises after 2011.
Meanwhile AT&T, with no such technical constraints, is free to use a "discreet upgrade" approach to growing bandwidth using a mix of advanced DSL or FTTX as needed. Furthermore, AT&T can grow its success with its Apple iPhone and iPad products with its U-verse IPTV system and drive additional revenues.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
TRaC reaffirms relationship with Motorola
UK: Leading testing and compliance consultancy, TRaC Telecoms and Radio, has announced it is to continue its long-standing relationship with Motorola.
Motorola’s NBBS remote device software device management platform is used by TRaC—whose testing services include telecommunications, DSL and radio—to test Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) that utilizes the Broadband Forum’s TR-069 specification and ensure interoperability.
Alan Lefkof, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola Mobile Devices and Home, commented: “We are pleased that TRaC continues to rely on our NBBS software platform to perform industry leading interoperability testing – TRaC’s reputation, dedication and expertise in the testing and compliance industry are excellent. By continuing our work together, we are able to carry on providing CPE vendors with a testing platform that can validate their compliance to the important TR-069 specification.”
Motorola’s NBBS Auto Configuration Server (ACS) was developed specifically to meet the TR-069 requirements that broadband service providers often insist CPE vendors adhere to.
Paul Russell, managing director of TRaC Telecoms and Radio, commented: “Motorola’s NBBS platform was the perfect system choice to power our TR-069 testing service. As Motorola continues to enhance its NBBS platform and we are pleased to be able to provide the same high level of quality and commitment to our customers.”
Motorola’s NBBS remote device software device management platform is used by TRaC—whose testing services include telecommunications, DSL and radio—to test Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) that utilizes the Broadband Forum’s TR-069 specification and ensure interoperability.
Alan Lefkof, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola Mobile Devices and Home, commented: “We are pleased that TRaC continues to rely on our NBBS software platform to perform industry leading interoperability testing – TRaC’s reputation, dedication and expertise in the testing and compliance industry are excellent. By continuing our work together, we are able to carry on providing CPE vendors with a testing platform that can validate their compliance to the important TR-069 specification.”
Motorola’s NBBS Auto Configuration Server (ACS) was developed specifically to meet the TR-069 requirements that broadband service providers often insist CPE vendors adhere to.
Paul Russell, managing director of TRaC Telecoms and Radio, commented: “Motorola’s NBBS platform was the perfect system choice to power our TR-069 testing service. As Motorola continues to enhance its NBBS platform and we are pleased to be able to provide the same high level of quality and commitment to our customers.”
Sagem Wireless and ST-Ericsson to partner on LTE
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND & PARIS, FRANCE: Sagem Wireless, a leader in the design and delivery of customised connected lifestyle devices and services, and ST-Ericsson are to partner on the development of multimode LTE/HSPA+ reference designs, devices and modules. Sagem Wireless and ST-Ericsson are collaborating on a multimode platform, which can connect to LTE, HSPA+, 3G and GSM networks, to develop a mobile broadband modem to be launched before the end of 2010.
Supporting downlink speeds of up to 100 Mbps via LTE and 21 Mbps via HSPA+, Sagem Wireless' dongle modems will enable Internet Gateways to offer ultra high speed wireless access. These modems will also enable laptops to get online wherever there is mobile coverage, giving end-users a high level of flexibility.
There are now 61 live commercial HSPA+ networks in 34 countries and 80 mobile operators, spanning 33 countries, are committed to deploying LTE, according to the GSM Association. Sagem Wireless also plans to use the multimode platform to produce versatile modules that can bring high-speed mobile connectivity to laptops, netbooks, tablet computers, Machine to Machine (M2M) applications and other devices.
"Working with ST-Ericsson on LTE will enable Sagem Wireless to be at the forefront of the development of state-of-the-art devices and modules modems that can connect to the world's fastest mobile networks," said Yves Portalier, EVP, Strategic Planning of Sagem Wireless. "ST-Ericsson's single family of platforms will also enable Sagem Wireless to produce a wide range of devices faster and more cost-effectively than if we had to juggle multiple incompatible platforms."
"We have developed our multimode platform to enable people to connect to the best available mobile network wherever they are, whether that be with LTE, HSPA+, 3G or GSM, switching between different access technologies effortlessly and seamlessly," said Pascal Langlois, senior VP chief sales and marketing officer of ST-Ericsson. "The fact that the platform is ready to make its debut in commercial devices in 2010 further underlines ST-Ericsson's strong position in the development of LTE device platforms and to Sagem Wireless’ system-level and RF integration expertise."
