Competition driving fast growth in Pakistan's telecom industry
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The deregulation of Pakistan's telecom industry is fast gaining momentum with dozens more communications providers and millions of customers entering both the fixed line and mobile markets.
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The Russian wireless market is a springboard for growth.
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Islamabad, Aug. 18 : Tens of thousands of Pakistanis endured hours of stifling heat this week to accept an offer of free mobile phone connections, a sign of the pent-up demand in a country where cellphone usage has remained low.
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The wireless-infrastructure leader is connected to a profitable future.
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(InfoWorld) - Soaring subscriber growth in India led a 38 percentÂ global rise in DSLÂ (digital subscriber line) use in the 12 months ended June 30, according to an industry group. While India had the fastest growth, China remained the world's largest DSL market, according to the DSL Forum. On Tuesday, the group released results from a study conducted by research company Point Topic. During the period, almost 46 million more subscribers signed up for DSL, the group said. India's DSL market grew from fewer than 250,00 subscribers in June 2005 to more than 1.5 million a year later, according to the group. DSL use also boomed in Vietnam (up 147 percent), the Czech Republic (143 percent), Morocco (141 percent), and Russia (130 percent). China gained almost 12 million users to reach 33 million in June 2006. It became the world's largest DSL market in 2004, said DSL Forum spokeswoman Carol Friend. Still, fewer than 3 percent of China's phone lines are being used for DSL. In the U.S., the second-largest market, DSL subscribers went up 6.36 million to more than 23 million. The growth surpassed that of cable Internet access, which gained 5.45 million users, according to the group. In the U.S. and Canada, DSL gained market share and is now the choice of more than 46 percent of the broadband subscribers, DSL Forum said. However, the U.S. comes in number 33 for the penetration of DSL among all phone lines, Friend said. Only 8 percent of the country's lines have DSL. Finland leads the world in DSL penetration, with nearly 40 percent, followed by France with almost 33 percent. DSL penetration made big strides in France and the U.K. as speeds increased while prices remained about the same, she said. Penetration in the U.K. is now almost 25 percent. DSL subscriptions grew 45 percent in Europe, which now has 56 million DSL subscribers, more than any other region. Europe is home to 35 percent of the world's total, followed by Asia-Pacific with 18 percent and North America with 16 percent.
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With mobile phone markets nearly saturated in the developed world, network operators and handset manufacturers are turning their attention to the fertile ground of emerging countries.
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(InfoWorld) - Indiaâs mobile handset production is growing fast, fueled by rapid growth in the number of mobile subscribers in the country. India produced nearly 31 million mobile phones last year, at a value of about US$5 billion, according to a report by Gartner Inc. The research firm expects production volumes to reach nearly 95 million, and to register a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25 percent between 2006 and 2011. Growth in handset production in India this year, at 68 percent by units and 65 percent by value, is forecast to be the highest in the Asia-Pacific region, Gartner said. Mobile phone manufacturing was the largest contributor to the country's overall electronics production revenue last year, and to the total available market (TAM) for semiconductors, Gartner said. Indiaâs mobile market is booming. The country added 6.57 million mobile subscribers in May this year, taking the total number of subscribers to 178 million, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in Delhi. The country added 6.11 million new mobile subscribers in April. A number of multinational handset makers, including Nokia Corp., have set up manufacturing facilities in India. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications A.B. is outsourcing mobile phone manufacturing to the operations in Chennai of Flextronics Corp. and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd, which uses the brand name Foxconn. The decision by these vendors to make phones locally was also influenced by the decision of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL), a large government-owned services provider, to insist on local manufacture by its suppliers. While the top five handset makers worldwide will retain a major share of production volume, local manufacturers are expected to capture up to a fifth of India's overall mobile phone production volume by the end of 2011, Gartner said. Growing demand for low-cost and ultra-low-cost mobile phones, and the need for EMS (electronics manufacturing services) vendors to reduce their revenue exposure to large multinational vendors, will contribute to the growth of local-brand mobile phones in the Indian market, it added. Reliance Communications Ltd., a large Indian services provider, already offers its own brand mobile phones, called the Classic range. The products are currently being customized and made by contract manufacturers outside India, a company spokesman said Monday. A low-cost model launched by Reliance at about US$19 in May sold one million units in the first week, he added. The spokesman did not however comment on whether Reliance had plans to move manufacturing to India.
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LONDON -- Ofcom today published its proposals to support the growth of greater competition, innovation and investment certainty in the UK telecommunications sector.
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The country's development incentives draw Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, Nokia Siemens, and Sprint Nextel.
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THE past 20 years have marked a dramatic increase in technology processes across all industries. The bid to increase productivity has created a wide availability and use of technology.  The challenge for industries is to make sure of a competitive edge through the use of technology.
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The deal creates the third-largest company in the wireless telephone industry, but its competition is much larger.
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Leading wireless phone provider sets subscriber bar a little higher.
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British mobile phone giant Vodafone, grappling with intense competition in Europe, tapped into the booming Indian economy after winning control of Hutchison Essar for 11.1 billion dollars.
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The global market for mobile telephones grew sharply in fourth quarter 2004, with sales up by 25 percent to a record 200 million units from the same period of 2003, but overall sector growth should slow in 2005, the research group Strategy Analytics reported.
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What would happen if the largest mobile operators decided to collaborate and compete rather than just compete?  We may soon find out
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Soaring subscriber growth in India led a 38 percent global rise in DSL (digital subscriber line) use in the 12 months ended June 30, according to an industry group.
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Robust growth across speech markets helps outpace expenses.