Telecommunication Electronics - Global Trends, Estimates and Forecasts, 2011-2018

Global Market Watch: With a CAGR of 12.8%, global market value for Telecommunication Electronics Application sector is anticipated to be worth US$847.6 billion by 2018. On a global scale, Asia-Pacific accounts for more than 26.3% of the market share. While US accounts for the largest share of the global market value on a country basis, India surpasses the US in terms of growth rate anticipated in the near future. Among the application sectors, Mobile Phones account for the largest share of the entire market, driving a CAGR of 14.5% during the analysis period 2011-2018. Wireless LANs & WANs see as the fastest growing end-user with a forecast with a CAGR of approximately 20.9% by 2018. With the growing trend in network and mobile satellite terminal technologies (dual-mode GSM cellular/satellite, handset and broadband data) the future of telecommunication electronics industry suggests for a positive growth.
Report Focus: The report 'Telecommunication Electronics - Global Trends, Estimates and Forecasts, 2011-2018' reviews the latest telecommunication electronics market trends with a perceptive attempt to disclose the near-future growth prospects. An in-depth analysis on a geographic basis provides strategic business intelligence for electronics sector investments. The study reveals profitable investment strategies for electronics companies, business executives, product marketing managers, new business investors and many more in preferred locations.
The report primarily focuses on: • Emerging Market Trends • Advancements in the Technological Space • Market Demand of the Segments (By-Region) • Key Growth Areas and Market Size • Region-Wise Demand Factor • Key Competitors Edge • Investment Strategies
Estimates are based on online surveys using customized questionnaires by our research team. Besides information from government databases, company websites, press releases & published research reports are also used for estimates.
The analysis primarily deals with applications. Further, the subdivided categories include:
Telecommunication Electronics - By Application • Mobile Phones • Wireless LANs & WANs • DSL/Cable Modems • Other (Incudes: Infrastructure & Radio Communication, Telephone, Wired Network, Wireless Network, Etc.,)
The period considered for the telecommunication electronics market analysis is 2011-2018. The region wise distribution of the market consists of North America (USA, Canada and Mexico), Europe (Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Denmark and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific ((Ex-Japan) (China, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Rest of Asia-Pacific)),Japan, Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru and Rest of Latin America) and Rest of World (South Africa, Turkey, United Arabs Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Rest of Rest of World). The market growth rate in the major economies such as the U.S., Japan, China etc. are estimated individually.
More than 1346 leading market players are identified in electronics industry out of which 42 key companies in telecommunication electronics that project improved market activities in the near future are profiled. The report consists of 85 data charts describing the market shares, sales forecasts and growth prospects. Moreover, key strategic activities in the market including mergers/acquisitions, collaborations/partnerships, product launches/developments are discussed Source: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/17/6007657/telecommunication-electronics.html

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A Free reign over 4G? How the upstart's LTE gambit upended the mobile market in France

When France's enfant terrible Free Mobile announced in early December that it was adding LTE to its rolling monthly €15.99 and €19.99 price plans at no extra cost with 20GB of mobile data to boot, it would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall in the offices of rivals Orange, Bouygues Telecom and Vivendi-owned SFR.
More interesting still would have been observing the reactions to Free Mobile's subsequent announcement that LTE was being added to its €2-a-month plan with 50MB of data.

When the mobile upstart arrived on the scene in 2012, it shook up the French mobile market. Now, by giving away 4G free with its low-cost tariffs, it looks to be doing the same all over again.
The three incumbent operators have certainly already suffered at the hands of Free Mobile following the introduction of the Iliad-owned operator's low-cost plans in January 2012: €19.99 for 3GB of data appeared incredibly cheap at the time, and users switched to Free Mobile in droves.
It sparked a lasting change on the French market and caused Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom to revamp their pricing, introducing low-cost secondary brands and embarking on new strategies to prop up ARPU.
These new strategies include introducing LTE, with fourth-generation services now in the process of being rolled out across France. SFR was the first French operator to launch commercial LTE services for consumers: it debuted LTE in the city of Lyon ahead of schedule in November 2012.
Orange was close behind, while Bouygues Telecom launched services in October this year after the operator was given the go-ahead to refarm its 1800MHz spectrum for LTE services. Bouygues Telecom and SFR have since embarked on talks to share parts of their mobile networks, and these talks are still ongoing.