Supporting downlink speeds of up to 100 Mbps via LTE and 21 Mbps via HSPA+, Sagem Wireless' dongle modems will enable Internet Gateways to offer ultra high speed wireless access. These modems will also enable laptops to get online wherever there is mobile coverage, giving end-users a high level of flexibility.
There are now 61 live commercial HSPA+ networks in 34 countries and 80 mobile operators, spanning 33 countries, are committed to deploying LTE, according to the GSM Association. Sagem Wireless also plans to use the multimode platform to produce versatile modules that can bring high-speed mobile connectivity to laptops, netbooks, tablet computers, Machine to Machine (M2M) applications and other devices.
"Working with ST-Ericsson on LTE will enable Sagem Wireless to be at the forefront of the development of state-of-the-art devices and modules modems that can connect to the world's fastest mobile networks," said Yves Portalier, EVP, Strategic Planning of Sagem Wireless. "ST-Ericsson's single family of platforms will also enable Sagem Wireless to produce a wide range of devices faster and more cost-effectively than if we had to juggle multiple incompatible platforms."
"We have developed our multimode platform to enable people to connect to the best available mobile network wherever they are, whether that be with LTE, HSPA+, 3G or GSM, switching between different access technologies effortlessly and seamlessly," said Pascal Langlois, senior VP chief sales and marketing officer of ST-Ericsson. "The fact that the platform is ready to make its debut in commercial devices in 2010 further underlines ST-Ericsson's strong position in the development of LTE device platforms and to Sagem Wireless’ system-level and RF integration expertise."
Movial ports Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to MeeGo and Android
HELSINKI, FINLAND & PALO ALTO, USA: Movial, the company that inspires rich and intuitive Internet experiences, announced enablement and certification services for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 on both systems-on-chip and mobile platforms for MeeGo and Android.
A scaling partner of the Open Screen Project, Movial also revealed that it is already working with five of the industry’s major chip and mobile platform vendors to integrate, test and certify Flash Player 10.1 on a wide range of mobile environments including smartphones and embedded devices such as tablets, e-readers and netbooks.
“Flash Player 10.1 empowers compelling and complete Web user experiences across the widest range of mobile devices,” said Wade Vesey, CEO of Movial North America.
“Movial is proud to have been selected by five of the industry’s leading chip and mobile platform vendors, as well as a number of device manufacturers that use these platforms, to integrate, test, optimize and certify Flash Player 10.1 across MeeGo and Android on their respective chipsets and device platforms.”
“Global chip and mobile platform vendors have come to rely on Movial’s Systems Integration Services,” said Anthony Haag, director of business development, Open Screen Project at Adobe. “Flash Player 10.1 sets the groundwork for innovation and having a scaling partner like Movial means that chip and mobile platform vendors have a reliable, expert team at hand to support their optimization and hardware acceleration needs to bring the performance and new features of Flash Player 10.1 to market as quickly as possible.”
Movial is globally recognized for its user experience design expertise and long-term experience in creating and working with different platforms on embedded devices. Device manufacturers and operators have come to rely on Movial’s creative and custom Systems Integration services, including its robust Android and MeeGo Services, to help increase ROI, streamline, and speed product development utilizing open platforms and ready-to-use applications.
A pioneer in mobile solutions, Movial harnesses its extensive understanding of mobile user behavior to design personalized user experiences, from device concept and interface design, to systems integration, third-party application integration, and product maintenance and support. The company is a regular contributor to the Open Source community and recognized around the world for its Scratchbox and D-Bus Bridge code that it has released to the Mobile Linux Community.
A scaling partner of the Open Screen Project, Movial also revealed that it is already working with five of the industry’s major chip and mobile platform vendors to integrate, test and certify Flash Player 10.1 on a wide range of mobile environments including smartphones and embedded devices such as tablets, e-readers and netbooks.
“Flash Player 10.1 empowers compelling and complete Web user experiences across the widest range of mobile devices,” said Wade Vesey, CEO of Movial North America.
