terça-feira, 26 de novembro de 2013

HOT TOPICS 26/11/2013

  • Global LTE connections to hit 1bn in three years
  • ·         Chunghwa to roll out small cells to support LTE coverage
  • ·         Rádios comunitárias têm até este sábado (30) para regularizar outorgas vencidas
  • ·        Intel wants $500 million for Internet TV service: Bloomberg
  • ·         Indra signs US$3.5mn deal with Brazil's Anatel
  • ·         Global triple-play revenues to hit $144bn by 2018
  • ·         Claro extrapola meta de queixas da Anatel
  • ·         China to probe monopolistic telco pricing
  • ·         LTE to Cover Half the Globe by 2017 – GSMA


Intel wants $500 million for Internet TV service: Bloomberg
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Intel Corp is trying to sell its yet-to-launch Internet television service for $500 million and wants to complete a deal by year-end, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

Rádios comunitárias têm até este sábado (30) para regularizar outorgas vencidas

 
 
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As emissoras que não cumprirem o prazo terão a autorização extinta pelo Ministério das Comunicações
Brasília, 26/11/2013 - As rádios comunitárias com outorgas vencidas têm até o dia 30 de novembro de 2013 para regularizar sua situação. A autorização para executar o serviço de radiodifusão comunitária tem validade de dez anos e pode ser renovada por igual período. As emissoras beneficiadas por essa medida são as que receberam as primeiras outorgas, entre 1999 e 2001. Essas autorizações venceram dez anos depois, quando ainda não havia uma norma regulamentando o processo de renovação. Assim, essas emissoras – cerca de 600, de acordo com estimativa do Ministério das Comunicações – puderam continuar funcionando de forma provisória.
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A data-limite para pedir a renovação das outorgas foi definida pela portaria nº 197, de 1º de julho de 2013. A portaria também traz alterações na Norma n° 01/2011, que trata do serviço de radiodifusão comunitária.
Segundo o coordenador-geral de radiodifusão comunitária do MiniCom, Samir Nobre, uma das mudanças dessa Norma simplifica o processo de renovação das outorgas de emissoras comunitárias, que fica compatível com o das emissoras comerciais. "O Ministério das Comunicações vai dispensar a apresentação do projeto técnico e exigir das rádios comunitárias apenas a análise documental", explica.
O diretor de Acompanhamento e Avaliação de Serviços de Comunicação Eletrônica do MiniCom, Octavio Pieranti, chama a atenção para os radiodifusores ficarem atentos ao prazo. "A emissora que estiver com a outorga vencida e deixar de pedir a renovação dentro da data-limite terá a autorização extinta", adverte.
Os pedidos de renovação de outorga de serviços de radcom podem ser apresentados por protocolo ou postados pelos Correios, para o endereço da Coordenação de Radiodifusão Comunitária ou do Departamento de Outorgas (Bloco R, Anexo B, Via N2 – Esplanada dos Ministérios, Brasília, DF. CEP: 70044-900)

Chunghwa to roll out small cells to support LTE coverage


Tuesday 26 Nov 2013 | 22:03 CET | News
Taiwanese telecommunications carrier Chunghwa Telecom will deploy more small-cell base stations to improve 4G coverage in the early roll out stages. The small cells will be installed in outdoor locations, such as on street lights, in the initial stage of the operator's LTE deployment, CNA writes. "Coverage is absolutely the most important thing at the beginning, and we have seen a trend of ...

Indra signs US$3.5mn deal with Brazil's Anatel

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Spanish technology firm Indra has won an 8.06mn-real (US$3.5mn) contract to expand IT services for Brazil's telecoms regulator Anatel, according to local press reports.Under the five-year contract, Indra will be...
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Tablets to account for half of 2014 PC shipments

By Nick Wood, Total Telecom
Tuesday 26 November 2013

Canalys predicts 396 million tablets to ship in 2017.

