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Two very interesting stories last week regarding the growing dominance of the Chinese equipment suppliers Huawei and ZTE. Firstly we heard that Huawei is now the #2 telecoms vendor by sales and #1 in terms of profitability. This is a remarkable achievement over a very short period of time. It wasn't long ago that the world was stunned by the 'plucky' chinese vendor managing to secure a strong role in major NGN programs such as BT's 21CN program. And since then we have witnessed a... -
Whats hot for 2010? There seems to be a great hunger for finding out what is going to happen in 2010. Having put in such as slow 2009 (albeit the final quarter was very promising for most companies I talked to), people are now desperate for a good 2010, and are obsessed with finding out what the opportunities are going to be. The Forum as you might expect has an opinon on this, so here are our hot topics for 2010: Cord cutting/Price Pressure – this means the on-going trend for consumers shifting... -
Towards the end of the year, we get Time magazine’s Person of the Year, the Nobel prizes, and other recognitions of the year about to wrap up. It’s all a mechanism of keeping score on who’s up and who’s down; what’s hot and what’s not. So in this spirit let me share with you my highlights of 2009 and how this is going to evolve in the year to come. Without a doubt the three areas that defined our industry in 2009 were App Stores, 4G and Cloud Computing. They all punched significantly above their... -
For the last 12 months a debate has been raging as to whether WiMax or LTE would dominate the 4G world. For my part I have come down on the side of LTE for a variety of reasons, and my view has been reinforced when I see major equipment vendors ramping up their LTE development programs, often to the detriment of their WiMax development plans. But over recent weeks I've concluded that a 4G world is more likely to include a decent chunk of both WiMax and LTE, and that we need to view this entire... -
DoCoMo have announced their LTE launch plans - 2010. Interesting their comment that they feel they suffered from being an early adopter of 3G and essentially were too far ahead of the mass market. If they hit their 2010 dates, they will be in good company - not too early, not too late - right alongside Verizon and multiple other major players! Also interesting was their statement about viewing LTE as a solution built on top of and co-existing with 3G, rather than an instant replacement. But the most... -
One of the unexpected side-effects of this global recession is the way it is catapulting China to become the most important telecoms market in the world. The combined effect of a slowdown of Capex investment across US & Europe, with the Chinese government driven Capex investment program of ~$50bn/year for the next two years, means that a staggering 50% of the global annual telecoms capex investment over the next two years will come from China . And this may have a significant impact on the decisions... -
After 20 years of disconnected mobile networks are we finally heading towards a single unified global mobile technology? With the recent unanimity surrounding LTE, perhaps we finally are. Recent research indicates that 26 network operators have committed to LTE deployments, and among these are the biggest global service providers such as Verizon, Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo, SK Telecom and China Telecom. And if these guys all choose LTE, all the smaller players will have little choice due to the pressures... -
One of the technology areas that is accelerating through this downturn is Long Term Evolution (LTE), the fourth generation mobile network. While the whole world is clinging tightly to its wallets, auctions are underway for 4G licenses, vendors are demonstrating their solutions and contracts are being awarded ( Verizon awards 4G contracts worth billions ) . Ericsson, Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent seem to be the early winners, but there is a long race to run to see who will succeed in the infrastructure...
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