Network sharing

Free Mobile, already facing criticism over its 3G coverage and still reliant on the Orange network under a 3G roaming agreement, is the last of the four French mobile operators to launch LTE services and has also applied to join the network sharing talks between its two rivals.
Whether they will be sympathetic to Free's wishes remains to be seen: the upstart has already forced Bouygues Telecom's hand on LTE pricing, for example: the operator is extending LTE to all of its mobile plans at no extra cost and plans to add LTE to the low-cost plans offered under its B&YOU secondary brand this year. Orange has done similarly, announcing that it's adding LTE to Sosh, its low-cost brand, from 9 January, on its €24.99 plan with 5GB of data included.
How far Free's LTE challenge will continue to affect existing prices also remains to be seen. Emma Mohr-McClune, services director at Current Analysis, noted that Free's 'Free 4G' campaign is an approach that is "now commonplace in Europe, particularly from price aggressors launching LTE late in a market, and we've seen recent examples of this from TDC in Sweden, Three in the UK, and Base in Belgium."
Orange has criticised Free's inclusion of LTE in its current offers as "an exercise in communication timed to coincide with the start of the Christmas sales period," and has previously maintained that it will continue with its plan to increase LTE prices next year. Nevertheless, Mohr-McClune questions whether operators will now be able to raise prices, thanks to Free.
"First-to-market LTE providers were in a position to exact a premium, but that window has now closed," she said. "From the outset, it was clear that the opportunity to market LTE as a premium service would expire the moment the market challengers launched their own LTE networks."

LTE coverage

As well as attractive prices, operators will need to meet their promises to continually improve coverage and capacity across the entire country. Orange, Bouygues Telecom, and SFR have been providing regular updates on their coverage statistics since they first launched services, and it is here that they currently have the edge over Free Mobile's offers.
For example, Free Mobile said it is offering a service based on 700 LTE masts in 1,000 areas. This to compares to 3,800 LTE masts in service at Orange, which said it offers coverage in 866 towns and cities across France. "By the end of the year, we will provide coverage for 50 percent of the French population and aim to reach one million 4G customers," an Orange spokesperson said.
Bouygues said it now has 63 percent coverage and offers LTE in more than 2,100 cities with over 5,300 masts in service. It has 500,000 active clients on its LTE network.  SFR says its LTE network is present in 567 towns, and the company said it aims to cover 70 percent of the population by the end of 2013.
According to France's spectrum watchdog ANFR (Agence Nationale des Frequences), as of 1 December Orange had 3,879 LTE masts in service, SFR 1,013, Bouygues Telecom 5,392 and Free Mobile 700. ANFR said 12,069 sites are now authorised for LTE and the number rises on average by 6.4 per month a month.
Operators have already come in for criticism over network coverage claims, with Free Mobile in particular provoking a sharp response from the French government for launching its LTE services without the necessary coverage:
"As Iliad builds out its mobile network, its launch seems to be a risky and audacious bet," Arnaud Montebourg, industry minister, and Fleur Pellerin, junior minister for telecom and digital issues, said in a statement.
Despite their superior number of masts, the incumbent operators have not escaped criticism over making promises they are currently unable to meet. For example, in early November consumer watchdog UFC Que Choisir filed a legal complaint against Orange and SFR over the claims they have been making about their respective LTE services.
According to UFC Que Choisir, tests conducted between 3 and 17 October in Paris showed a discrepancy between the LTE coverage that Orange and SFR claim to have in the capital and the access consumers really get.
The consumer group also asked French telecoms regulator Arcep to set up a special body to monitor the rollout of LTE networks and guarantee operator claims on coverage and speed.
If 2013 was the year that remade France's LTE market, then 2014 looks set to bring more of the same. In the coming year, expect to see a continuation of network rollouts and possible reactions to new low-cost plans along with new efforts to entice users to the higher-speed offerings. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose?

