Recently added articles from Telecommunications International:
Wanted: Creative telecom thinking
Dec 01, 2001; ... 14 February 2005 - I always eat at McDonald's. The burgers are good but their life insurance is great. I pay for it in install ments but never write a cheque. Instead, I get automatic 60-day coverage of an extra US$5,000, the premium paid as part of the price of a burger by credit card ... Burger ...
Venture capitalists not guilty, says Merrill Lynch
Dec 01, 2001; ... Global According to Merrill Lynch, a provider of investment banking and financial services, venture capitalists are not responsible for over-playing the telecoms and internet markets. "If you are going to point a finger at anyone, it should be at the financial markets as a ...
Highs and lows of mobile handset market
Dec 01, 2001; ... Research from telecoms consultancy, Gartner Group, reveals a ten per cent decline in global mobile handset sales from third quarter results last year compared with the same period this year (a drop of 104.6 million to 94.4 million). Western Europe also saw an `unprecedented fall' from 29.6 ...
Automatic boost for audio conferencing
Dec 01, 2001; ... Recent events in the US have thrown the audio conferencing industry into sharp focus. Although no one would be surprised to hear that worldwide telephone conferencing revenues are expected to exceed US$3 bn (EUR3.3 bn) by the end of 2001, they might be interested to note that this growth is ...
Versatel targets KPN's ISDN customers
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Netherlands Versatel, a privately-held service provider based in the Netherlands, has launched a bundled package of voice and data services in an attempt to woo KPN's SME customers. Using a combination of ISDN and DSL technology, Versatel is hoping that SMEs in the Netherlands (80 per cent ...
United we stand
Dec 01, 2001; ... Scott Fox, chairman of the GSM Association, believes that the GSM success story will best continue if there is a high amount of collaboration among operators, vendors and application developers. When Telecommunications(R) International interviewed the GSM Association's CEO (Rob Conway) ...
Do you understand the mobile professional worker?
Dec 01, 2001; ... IP services and infrastructure Mobile operators who want to enthuse the enterprise user will have to talk more about services and less about technology. If you're a mobile operator in Europe, hands up if you've cracked the enterprise sector. Chances are - if you're being ...
A technology before its time
Dec 01, 2001; ... Despite a lack of address space in some markets and the emergence of 3G multimedia applications, there's still no fixed time for when global IM migration will take place. Why has internet protocol version 6 (IM) been so slow to catch on? The main reason is that, although its ...
A new image for videoconferencing
Dec 01, 2001; ... Although the IP videoconferencing industry is experiencing growth, there's still no evidence of widespread understanding among business users about its benefits. The real barrier to videoconferencing take-up has been the bad user experience. At least that's the view of Mark Roberts, ...
Can DSL live without ATM?
Dec 01, 2001; ... ATM and DSL have long been bedfellows, but do they always make the best match? Telecommunications' International talks to two vendors with very different views on the subject - Net to Net Technologies and Alcatel. The most expensive coat in the shop is not always the most ...
Cable operators raise the IP VPN stakes
Dec 01, 2001; ... The imminent combination of DOCSIS 1.1 and MPLS will allow cable operators to deliver IP-based VPN services with guaranteed quality of service. If telcos thought they had the IP-based VPN market sewn up then they should think again. Standardisation developments for HFC (hybrid fibre ...
The LAN to WAN dilemma
Dec 01, 2001; ... The successful running of complex applications on LAN and WAN environments is dependent on the nplementation of advanced IP QoS technology, and effective management and maintenance. Local access and wide area network (LAN and WAN) interworking has been a hotspot in network design, ...
The new business models
Dec 01, 2001; ... THE ENGINE ACCESS EQUATION In an increasingly challenging marketplace, network operators need to focus on the strategic exploitation of assets and resources. Nowhere is this more true than at the access level- the ultimate point of customer contact. Access solutions need to support broadband ...
KPN international network services: The Wholesale plus dimension
Dec 01, 2001; ... In an uncertain market, the search for new business models by telecom operators is a strategic necessity. New services can deliver new revenues or protect old ones. In some cases, a new business model can take advantage of gaps in a value chain of service delivery left by other operators who ...
KingCom: A new gigabit network
Dec 01, 2001; ... Emerging regional telecom operators provide intriguing, if controversial (in the current environment) business models. Observers question if they have the right economies of scale and can achieve the right mix of technologies and new revenues to sustain a business. Where the telecom operator is ...
Tele Danmark: A DSL business
Dec 01, 2001; ... ADSL represents arguably the most complex market development in mass market fixed line telecom since the deployment of PSTN networks. The economics, implementation, rollout, marketing, and customer services all present challenges that operator business models need to address. There are ...
Skanova: The cost effective wholesale model
Dec 01, 2001; ... Wholesale telecom operators have their own special challenges: the need to build infrastructure that is effective in countering the ferocious price competition that exists everywhere in the market. Where markets are extremely liberalized, the business model for the wholesale operator at both the ...
AAPT: A technology agnostic strategy
Dec 01, 2001; ... There probably is no working day that I don't use the phrase `EBIT' (Earnings Before Interest and Tax) twenty times. We are obsessed with it." So speaks Dave Marsh, Director of Infrastructure Solutions for AAPT, a "hunter" operator, based in Australia. Mr Marsh says his job focuses on ...
Altitude: A regional local loop
Dec 01, 2001; ... Access strategies can enable new operators to build market share and add new services if they can target specific markets appropriately. For Altitude, a regional operator based in Normandy, France, fixed wireless access by LMDS technologies has enabled a consolidation and development of a local ...
Banda 26: The last mile
Dec 01, 2001; ... All competitive operators face a similar problem: Ilk the fast set up, and rapid time to market that initiating a new business demands. Where that operator has designs on national coverage, the implementation challenges are significant. For Banda 26, an alternative operator in Spain, ...