Smart Sustainable Cities Need Holistic Approach, Say Global Stakeholders
ICTs have a crucial role to play in tackling the developmental challenges facing the cities that are becoming our primary choice of habitation in the 21st Century, concluded participants attending the 8th ITU Symposium on ICT and Environment Change, held in Turin, 6-7 May.
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Carrier Ethernet Spending
Available now is the Carrier Ethernet Equipment market size and forecast report, which tracks investment in, penetration of, and use of carrier Ethernet products in service provider networks.
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Active Optical Cabling Markets
This year sales AOCs will exceed $150 million for the first time. And by the beginning of the next decade, CIR expects the AOC market to be valued in the billions of dollars.
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Asia Pacific Retail
Telecoms retail revenue in developed Asia–Pacific (DVAP) markets is set to decline at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of –0.4% during the next 5 years, according to new research by Analysys Mason.
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18 Million DVB-T2 STBs Expected in 2015 to Help Satisfy Next Digital Transition Milestone
By end 2012, North America and Western Europe had effectively made the transition to digital terrestrial television (DTT) broadcasts. The next milestone year (2015) was established by the ITU and a number of countries in Eastern Europe and Middle-East Africa are hoping to satisfy this goal.
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Ovum Warns Telcos Not to Rush to Expand Into Additional Countries
This delivers an important message to Europe's telcos and authorities as they consider consolidation, convergence, and the creation of a pan-European network or regulation/licensing regime. The global industry analyst firm also believes that it explains why operators such as AT&T and Verizon are outperforming their European peers.
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Brazilian Agency Africa Uses AT&T Telepresence Solution for Global Face to Face Communications
Scaling creativity and ensuring ongoing global collaboration across multiple locations are essential for the Brazilian marketing, branding, and advertising agency Africa….
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Targeted Vertical Solutions to Drive Growth in Chinese Building Automation Market
According to a new report from IMS Research, the Chinese building automation market was estimated at $181.6 million in 2012, and is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.7% to $344.5 million in 2017.
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SaskTel, SaskPower and Cameco Join to Deliver Fiber Backbone for Northeastern Saskatchewan
A venture involving SaskTel, SaskPower and Cameco will provide a new fiber network and power facilities to northeastern Saskatchewan. This will open northern Saskatchewan to a number of new SaskTel services and bring high-speed bandwidth to all of Cameco's operating sites from La Ronge to Collins Bay.
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India Has the Potential to Lead the World in the Nexus of Social, Mobile, Cloud and Information But May Waste the Opportunity
The manner in which IT is used, developed and managed will change significantly, because of the Nexus of Forces, and the technologies that sit behind them.
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Merging Markets Will Generate 58% of Smartphone Sales Between 2012 to 2017
Global smartphone sales are expected to more than double between 2012 and 2017, reaching close to 1.5 billion units in 2017, with sell-through in emerging markets expected to generate 58 percent of smartphone sales during the period….
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Asia Pacific Growth
Broadband Internet service revenue in Asia Pacific is expected to pass $100 billion in 2017….
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Smartphone Futures 2012-2016
Continuing to redefine the handset business, smartphones are fast becoming the device of choice for hundreds of millions of consumers, and 2012 is the year that worldwide smartphone shipments will top half a billion in one year.
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Location Opps?
With ARPU under fire, and traditional LBS revenues fighting a losing battle to smartphone applications, carriers are finally waking up to new $300+ million opportunities around network-based location information.
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Network Challenges Force Network Management Adjustments
The survey confirmed that new technology introductions, quality issues, and cost pressures are among the key drivers forcing CSPs to shift toward more accurate models for controlling network planning and enhancing quality of service, supported by new capabilities such as analytics.
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