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LE CERCLE. (par Olivier Coste) - En 2000, le monde occidental règne en maître sur l'industrie des équipements de télécoms. L'Europe a même pris de l'avance sur les Etats-Unis. Aujourd'hui, il ne reste que quatre des huit principaux industriels occidentaux de l'époque. En revanche, deux nouveaux acteurs chinois sont devenus des champions mondiaux.

Pétrole, automobile, banque et assurance ne sont que quelques-unes des industries forcées à la mutation, après les télécoms ou la poste. L'industrie pharmaceutique, construite sur une R&D alimentant la visite médicale en nouvelles molécules, illustre cette réinvention nécessaire de leur core business. Si certains regrettaient le conformisme du modèle, durant des décennies, la pharmacie a soigné de plus en plus de maladies, a connu une croissance soutenue et a dégagé des marges finançant l'innovation. Elle fait désormais face à trois ruptures majeures.

The U.S. telecom industry has been fast changing owing to numerous technological advancements. This research conducted by Axvoice looks at the U.S. telecom industry from years 2010 to 2015 and the different factors that are affecting it over this period of time. This research aims to provide a generic overview of the projections for the U.S. telecom industry by monitoring the current trends.

Investigating the financial fraud and misguided power plays that brought down the telecom industry Once the foundation of the Dow and NASDAQ, the telecom industry has eaten up more capital than any other industry in recent history and has nothing to show for it. Today, it is by far the worst culprit in the spate of financial dirty dealings that have been splashed across the business pages, and yet the rewards reaped by top executives at many of these failed or failing companies have been inversely proportionate to their decline. Broadbandits takes readers behind the scenes to get the story they won't get in the media. Investigative reporter Om Malik follows the money trail and deciphers the actions and motivations of a generation of new economy "barbarians" that brought down this once lucrative industry. This intriguing book offers an inside look into the telecom bubble, with tales and anecdotes about mavericks who turned simple light and glass fibers into veins of gold, financiers who got greedy and fleeced unsuspecting millions, clueless venture capitalists who thought they'd tapped into the mother lode, hapless entrepreneurs who believed that they were changing the world, and self-proclaimed pundits who were cheering it all on from the sidelines. Broadbandits is a compelling account of the downfall of telecom giants such as WorldCom and Global Crossing, and will show readers how many telecom upstarts and veterans alike became victims of what one chief executive aptly described as "high-yield heroin." Om Malik (New York, NY) is a Senior Writer for Red Herring who focuses on the telecommunications sector. Prior to joining Red Herring in July 2000, he was senior editor at Forbes.com. His work has also been published in newspapers and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, Business 2.0, Brandweek, and Crain's New York Business. For a very brief while, he was a venture capitalist.

ant dans le secteur privé que dans le secteur public, de nombreuses organisations recourent à l'impartition dans l'espoir, notamment, de réaliser des économies de coûts lors de la réalisation de grands projets dans le secteur des technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC). Malheureusement, les économies attendues ne sont pas toujours au rendez-vous. Comment peut-on corriger ce problème?

"Le secteur canadien des communications poursuit son expansion, selon l'édition 2012 du Rapport de surveillance des communications publiée mardi par le Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes (CRTC). Au dire de ce rapport, les Canadiens ont ainsi consommé davantage de contenu via divers canaux, et la la famille canadienne moyenne a dépensé plus de 180 $ par mois pour les services de communications en 2011."

"Since deregulation in the 1980s and the emergence of the commercial Internet in the 1990s, the telecommunications industry has faced disruptions and premature reports of its untimely demise. But the challenges have never been greater than now. The stock market has punished most large carriers while richly rewarding companies that compete with telcos. Since Google's IPO in 2004, its market capitalization has risen to about $150 billion, while the value of most operators in developed markets has fallen. The U.S. telecom industry has lost more than 100,000 jobs in the past five years and more than 400,000 in the last decade. The decline in wireless average revenue per user (ARPU), which began in the United States in 2006, has since spread to most major operators. Carriers are not standing still. They are rapidly reducing costs and trying to streamline operations1. These moves are necessary but not sufficient. The world is spinning too rapidly for restructuring as usual-no matter how deep-to keep working. Game-changing forces, such as cloud computing and "voice for free" services, are warping the industry. (See Exhibit 1.) Cloud computing, for example, exposes operators to competition from major IT players, while free voice services-led by Google, Skype, and others-threaten operators' main source of revenue."

