Essential industry comment from Analysys Mason, highlighting and examining the latest market developments
A new study from Analysys Mason and law firm Hogan & Hartson for the French telecoms regulator helps to identify the most efficient use that France can make of the spectrum released by the digital switch-over.
Earlier today, the second European 2.6GHz spectrum auction concluded in Sweden, following the auction in Norway which was held in November 2007. With auctions coming up in other European countries...
MNOs have been progressively bringing their HSPA services to market, taking speeds beyond the megabit level. The GSM Association reported that 163 HSPA networks had been commercially....
VoIP continues to be a thorn in the side of emergency services communications, as Mason Communications recently told a seminar of the British Association of Public Safety Communications Officers (BAPCO).
IPTV services continued to become more popular in Western Europe in 2007. Analysys Research estimates that 5.8 million households in Western Europe subscribed to IPTV as their primary pay-TV...
Analysys Research’s latest forecasts indicate that revenue from mobile media and entertainment (MME) services in the US will more than double during the next five years. This headline figure is encouraging for the telecoms and entertainment industries, but most of the growth will not occur until after 2010, as the...
WiMAX suffered a major setback when the partnership between US operator Sprint Nextel, one of the technology's strongest advocates, and wireless high-speed Internet service provider Clearwire fell apart in November 2007. Now a new frontrunner has emerged with ambitious plans that may strengthen the case for WiMAX.
Incumbents have very few effective means with which to defend their legacy revenue – and their PSTN voice business, in particular – against competition from mobile.
The Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) in the UK announced in late February that it would review the country’s future broadband provision.
Mobile social networking has attracted significant attention from operators and other players in the mobile and media industries, but the optimal business model continues to be the subject of debate.