Tablets will comprise around 50% of the overall PC market in 2014, driven by growth in low-cost Android devices, predicted Canalys on Tuesday.
The research firm expects 285 million tablets will ship next year, compared to combined notebook and desktop PC shipments of around 290 million. Looking further ahead to 2017, Canalys sees global tablet shipments reaching 396 million units.
Apple and Samsung will maintain their market-leading positions in the medium-term, but the company warned they face significant challenges from a raft of small-scale device makers churning out low-cost Android tablets for local markets.
"Vendors such as Nextbook in the United States, and Onda and Teclast in the People's Republic of China ship more units than some of the major international top tier vendors in their home countries," noted Canalys analyst James Wang, in a research note.
He highlighted that some big names like Acer, Asus, H-P and Lenovo are trying to compete by offering entry-level tablets in the sub-$150 price range.
"With vastly different cost structures these vendors will continue to find it extremely challenging to keep pace with local competitors," Wang predicted.
The rise of low-cost tablets will help to drive Android's share of the overall PC operating system (OS) market to 65% in next year.
One vendor that staunchly refuses to engage in price wars, Apple, will see its tablet market share decline as a result.
"However, Apple is one of the few companies making money from the tablet boom," said Tim Coulling, senior analyst at Canalys. "Premium products attract high value consumers; for Apple, remaining highly profitable and driving revenue from its entire ecosystem is of greater importance than market share statistics."
Meanwhile, Canalys expects Microsoft's share of the tablet market to grow to 5% in 2014, up from 2% in 2012. Microsoft's recent Nokia acquisition is expected to improve its prospects as a vertically-integrated smart device vendor, the research firm said, but it will have to tread a fine line between competing with and supporting its OS channel partners.
"Balancing the co-opetition with its vendor partners and embracing a 'challenger' rather than an 'incumbent' mentality is essential," said Pin Chen Tang, a research analyst at Canalys. It also faces a problem by having three operating systems: Windows 8, Windows Phone, and Windows RT.
"Having three different operating systems to address the smart device landscape is confusing to both developers and consumers alike," he said.
 
Smartphone prices to drop 13% in 2013 - IDC
By Everdeen Mason, Dow Jones Newswires
Tuesday 26 November 2013
Analyst firm puts average smartphone selling price at $337 this year, down by $50 on 2012.
International Data Corp. said it expects average smartphone costs to decline nearly 13% this year, driving market growth.

IDC affirmed that smartphone shipments are on track to grow 40% to more than one billion amid growing demand in emerging markets as lower-priced phones expand the market.

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Global triple-play revenues to hit $144bn by 2018

By Nick Wood, Total Telecom
Tuesday 26 November 2013

Research firm predicts number of subscribers to more than double over next five years.

Global triple-play subscription revenues will grow to $144 billion by 2018, up from $64 billion in 2012, predicted Digital TV Research on Tuesday.
That total will represent 70% of overall pay-TV subscription revenues, which will grow to $205 billion by 2018, the research firm said.
"Triple-play revenues overtook standalone TV revenues in 2009," said Simon Murray, principal analyst at Digital TV Research, in a statement. "Standalone TV revenues will start falling from 2013 as subscribers defect to bundles."
The number of triple-play subscribers is also set to grow significantly over the coming years.
By 2018, Digital TV Research expects subscriptions to reach 333 million worldwide, up from 123 million in 2013 (see chart). Descrição: http://www.totaltele.com/Res/image/_TTo%20news%20images/Charts%202013/Digital%20TV%20forecasts.pngChina alone will account for more than a third of triple-play subscriptions, with 115 million, up from 9 million at end-2012.
"About 21% of the world's TV households will subscribe to triple-play services by 2018. This is up from just 7% penetration at end-2012 and only 2% at end-2008," said Digital TV Research.

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Global LTE connections to hit 1bn in three years

By Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom
Tuesday 26 November 2013

Developed market operators could see ARPU rise by as much as 40% thanks to LTE, while in developing markets average revenues could be 20 times higher, GSMA claims.