Source: http://www.zdnet.com/a-free-reign-over-4g-how-the-upstarts-lte-gambit-upended-the-mobile-market-in-france-7000024407/

2G, 3G & 4G Subscriptions, Deployments and Infrastructure Contracts Database Q4'2013

With over 250 commercial network launches and over a thousand LTE-enabled devices available in the market as of December 2013, LTE adoption has considerably gained momentum throughout the globe. Unique market and operator requirements have driven several early LTE launches. Driven by these early launches global LTE subscriptions reached nearly 130 Million in Q4'2013. From an operator viewpoint U.S. operators dominate the market with a 37% market share thanks to the tremendous coverage footprint of tier 1 operators Verizon Wireless & AT&T. The market share of U.S. operators is followed by Japanese and Korean operators NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank, LG Uplus, SK Telecom and KT which represent 38% of all LTE subscriptions worldwide. Going forward, the LTE market is set to grow at a CAGR of 56% over the next 7 years and will eventually represent more than 20% of all mobile connections by 2020. From an infrastructure manufacturer perspective Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent are leading the market and account for a combined market share of 85% of all LTE contracts. Ericsson is also leading the market from a technology neutral perspective with a 24% stake in all global 2G/3G/4G contracts.
Covering over 810 operators, 53 infrastructure vendors and 222 countries worldwide the "2G/3G/4G Subscriptions, Deployments and Infrastructure Contracts Database Q4'2013" tracks global cellular network deployments, infrastructure vendor contracts, and subscriptions by technology, data protocol, category (pre-paid, post paid), region, country, and operator.
The report includes: • Infrastructure contracts by technology, data protocol, region, country, vendor and operator • Infrastructure market share by equipment type, region, country and vendor • Network deployments by technology, data protocol, region, country and operator. • Number of cellular network subscriptions (as of Q4'2013) by air interface technology, data protocol, region, country and operator • Five-year subscriptions forecasts by air interface technology, data protocol, region, country and operator • Subscriptions market share data by air interface technology, data protocol, region, country and operator. • Penetration data by region and country • Population data by region and country
Companies Mentioned AirNet Alcatel Alcatel Shanghai Bell Alcatel-Lucent Alvarion Andrew Corporation Apertio Argent Networks USA BSNL COMSAT RSI Plexsys Systems Datacraft DMC Stratex Networks Ericsson Ericsson Nikola Tesla Fujitsu Harris Hitachi Huawei Huawei; Huawei Hyundai Syscomm interWAVE ip.access Kyocera LG LogicStar Lucent Motorola NEC Nera Nokia Nokia Siemens Nortel Panasonic Plexsys Samsung Siemens Siemens/NEC SK Teletech Starent Networks Stratex Networks Tecnomen Tecore Tellus Radio Timor Telecom UTStarcom WiderThan.com ZTE "3 Australia 3 Indonesia 3G Telecommunications Access Communications limited Aero 2 Afghan Wireless Africell Burundi Africell Gambia Africell Sierra Leone Aircel AIS AkTel Albanian Mobile Communications Alfa Telecom Algérie Télécom Almadar Aljadeed Altel AM Wireless Uruguay Ambitel America Movil Costa Rica America Movil Dominican Republic America Movil Jamaica America Movil Peru America Movil Puerto Rico A-Mobile AMX Argentina AMX Paraguay ANCEL Applifone APUA Aquafon Armentel Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless Communications Asiacell ASTCA Astelit AT&T Mobility Puerto Rico AT&T Mobility US Virgin Islands AT&T Mobility USA Atlantic Wireless Liberia Atlantique Cellulaire RCA Atlantique Telecom Cote d'Ivoire AVEA Azercell Azerfon Babilon Mobile Bakcell BakrieTel Batelco Bahamas Batelco Bahrain BayanTel Belau Cellular Belcel Belgacom Mobile Bell Benin Communications Bell Wireless Affiliates BellTell Benin Telecom Benson Informatics Bermuda Digital Communications BeST