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- Dutch operators clear the first LTE hurdle, but impact on customers will be limited
1The month of May has brought a spate of LTE launches in the Netherlands, as telecoms operators scrambled to meet the coverage obligation deadline for the 2.6GHz spectrum they all bought two years ago. Cable operator Ziggo was the first, followed by the incumbent, KPN, and the rest have now followed suit, with T-Mobile the… Read more
- Sky Deutschland results demonstrate pay satellite volatility
2 The latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media shows that revenues from pay DTH services in Europe will continue their slow upward trajectory for the next five years and top US$20 billion by 2016. Europe, DTH revenues, 2011-2016 (US$ mil.) 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Western Europe 13,996 14,344 14,701 15,076 15,456… Read more
- Press release: Mobile data consumption to grow tenfold over the next five years
3Mobile users to consume eight times more social media in 2016 Mobile phone users will, in 2016, on average consume 6.5 times as much video, over eight times as much music and social media, and nearly 10 times as much games as in 2011 according to the latest forecasts from Informa Telecoms & Media. There… Read more
- Smart cities and the Rocket steam engine: on parallel tracks?
4Back in the early 19th century, the public debut of George Stephenson’s Rocket steam engine was a harbinger of the Age of Steam, which applied the technologies of the industrial revolution to transport with great success. Funded by eager speculators, railway infrastructure soon expanded across the world and eventually usurped canals as the main form… Read more
- Press release: Malaysia surges ahead in the Asia Pacific National Broadband Network revolution
5Australia, New Zealand and Singapore’s NBN lag behind Malaysia Informa Telecoms & Media has released new figures revealing that the High Speed Broadband (HSBB) network being built by Telekom Malaysia is comfortably outpacing other NBNs being deployed including in the region, including rival Singapore’s NGNBN as well as those being rolled out in Australia and… Read more
- New EU roaming regulations must force operators to innovate on tariffs
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