The number of LTE connections in the world will pass the 1 billion mark by 2017, by which date there will be 465 commercial LTE networks in service, according to new research published on Tuesday.
At the end of this year there will be 176 million LTE connections, GSMA Intelligence predicts, noting that at present around 20% of the world's population is covered by an LTE network. As operators build out their networks, coverage will grow to 50% of people by 2017, the GSMA's research arm claims.
Various factors are driving LTE growth, including spectrum allocations, availability of affordable devices and innovative tariff plans designed to encourage adoption, said GSMA chief strategy officer Hyunmi Yang.
"Mobile operators in both developed and developing markets are seeing LTE services contributing to a significant increase in ARPU," Yang added.
Indeed, according to the GSMA's calculations, in developed markets LTE can generate a 10%-40% increase in average revenues per user, while developing market operators can expect to see LTE ARPUs seven to 20 times greater than those generated by non-LTE users.
The U.S. is home to 46% of global LTE connections today, with more than 90% of its population already having LTE network coverage.
However, the balance of power is shifting. At present just 10% of people in Asia have LTE network coverage, but by 2017 the continent will claim 47% of global LTE connections, driven by rollouts in large markets like China and India. Today, South Korea is the world's most advanced LTE market, with half of all mobile connections already on LTE, compared with 20% in Japan and the U.S., for example.
In Europe, meanwhile, 47% of the population has LTE coverage.
"In 'digital pioneer' markets such as the United States, South Korea and Japan, the migration to LTE networks is well advanced and operators are seeing increases in subscriber engagement and ARPU as a result," said Yang. "We are now seeing other markets make the move to LTE in greater numbers and the double-digit annual growth in global LTE connections forecast between 2013 [and] 2017 will see many more consumers around the world engage with high-speed mobile networks."
Claro extrapola meta de queixas da Anatel
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Descrição: Claro extrapola meta de queixas da Anatelempresa de telefonia Claro, ajuizada pela América Móvil, foi a única a exceder o limite de reivindicações de consumidores instituído pela Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel) no período compreendido entre os meses de maio a julho, conforme a derradeira pesquisa da agência anunciada na última semana.
A Claro apresentou 31 queixas a cada 1.000 clientes em seu núcleo de atendimento em julho, último mês avaliado, superando o alcance constituído de 10 exigências a cada mil clientes, avisou o superintendente de Controle de Operações da Anatel, Roberto Pinto Martins.
A companhia ainda foi a única a ficar adiante da estimativa da Anatel em maio e junho, com 28 queixas escritas em cada um deste período.
De acordo com Martins, a empresa vem superando as metas desde o ano passado, mais especificamente, a partir de agosto. O superintendente ressaltou que a Claro certamente sofrerá sanções pela reincidência.
Na idêntica base de checagem, a Vivo esteve no limiar permitido com 10 protestos por mil usuários em julho. A Oi anotou nove reivindicações por mil clientes e a TIM apresentou seis com mesmo discernimento.
Avaliando as queixas que chegam à central de atendimento da Anatel, a companhia mais criticada foi a Oi, com 0,83 lamentações cada mil usuários em julho, 0,67 em junho e 0,68 em maio.
As corporações que extrapolam estimativas de protestos dos consumidores podem ser penalizadas em até 50 milhões de reais, conforme princípio da Anatel, avisou Martins. Ele sobrepôs que a Anatel habitua esperar até o final do ano, assim como cria um mapeamento da execução dos apontadores, para apenas posteriormente justapor as penalizações.
A pesquisa da agência fiscalizadora agrega o plano de progressos da telefonia móvel efetivadoem 2012

LTE to Cover Half the Globe by 2017 – GSMA

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LTE will cover half of the world, reaching one billion connections, by 2017, according to new research from the GSMA, but the balance of 4G power is shifting.
The GSM Association (GSMA) 's research arm, GSMA Intelligence, put out its latest 4G projections Tuesday, predicting that LTE will account for one in eight, or 1 billion out of 8 billion, global mobile connections in the next three years. That's up from the 176 million LTE connections reached to date.
The GSMA says nearly 500 LTE networks will be in service across 128 countries in 2017, roughly doubling the number that are live today. The biggest difference will be where the networks are. Today, about 20% of the global population is within an LTE network coverage range, but that number climbs to 90% in the US alone compared to 47% in Europe and 10% in Asia.
The US currently makes up 46% of global LTE connections, but by 2017, the GSMA expects Asia to account for 47% of the global connections as more networks are rolled out in markets such as China and India. Right now, South Korea is the world leader with half of its connections on LTE, compared to 20% in Japan and the US.
In other 4G tidbits, the GSMA also found that LTE users consume an average of 1.5GB of data per month, almost twice the amount consumed by non-LTE users. And, in developing countries, LTE users can generate ARPU that's seven to 20 times greater than non-LTE users. In developed markets, ARPU is around 10% to 40% higher.