Le Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes sollicite des avis afin de déterminer si les conditions actuelles du marché du sans-fil au Canada nécessitent ou non l'établissement d'un «code national de protection des consommateurs».

Selon un rapport produit par la firme britannique Ovum Consulting, l'industrie canadienne des télécommunications sans fil a contribué pour 43 milliards$ à l'économie canadienne en 2010. Diffusée hier par l'Association canadienne des télécommunications sans fil (ACTS), l'étude a déterminé que l'industrie des services de télécommunications sans fil a injecté 18 milliards$ directement au PIB canadien et fourni 15,66 milliards$ supplémentaires dans la chaîne d'approvisionnement.

Sur Internet, la plupart des gens sont intéressés par un contenu qui est écrit dans leur langue et qui s'applique à la communauté dans laquelle ils travaillent et vivent. Ces communautés peuvent se définir par un lieu, une culture, une langue, une religion, une ethnie ou tout autre centre d'intérêt ; un même individu pouvant appartenir à plusieurs communautés à la fois. De plus, ces communautés évoluant, leurs centres d'intérêts aussi.

"Consumers have a seemingly insatiable thirst for mobile data. New devices-powered by better, faster software-and an ever-expanding selection of apps continue to enhance the user experience. Telecommunications companies with spare network capacity have done their part to boost demand with device subsidies, faster networks, and all-you-can-eat pricing plans. But coming capacity constraints in many markets complicate prospects for continued profitable growth. Smart companies will get ahead of the curve by shifting their strategies from promoting data use to maximizing the economic value they can extract from the massive demand already on the horizon. Managing capacity and value, rather than cost, will be the deciding challenge of the future."

The Cisco ®  Global Cloud Index is an ongoing effort to forecast the growth of global data center and cloud-based  IP traffic. The forecast includes trends associated with data center virtualization and cloud computing. This  document presents the details of the study and the methodology behind it. Global data center traffic:  ● Annual global data center IP traffic will reach 4.8 zettabytes by the end of 2015. In 2015, global data center  IP traffic will reach 402 exabytes per month.  ● Global data center IP traffic will increase fourfold over the next 5 years. Overall, data center IP traffic will  grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33 percent from 2010 to 2015.  Data center virtualization and cloud computing transition:  ● The number of workloads per installed traditional server will increase from 1.4 in 2010 to 2.0 in 2015.  ● The number of workloads per installed cloud server will increase from 3.5 in 2010 to 7.8 in 2015.  ● By 2014, more than 50 percent of all workloads will be processed in the cloud.  Global cloud traffic:  ● Annual global cloud IP traffic will reach 1.6 zettabytes by the end of 2015. In 2015, global cloud IP traffic  will reach 133 exabytes per month.  ● Global cloud IP traffic will increase twelvefold over the next 5 years. Overall, cloud IP traffic will grow at  a CAGR of 66 percent from 2010 to 2015.  ● Global cloud IP traffic will account for more than one-third (34 percent) of total data center traffic by 2015. 

s government strives to keep up with the broadband age, the Senate's Commerce Committee held a hearing today covering the future of television, but midway through the hearing I realized that the Senate has it all wrong. The future of TV isn't to be found in deregulation - it's on the Internet. We just have to let it happen. And to do that, Congress needs to look at how broadband providers control access to content, through caps, specialized offerings and deals.

As has been the case since 2006, cable companies have the most subscribers, with 45.3 million broadband subs now, while the top telcos have 34.6 million subscribers. This dynamic isn't likely to shift anytime soon given the improvements that cable providers have made in terms of delivering faster speeds to customers as they upgrade to DOCSIS 3.0 networks. Meanwhile, telcos are stuck offering DSL or fiber-to-the-node products that top out at speeds that are far below cable's. The primary exception to this is Verizon's FiOS fiber-to-the-home product - on Wednesday Verizon  said it would offer a 300 Mbps tier.