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While Venezuela has made headway into 4G with its recent 4G mobile licence tender, we remain bearish towards its impact on mobile broadband growth. Uncertainty regarding the political situation along with the deteriorating economy has lowered confidence and caused Venezuelans to leave their higher-value subscriptions for more basic ones. The ongoing threat of socialist reforms continues to weigh heavily on the Venezuelan investment climate. The government's heavy influence over the telecoms market, with state-owned firms playing major roles, could have negative consequences over the short-tomedium term. For now, the government continues to push a telecoms access for all policy, with growth momentum maintained during Q213 in mobile, fixed line, broadband and pay-TV services.

Wireless Telecommunication Services in Spain industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value and volume 2008-12, and forecast to 2017). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Spain wireless telecommunication services market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

Bahrain's telecoms market is rapidly moving towards high-value wireless and wireline data services, supported by the launch of 4G LTE network services and 100Mbps fibre broadband services in 2013 and early 2014. We expect this to help operators offset revenue shortfalls from traditional voice services and improve their subscriber mixes, as consumers turn to postpaid contracts to subsidise the purchase of LTE-enabled smartphones. We retain a positive outlook for the take-up of these services based on the government's continued expansionary policy, which will sustain high private consumption levels, but note that strong growth in mobile data services poses downside risks to growth in the fixed broadband sector.

Competition dynamics could change significantly in South Africa's fixed-line sector owing to a number of key regulatory and industry-specific factors, including the functional separation of Telkom's wholesale and retail fixed network services, the implementation of local loop unbundling (LLU), expected in March 2014, and possible market consolidation, with Vodacom still in talks to buy Neotel. These developments have the potential to improve competition and drive growth in the market. Although subscriptions to fixed-line services will remain under pressure from fixed to mobile substitution, we expect greater competition in the market to lead to the introduction of high-value converged services for retail consumers and innovative enterprise solutions for businesses.

Business Telephone systems provider TelcoDepot.com is about to launch a new service to all US users. Through the company website, a business telephony forum will be launched to receive enquiries and provide solutions related to hardware and software use.

There are many different reasons for businesses to hire an outside company to handle their cell phone, as it is an option that reduces frustrations and complications of all kinds. Some of the best reasons to do this include:

Microspace Communications, a Raleigh based satellite broadcasting company is proud to announce the relaunch of Microspace.com.

Business phones expert Telco Depot published the 10 reasons why they believe VoIP-Only mobile phones are not too far away. The blog post analyzes the market signs of a potential extension of the Voip systems to VoIP-Only mobile phone.

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Wireless Telecommunication Services in India industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value and volume 2008-12, and forecast to 2017). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the India wireless telecommunication services market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

Raleigh based broadband solutions company, Microspace, is excited to announce that they will be attending and showcasing at this year’s NAB Show.

Wireless Telecommunication Services in South Africa industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value and volume 2008-12, and forecast to 2017). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the South Africa wireless telecommunication services market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

The Caribbean telecoms market is usually relatively stable, with slow growth rates in mobile and relatively limited interest in broadband. However, a number of acquisitions and regulatory developments have begun a period of shake up in the region's telecoms markets, which BMI believes will be good for the long-term growth of newer technologies such as 3G and 4G, as well as encouraging the growth of broadband connections.

Mobile payments represents a huge market opportunity and quite simply one of the most dynamic and fast-evolving arenas within the convergence of wireless and commerce. Many aspects of the mobile payments ecosystem are evolving including what people buy, how purchases are made, what devices are used, how purchases are funded, how merchants or producers are monetized, and even the identity of sellers and buyers.

Wireless Telecommunication Services in the United Kingdom industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value and volume 2008-12, and forecast to 2017). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the United Kingdom wireless telecommunication services market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

Wireless Telecommunication Services in Brazil industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value and volume 2008-12, and forecast to 2017). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Brazil wireless telecommunication services market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

The Greek telecommunications market remains challenging for all participants, with only continued robust demand for broadband and - interestingly - converged service packages providing the only tangible growth. Besides subdued consumer and enterprise spending power resulting from the government's austerity programme, European Commission-mandated termination rate cuts are squeezing operators further. It is, therefore, not surprising that consolidation among the leading alternative operators seems likelier than ever, with WIND Hellas increasing its stake in ForthNet and an eventual merger of the two considered likely to tempt cash-rich, growth-challenged Vodafone to reconsider acquiring WIND. With incumbent OTE deploying its next-generation VDSL broadband network and enjoying faster pay-TV adoption, the other operators are firmly placed on the back foot and consolidation must surely look more appealing.

Operators continue to struggle with the dual pressures of economic weakness limiting subscriber spending as well as market maturity in the mobile sector. The former is a pressure for fixed services also, with operators facing difficulties in encouraging subscribers to upgrade to more expensive services. Data show declines across all segments of the market as Portuguese consumers look to keep their costs down, while operators are expected to continue investing in faster technologies to cater to the demand for more data. Some signs of improvement in mobile ARPUs suggest there may be more opportunities for growth.

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Wireless Telecommunication Services in Canada industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value and volume 2008-12, and forecast to 2017). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Canada wireless telecommunication services market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

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BMI has extended its forecasts to 2018 in the Q214 update to the Central America report, with our expectations indicating that growth will slow down towards the back end of the period. The Central American region is characterised by a heavy government presence in the telecoms market through stateowned companies. Regulatory authorities may lack independence and this can negatively affect competition in the industry or put it under further state control, such as Nicaragua's planned new internet laws. As growth begins to slow down in the region, governments are interested in boosting competitiveness by adding new players, divesting themselves of their state-owned entities and introducing number portability. Many markets have well over 100% penetration and new methods are needed to grow low average revenue per user (ARPU) levels by deploying higher-value services.

Although modest subscription growth was seen in the mobile and broadband markets in 9M13, mostly on the back of promotions connected to bundled service products, revenue and profit growth is mostly in the negative. This is due to increased price competition caused by operators' responses to the changing regulatory environment, the most recent of which affect the broadband and pay-TV sectors. These changes do not favour some of the smaller fixed-line businesses and mobile network operator Mobistar has withdrawn from the fixed-line market in protest. Mobistar, in any case, is now looking to 4G mobile broadband after 800MHz spectrum was auctioned in November 2013. Mobistar, Proximus and BASE all secured spectrum and, while new entrant b-lite began offering limited app-based 4G services in Q413, fellow newcomer Telenet-Tecteo has yet to make its move, incurring the ire of the regulator for failing to meet launch deadlines. Although non-voice service usage is ticking up, price competition means its contribution to service revenues remains small.