LTE networks have been deployed in 12 different frequency bands to date, but four out of five live LTE networks are in one of four bands: 700MHz, 800MHz, 1800MHz, or 2600MHz. (See LTE Inches Closer to Roaming the Globe and LTE RF: Complicated by Design.)

China to probe monopolistic telco pricing

From Dow Jones Newswires
Tuesday 26 November 2013

Telecoms one of six industries under investigation.

China's National Development and Reform Commission will investigate monopolistic pricing practices in six industries, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing an inspector from the commission.

The six industries are aviation, consumer chemical products, vehicles, telecom, pharmaceuticals and home electric appliances, said Lu Yanchun, a deputy inspector at the NDRC's Price

 

HOT TOPICS 25/11/2013


  • ·         Acesso à banda larga cresce 43% em 12 meses
  • ·         Software defined spectrum, anyone?
  • ·         Telefónica vai às compras no México
  • ·         Anatel aprova participação de 19,9% do BNDESPar na Datora, que vai abrir seu capital.
  • ·         Em um ano, teles implantam mais 7 mil ERBs
  • ·         A receita de serviços de TIC no Brasil cresceu 7,2% nos primeiros meses do ano, quando comparada a igual período do ano anterior (IBGE).
  • ·         Focus on voice: new Telco 2.0 strategy report, alarming ETNO forecasts, Sprint gives it away, innovating with the cloud PBX, more disruption





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Acessos WCDMA e LTE registraram crescimento de 54% em relação ao mesmo período do ano passado

O número de acessos à internet chegou a 122,4 milhões em outubro deste ano, crescimento de 43% em relação a outubro de 2012. Segundo levantamento da Associação Brasileira de Telecomunicações (Telebrasil), que representa as operadoras, 37 milhões de novos acessos foram ativados nos últimos doze meses e em 2013 o ritmo de ativação está sendo de 1,4 nova conexão por segundo.
 
Os acessos pelas redes WCDMA (3G) e LTE (4G), que permitem acesso à internet quando contratado tal serviço, tiveram crescimento de 54% em relação ao mesmo período do ano passado, com 100,8 milhões de conexões. Considerando o total de acessos móveis divulgados pela Anatel (269,92 milhões), os acessos 3G e 4G representam 37,34% do total.

Dos 100,8 milhões de conexões móveis em 3G e 4G, 85,6 milhões são conexões de celular, incluindo smartphones. O montante equivale a 39,56% do total de conexões celulares no país. Os terminais de dados, modens de acesso a internet e chips de conexão máquina-máquina (M2M), somam 15,2 milhões.

Nos últimos doze meses, as redes de banda larga móvel (3G e/ou 4G) foram instaladas em mais 336 municípios, crescimento de 13%. Assim, as redes de terceira geração já estão disponíveis em 3.463 municípios, de um total de 5.564 do país. Segundo a Telebrasil, a atual cobertura compreende a área de residência de 90% da população brasileira. "Esse total de municípios supera em mais de três vezes as obrigações de cobertura previstas no edital, que são de conectar 928 municípios até abril de 2013. Só neste ano, 178 municípios receberam as redes de 3G", informou a associação.

A tecnologia LTE (4G) conta com cerca de 731 mil acessos e está implantada em 74 cidades, que concentram 30% da população. Esse número de municípios é 12 vezes maior que a exigência definida pelo edital de licitação da frequência de 2,5 Ghz, de cobrir as seis cidades sede da Copa das Confederações, atendidas em abril.

Conexões fixas
Na banda larga fixa, os acessos somaram 21,6 milhões em outubro, equivalente a cerca de 35,5% das residências do país, e 39% dos domicílios urbanos. Desse total, 1,7 milhão de conexões foram ativadas nos últimos doze meses, com crescimento de 11% no período.
 
Baixa renda, internet e consumo de dispositivos móveis
De acordo com o Telebrasil, a expansão da banda larga tem sido verificada em todas as classes sociais. A afirmação utiliza como base a pesquisa “Mapa de consumo da favela brasileira”, divulgada pelo instituto Data Favela, com moradores de 63 comunidades, em 11 Estados, mostrou que 50% dos domicílios dessas localidades têm acesso à internet.