“Movial is proud to have been selected by five of the industry’s leading chip and mobile platform vendors, as well as a number of device manufacturers that use these platforms, to integrate, test, optimize and certify Flash Player 10.1 across MeeGo and Android on their respective chipsets and device platforms.”
“Global chip and mobile platform vendors have come to rely on Movial’s Systems Integration Services,” said Anthony Haag, director of business development, Open Screen Project at Adobe. “Flash Player 10.1 sets the groundwork for innovation and having a scaling partner like Movial means that chip and mobile platform vendors have a reliable, expert team at hand to support their optimization and hardware acceleration needs to bring the performance and new features of Flash Player 10.1 to market as quickly as possible.”
Movial is globally recognized for its user experience design expertise and long-term experience in creating and working with different platforms on embedded devices. Device manufacturers and operators have come to rely on Movial’s creative and custom Systems Integration services, including its robust Android and MeeGo Services, to help increase ROI, streamline, and speed product development utilizing open platforms and ready-to-use applications.
A pioneer in mobile solutions, Movial harnesses its extensive understanding of mobile user behavior to design personalized user experiences, from device concept and interface design, to systems integration, third-party application integration, and product maintenance and support. The company is a regular contributor to the Open Source community and recognized around the world for its Scratchbox and D-Bus Bridge code that it has released to the Mobile Linux Community.
US spending on mobile display ads will nearly quadruple over next five years
NEW YORK, USA: --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mobile advertising is a young and relatively small market today. But over the next five years, spending on mobile display ads in the United States, estimated at just under $313 million today, will almost quadruple to exceed $1.2 billion in 2015.
ABI Research practice director Neil Strother says: “A survey conducted by ABI Research in February found that 28 percent of the mobile subscribers queried accessed the mobile Internet daily. This is a huge increase over the number doing so just 14 months ago, and is a powerful driver for the mobile marketing and advertising market.”
Mobile display ads – essentially similar to online banner ads – are only one method available to aspiring mobile marketers. The others are:
* Text messaging
* Search advertising
* Ads within applications (in-app)
* Video (streaming and on-demand)
While smartphone usage is a primary driver of this new and still fragmented industry (smartphone penetration in the US currently stands at about 20 percent), mobile marketing’s potential extends to mobile devices of all kinds.
“Marketers have increasingly been shifting budgets into mobile campaigns,” Strother reports. “This became evident during our research interviews with advertising agency executives, technology vendors and mobile ad network operators, who said they have been seeing year-over-year increases of 25-30 percent in campaign spending.”
Big technology firms are now getting involved, as demonstrated by Apple’s acquisition of Quattro Wireless and Google’s takeover of AdMob. But independent ad networks are also serving this market, companies such as Millennial Media, Jumptap, and Greystripe. “Each of these networks is focused on a somewhat different part of the market,” says Strother, “but in principal they’re open to anybody with money who wants to reach a mobile audience.”
ABI Research practice director Neil Strother says: “A survey conducted by ABI Research in February found that 28 percent of the mobile subscribers queried accessed the mobile Internet daily. This is a huge increase over the number doing so just 14 months ago, and is a powerful driver for the mobile marketing and advertising market.”
Mobile display ads – essentially similar to online banner ads – are only one method available to aspiring mobile marketers. The others are:
* Text messaging
* Search advertising
* Ads within applications (in-app)
* Video (streaming and on-demand)
While smartphone usage is a primary driver of this new and still fragmented industry (smartphone penetration in the US currently stands at about 20 percent), mobile marketing’s potential extends to mobile devices of all kinds.
“Marketers have increasingly been shifting budgets into mobile campaigns,” Strother reports. “This became evident during our research interviews with advertising agency executives, technology vendors and mobile ad network operators, who said they have been seeing year-over-year increases of 25-30 percent in campaign spending.”
Big technology firms are now getting involved, as demonstrated by Apple’s acquisition of Quattro Wireless and Google’s takeover of AdMob. But independent ad networks are also serving this market, companies such as Millennial Media, Jumptap, and Greystripe. “Each of these networks is focused on a somewhat different part of the market,” says Strother, “but in principal they’re open to anybody with money who wants to reach a mobile audience.”
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
TEMS portfolio helps operators with LTE implementation
USA: As mobile wireless networks and technologies evolve from 3G to 4G, more mobile operators are beginning to roll out LTE networks. At the same time, the demand for high-speed mobility and better network performance is rapidly increasing.
