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Wholesale@Ovum forward publication schedule 
This benchmark analyses the Ovum top ten cable modem markets in the world. The countries were selected according to a combination of level of household penetration, total number of subscribers and regional cross-section.
Over recent years, Tibco has amassed a deep and comprehensive portfolio of complementary products. It also occupies a dominant position in the market for integration software, including data, application and process integration.
Mobile devices have evolved rapidly over the past five years, but what features are likely to take centre stage in the future? This report highlights a number of key handset features that we expect to have the greatest impact during the next 12 months.
This report is an update of a previously published report on NRA independence, and investigates whether NRAs within and outside the EU are effectively independent and transparent in their functions and actions.
As environmental issues weigh on the public conscience and pocketbooks, telcos and their suppliers are debating their proper role. Going green must serve the overriding goal of making money for their shareholders.
On 6 May Vodafone announced that it had signed an agreement with Apple to launch the iPhone later this year in ten markets. At the same time Telecom Italia announced that it will also be selling the iPhone in Italy at the end of this year.
America Movil, operating under the brandname Porta in Ecuador, will have its mobile licence renewed for another 15 years, starting from 28 August 2008.
NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CFH) has just published the list of suppliers that have been awarded framework contracts under the Clinical Information Technology Services category of the NHS' Additional Supply Capability and Capacity (ASCC) framework.
France Telecom, the French fixed and mobile incumbent operator, has released its 1Q08 results. Revenues were up 3.7% year-on-year to €13 billion on a comparable basis, and Gross Operating Margin (GOM) was up 4.6% to €4.8 billion.
Swisscom, the incumbent operator in Switzerland, has released its 1Q results. Revenues were up 23.4% year-on-year for 1Q08 to €1.8 billion, the company's EBITDA increased 19.9% to €712 million, and net income fell 9% to €261 million.
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IP VPN end point and revenue forecasts for the period 2007-2012.
The telecoms market in Japan was liberalised in 1985 and further promoted by splitting NTT into NTT East and NTT West in 1999. Other pro-competitive measures were introduced – local loop unbundling (LLU) in 2000, carrier pre-selection (CPS) in May 2001
Messaging feature forecasts
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MTS has the eighth largest subscriber base in the world and the largest in Russia, with a dominant presence in five further markets in the CIS. Steven Hartley analyses the reasons behind MTS's success and assesses its future growth potential.
The enterprise needs a joined up strategy for home working, not just a series of ad hoc policies developed by different departments. Informal arrangements may expose the company to significant risk, and perhaps also to hidden costs.
The public sector is at a cross roads – needing to behave more like a co-ordinated enterprise than a collection of independent and unconnected agencies. This new Connected Government requires an increased focus on horizontal ICT infrastructure.
On 30 April 2008 the Brazilian national regulatory authority Anatel, along with the winning bidders from the recent auction of 3G licences (2.1GHz), signed the contracts terms and conditions.
On 29 April 2008, the US regulator FCC imposed a cap on universal service fund payments to mobile operators. It is an interim measure until the regulator passes a comprehensive reform package.
WirelineStrategy@Ovum future publication schedule
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Verizon has reported its first-quarter financial results. Revenues grew by 5.5% year-on-year, mostly driven by growth in wireless, broadband and television services, while its operating margin also grew year-on-year, to 18.7%.
On 23 April 2008, Ecuador's regulator Conatel rejected America Movil's third offer to renew its mobile licence. The company, operating under the brandname Porta, will offer mobile services until the end of August.
Five Ovum analysts attended Huawei's 2008 analyst summit April 23-24 in Shenzhen, China. This comment summarizes our views on Huawei and its position in the industry based on its 2007 results, product and strategy briefings, and face-to-face meetings.
Mobile country forecast pack
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Like other incumbents, TeliaSonera has sought to tap into the growth potential of developing overseas markets. Its two main priorities are to solve the problems associated with declining domestic fixed voice revenues and to develop its Eurasian assets.