A pesquisa revelou ainda que 85% dos moradores têm telefone celular e, deste total, 22% são smartphones. O uso da internet também é elevado. Entre os jovens, por exemplo, 78% dos entrevistados acessam diariamente, percentual semelhante ao de bairros tradicionais das cidades. O levantamento mostra ainda que 10% dos moradores de favela pretendem comprar um tablet nos próximos 12 meses. (Da redação)


Software defined spectrum, anyone?
November 25, 2013 Written by Mike Hibberd
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Descrição: W.Webb_Over the years, mobile network operators have been steadily redefining themselves and attempting to move up the value chain. This has led to the basic network operations being seen as more of a “hygiene factor” than a differentiator resulting in varying degrees of network sharing with competitors and outsourcing of network maintenance to vendors. More recently, operators have started to look towards outsourcing the core network management through software defined networks and cloud-hosted platforms. But despite all of this, the lowest level building block – the radio spectrum has remained core to the operators and something they continue to pay billions of dollars to buy and lobby for.
Why is this? Why have operators not looked to “outsource” spectrum or to sell it to third parties in the same way that many sell off their mast sites and then lease back access? In some cases there are regulatory constraints on the more innovative approaches but in practice these can typically be overcome if there were a will. Instead, there is a mindset issue here – operators feel that without guaranteed access to their own licensed spectrum they cannot have sufficient security to invest in network deployment nor will they be able to offer any kind of quality of service. After all, mobile networks have always had licensed spectrum so surely that’s the way it needs to be….
If we look more widely than wireless, this demand for dedicated resource looks odd. UPS do not have dedicated access to roads but they manage to offer QoS on parcel delivery. Amazon does not have guaranteed access to broadband transmission capability but trades quite successfully. And what MNO does actually offer QoS anyway? Of course, MNOs do need reliable access to spectrum but if this could be guaranteed then there is no need for them to own it, or to have exclusive use of it resulting in the potential for significant cost savings.
Approaches to more flexible “shared” spectrum access are now moving close to reality. Generically these go under the name “dynamic spectrum access” (DSA) or “white space access” with variants such as “licensed shared access” (LSA) which limits the number of sharers in a band being of particular interest. LSA might allow MNOs to access spectrum owned by others such as the military on a shared basis. It might also enable them to outsource much of their spectrum ownership to the equivalent of a Crown Castle in the spectrum world and lease back the capacity they need. It might also help avoid all the problems and costs of spectrum auctions as rightly pointed out in recent viewpoints published here. A signal from the majority of MNOs that they were interested in this concept could see it advance rapidly.
But can the MNOs change the habits, literally, of a lifetime?
William Webb is an independent consultant. His latest book “Dynamic white space spectrum access” can be downloaded for free from www.webbsearch.co.uk

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Uma das hipóteses seria a fusão com a Iusacell, do grupo Televisa

Em reunião com analistas, a operadora espanhola, Telefónica, afirmou ontem que tem interesse em fazer novas aquisições no México. "Estamos com a mente aberta para as consolidações no México", afirmou o COO Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete em conferência em Barcelona. Ele disse que a consolidação poderá vir de três formas: acordo de roaming; compartilhamento de rede e aquisições.

A espanhola possui hoje a segunda maior operadora de celular do México, mas ainda muito atrás da América Móvil, controlada pelo mexicano e homem mais rico do mundo, Carlos Slim. Enquanto a América Móvil, com sua operadora Telcel, tem 72,5 milhões de clientes, a espanhola, com a Movistar, conta com 19 milhões de conexões.

Alguns analistas tem afirmado que a Telefónica, controladora da Vivo no Brasil, estaria conversando com a Iusacell, do grupo Televisa, que domina o mercado de TV aberta daquele país. A operadora já teria contratado a consultoria dos bancos Santander e Bilbao Vizcaya para as futuras aquisições. ( Da redação, com agências internacionais).


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Foram estabelecidos vários condicionamentos, pois o banco é sócio da Oi e da Sercomtel

O conselho diretor da Anatel concedeu, nesta quinta-feira (21), a anuência prévia para a entrada do BNDESPar no controle societário da operadora de MNVO brasileira, a Datora, com 19,9%, investimento correspondente a R$ 39 milhões. Além da mudança acionária, a empresa pretende também abrir seu capital, e precisava da autorização da Anatel para fazer a sua IPO. A aprovação se deu com alguns condicionantes principalme porque a agência entendeu que a participação do banco na empresa será de pouca duração, já que, assim que for feita a compra das ações, o banco deverá sair do seu controle.

