Telecommunications (International Edition) articles from April 2003

Telecommunications (International Edition) archives from April 2003

Mass mobile's mixed market messages. (Commentary).
April 1, 2003... As mobile has grown and its services have proliferated.., it has developed into something incredibly unwieldy Reading the future of mobile communications is not unlike reading palms, or tea leaves, with the difference that it's a little...

Will public wireless LAN hot spots burn 3G? (Financial Perspectives: Europe).
April 1, 2003... It is not news that mobile operators in Germany and the UK got burned on UMTS. Each 3G licence halder in Ger many laid out an eye-watering [euro]619 per head of population, and the figure in the UK was higher - [euro]654 a head, according to...

Selling mobile handsets gets personal. (Financial Perspectives: Europe).
April 1, 2003... Most mobile end-users don't buy bit access over acronyms. They buy reliable voice, fast messaging, and kudos. The kudos comes, of course, partly from needing a mobile at all, but also from the type of mobile. As Carolina Milanesi, a...

Deutsche Telekom sells stake in MTS. (Global News Analysis: Russia).
April 1, 2003... The rumours that Deutsche Telekom could sell part of its 40.1 per cent holding in Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), the Moscow-based Russian mobile operator, to Sistema, the largest MTS shareholder, have proved true. Sistema now has an option to...

European mobile mergers emerge. (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... KPN has told investors that it has made a bid for 02, the smallests UMTS license holder in Germany. The German UMTS market has already seen two exits. Telefonica and Sonera--in the shape of Quam--and France Telecom/Mobilcom. As mobile margins...

i-mode now la mode. (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... i-mode got off to a sluggish start in Germany and the Netherlands last year, but will bounce back in this one, according to analysts at Ovum. In the five months to August 2002, E-Plus only signed up 75,000 subscribers to the service. Ovum says...

Asia-pacific mobile growth. (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Nearly 104 million new mobile subscribers were added in the Asia-Pacific region in 2002, bringing the total to 433.03 million, according to the Global Mobile Subscriber Database (GMSD). This represents a 31.5 per cent growth. China saw most of...

Operators need to spend more on 3G. (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The UMTS Forum argues that an all-IP telecom network is 'inevitable' and that operators have to ask themselves when, not whether, to deploy IP and IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS). Of course, the Forum also points out that this is financially...

The price is right. (View from the Top).
April 1, 2003... Despite being one of the most price-aggressive alternate carriers in Europe, Tele2 is still managing to make a profit. Lars-Johan Jarnheimer, the company's president and CEO, explains how. Tele2 is not your typical pan-European alternate...

SDH and the city. (Access Solutions).
April 1, 2003... Although vocal support for optical ethernet is increasing, SDH will remain dominant in Europe's core metro networks for some time yet. There's no doubt that demand for ethernet services in the metro and WAN areas is growing. After all,...

Access all corporate areas? DSL reaches the parts leased lines cannot, and may refresh margins too. (Access Solutions).
April 1, 2003... More speed, more functionality, more revenue--minimal investment, in an ideal service provider world, these would be compatible goals. In the real world, operators need to be a little more pragmatic, with a tricky balance to be struck between...

FWA broadens its scope. (Access Solutions).
April 1, 2003... Protagonists of standards based BFWA (broadband fixed wireless access) maintain that the technology offers revenue opportunities for both urban and rural operators. Fixed wireless access (FWA), in the past, I was primarily touted by...

VSATs: small apertures, big opportunities: the VSAT business has proved itself relatively robust during the economic downturn. (Access Solutions).
April 1, 2003... Times are tough in telecom. The global slowdown in IT spending has caused pain across the board, with projects postponed, delayed, or cut altogether, and the VSAT business has suffered lust like any other. This should not suggest, however, that...

Cutting edge networks. (Access Solutions).
April 1, 2003... Multi-service IP concentrators, placed at the edge of the network, will help carriers navigate a profitable path to an all-IP network. IP-based data services for corporate customers are growing in availability and popularity. But with the...