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LONDON-A new study from Frost & Sullivan predicts the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz-based systems markets, currently valued at around $946 million, will boom into a $4.76 billion business during the next four years.The research firm said the arrival of the 802.11b standard, which...

As Bluetooth-enabled products continue their slow introduction into the marketplace, a new study by Frost & Sullivan forecasts global shipments of Bluetooth products to reach more than 11 million units by the end of 2001, equaling $2.5 billion in revenues."Although the delays in the...

BUCHAREST, Romania-Eastern and Central European countries began to improve and modernize their telecommunications networks more than a decade ago, after the fall of communism.A great deal of work needed to be done. According to a report from Frost & Sullivan, teledensity in some of...

China Mobile began charging for wireless Internet services beginning 21 October after twice delaying the date due to slack demand for the services, particularly by many industry professionals.However, Frost & Sullivan believes wireless Internet is exactly what the Chinese people are looking for, and...

SINGAPORE-With the worst effects of the economic crisis over, telecommunications companies in countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region are likely to advance rapidly in these promising cellular markets, said research firm Frost & Sullivan.The firm's new report, "Pan-Asian Cellular Service Markets," said the region's cellular...

HANNOVER, Germany-After a year of industry enthusiasm and the wild market forecasts that have surrounded the short-range wireless technology Bluetooth, the silicon-chip developers used the giant CeBIT 2000 exhibition to unveil products that appear to provide the first step on the path toward implementation.Key...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Rural and underserved markets quickly are becoming integral, strategic components of international telecommunications expansion, because reaching the 4 billion people worldwide still without access to telephone services poses a challenge for service providers.According to Frost & Sullivan's latest research report, "World Rural...

NEW YORK-Smart cards must overcome a chicken-and-egg problem before they can expand their use in wireless devices beyond their established role as subscriber identification modules in Global System for Mobile communications products.The vision for smart cards is that they will become the tiny pocket...

NEW YORK-In the last seven years, semiconductor processing capacity has increased by about 2,600 percent while battery technology has improved by approximately 65 percent on a watts basis, said Phillip Redman, program manager, wireless/mobile communications for The Yankee Group, Boston.Moore's Law, which says the...

BANGALORE, India-Finally, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has received the Telecom Commission's OK to offer cellular services in 17 cities across the country. With Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL)-an offshoot of DoT- slated to offer services in the two major metros-New Delhi and Mumbai-the combined...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-According to "World TDMA Digital Cellular Infrastructure Equipment Markets," a recent report compiled by Frost & Sullivan, Time Division Multiple Access markets are expected to see a compound annual growth rate of 2.7 percent from 1998 through the end of 2005.TDMA has...

Widespread consolidation among telecommunications carriers has concentrated buying power into fewer and fewer hands, with vendors experiencing many of the side effects.In the last year alone, at least half of the carriers on RCR's 1998 Top 20 cellular carriers' list have been acquired by...

With vendors putting their time and energy into the three main U.S. digital standards and into developing standards for third-generation technology, there hardly seems room for commercialization of the more obscure technologies touted years ago."You need volume production and vendor financing behind it," said...

Changing times are requiring some infrastructure vendors to reorganize their businesses and better align themselves with their customers.Siemens AG of Germany is the latest vendor to realize this. The company's New York subsidiary, Siemens Corp., announced last week three new business units in the...

WASHINGTON-An agreement between GTE Corp. and AirTouch Paging, signed earlier this month, is a good example of how the telecommunications industry can work with "regulatory guidance but without regulatory fiat," said Rob Hoggarth, senior vice president for paging and messaging for the Personal Communications...

PageMart Wireless Inc. launched a narrowband personal communications services network in Austin and San Antonio, offering a guaranteed-receipt alphanumeric message service called Scout.This makes PageMart the first paging carrier since SkyTel Communications Inc. to operate a ReFLEX paging network and the first ever to...

Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group is struggling to keep PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. from giving future contracts to another vendor for more personal communications services equipment.PrimeCo reportedly is dissatisfied with the performance of Motorola's Code Division Multiple Access equipment currently installed, but contrary to...

21st Century Telesis Inc. said it is making a significant step toward becoming the first U.S. wireless carrier to commercially deploy Personal Access Communications System technology.Costa-Mesa, Calif.-based 21st Century, which holds C-, D- and F-block personal communications services licenses covering some 8 million pops,...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The world's smart card markets are creating high growth markets in regions not traditionally marketed for technological advances, according to a recent report from international market consulting company Frost & Sullivan.Latin America and the Asia Pacific regions are forecasted for enormous growth,...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Despite the threat from emerging personal communications services networks, the cellular service market continues to flourish, according to research conducted by Frost & Sullivan International Inc.The report said safety tops the list of reasons people subscribe to a cellular service. However, the...

LONDON-Frost & Sullivan has predicted the network operators sector of the European radio paging market will grow at a higher rate than the hardware sector.Revenues for the radio pager hardware market were $1.47 billion last year, while network operator revenues were $1.24 billion, according...

The fusion of wireless telecommunications and computer processing power into a device that fits your hand ought to be a slam-dunk proposition. It lets time-critical information go unobtrusively to where it can be most productive-in the field-rather than requiring the user to go where...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The U.S. mobile communications services market is projected to more than triple from $26.3 billion in 1994 to $92.5 billion by the year 2001, according to a new study from Frost & Sullivan Inc.The share of total mobile market revenues going to...