A aprovação do ingresso do BNDESPar no capital da operadora tem vários condicionamentos, conforme proposta do conselheiro Jarbas Valente, e confirmadas pelo conselheiro Rodrigo Zerbone, que pediu vista da matéria. Isto porque, o banco participa como controlador direto e indireto também na Telemar Participações, Oi, Brasil Telecom e Sercomtel (através da Copel). E, na Datora, embora com menos de 20% das ações, o BNDESPar teria direito de indicar um representante no conselho de administração. Esta indicação, pelas regras de telecomunicações, implica controle, e, consequentemente, coligação entre esses grupos, o que é proibido pela atual legislação.

Zerbone salientou, em seu voto, que a participação do BNDESPar é transitória e visa apenas garantir o aporte de recursos para ampliação e consolidação dos serviços ofertados pela empresa. Visa igualmente criar cenário favorável para o lançamento de Oferta Pública Inicial de ações (IPO) em bolsa de valores, num prazo previsto de 24 meses após a assinatura do acordo, podendo o BNDESPar se retirar do quadro societário da empresa a partir do terceiro ano de vigência do acordo. “Tal peculiaridade permite que seja aprovada a operação, mesmo com as restrições regulatórias e desde que sejam aplicados os condicionamentos propostos”, disse. O conselheiro recomendou que esses condicionamentos sejam de caráter mandatório.

Entre os condicionamentos aprovados,  estão que o o banco não participe de decisões da operadora e que seja submetida previamente à Anatel de qualquer alteração nos termos ou condições societárias constantes do Acordo de Acionistas celebrado entre a operadora e o banco.(Da redação)

Em um ano, teles implantam mais 7 mil ERBs
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O número de estações radiobase (ERBs) instaladas no País passou de 55.448 em julho de 2012 para 62.139 mil em novembro de 2013, de acordo com relatório de acompanhamento dos investimentos pós-cautelar que suspendeu novas habilitações na telefonia móvel em julho do ano passado.
Vale destacar que esse número se refere ao número de sites, já que muitas vezes, uma mesma antena é usada para prestar serviços 2G, 3G e até 4G. O número de antenas 2G e 3G das quatro maiores empresas passa de 90 mil. Apesar do crescimento, as empresas não cumpriram integralmente as metas de expansão de infraestrutura que elas mesmas se colocaram nos planos de investimentos entregues à Anatel no ano passado.
A Claro, por exemplo, prometeu ampliar em 3% o número de ERBs 2G, mas conseguiu realizar apenas 69% desse investimento. O mesmo vale para as antenas 3G: a ideia era crescer 33%, mas apenas 19% desse investimento foi realizado. A única empresa que conclui inteiramente o investimento previsto foi a Oi para as antenas 3G. A empresa tinha prometido ampliar em 5% o número dessas antenas. Depois vem a Vivo, que prometeu ampliar em 10% e realizou 88% do investimento previsto para tanto.
Fonte: Helton Posseti - Teletime
  Eduardo Tude

Celular em outubro

Como comentado neste blog, o celular apresentou adições líquidas de 1,7 milhões em outubro, graças ao crescimento do pré-pago, onde a Vivo voltou a apresentar adições líquidas positivas (165 mil).

A Vivo liderou em adições líquidas (761 mil), seguida pela Claro (483 mil), TIM (291 mil0 e Oi (88 mil).


Balanço do trimestre: América Móvil liderou em adições líquidas

A Banda Larga Fixa apresentou o maior crescimento em acessos (3,1%) na comparação do 3T13 com o trimestre anterior, seguida pela TV por Assinatura (2,6%), o Celular (1,0%) e a telefonia fixa que manteve estável sua quantidade de acessos.

