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News Frost & Sullivan research analyst Fernando Elizalde said convergence, high-bandwidth applications and video content are driving up Europe's broadband speed requirements. Broadband was delivered via fibre optic networks to more than 2.5 million... [10 Jul 2007]
Eco-worries a green light for videoconferencing?
News Recent research from Frost & Sullivan found the market for high-end videoconferencing - so called telepresence - will reach $409.6m by 2013 as CIOs look to cut costs and carbon emissions alike. Videoconferencing is being touted as a technology to... [31 May 2007]
Data headache looms for mobile operators
News Service providers will have to update their traffic data systems in order to comply with the new obligations by the time various national governments implement the European provisions on data retention as law, according to analyst Frost & Sullivan. [08 Jan 2007]
RIP easyMobile: No frills no longer
News Frost and Sullivan analyst Pete Nuthall told silicon.com that easyMobile had struggled to make an impact in a crowded market and had underestimated the importance of handsets to UK consumers. EasyMobile, the no-frills MVNO, has shut up shop after... [14 Nov 2006]
RFID boom time ahead
News Those sectors in Europe alone generated revenues of $23.7m in 2005, with analyst house Frost & Sullivan claiming this figure will reach $109.3m by 2012. The success of RFID implementation is dependent on the degree of integration into business... [26 Sep 2006]
Contact Centres: "Learning to Leverage Existing Assets to Maximise Customer Satisfaction"
White Paper The EMEA contact centre market is enjoying renewed growth thanks to equipment upgrades in Western Europe and new sites in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and Africa. Historic economic conditions, however, have resulted in contact centres... [07 Sep 2006]
A Business Case for Document and Image Processing
White Paper Enormous annual growth in data leads to persistent difficulty meeting backup windows and recovery-time objectives, increases storage requirements, and greatly expands the time that IT administrators must spend managing systems. [04 Aug 2006]
The A to Z of biometrics
News While fingerprint is dominating the biometric market at the moment, other types including iris are coming to the fore, according to Sapna Capoor, biometrics analyst at Frost & Sullivan. Biometric identity systems, until a few years ago the stuff of... [20 Jul 2006]
Unified messaging and comms get boost from IP
News Research from Frost & Sullivan predicts take-up beyond early adopters. Despite a slow start, unified messaging (UM) and unified communications (UC) will grow strongly over the next few years, driven on by organisations moving to IP for their voice... [25 Apr 2006]
3G: It's not the business
News According to Manoj Menon, partner and managing director of Frost & Sullivan southeast Asia, it will be "some time" before companies start to embrace 3G services. Frost's Menon said companies must review and change their business processes before... [19 Apr 2006]
Orange and easyMobile court case to start in November
News Pete Nuthall, wireless industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan, said easyMobile had previously underestimated the importance of handsets in the UK mobile market. Orange and easyMobile will face each other in the courts this year to settle their spat... [02 Mar 2006]
MVNOs will turn to content - and turn mobile upside down
News MVNOs, which have previously staked out their territory as low-cost providers, will start to turn their attention to selling themselves by offering particular types of content, a new report from Frost & Sullivan predicts. [01 Mar 2006]
SIP: The way forward for VoIP?
News According to a new report by research company Frost and Sullivan, SIP is now "widely accepted" in the industry and is set to boom across Europe, as well as in Africa and the Middle East, as operators seek to deliver convergent communications. [22 Feb 2006]
Healthcare RFID to track blood
News Recent research from analyst house Frost and Sullivan found that the revenue from RFID within healthcare and pharmaceuticals will rise almost six-fold in the coming years, from 2004's total of $370m to $2.3bn in 2011 [20 Feb 2006]
'Mobile music to be bigger than TV'
News Analysts Frost and Sullivan estimate revenues in the ringtone market alone will reach €3bn by 2011, while the overall market will hit €7.85bn in five years' time. The mobile music market is set to be big - bigger than video or TV even, according to... [17 Jan 2006]