The US always goes through periodic bouts of protectionist saber rattling. While wiser heads typically prevail in controlling the flames, we are now entering a new cycle that has the potential of flaring into a major inferno...
OpenSystems is in early-stage takeover discussions. If they come to anything it will continue the recent spate of consolidation among the mid-sized software services providers to local government sector.
Telenor, the Norwegian fixed and mobile incumbent operator, has released its 1Q08 results. Revenues were up 3.4% to €2.9 billion, and EBITDA was up 1.3% to €893 million. Operating margin remained stable and net income increased 69% to €630 million.
On 27 April 2008, Freenet signed an agreement to acquire Debitel for €1.69 billion.
At the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), the company announced that its System Center management family will manage various flavors of Linux and proprietary Unix's from both a physical and a virtual prospective. In addition the System Center Virtual Mac
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has published its report on the progress being made in the delivery of online services by UK government. The report, Government on the Internet: Progress in delivering information and services online
Infosys is entering a new stage of growth and development as it works to move up the value chain and offer end-to-end IT services and solutions. This is a key challenge for Infosys as it faces increasing downward pressure on margins
Enterpise mobility forecasts for the period 2007-2012, including connections and voice & data revenue forecasts. Also includes mobile computer connection forecasts.
With global revenues crossing $4.1 billion in the first nine months of fiscal 2008, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is the undisputed leader of India's booming offshore IT services industry.
Wipro is beginning to struggle with the label of being a poor performer in the public eye because its financials don't perform as strongly as headline grabbers TCS and Infosys. However, there is no evidence that Wipro's offerings are of any worse quality
Rather than bury their heads in the sand and insist it's "not our problem", CIOs and IT directors should be proactive in highlighting how IT can (and does) contribute to energy efficiency and reducing costs, both environmental and financial.
Mergers and acquisitions have become an important part of the telecoms industry in recent years, with over a hundred mergers and acquisitions taking place in 2006–2007 from the top ten operators. Ovum examines the drivers behind this flurry of activity.
Block-level data de-duplication is one of the most important developments in data storage of the last few years. Buyers need to understand differences between de-dupe architectures, and that the technology is not restricted to backup data.
Suppliers hope that customers will begin using FCoE on the server side of their storage networks. But there will be obstacles to such a move, the biggest of which will be a need to use a new and as yet unproven version of Ethernet
An overview of the broadband situation in Africa - one of the least developed broadband regions in the world.
Ericsson pleased the market with its first quarter results. The results were stronger than some had anticipated.
Samsung's 1Q08 results show good improvements in mobile phones and LCDs, with only the semiconductor segment slowing things down thanks to overcapacity in that market.
Oracle and ZTE have announced an alliance with the aim to market and develop service delivery platform (SDP) offerings in China and globally.
UK-based Axiom Systems has been acquired by Comptel, headquartered in Finland. Both companies are operational support systems (OSS) software vendors, focusing on automating fulfilment processes for telecoms service providers.
KPN, the Dutch incumbent fixed and mobile operator, has released its 1Q08 results. Revenues were up 21% year-on-year at €3.53 billion, while EBITDA also rose, up 3.5% to €1.23 billion.
TeliaSonera announced its 1Q results on Friday 25 April. Revenues were up 7.4% year-on-year to SKr24.4 billion (€2.62 billion), EBITDA rose by 2.3% to SKr7.76 billion (€832 million), leaving the company with a margin of 31.8%, down from 33.4% during 1Q07
Prith Banerjee, the new Director of HP Labs, has led a transformation in the way his team of 600 researchers will pursue 'the next big thing' for HP – bringing to an end the 'let a thousand flowers bloom' approach and instituting a more focused approach
On 23 April 2008 KPN announced the Bundeskartellamt (the German Federal Cartel Office) had initiated an investigation after complaints brought by KPN alleging T-Mobile and Vodafone have abused their dominant positions in the German market.
