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Feature story
Recently Francis Hook, our telecoms analyst in Kenya, published
Submarine Internet Cables: The Race to Connect East Africa, our first
report on the region’s impending shift in connectivity
options and their related business opportunities. To date East Africa
has been forced to make do with expensive satellite broadband, a
situation that creates scarcities in communications, education, and
market opportunities.
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Applications processors and media coprocessors experienced another year
of solid growth in 2007 as the chipset technology that enables
multimedia has become more mature and chipset pricing has declined.
This has enabled multimedia capabilities to quickly spread from
high-end mobile phones into a myriad of mobile and consumer electronics
(CE) devices, according to IDC. Multimedia functionality can now be
found in most mid-range and even some entry-level phone segments, as
well as devices ranging from PMPs, handheld gaming platforms, MIDs,
toys, PNDs, and a variety of medical and industrial devices.
The networking equipment landscape is full of innovative and exciting
product development that is seeing a technology revolution taking place
across both the consumer and business markets, a new IDC report has
found.
IDC CEMA Communications Studies
This study describes the sub-sea Internet cables that will replace
expensive satellite broadband in East Africa, speculates on the
probable winners of the cable-laying race, describes several likely
consequences of the upcoming flood of inexpensive broadband, and
identifies the cable stakeholders most likely to benefit.
Central Europe's VoIP services market has successfully completed the
initial development stage and is now moving to the next. The supply
side of the market is now crowded, and operators are shifting focus to
actions aimed at attracting as many customers as possible. The main
audience to target is PSTN/ISDN users. Though VoIP services still lack
quality compared with PSTN/ISDN services, VoIP operators have a huge
advantage in pricing. The market share of VoIP services will therefore
increase quickly.
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