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IPTV licences to KT Corp, Hanaro Telecom and LG Dacom.

15 million households signed up to cable television

KT had a 54% market share,

Daum Cloud, which provides 50 gigabytes of storage for free and makes it possible for users to view photos and videos from the storage on TV – a similar mechanism

Kim Jee-hyun, director of Daum’s strategy division, painted a picture of bright horizons.

Samsung’s Bada smartphone OS,

Korea has reached five million IPTV subscribers.

SK Telecom and LG Dacom

Korea is one of the fastest growing markets in the world in terms of the number of IPTV subscribers.

Historical data and 5-year forecasts of subscriptions

operator traffic

Networks and suppliers

SN, which is jointly owned by Finland’s Nokia and Germany’s Siemens, announced that it would strengthen its position in the US by buying most of Motorola’s network infrastructure unit for $1.2bn.Harbinger’s $7bn contract award to NSN underlines the h

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T-Mobile UK and 3 UK entered into an infrastructure consolidation agreement

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satellite and telecom companies’ combined video subscriber numbers fel

living without the set top box is clearly becoming more than a theory

rise of the digital video recorder, used in 1 per cent of US homes in 2006 and 37 per cent now

TÉ1 and RTÉ2, had a combined market share of 36.5% in 2008

TV3 (launched in 1998) had an 11.4% market share, close to that of RTÉ2,

61% of Irish households receive digital televisio

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n 2008, there were almost 162 million Smartphones sold, surpassing notebook sales for the first time. Just over 49% of Smartphones sold in 2008 were based on Symbian OS, a significant drop from a near 65% share it enjoyed one year earlier. While this is in large part due to the relatively poor performance of Nokias Smartphone range, it is also an indication of the popularity enjoyed by competing platforms including Linux, BlackBerry OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, OS X iPhone and new entrant Android.

Openness is a key criterion, says Informa, while all in the mobile telecoms space now see the revenue potential of applications and services.

broadband service take-up in CEE by a compound annual rate of 20 percent in the period from 2009 to 2014,

Fixed broadband subscription

Fixed broadband subscriptions

Mobile broadband subscriptions   Africa - 1 2 7 23 29* - 0.1 0.3 1.0 3.0 3.6* Arab States - 1 3 11 21 34* 0.1 0.2 0.8 3.3 6.2 9.7* Asia & Pacific 44 87 129 170 221 278* 1.2 2.3 3.4 4.5 5.7 7.1* CIS - - 2 5 54 72* - - 0.7 1.8 19.5 25.9* Europe 24 55 108 158 217 286* 3.9 9.0 17.8 25.9 35.3 46.3* The Americas 4 13 56 94 152 226* 0.4 1.4 6.2 10.3 16.4 24.2

Number of Mobile-Only Internet Users

788 million mobile-only Internet users

Ericsson share 40 pct vs 35 pct year ago

both companies benefited from their strong positions in the fast-growing North American market.