On 29 April 2008, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued a draft decision on the incumbent Telstra's exemptions from its standard access obligations in parts of metropolitan Australia.
Building B, renamed Sezmi, comes out of stealth mode with a wholesale service that not only merges broadcast with on-demand and Internet content, but cleverly uses hybrid delivery, combining over-the-air broadcast and IP broadband.
Forecasts for wholesale access connections and revenues 2007-2012.
Neither clients feel they are getting expected innovation (read business outcomes) from their vendors, nor do vendors feel they are incentivised to deliver it, a state of affairs which one participant summarised as 'outsourcing par
» Telecom Italia 28 April 2008The Telecom Italia Group is being squeezed between declining fixed line revenues, regulatory pressures to cut mobile costs and opening up its domestic access network to competitors. The company's emphasis in 2008 will be to reduce its heavy debt burden.
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Country and regional forecasts for ATM and frame-relay connections and revenues
Global optical networking (ON) sales rose to nearly $15 billion in 2007, up 24% from 2006. Sales in 4Q07 of $4.4 billion represented a 16% sequential increase and a 30% gain from the year-ago period. Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei had huge year-end pushes.
This spreadsheet contains global quarterly revenues, market share, rolling 4-quarter market share, and market share rank for optical networking vendors through 4Q07.
Aegis Lightwave announced on April 23rd that it had acquired CardinalPoint Optics, an emerging supplier of next-generation OCMs. This announcement would go unnoticed by most but OCM has become one of the most important network functions.
Motorola has released its first-quarter 2008 results and, on the handset side, they make grim reading. The other divisions performed much better.
Anite looks set to end its traditional focus on the public sector. As Peter Clarke explains, it sees its future as a global wireless player despite the fact that it still derives 38% of its revenues from the UK public sector.
Tele2, the pan-European altnet, has released its 1Q08 results. Operating revenues were up 9% year-on-year to €1.1 billion, EBITDA up 13% to €188 million and EBIT up 17% to €84 million. Operating margin increased 2.3% year-on-year to 16.9%.
Oracle has announced the release of Universal Online Archive 10g (UOA) and the associated Oracle Email Archive Service. This is a well thought out product and further boosts the company's portfolio of products addressing current business pain points
Sony Ericsson's results for 1Q08 are in line with the profit warning it gave in March, but show a steep drop in operating profitability.
Microsoft has announced the US and Canada general availability of Dynamics CRM Online, the multi-tenant customer relationship management solution that the vendor will host in its own data centres.
This year's annual survey of the multinational corporations that make up the EVUA membership shows that cost management remains a major area of concern. The need to manage mobile data costs is increasingly important as mobile data usage grows rapidly.
This study is the third iteration of a series of four quarterly studies, covering 3Q07 onwards. It updates the findings of Ovum's previous quarterly study on mobile device management in handsets.
Infosys has reported its results for the year ended March 2008. Revenues grew 35% to $4.2 billion, with operating profit up 35% to $1.2 billion and operating margins flat at 28%. Europe was the fastest-growing region, up 44% to $1.2 billion.
India's third-largest IT services provider, Wipro, has announced its 4Q and FY08 results. In the year to March, revenues rose 23% to $3.41 billion in Wipro's IT services and products business, while EBIT rose by 8% to $715 million.
Sonopia, a US MVNE, has significantly scaled back its operations. News reports state that it now has no US employees in its California headquarters and it has halved its staff count in its Ukraine development centre to approximately 30 staff members.
TCS has reported its results for the full year ended 31 March 2008. Revenues came in at $5.7 billion, up 22%. Operating profit was $1.3 billion, generating a margin of 23.5%, down 1.5% on the previous year. UK revenues grew by 20%, reaching $1 billion.
On 16 April 2008 Ofcom launched a consultation aimed at clarifying the regulatory treatment of next generation access (NGA) network deployments in new build developments.
