Archive for the ‘Telecom’ Category
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
The Silicon Alley Insider Chart of the Day (above) shows the great curve of DVR (Digital Video Recorders) adoption in US, where almost one in three households already have one. This poses a threat to the advertising model of broadcast TVs, as DVRs are commonly used to fast-forward ads.
DVRs are ...
Posted in Digital Home, Media & New Economy, Telecom | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
After a few weeks traveling I am back in KL after the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. I was planning to link any comprehensive report from the blog-sphere with the highlights from last week, but strangely enough I did not find any. So I will summarize my high level impressions from the ...
Posted in Telecom | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Koreans and Japanese enjoy today broadband connections at 100 Mbps. Not being enough, the Korean Communications Commission wants to boost the country broadband infrastructure to provide 1 Gbps service in 2012!!
That is a tenfold increase from today's speed and in only three years from now. If the objective is achieved, ...
Posted in Asia Pacific, Telecom | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 30th, 2009
We have seen recent announcement of job cuts in almost all Telecom and Tech companies, including Microsoft and Google only to name those that are new to those announcements.
GigaOm recently echoed a recruitment firm report that estimated almost 200,000 job cuts in the tech industry in 2008.
Still there are reasons ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Via El Economista I found this table that shows the impressive performance of Telefonica over the past eight years since Cesar Alierta took over the CEO position from Juan Villalonga. Telefonica has gone from 15th place in 2000 to be the 3rd Telco worldwide in market capitalization after China Mobile ...
Posted in Spain, Telecom | No Comments »
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Year 2008 will be remembered for the financial crash but also as the year when
iPhone 3G confirmed Apple's revolution of mobile phones. RIM also strengthened their corporate position with new multimedia capable models and Android saw its first handset launched, the G1.
Wireless broadband became a reality, with 3G/HSDPA/EVDO ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
An interesting analysis from Telco 2.0 compares the business of YouTube versus Hulu in 2008. The table summarizes the key data used in the analysis:
YouTube
Hulu
No of videos/day
1000+ million
3-4 million
Average duration
2.75 min
27.5 min
% clips with ads
3-4%
80%
Average CPM
$10
$15-20
2008 Revenues
$118 m
$52 m
2008 Loss
$91 m
$9 m
According to Telco 2.0, YouTube ...
Posted in Internet, Media & New Economy, Telecom | 3 Comments »
Monday, December 15th, 2008
Some facts about Online video:
Online TV is growing. The number of people watching online video will grow from 563 million in 2007 to 941 million in 2013 according to ABI research, echoed by NewTeeVee.
People watch far more hours of TV from the couch than on the PC. According to Nielsen ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Android announced this week that 14 new companies are joining the Open Handset Alliance. The new members are: AKM Semiconductor, ARM, ASUSTek Computer, Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Garmin International, Huawei Technologies, Omron Software, Softbank Mobile Corporation, Sony Ericsson, Teleca AB, Toshiba Corporation and Vodafone.
Some readings:
Sony Ericsson sold their shares ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Telecom | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
As usual in bad times, the debate on whether progress creates or destroys value comes back, as questioned in Martin Varsavsky blog, this time referring to how RSS destroys affects to blogs reducing the amount of displayed advertisement.
As Martin writes:
"I once debated Michael Porter at Davos on the overall ...
Posted in Internet, Media & New Economy, Telecom | 3 Comments »
