Regulator and MNOs Prepare for LTE Auction at End-2012
This report (11th edition) provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in the UK telecommunications market. The report analyses the mobile, Internet, broadband, digital TV and converging media sectors.
Subjects include:
- Market and industry analyses, trends and developments;
- Facts, figures and statistics;
- Industry and regulatory issues;
- Infrastructure;
- Major players, revenues, subscribers, ARPU, MoU;
- Internet, VoIP, IPTV;
- Mobile voice and data markets;
- Broadband (FttH, DSL, cable TV, wireless);
- Convergence and digital media;
- 3G subscriber and mobile ARPU forecasts to 2015;
- Broadband market forecasts for selective years to 2020.
Key developments
- Virgin Media trials the world's fastest cable broadband, at 1.5Gb/s, 100Mb/ service extended to one million households;
- government allocates ?363 million for regional broadband schemes;
- Fujitsu, Virgin Media, TalkTalk and Cisco announced plan open-access FttH platform to five million homes;
- BT to extend ADSL2 to 90% of premises by mid-2013;
- community fibre deployment gaining traction;
- Ofcom's powers to be revised in 2012;
- Ofcom claims 4G spectrum efficiency gains of up to 200% on 3G;
- 800MHz and 2.6GHz auction delayed until late 2012;
- Big Three m-commerce initiative;
- UK Broadband LTE developments in 3.5GHz band;
- Everything Everywhere and BT Wholesale trial LTE in the 800MHz band;
- 3UK reports 97% of all network traffic is data;
- MBNL signs ?100 million network deal with Virgin Media Business;
- potential LTE interference with DTTV in 800MHz band;
- Everything Everywhere extends LTE trial, upgrades HSPA network to 21Mb/s;
- Pingit mobile payment app launched.
Companies Mentioned
- H3UK
- O2
- Vodafone
- Everything Everywhere
- Virgin Mobile
- UK Broadband
- British Telecom
- Virgin Media
- BSkyB
- Freeview
- BBC
- Tiscali
- Thrive Telecom
- Libera
- The Cloud
- Kcom
- Carphone Warehouse
Reasons to Buy
This report is essential reading for those needing high level strategic information and objective analysis on the telecom sector in the UK. It provides further information on:
- Market liberalisation and regulatory issues;
- The impact of the global economic crisis;
- Telecoms operators - privatisation, acquisitions, new licences;
- Mobile data market developments in coming years in light of spectrum auctions and new license awards in 2010;
- 3G developments, regulatory issues and technologies including HSPA and LTE;
- Broadband migration to an FttH architecture;
- Historical and current subscriber statistics and forecasts;
- ARPU statistics and forecasts.
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