Bharti Bharti Airtel Burkina Faso B.V. Bharti Airtel Chad Bharti Airtel Congo B.V. Bharti Airtel Gabon B.V. Bharti Airtel Ghana Bharti Airtel Kenya B.V. Bharti Airtel Madagascar B.V Bharti Airtel Malawi Bharti Airtel Niger Bharti Airtel Nigeria Bharti Airtel RDC Bharti Airtel Sri Lanka Bharti Airtel Tanzania B.V Bharti Airtel Uganda B.V. Bharti Airtel Zambia Bhutan Telecom Bité Latvia Bité Lithuania Blue Sky Communications Samoa (American) B-Mobile Brunei B-Mobile Papua New Guinea Botswana Telecom Bouygues Telecom BSNL BTL Cable & Wireless Cable & Wireless (St Lucia) Cable & Wireless Anguilla Cable & Wireless Antigua & Barbuda Cable & Wireless British Virgin Islands Cable & Wireless Cayman Islands Cable & Wireless Dominica Cable & Wireless Grenada Cable & Wireless Guernsey Cable & Wireless Isle of Man Cable & Wireless Jamaica Cable & Wireless Jersey Cable & Wireless Montserrat Cable & Wireless Panama Cable & Wireless Seychelles Cable & Wireless St Kitts & Nevis Cable & Wireless St Vincent & The Grenadines Cable & Wireless Turks & Caicos Islands Cabo Verde Telecom Cadcomms CamGSM CAMTEL Canartel Caribbean Cellular Telephone CariGlobe CAT Catel CCT CDMA Ukraine Celcom Côte d'Ivoire Celcom Malaysia Cell C Cell One Cellcom Guinée Cellcom Israel Cellcom Liberia Celtel Centernet CHEO China Mobile China Mobile Pakistan China Telecom China Telecom (Macau) China Unicom Chinguitel Chunghwa Telecom CI Telecom Claro Brazil Claro Chile Claro Panama CMHK Coastal Communications Colombia Movil Comcel Haiti Comium Côte d'Ivoire Comium Gambia Comium Liberia Comium Sierra Leone Comores Telecom Comunicaciones Celulares Colombia Comunicaciones Celulares Guatemala Conecel Corporacion Digitel Venezuela Cosmo Bulgaria Mobile Cosmofon Cosmote Cosmote Romania CSL New World CST Mobicel CTBC Telecom CTE Telecom Personal CTM CYTA Dauphin Telecom Dawamiba Dhiraagu Dialog Axiata DiGi Digicel (Bonaire) Digicel (Curaçao) Digicel Anguilla Digicel Antigua Digicel Aruba Digicel Barbados Digicel Bermuda Digicel British Virgin Islands Digicel Cayman Islands Digicel Dominica Digicel El Salvador Digicel Fiji Digicel French Guiana Digicel French West Indies Digicel Guatemala Digicel Haiti Digicel Honduras Digicel Pacific Vanuatu Digicel Panama Digicel Papua New Guinea Digicel Samoa Digicel St Kitts & Nevis Digicel St Vincent & The Grenadines Digicel St. Lucia Digicel Suriname Digicel Tonga Digicel Trinidad & Tobago Digicel Turks & Caicos Islands Digitel Mobile Digitel Philippines Djibouti Telecom DNA Comms DNA Finland DoCoMo Pacific Guam DoCoMo Pacific Northern Marianas Dovetel DSTCom DTAC eAccess Eagle Mobile East Caribbean Cellular ECMS Econet Burundi Econet Telecom Lesotho Econet Wireless Zimbabwe Elisa Estonia Elisa Finland Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company EMT Estonia Emtel Mauritius EMTS eNIC enitel movil Entel PCS Telecomunicaciones E-Plus Equateur Telecom Congo Eritrea Telecom Essar Telecom Kenya Ethiopian Telecom Etihad Etisalat Etisalat Afghanistan Etisalat DB Telecom Etisalat Misr Etisalat Sri Lanka Etisalat UAE ETL Everything Everywhere EVN Telecom ExcellentCom Extelcom AirNet Alcatel Alcatel Shanghai Bell Alcatel-Lucent Alvarion Andrew Corporation Apertio Argent Networks USA BSNL COMSAT RSI Plexsys Systems Datacraft DMC Stratex Networks Ericsson Ericsson Nikola Tesla Fujitsu Harris Hitachi Huawei Huawei; Huawei Hyundai Syscomm interWAVE ip.access Kyocera LG LogicStar Lucent Motorola NEC Nera Nokia Nokia Siemens Nortel Panasonic Plexsys Samsung Siemens Siemens/NEC SK Teletech Starent Networks Stratex Networks Tecnomen Tecore Tellus Radio Timor Telecom UTStarcom WiderThan.com ZTE FarEasTone Faroese Telecom FITEL Free Mobile FSM Telecommunications Corporation Gabon Telecom GAIN Gamcel Gamtel Gemtel Geocell GETESA Gibraltar Telecom Globacom Benin Globacom Nigeria Globe Telecom G-Mobile Golis GrameenPhone GSM BiH GSM Kazakhstan GTA GTEL Mobile GT-TELL Guernsey Airtel Guinetel Guyana Telephone & Telegraph H3G Haitel Hello Axiata Cambodia HFCL Infotel HI3G Hi3G Access Norway HI3G Denmark HiTs Telecom Burundi