The challenge is to deliver the highest possible Quality of Service and improve the user experience while also reducing costs, maintaining operational efficiency, and staying ahead of the competition.
Ascom Network Testing has the experience, technical expertise, and trusted solutions to help operators meet this challenge. The TEMS Portfolio demonstrates its technological leadership through the early development and commercialization of the TEMS LTE solutions, and is being used by operators as they deploy this new technology.
The TEMS LTE offerings include industry leading drive testing tool TEMS Investigation, post-processing software TEMS Discovery, and benchmarking solution TEMS Symphony.
The challenge is to deliver the highest possible Quality of Service and improve the user experience while also reducing costs, maintaining operational efficiency, and staying ahead of the competition.
Ascom Network Testing has the experience, technical expertise, and trusted solutions to help operators meet this challenge. The TEMS Portfolio demonstrates its technological leadership through the early development and commercialization of the TEMS LTE solutions, and is being used by operators as they deploy this new technology.
The TEMS LTE offerings include industry leading drive testing tool TEMS Investigation, post-processing software TEMS Discovery, and benchmarking solution TEMS Symphony.
Market factors indicate stronger growth for multi-SIM handsets
CAMBRIDGE, USA: Multi-SIM handsets are expected to become a 100 million volume market by the end of 2010, driven primarily by low-income, price-sensitive markets, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. Market Factors Indicate Stronger Growth for Multi-SIM Handsets details the multi-SIM handset segment, why it is important, and highlights key developments.
The 12-page report includes an analysis of global subscriptions and SIMs, estimating the total multi-SIM ownership and breaking out the main reasons for users to have more than one SIM. The key driver of multi-SIM ownership, namely cost reduction, is explored before the developments on the vendor side are discussed, in particular at how the low-cost vendors have managed to dominate the multi-SIM segment.
It also highlights recent innovations and market entrants. This section also provides our estimate of multi-SIM handset sales. We then analyze operator views, including several examples of operators that are using multi-SIM handsets to gain market share.
Multi-SIM handset adoption is increasing and has reached a size large enough to attract global brands, notes Jan ten Sythoff, analyst at large at Pyramid Research.
"The niche was developed by low-cost Chinese and Indian vendors, which still dominate the market; now, more than 1.2 billion users have more than one SIM, with the majority in emerging markets, driven by cost-reduction opportunities," he says. Multi-SIM handset shipment volumes have increased rapidly and are expected to become a 100 million volume market in 2010.
Low-income, price-sensitive markets that are competitive and predominantly prepaid tend to result in pricing strategies that foster multi-SIM ownership. "The pricing strategies of operators trying to increase market share result in opportunities for price-sensitive users to optimize their costs by using different networks," he explains.
Operator interest in multi-SIM handsets is still lukewarm. "CDMA operators have been the most accepting of multi-SIM handsets in order to mitigate the benefits of GSM technology's dominance," Sythoff says.
The 12-page report includes an analysis of global subscriptions and SIMs, estimating the total multi-SIM ownership and breaking out the main reasons for users to have more than one SIM. The key driver of multi-SIM ownership, namely cost reduction, is explored before the developments on the vendor side are discussed, in particular at how the low-cost vendors have managed to dominate the multi-SIM segment.
It also highlights recent innovations and market entrants. This section also provides our estimate of multi-SIM handset sales. We then analyze operator views, including several examples of operators that are using multi-SIM handsets to gain market share.
Multi-SIM handset adoption is increasing and has reached a size large enough to attract global brands, notes Jan ten Sythoff, analyst at large at Pyramid Research.
"The niche was developed by low-cost Chinese and Indian vendors, which still dominate the market; now, more than 1.2 billion users have more than one SIM, with the majority in emerging markets, driven by cost-reduction opportunities," he says. Multi-SIM handset shipment volumes have increased rapidly and are expected to become a 100 million volume market in 2010.
Low-income, price-sensitive markets that are competitive and predominantly prepaid tend to result in pricing strategies that foster multi-SIM ownership. "The pricing strategies of operators trying to increase market share result in opportunities for price-sensitive users to optimize their costs by using different networks," he explains.
Operator interest in multi-SIM handsets is still lukewarm. "CDMA operators have been the most accepting of multi-SIM handsets in order to mitigate the benefits of GSM technology's dominance," Sythoff says.
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