This week, incumbent Eircom has abandoned its plans for structural separation. Splitting into two companies and selling its retail and mobile branches is off the agenda for the foreseeable future, according to local news.
Most salespeople 'live' in their email, contacts and calendar systems, and CRM Live's integration with Outlook is the most comprehensive. This removes one of the most significant barriers to adoption of any CRM system.
SAP held its annual NetWeaver BI and Portals conference in Orlando, Florida in March, the first to follow its $6.8 billion acquisition of Business Objects. The early signs are that it will be a close and lasting relationship.
On April 14th, Vitesse announced the availability of software for certain chipsets that when activated provides more energy-efficient Ethernet operation without sacrificing performance.
In its 1Q results announcement, Nokia's assessment of the market outlook warned of leaner times ahead. Nokia expects the value of the global mobile device market to be lower in euro terms in 2008 than it was in 2007.
Informatica has agreed to buy Identity Systems, a subsidiary of Nokia, for around $85 million in cash. Identity's software will extend Informatica's existing data quality
O2 UK has recently announced a mobile broadband (USB modem, or dongle) offering. Two packages are available to existing mobile or home broadband subscribers. Both include free access to 7,500 nationwide WiFi hotspots.
LG has recently released improved results with top-line growth again coming from displays and mobile communications, but bottom-line growth heavily dependent on mobile communications.
At the OpenSource Business Conference last month, JasperSoft made 2 announcements relating to interoperability with Microsoft. The aim of both initiatives is to extend the company's existing support for the Microsoft Windows Platform and Microsoft Excel.
Nokia has posted very strong results for 1Q08 and said it is targeting share gains in a market that it believes will soften in the US and Europe.
The growth of MTS is undoubtedly impressive, particularly as connections in its domestic market grew 12% last year, despite mobile penetration reaching 119% by the end of the year.
Oracle has announced a number of initiatives that, combined, highlight its mid-market ambitions, its application integration strategy and, most of all, its growing passion for partners.
Mobile@Ovum forward publication schedule
HP made big advances in its testing portfolio in 2007. Many of the new capabilities were already in the works when HP acquired Mercury in 2006; some came from the acquisition of application security specialist SPI Dynamics and others from continued focus
IBM Rational's strength remains its integration of modelling, development and test automation, which span the lifecycle into deployment.
Our evaluation covers the leading vendors whose sales represent 90% or more of the commercial test automation tools market. Mercury, now part of HP, still dominated the market in 2006 in a class all its own with about 60% share of the market. The second
A slowdown in growth for the big social networking sites, combined with a drop in usage, has highlighted the significant challenges that the big established players, in particular, face in keeping users engaged.
Western Europe comprises a host of mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) markets at different stages of development. There are mature and intensely competitive MVNO markets such as the Netherlands as well as nascent MVNO markets such as Italy.
The African mobile market is generating increasing interest from players across the globe seeking to benefit from the region's growth opportunities. Ovum explores Africa's mobile market potential and investigates the drivers and barriers for investment.
NetApp's revenue growth slowed suddenly last year when the NAS market slowed. To secure its long-term future the company needs to win more enterprise customers. One of its best prospects is the delivery of unified block and file level storage management.
TIM Brasil, Brazil's second largest mobile operator, has launched 3G services in six state capitals
The mature telecoms markets of Western Europe pose an increasingly difficult challenge to operators. Here we provide an overview of the key financial and operational developments of Western European incumbents and altnets in 2007.
Here Georgina O'Toole takes a look at Accenture's current positioning and future strategy in the UK public sector market.
The Nexus 5000 is a high-density data center switch with the goal of dramatically reducing the total cost of ownership of 10GbE and becoming a feeder platform to Catalyst, MDS, and Nexus 7000 platforms.
As the euro gained 8.3% versus the US dollar in 2007, telecom revenues for 52 carriers grew (in USD) at a faster 15% pace to $504B, net profits grew 31% for an average net margin of 13.2%, and operating cash flow stayed at a bit over 20% of revenues.