HiTs Telecom Equatorial Guinea Hola Paraguay Hondutel Hormuud Telecom HPT Mostar Hutchison 3G Austria Hutchison 3G Ireland Hutchison 3G UK Hutchison Hong Kong Hutchison Sri Lanka Hutchison Telecom Hutchison Vietnam Hutchison-CAT ICE Ice.Net Denmark Ice.net Norway Ice.net Sweden IceCell Iceland Telecom iConnect Guam iConnect Northern Marianas Idea Cellular IMC Indigo-Somoncom Indosat Infotel Broadband Innovative Wireless Intelfon El Salvador Intelfon Guatemala Intelsur Intercel Holdings Guinea Republic InterDnestrCom Intergroup Telecom Investcom Guinée Ipko Net Islandcom Wireless ITE Guam i-Tel Itisaluna Ittissalat Al-Maghrib Iusacell Celular Jersey Telecoms Jersey Telenet Kalimat Kar-Tel Kasapa Katel KDDI Kibris Telsim KKTCell Korek Telecom KPN Group Belgium KPN Mobile KT Corp KT Powertel K-Telecom Kuwait Telecom Company Kyivstar Lacell Lao Telecom Latelz LG U+ Libyana LMT Lonestar Communications Corporation Loop Mobile M.Teko Magticom Mahanagar Telephone Mauritius Manx Telecom Mara Telecom Mascom Wireless Mattel Mauritel Maxis Communications Médi Télécom Megacom MegaFon Meteor Communications Metro PCS Mfone Millicom Millicom Ghana Milmex MIRS Communications Israel Mobicom Mobiel 4 MobiFone Mobile Norway Mobile Telecom Service Mobile TeleSystems Mobile TeleSystems Belarus Mobile-8 MobileOne Mobilicity mobilkom Austria Mobilkom Czech Republic mobilkom Liechtenstein Mobilna Srpska MobilTel MobIsle Communications Mobistar Mobitel Georgia Mobitel Slovenia Mobitel Sri Lanka Mobyland Mocambique Celular Moldcell MoldTelecom Monaco Telecom Moov Gabon Mossel Grenada Mossel Jamaica Movicel Movil de Entel Movilnet Movistar (Venezuela) MTC Namibia MTC Touch MTCE MTEL MTL MTN MTN Afghanistan MTN Cameroon MTN Congo MTN Cote d'Ivoire MTN Cyprus MTN Ghana MTN Irancell MTN Nigeria MTN Rwanda MTN Sudan MTN Swaziland MTN Syria MTN Uganda MTN Yemen MTN Zambia MTNL MTS Mobility MTS-Turkmenistan MTS-Ukraine MTS-Uzbekistan Multi-Links MundoStartel Myanmar P&T Natcom National Telecommunications Authority Nationlink Nationlink Somalia Natrindo Telepon Seluler Nawras Ncell NEAT&T Neotel South Africa Nepal Telecom Net* One Netcom Network Norway Nexi Next Mobile Nextel Argentina Nextel Chile Nextel Mexico Nextel Peru Nextel Telecomunicacoes Nizhegorodskaya Cellular Communications Nova NTT DoCoMo Núcleo NuevaTel Nur Telecom O2 (UK) O2 Germany O2 Ireland Oasis Telecom Omantel Omnitel Onatel Burkina Faso Onatel Burundi Open Mobile OPT New Caledonia Optus Orange (Poland) Orange Armenia Orange Austria Orange Bissau Orange Botswana Orange Cameroon Orange Caraibe French Guiana Orange Caraibe French West Indies Orange Central African Republic Orange Côte d'Ivoire Orange Dominicana Orange France Orange Guinee Orange Jordan Orange Kenya Orange Liechtenstein Orange Luxembourg Orange Madagascar Orange Mali Orange Mauritius Orange Mayotte Orange Moldova Orange Niger Orange Réunion Orange Romania Orange Senegal Orange Slovak Republic Orange Spain Orange Switzerland Orange Tunisie Orange Uganda Orascom Bangladesh Orascom Telecom Algeria Orascom Telecom Tunisia Oricel Otecel Other Others Outremer Telecom French Guiana Outremer Telecom French West Indies Outremer Telecom Mauritius Outremer Telecom Mayotte Outremer Telecom Reunion P&T Luxembourg P4 Pacific Telecom Northern Marianas Palestine Cellular Communications Partner Communications PBTL PCCW Mobile Pelephone PMCL PNCC Polkomtel Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa ProGroup Holding Estonia Proxtel Wireless PTC Saudi Arabia PTML Public Mobile Q-TEL QuantumNet Radiomóvil Dipsa RCS&RDS Reliance Communications Reliance Communications Uganda Reliance Telecom Nigeria Robi Axiata Rogers Wireless Communications Romtelecom Roshan Rubicon Wireless Communications RwandaTel S Tel Safaricom Sahelcom SamoaTel Sampoerna (STI) Sanatel SaskTel Mobility Saudi Telecom Company SCO Sentel Sercom de Honduras Sercom Guatemala Sercomtel Celular SETAR Setel Netherlands Antilles Sferia S-Fone SFR SFR Mayotte SFR Reunion Shaw Inc Shyam Si.mobil Sierra Leone Telecommunications Company SingTel