Stories about: Analysys

UK carrier BT is to spend £1.5bn pounds (US$2.99 billion) rolling out super fast broadband to 10 million (or 40 per cent) of UK homes by 2012.

Femtocells were developed to aid 3G networks, but their real impact may be much greater on the successors: the 4G networks, WiMax and LTE.

Growth in Internet traffic, especially from burgeoning video Web sites and peer-to-peer usage, will put more pressure on network managers to handle the explosion and on private sector investors, and they should be allowed to do so in unrestricted ways, a Washington think tank said Thursday.

Oracle has offered to buy MetaSolv, a developer of operations support software for telecommunications service providers, for US$219.2 million in cash, the companies said Monday.

Telia Mobile AB and the Italian unit of Megabeam Networks Ltd. have signed what both companies claim to be Europe's first cross-border roaming agreement for wireless LAN (WLAN) services . The deal comes as several groups position themselves to offer Europe-wide roaming for the increasingly popular high-speed data service.

A new breed of roaming Napster Inc. able to swap music, video and text at will is set to terrorise content providers and artists alike, according to the telecoms and new media consultancy Analysys Reseach Ltd.

Bandwidth has become a commodity as worth trading as pork bellies, gold or any natural resource.

Mobile markets around the world are undergoing unprecedented change, and recent entrants holding the third and fourth licenses in their national markets are proving themselves to be strong competitors to established rivals, according to a global study by Analysys.

As the United States is experiencing a sustained period of economic growth, full employment and low inflation, it is time to disregard financial advisors made cautious by dot-com company problems and marketing fluctuations and adopt bullish strategies to enter the networked economy. Len Rust examines these bullish claims by Gartner group, and samples other recent research offerings

European mobile service providers could be overcharging customers for incoming calls from fixed lines by up to 4.5 billion euros ($A7.1 billion) annually, according to a study commissioned by the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA).

European mobile service providers could be overcharging customers for incoming calls from fixed lines by up to 4.5 billion euros (US$4.4 billion) annually, according to a study commissioned by the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA).