Telstra lowers its stance on revenues
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Due to difficult markets at home and in Hong Kong, Australian operator Telstra cut its sales outlook for 2010. The company attributed the flattish FY 2010 revenues to a difficult second half of its fiscal year
2009. Earlier, the company expected growth in the low single digits.
Strength of the Australian dollar, strong domestic competition driven by ULL growth, tough operating conditions in Hong Kong, very competitive mobile offers, and a growing number of mobile-only households were the major drivers behind the lower-than-expected growth.
Because of the similar reasons, the sales for the fiscal first half of 2010 will also be lower. For low single-digit growth in full-year EBITDA and EBIT, a stable EBITDA margin, capex at around 14 percent of sales and free cash flow of AUD 6 billion- Telstra’s guidance was unchanged.
$789 million to be spent on SDM by 2013
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Even though the capital expenditure (capex) budgets of telecom operators has sharply decreased due to the global economic situation, expenditure on the subscriber data management (SDM) solutions is expected to increase in the high double-digit percents annually for at least the next four years. This forecast has been given by Infonetics Research.
A prediction in the growth of SDM market to $789 million in 2013 has also been predicted by the research company. By allowing the operators to extract, normalize, analyze, and pass on valuable subscriber information to their marketing teams, SDM act as strategic tools that can help them better monetize their existing assets.
The SDM investment in Europe is drove by machine-to-machine (M2M) market and the trend is also expected in North America in coming years. Interest in 3G data offload is also acting as a catalyst in SDM investments as operators, while maintaining a consistent subscriber experience, effortlessly shift traffic onto their own or their partners’ Wi-Fi networks.
NTT DOCOMO selects NEC for Operations Support Systems
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: NEC Corporation (NEC) has been selected by NTT DOCOMO to provide Operations Support Systems (OSS) to the company. The system will be deployed by one of NEC’s United States-based subsidiaries, NetCracker Technology Corp.
DOCOMO is constructing IP networks to launch its commercial Long Term Evolution (LTE) services in 2010. Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) network that links core networks and base stations will be managed by OSS. WDM also controls communication equipment, including L2 switches in LTE networks.
Even the multi-vendor networks can benefit from WDM network path design capabilities as the system improves the quality and efficiency of network design, leading to the reduction of CAPEX and construction of optimized networks for LTE.
DOCOMO’s high evaluation of NetCracker’s OSS product portfolio resulted in NEC’s selection as a part of the project. Besides, NEC’s extensive know-how and delivery record for DOCOMO also encouraged the decision.