Mobile SK Telecom Sky Mobile Skytel Smart Communications Smart Telecom Indonesia Smart Telecom Nepal SmarTone SmarTone-Vodafone SMARTS Smile Telecom SMTC Saudi Arabia Softbank Mobile Solomon Telekom Somafone Sonaecom Servicos Comunicacoes Sonatel SONITEL Sotel Sotelco Sotelgui SOTELMA Spacetel Spacetel Benin Speednet Sprint Nextel Puerto Rico Sprint Nextel US Virgin Islands Sprint Nextel USA SPTC STA Standard Telecom Democratic Rep of Congo Star Telecom Starcomms StarHub Sudatel Senegal Sudatel Sudan Sunbeach Communications Sunrise Supercell Swisscom Mobile Swisscom Mobile Liechtenstein Syriatel T-2 Tacom Taiwan Mobile Company Taliya Tamin Telecom Tango Liechtenstein Tango Luxembourg Tashi Infocomm Tata Teleservices TCI TDC Mobil TelCell Telcom Tele2 Tele2 Croatia Tele2 Estonia Tele2 Latvia Tele2 Lithuania Tele2 Sweden Telecel Benin Telecel Bolivia Telecel Burkina Faso Telecel Burundi Telecel CAR Telecel Niger Telecel Paraguay Telecel Togo Telecel Zimbabwe Telecom Cook Islands Telecom Italia Telecom Malagasy Telecom Namibia Telecom New Zealand Telecom Niue Telecom Personal Telecom Seychelles Telecom Vanuatu Telecommunicacoes de Mocambique Telecomunicaciones Celulares del Caribe Telecsa Telefonía Celular de Nicaragua Telefonica Móviles Telefónica Móviles Telefónica Móviles Argentina Telefónica Móviles Chile Telefonica Moviles Colombia Telefónica Móviles Costa Rica Telefónica Móviles del Uruguay Telefonica Moviles El Salvador Telefónica Móviles Guatemala Telefónica Móviles Mexico Telefónica Móviles Panamá Telefonica O2 Czech Republic Telefonica O2 Slovak Republic Teléfonos Celulares de Cuba TeleGreenland Telekom Baltija Telekom Networks Malawi Telekom Srbija Telemar PCS (Oi) Telemobil Telemóvil Telenet NV Telenor Denmark Telenor Hungary Telenor Mobil Telenor Montenegro Telenor Pakistan Telenor Serbia Telenor Sweden Telesur Telesystems Ukraine Teletalk Televorgu TeleYemen Telia Denmark TeliaSonera Finland TeliaSonera Sweden Telkom Indonesia Telkom South Africa Telkomsel TelOne Telsom Mobile Telstra Telus Mobility The Bermuda Telephone Company Tibet Telecom Tigo Laos Tigo Rwanda Tigo Tanzania Tikiphone TIM Brasil Timor Telecom TK Mobile TM Cell T-Mais TMN T-Mobile Austria T-Mobile Croatia T-Mobile Czech Republic T-Mobile Germany T-Mobile Hungary T-Mobile Macedonia T-Mobile Montenegro T-Mobile Netherlands T-Mobile Puerto Rico T-Mobile Slovak Republic T-Mobile USA TMP Uganda TogoCel Tonga Communications TOT TRICOM Dominican Republic Trilogy Dominicana True Corp True Move TSKL TSTT Trinidad & Tobago TT Mobile TTCL Tunisie Télécom Turkcell Tus Mobil Two Degrees Mobile TWT Guyana U Mobile Malaysia UCell Uganda Telecom Ukrtelecom Umniah UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones Unicel Unitech Wireless Unitel Angola Unitel Mongolia Unitel Uzbekistan Unitel Yemen Uralsvyazinform USAN-Gabon UTL Nepal UzMobile Vala Velcom Verizon Wireless VIBO Videocon Videotron Viettel Cambodia Viettel Vietnam VimpelCom VinaPhone VIP Vip Mobile VIPnet Visafone Communications Viva Bahrain Vivacell Sudan Vivacom Vivo Vodacom Congo Vodacom Lesotho Vodacom Mozambique Vodacom South Africa Vodacom Tanzania Vodafone Albania Vodafone Australia Vodafone Czech Republic Vodafone D2 Vodafone Egypt Vodafone Espana Vodafone Essar Vodafone Faroe Islands Vodafone Fiji Vodafone Ghana Vodafone Greece Vodafone Hungary Vodafone Iceland Vodafone Ireland Vodafone Italia Vodafone Libertel Vodafone Malta Vodafone New Zealand Vodafone Portugal Vodafone Qatar Vodafone Romania Vodafone Turkey Vodafone UK VTR Cellular Wana Warid Bangladesh Warid Congo Warid Pakistan Warid Telecom Uganda Wasel Telecom Wataniya Maldives Wataniya Palestine Mobile Telecommunications Company Wataniya Telecom Wataniya Telecom Algerie Wave Telecom Willcom Wind WIND Hellas Wind Mobile XL Axiata XPress XPress Palestine Yemen Mobile Phone Company Yoigo Zain Bahrain Zain Iraq Zain Jordan Zain Kuwait Zain Sierra Leone Zain Sudan Zamtel Zanzibar Telecom Source: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/19/6014379/2g-3g-4g-subscriptions-deployments.html  