O Grupo América Móvil foi o destaque do trimestre tendo liderado em adições líquidas nestes quatro serviços:
  • Banda Larga Fixa: A Embratel/Net liderou em adições líquidas (244 mil) e se consolidou na liderança em market share deste segmento (29,6%), superando a Oi (28,5%), que apresentou adições líquidas de 48 mil no trimestre. A GVT foi a segunda colocada em adições líquidas (193 mil).
  • TV por assinatura: A Embratel/Net liderou em adições líquidas de TV por Assinatura (239 mil), seguida pela SKY (87 mil) e GVT (56 mil).
  • Celular: A Claro liderou com adições líquidas de 960 mil celulares, seguida pela TIM (697 mil), Vivo (415 mil) e Oi (305 mil).
  • Telefones fixos: A Embratel/Net liderou em adições líquidas de Telefones fixos (134 mil) seguida pela Vivo (61 mil). A Oi apresentou adições líquidas negativas (-245 mil) mas continua líder em market share (40,5%).

Outros destaques

receita de serviços de TIC no Brasil cresceu 7,2% nos primeiros meses do ano, quando comparada a igual período do ano anterior (IBGE).

A Anatel aprovou a entrada do BNDESPar no controle societário da Datora, que possui um MVNO em parceria com a Vodafone com 19 mil celulares em Out/13. 

Voice Strategy Report out now: Telco 2.0 News Review

Focus on voice: new Telco 2.0 strategy report, alarming ETNO forecasts, Sprint gives it away, innovating with the cloud PBX, more disruption

Our new Telco 2.0 Strategy Report, The Future Value of Voice & Messaging, is out now. The news is not good. According to our detailed forecasts for 9 markets, we expect a total decline in voice revenues between -25% and -46% on a $375bn base between 2012 and 2018, giving telcos an $80bn opportunity to fight for. We discuss in depth the changes in user behaviour driven by the economic crisis, the technologies of future voice, the opportunities they create, and the design considerations of new voice applications.
It’s not just us.
ETNO reckons Europe-wide telecoms revenues will fall 3.7% this year. They also note that CAPEX in Europe is actually falling, no surprise given the falling revenues. Being an industry lobbying group, the immediate Pavlovian response is to monster the regulator, complaining about roaming and termination changes and consolidation. A major take-home message from the report, though, is that the impact of regulatory changes is on the level of the curve rather than its slope. It’s still a major problem, even granted a huge let-off from the regulators.
Sprint, for their part, is giving away service to anyone who can prove they’re a student. You have to pay the full list price for your phone, but with that you get free voice and messaging and a gigabyte of data. Presumably the idea is that they will be able to retain the students, but it looks desperate.
Too much despondency would be a mistake. Sweden was a pioneer market for both FTTH and LTE, and their regulator reports that revenues are actually rising, driven by surging data volumes in mobile and growth of 16% year-on-year in FTTH, enough to outweigh line losses in the copper and cable industry. So perhaps that CAPEX might still be worthwhile.
The real problem is how to change the business model of voice to support the technology economically. Here’s a great presentation from this year’s Astricon about just that. Note that he’s approaching it from the point of view of a cloud/hosted PBX provider, not a telco - but the problems are the same ones. The question for telcos is whether they can develop the same sort of agility.
Last week, Tropo deployed with Starhub. The week before, Etisalat. This week, it’s Questar, a company that runs huge consumer surveys for the retail sector. They were using an IVR platform they built in-house for this, but now they’ve replaced it with Tropo. Whether they use the cloud API or a private deployment it doesn’t say.
Elsewhere, BlackBerry Messenger is still the No.1 iPhone app in 27 countries, three weeks after launch. The strength is coming from Asia, Latin America, South Africa, and the Middle East.
Yahoo!, meanwhile, is struggling to persuade its employees to move off MS Outlook to their new webmail app. Only 25% of their users have migrated, resulting in a really embarrassing cutesy all-hands memo. Really. You’ve got to see this one.
The new FCC chairman sees the PSTN transition as a priority, and NPR interviews Harold Feld and some subscribersabout the problem. How will universal service be maintained? Is acting as the carrier of last resort just a burden, or could there be an opportunity in there? Here’s an interesting piece on the background to Verizon’s now infamous Voice Link product.