Carphone Warehouse (CPW), an alternative operator in the UK market, has released its 4Q trading update and held its annual strategy day. Sally Banks takes a look at how CPW provides an example to other telcos in this highly competitive and mature market.
Broadband@Ovum forward publication schedule
» Key benchmarks 16 April 2008Excel table for key benchmarks
Excel tables of additional benchmarks
Current interconnect charge data for Q1 2008
Compuware continues to divide its efforts astutely between the 'grand vision' of automation for IT management and the down-to-earth needs of QA testers.
Empirix did well in the market with e-TEST suite, which was one of the cleanest, most coherent QA test solutions, albeit aimed squarely at straightforward web and web-derivative technologies. However, just as we conclude our annual review of software tes
Borland has achieved some significant advances in delivering an advanced collection of tools for testing across the whole application development lifecycle that is highly competitive in both breadth of coverage and quality of individual solutions.
Given the premise that the core capabilities of leading test tools are now a commodity, our goal is to highlight the changes in test tools that matter most.
3 month forwards schedule for ConnectedHome@Ovum
While other test automation vendors have specialised in late-cycle QA testing, Parasoft has succeeded in becoming a sizeable pure-play test vendor concentrating on developer testing.
BT has announced Ian Livingston will take over as CEO of BT Group from 1 June. What do we think should be on Ian's 'to-do' list?
When presenting the 13th Implementation Report, the EU Commissioner Viviane Reding lamented that there was still a lot to do before a real 'single' market for European telcos can be named as such, with revenues coming from cross-border activities below 3
On 16 April 2008, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) announced a new approach to dealing with the regulation of voice-over-IP (VoIP) services.
On 11 April 2008, the Belgian regulator BIPT released a consultation on new mobile termination rates (MTRs) for three operators.
After a procurement process lasting nearly two years Axon has won a ten year strategic partnership with Wolverhampton in a head to head fight with BT. Peter Clarke analyses Axon's biggest public sector contract as prime contractor to date.
WirelessMultimedia@Ovum forward publication schedule
3G strategies have changed significantly since the first 3G launches. This report analyses how 3G strategies in Asia-Pacific have evolved since the technology's launch.
Capex for China's big four telcos grew 14% in 2007: slower than the 16% growth in revenues but faster than expected. Net income grew 26%, pushing average margin above 18%, among Asia's highest.
Last week news broke that Professor Matthew Swindells, Interim CIO for the DoH and NHS, was to leave the Department to take up a position with consulting and professional support services firm Tribal
The Vendor Matrix shows carrier-vendor contracts around the world. The database is searchable by region, quarter, operator, vendor, and equipment segment. It contains over 3,500 contracts.
North American optical networking (ON) sales rose to $4.89 billion in 2007, up 19% from 2006. Sales in 4Q07 of $1.3 billion represented a 7% sequential increase, 32% higher then the year-ago period. Top ten vendors that changed rank included Alcatel-Luce
This spreadsheet contains North American quarterly revenues, market share, rolling 4-quarter market share, and market share rank for optical networking vendors through 4Q07.
Ovum Principal Analyst Vincent Poulbere provides a quantitative analysis of the mobile payment market for the 2007–2012 period. Ovum forecasts three mobile payment market segments: mobile contactless payments, online shopping and money transfers.
High-level overview of the information access vendors' relative positions
High-level overview of the content management vendors' relative positions.
After several years of stagnation and distraction, the major testing tool vendors made substantial progress in 2007 and early 2008 in adding capabilities to their products that really matter to testers.
Telecoms Strategy Practice Leader Mike Cansfield addresses a question that many people have been asking about the future roll-out of BT's next-generation network, 21CN.
On April 10th, 2008, Emcore announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the rest of Intel's Optical Platform Division and its Connects Cable business. The acquisition strengthens Emcore's top line, making it the fifth largest OC suppl
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