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Brussels finally gets 4G after politicians relent on tough mobile radiation cap

The Brussels parliament has approved a proposal to raise the maximum allowed radiation levels for mobile antennas, finally allowing telcos to begin rollout of high-speed 4G networks in the Belgian capital.
Brussels has the strictest radiation standards of all of Belgium. In 2007, the Parliament of the Brussels Region of Belgium adopted a three volt per metre exposure limit for mobile phone base stations, a limit 200 times lower than those recommended by the EU and the World Health Organisation — making them not only the toughest across Belgium, but in all of the EU as well.
Whereas most cities in Belgium already have 4G coverage, the cap has to date prevented the rollout of 4G in the city, and so damaged trade in the Belgian capital, according to a report from the Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT).
"Brussels' current regulations and policy on radiation standards constitute a serious impediment to… the rollout of new mobile technologies, which has had unintended consequences on economic development, job creation, and consumers in the Brussels-Capital region. It seems appropriate to change the current limits," the BIPT said in February of this year.
The radiation cap didn't only raise concerns in the Belgium itself; even European Commission VP Neelie Kroes joined in the discussion, writing to the Brussels authorities on the matter. In her letter, Kroes asks for objective reasons for the extremely low voltage cap in the Brussels region and how it could be justified in relation to European guidelines.

