Enterprise telephony is mostly a replacement market - Historical vendors hold well defended market positions - In many countries local champions play a significant role - Microsoft seen as a future, potential player.
IP share in many countries surprisingly low - Tight budgets limit investments in emerging countries - Unified Communications clearly growing - Replacement cycles for IP-based solutions shortened only marginally.
Innovative e-health brings solutions in the cloud - E-health in the cloud actually pushed by IT companies and service providers - Business models largely remain within B2B ecosystem.
US Direct TV still world largest provider - Carriers experiencing decreasing subscriber base in mature markets - Indian Essel and MII China encounter strong growth - Top-3 groups to retain leadership in the next years.
US Direct TV still world largest provider - Carriers experiencing decreasing subscriber base in mature markets - Indian Essel and MII China encounter strong growth - Top-3 groups to retain leadership in the next years.
In 2016, mobile base in the country to reach over 100% penetration - Price-sensitive Philippine mobile market expected to remain mostly prepaid - Smart Communications continue to lead the mobile market.
By 2015, satellite TV will overtake CaTV in terms of TV households - IPTV expected to growth 10% a year - Changing TV viewing landscape with emergence of connected TV and over-the-top (OTT) content - For the first time, cord-cutting is no longer an impossible scenario.
LTE already available in several markets - TeliaSonera jumpstarts LTE commercialisation in the Baltic and Nordic markets - Mobile entertainment and cloud services tapped to drive demand for LTE services - Operators bundle 4G modems to LTE packages to stimulate uptake of the service.
MVNOs' share in Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland rather small - MVNOs unable to compete with MNOs in terms of pricing, service offering and quality - In Poland, MVNOs struggle with churn and high mobile termination rates - In Hungary, bundling of mobile with fixed, cable TV and Internet helped reduce churn.
China telecom market to top US$144 billion in 2015 - Mobile competition to revolve around differentiated, innovative data 3G services - In 2015, China expected third largest telecom market in the world - DSL subscriber base expected to increase at 5% a year.
Taiwan mobile non-voice revenues make already more than 25% of total mobile revenues - Mobile carriers concentrate efforts to increase data usage - Mobile apps widely available for all mobile platforms - Promotions and offers also targeting prepaid segment - To 2015, fixed broadband base expected to increase at an average of 9% a year.
M2M is a fast growing and increasingly strategically important market - Most active players are large network operators, especially mobile ones - Development partnerships and cooperation crucial to exchange know-how - Active players include M2M vendors, software providers and resellers, but also a wide variety of different kind of players.
E-health, already a multi-billion market, expected to grow significantly in the coming years - Most of available e-health solutions are tele-monitoring or services addressing disabled people - Mobile network operators offer most of services for disabled and elderly people.
High CAPEX major deterrent for telecom carriers in Europe - FTTH not a "one-size-fits-all" model - Integrated facility-based against open access - Regulation plays decisive role in most markets.
Vigorous digital music market - Better online user experience drives mobile side-loading and smartphone downloading - Mobile music store providers still experimenting with workable business models.