http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/ Honest, independent, expert opinion on the weekly issues shaping the industry. en Cesar Bachelet http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/Media_usage_Insight_Sep2010/ In its recently published report, Ofcom revealed that the average person in the UK now multi-tasks to cram almost nine hours’ worth of media into seven hours of their time every day ... tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8438 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:00:00 GMT Rupert Wood http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/FTTH_roll-out_Insight_Aug2010/ Interested parties often cite regulatory uncertainty as the largest hurdle to widespread fibre access deployment, but wireless device and service innovation poses a more intractable problem ... tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8426 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:00:00 GMT Martin Scott http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/Fixed_broadband_pricing_Insight_Aug2010/ Following 18 months of relative stability during the recession, competition is once again driving a reduction in prices in the European fixed broadband market ... tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8397 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:00:00 GMT Peter Mottishaw http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/Service-brokers-bridging-legacy-and-next-generation-networks/ Service differentiation is becoming increasingly critical as competition intensifies in mature and emerging telecoms markets. Service brokers help operators to bundle existing services quickly and economically ... tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8367 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:00:00 GMT Mark H. Mortensen http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/Service-fulfilment-software-is-evolving-to-support-operators-new-business-models/ As CSPs adjust their business models to take advantage of new opportunities, new factors will drive growth in the market for service fulfilment systems ... tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8355 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:30:00 GMT Cesar Bachelet http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/Outsourced-cloud-services-will-complement-not-replace-existing-infrastructure/ Cloud-based services are one of the biggest growth opportunities in ICT, but enterprises will probably seek to get the best of both worlds, rather than abandon traditional IT infrastructure completely ... tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8330 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:00:00 GMT Yanli Suo-Saunders http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/Tablets-will-drive-a-new-wave-of-mobile-broadband-growth/ The Apple iPad has created a new device category for the wireless electronics industry. The tablet phenomenon is timely for mobile operators, which are seeking new areas of service revenue growth ... tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8309 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:30:00 GMT Martin Scott http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/Altnets-overtake-incumbents-in-the-fixed-broadband-battleground/ European incumbents no longer account for the majority of retail fixed broadband subscriptions, according to the latest data from Analysys Mason’s Fixed Broadband research programme ... tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8292 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:00:00 GMT Mark H. Mortensen http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/The-race-for-new-services-and-bundles-will-push-old-customer-care-systems-to-the-limit/ CSPs' need to support new services and complex bundles more quickly than ever before has driven growth in the market for telecoms customer care systems, despite the recession ... tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8278 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:30:00 GMT Yanli Suo-Saunders http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/European-mobile-broadband-market-continues-to-grow--but-continues-to-cost/ Mobile broadband will contribute almost 10% of European operators' mobile service revenue by 2015, according to our new forecast. But huge increases in data traffic have so far outpaced revenue growth ... tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8260 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:00:00 GMT Andrei Tchadliev http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/Mobile-broadband-traffic-in-CEE-threatens-to-overload-networks/ The continual rise in the number of consumers taking mobile broadband has severely strained network capacity, resulting in deterioration in the user experience. Mobile operators have rushed to invest in their networks, but a closer look at the habits and tendencies of mobile broadband subscribers reveals that there are far less painful solutions to the issues of network quality. tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8261 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:00:00 GMT Steve Hilton http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/Seize-the-USD356-billion-global-market-for-enterprise-cloud-services/ The global market for enterprise cloud-based services will grow from USD12.1 billion in 2010 to USD35.6 billion in 2015, according to our detailed forecast of this growing technology sector ... tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8208 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:00:00 GMT Sourabh Kaushal http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/3G-strategy-of-Indian-operators-focus-on-retaining-high-end-subscribers/ The high bid prices in the recently concluded 3G spectrum auction in India surprised everyone, as did the identity of the winners. Operators concentrated on circles in which they had leadership positions, in terms of revenue and/or subscriber market share. The strategy in these circles is to retain high-end subscribers and to enhance revenue from them through high-speed wireless data services and usage of multimedia-based value-added services. tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8158 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:00:00 GMT Roz Roseboro http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/The-CALA-telecoms-market-is-poised-for-sustained-growth/ The telecoms market in Central and Latin America (CALA) has experienced rapid growth over the past few years, and is expected to continue to do so for the next five years. tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8134 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:00:00 GMT Glen Ragoonanan http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/The-good-the-bad-and-the-neutral-of-telecoms-software-markets-in-2009-service-fulfilment-network-management-systems-and-service-assurance/ The telecoms sector was not as hard hit by recession in 2009 as it was in 2002–2003, despite large declines in GDP in many developed countries. Thanks to growth in IP traffic, the transition to convergent IP-based networks and increasing opportunities in growth markets, the impact of the economic downturn on the telecoms software market was minimised. Evidence of this is noted in three telecoms software segments: service fulfilment, network management systems and service assurance. tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8099 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:00:00 GMT Cesar Bachelet http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/European-IPTV-subscriptions-to-double-in-five-years/ Having taken the best part of the previous decade to accumulate just a 12% share of all pay-TV subscriptions, IPTV operators are now set to gain a 19% share by 2015. According to our latest European pay TV forecasts, the number of IPTV subscriptions will increase by 92% between 2009 and 2015, boosted by more-widespread deployment of NGA. tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8064 Thu, 27 May 2010 10:00:00 GMT Rupert Wood http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/Retreating-from-the-consumer-the-increasing-value-of-network-centric-play/ One of the bright spots in BT’s recent annual report was the rise in the revenue that BT Wholesale derives from managed network services, or, to use another term, operator network outsourcing. This now represents nearly one quarter of BT Wholesale’s revenue and is still growing fast. So are the big fixed wholesale services divisions about to turn a corner? tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8040 Thu, 20 May 2010 10:00:00 GMT Jim Morrish http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/Market-forces-will-overcome-mobile-device-fragmentation/ As the mobile industry catches up with the iPhone, device fragmentation will increasingly become an issue. The costs and effects of potentially needing to rewrite (and maintain) every application for every device and platform combination will become increasingly noticeable. A range of initiatives are ongoing to combat device fragmentation, although from a developer’s perspective these can seem to make the situation worse. tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//8016 Thu, 13 May 2010 10:00:00 GMT Terry Norman http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/Wireless-infrastructure-sharing-saves-operators-capex-and-opex/ Operators have shown renewed interest in network sharing in recent years, and the reason for this is clear: it offers significant opportunities to reduce costs and improve margins. Cost reduction has never been more critical to an operator's survival, as data traffic grows and ARPUs decline. tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//7986 Thu, 06 May 2010 10:00:00 GMT Mike Grant http://www.analysysmason.com/About-Us/News/Insight/Open-versus-controlled-content-ecosystems-how-does-the-industry-compete-with-Apple/ The debate on the benefits, or otherwise, of being ‘open’ in mobile returns to London on 26–27 May in the form of the Open Mobile Summit. At this year’s event, we can expect the debate once again to focus on how the industry creates a truly open, vibrant and financially successful content ecosystem for consumers. tag:http://www.analysysmason.com//7967 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:00:00 GMT