Telcos get ready

In response to all the commotion concerning 4G, the Brussels parliament has now agreed to raise the radiation cap from three volts per metre to six volts per metre, effectively allowing 4G antennas to be rolled out in the city.
With the starting pistol fired on 4G, operators are hoping to launch their networks in Brussels as soon as possible. The rollout of 4G requires 380 additional mobile masts in the capital, which could take years, due to the time it takes to get the necessary paperwork to install them.
To overcome this obstacle, 133 Brussels companies have agreed to rent out the roof of their buildings to Belgian telcos, so that mobile antennas can be set up on there, following a letter by the Belgian economy minister Céline Frémault to do so. This development allows Belgian telcos to rollout 4G as soon as next year.

Source: http://www.zdnet.com/brussels-finally-gets-4g-after-politicians-relent-on-tough-mobile-radiation-cap-7000024218/

 

Bouygues, Orange respond to Iliad’s 4G challenge

French telcos Bouygues Telecom and Orange France have hit back at Iliad (Free) in the ongoing price war within the French mobile market, by offering free 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) services with their respective low-cost packages. Local newspaper Le Figaro reports that Bouygues Telecom has added 4G access to its budget B&You subscriptions, starting at EUR9.99 (USD13.76). For its part, Orange France has announced that it will offer access to its 4G network for Sosh subscribers from January 2014, although no further details regarding the pricing have been revealed.

As previously reported by TeleGeography’s CommsUpdate, earlier this month Iliad revealed that subscribers to its Free Mobile Plan, currently priced at EUR19.99 per month, would benefit from download speeds of up to 150Mbps, at no additional cost. Further, the price plan would provide a 20GB data allowance. Further, on 9 December Free Mobile revealed that current subscribers to its EUR2 (USD2.75) plan would automatically benefit from access to its 3G/4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, with MMS messaging and 50MB of data allowance also included in the subscription plan; ‘FreeBox’ users can access the 4G network for free. Iliad’s move was widely perceived as a direct response to rival Bouygues Telecom’s prior announcement that it would provide its subscribers with access to its LTE network at no extra cost.

Meanwhile, Orange France CEO Stephane Richard has addressed the escalating price battle by threatening to end its roaming agreement with Free Mobile, by stating: ‘Orange may very well do without the roaming agreement, but is the [opposite] certain?’ The executive clarified: ‘Free Mobile has only a few frequencies and antennas, when compared to its competitors. Even accelerating its deployment, it can in no way claim to have national coverage 4G on its own, which means that to get coverage worthy of the name in the coming weeks, it will necessarily press for a roaming agreement or [network] sharing with one of its competitors.’

source: http://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2013/12/17/bouygues-orange-respond-to-iliads-4g-challenge/

Dish Taps Sprint for 4G Trial in Texas

Dish revealed Tuesday that it plans to use Sprint's 4G spectrum to try out a fixed broadband service deep in the heart of Texas next year.

Sprint and Dish "plan to jointly develop and deploy a fixed wireless broadband service, on a trial basis, in Corpus Christi, TX that will be available in the middle of 2014," the pair said in a press release. "The service will initially be available in limited areas of Corpus Christi with a plan to expand into additional markets in the future."

Depending on location, Dish Network Corp. (Nasdaq: DISH) will install either a "ruggedized outdoor router" or an indoor system to beam broadband to the site. The service will use the Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S) 2.5GHz spectrum for Long Term Evolution Time Division Duplex (LTE TDD) 4G service, sometimes called TD-LTE too. (See: Defining 4G: What the Heck Is LTE TDD?)

Sprint said the service, which uses technology originally deployed by Clearwire, offers downloads of 50-60 Mbit/s at the moment. It can boost that download speed up to 2 Gbit/s over time through its Spark network overlay program.

Dish has its own spectrum that it could use for a fixed wireless service. The trial with Sprint, in which Dish was trying to grab a stake just a few months ago, suggests that it is easier for the operator to use someone else's network than build one on its own right now. Dish has a similar mobile broadband deal in place with the regional operator Ntelos Inc. (Nasdaq: NTLO)

source: http://www.lightreading.com/mobile/4g-lte/dish-taps-sprint-for-4g-trial-in-texas/d/d-id/707023?f_src=lightreading_node_229

China Mobile Makes Quick 4G Inroads

China Mobile on Tuesday signed agreements with 10 mobile phone manufacturers and retailers, the latest foray into the fledgling 4G market.

Tuesday's agreements saw China Mobile join with manufacturers -- Lenovo, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo and Gionee-- as well as retailers and online platforms including Jing Dong, TMall, Suning, Gome and Dixintong. 

The deals will speed up sales of 4G mobiles, a China Mobile official said. 

On Dec. 4, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued 4G licenses to three operators, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, marking a new era in China's mobile network. 

The three operators received permits for fourth generation (4G) services using homegrown Time-Division Long-Term Evolution (TD-LTE), one of two international standards. The technology will lower bandwidth and promises faster mobile broadband.

China Mobile will hold a worldwide partner conference on Wednesday, when a variety of 4G phones will be launched by domestic and international players.

source: http://english.cri.cn/6909/2013/12/17/2561s803888.htm