Telefonica acquisition hunt in Mexico, held up by legislative queue; no more “cramming” with US SMS

Telefonica says it’s looking for an acquisition in Mexico, after it hit a debt reduction goal early and cheered up its banks.
There’s a complication, though - although Mexico has at last legislated to challenge Carlos Slim’s monopoly, the secondary legislation implementing the new regulator in detail is held up in parliament and probably won’t make a deadline of the 9th of December. Ahead of it is a controversial oil-related bill that is dependent on an electoral reform measure passing first to ensure it gets the votes.
Elsewhere, all the US national wireless operators except Verizon Wireless have settled with an alliance of 45 state regulators to stop charging their subscribers to receive unsolicited SMS. This will make premium SMS business models much harder, although you might ask who bothers any more in these days of app stores. The answer is “spammers, and some charities”. Two of the operators have exempted charitable donations from the measure.
Centurylink has quietly been building up its wholesale and cloud operations. Then it bought one of the old-school Tier 1 ISPs, Savvis, hopping right into the premier league. Now they’ve acquired Tier 3, a VMWare-based cloud provider best known for supporting .NET apps.
Things may not be going so well at Sprint, but it’s not holding the Softbank Samurai back - he’s just added a Finnish games developer, Supercell, to the empire for $1.5bn. He believes games are the key category of mobile content - which may well be right, and has the advantage that a developer shop that can do good games can tackle other kinds of content as well.
Now the rows between Altimo and TeliaSonera are being wound up, this beef between Etisalat and Pakistan Telecom is one of the longest-running left in the industry. This week, Etisalat said it wouldn’t pay PTCL $800m it owes them under a deal originally signed in 2005 until 10 further properties are handed over from the Pakistani government to PTCL. In the meantime, the Pakistani market has opened up to competition and Telenor’s Mobilink division has eaten PTCL’s lunch - its net profit is down 58% compared to what it was in 2005.
Operating in the country has some special challenges. The government frequently orders the networks turned off at major events to hinder terrorist activity, which cost the operators $16m for just one incident this year, the Shia festival of Ashura, when young men dance wildly in the streets covered in their own blood streaming from self-inflicted wounds. Just imagine the selfies, and the frustration if you can’t get them on instagram because the 3G net is down.
MTN Rwanda is deploying Ericsson’s mobile wallet solution.
In the UK, infrastructure JV MBNL is having major management changes - the boss, Graham Payne, is leaving, as is FD Brian More O’Ferrall. They’re replaced by Pat Coxen and Gervase King, seconded from EE and 3UK respectively.
And Lu Xiangdong, head of China Mobile’s marketing and digital services, is going to jail for accepting $2.5m in bribes between 2003 and 2011.

China Mobile 4G deployments; Indian, Aussie, and Singapore NBNs; Google Fibre, Kampala

China Mobile is going all-in on TD-LTE, planning to roll out in 15 Chinese provinces covering 63% of the population. Although they’re going with the Chinese flavour of the technology, they’re also trusting Ericsson to implement it. Ericsson got 10% of the China Mobile 4G master contract, but they’re claiming that the new order gives them rather more market share than that - probably because it includes work on the 2G and 3G networks as well. They’re providing base stations for the 4G network, plus EPC and HSS/HLR technology for a converged core serving all three RANs.
Alcatel-Lucent also declared victory, claiming it had secured 24% of the whole EPC order - but do they mean for the LTE, or the converged network, or what?
Apparently, Nokia really did consider buying the IP router and cellular bits of Alcatel-Lucent but decided against it.
An unconfirmed story suggests that Indian state infrastructure companies PowerGrid (guess) and Railtel (again, guess, but the railways’ telecoms division) are going to be providing the right of way for BSNL to deploy a major fibre network.
Singapore’s national broadband network is probably the most structurally separated in the world - separate actors own the right of way, the dark fibre, provide Layer 2 services, and provide Layer 3 services. SingTel this week got regulatory clearance to reduce this and acquire OpenNet, the company responsible for the build-out.
NBN Co, meanwhile, is pressing on with fibre-to-the-building, issuing a call for expressions of interest from retail ISPs for a group of buildings that will go live in February.
Google is building a wholesale dark fibre network in Kampala, Uganda.
SpiderCloud claims it has the first multimode small cell, supporting 3G, 4G, and WiFi on the same chip. It won’t be the last, as it’s based on a Broadcom chipset and others will be along shortly.

About 22 per cent of new capacity this year will be provided by Wi-Fi, although that will be much higher in hyperdense settings.