Fiber Broadband Subscribers to Total 106 Million Worldwide in 2014 Tweet

The number of fixed broadband subscribers will rise to 501 million at the end of 2014, according to new market data released by ABI Research. Of those, about 106 million will subscribe to services delivered via fiber. Fiber broadband subscribers totaled 44 million at the end of 2009.

The number of fixed broadband subscribers totaled more than 422 million at the end of 2009, a 9% increase from 2008. ABI Research industry analyst Serene Fong notes that, “Broadband penetration continues to increase since more service providers are offering triple-play services and driving down access prices.”

Among the three broadband technologies, 65% of worldwide fixed broadband consumers subscribe to DSL, 25% to cable and 11% to fiber broadband services. The number of fiber broadband subscribers is increasing fastest, showing a compound annual growth rate of 20% from 2008 to 2014.

“File sharing, music downloads, IPTV, online gaming and video conferencing are all acting to increase the user demand for high speed Internet. The number of fiber broadband subscribers is increasing with growing popularity of these services,” comments research associate Khin Sandi Lynn.

The Asia-Pacific region has the highest fiber broadband penetration, followed by North America. Asia-Pacific represents nearly 84% of worldwide fiber broadband subscribers. South Korea and Japan have the highest fiber broadband penetration. NTT is the largest fiber broadband operator with approximately 12 million subscribers.

In 2009, Western Europe had only about two million fiber broadband subscribers — a very low penetration compared to North America and Asia Pacific, although Western European countries are planning to accelerate fiber broadband penetration.

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Taiwan market: CHT to offer 3D content at MOD in 3Q10 Tweet

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) plans to start offering 3D TV programs through its MOD service in the third quarter of 2010, and also aims to increase subscribers to the service to one million by the end of the year, compared to 700,000 currently.

CHT said on February 4 that EYE TV, a local operator of TV program channels, will launch Chinese-language 3D drama content for the MOD service.

CHT's MOD service offers five HD channels with 700,000-750,000 subscribers for a monthly ARPU (average revenues per user) of NT$115 (US$3.6) currently, CHT indicated. CHT said it aims to boost its MOD revenues to NT$1.3 billion in 2010.

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Samsung demonstrated the E61 - a new e-reader with a QWERTY Tweet

Company Samsung Electronics, apparently preparing to release a third e-book, besides its already known E6 and E101. The new model is called E61, she, along with two other e-reader Samsung, shown at the exhibition Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in the Netherlands, 2 - 4 February. Apparently, Samsung E61 goes on sale early this year, but nothing is known about how much it will cost.

This eBook is equipped with 6-inch display with a resolution of 600x800 pixels, performed on the technology of electronic paper. Unlike Samsung E6, screen at E61 do not touch, and to enter text using a QWERTY-keyboard. The model can support such text formats, as ePub, PDF, and TXT. To store the content for Samsung E61 provides 2 GB of internal memory, you can also use a memory card format microSD. You can download electronic books from the relevant services wirelessly Wi-Fi. Among other features of the device can be noted a removable battery.

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Huawei to Showcase Mobile Telecommunications of the Future at Mobile World Congress 2010 Tweet

Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, will showcase its latest mobile technologies at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona between February, 15th and 18th, 2010.

Guo Ping, Chairman of Huawei' s devices division will participate in the "Broadening the Ecosystem through Mobile Broadband" panel discussion on February 16 between 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

Visitors to Huawei' s booth (8A159, Hall 8) will experience a better connected and more profitable mobile broadband industry, through demonstrations of Huawei' s latest innovations:

World' s fasted LTE-advanced and HSPA+ solutions: Huawei will demonstrate the world' s first LTE-advanced technology, with downlink speeds of up to 600Mb/s, which enables the future development of LTE for operators and provides an unparalleled mobile broadband experiences to end-users. Huawei will also present the world' s fastest HSPA+ solution, with downlink speeds of up to 84Mb/s.

Android™ smart devices portfolio: Huawei will exhibit a series of Android ™-powered terminal devices offering for operator resale market, such as smart phones and home-use internet devices.

ONE Core, Huawei' s integrated core network solution: At Huawei' s booth, visitors will experience fixed-mobile converged services and remarkable TCO saving by Huawei One Core. It provides the opportunities for operators to evolve into a convergent and open network in a cost-effective way.

New SingleMetro features: Huawei will present two new features for its SingleMetro platform that help operators in the deployment and management of fixed-mobile converged metro networks, CX600-X1 and CX600-X2, the world's most compact IP service platform at 300mm deep and U2520, a software enabling SingleMetro' s capabilities in network operations and maintenance, through visualized management.

For more information on Huawei's participation at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2010, please visit http://www.huawei.com/mobileworldcongress2010

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Built-in graphics from Intel will be twice as fast Tweet

According to the resource Fudzilla, Intel has informed some of its most important partners that the next generation processor platforms built-in graphics adapter will be much faster. Allegedly, from Intel reported a twofold increase in performance for the generation of Sandy Bridge, in comparison with the existing architecture.

In modern platforms from Intel (Arrandale and Clarkdale) used graphics adapter Intel HD, combining the 32-nm processor with 45-nm graphics core. This is sufficient to obtain a satisfactory number of FPS in the game Call of Duty with a resolution 1024h756 pixels. At the same time in the platforms of Sandy Bridge will be used by a single print processor and graphics engine. Also, it is likely that the 32-nm graphics core of this platform will be the first in the world. However, it is worth recalling that the growth performance graphics solutions from Intel is usually not as great as that reported. In addition, ATI and Nvidia have already indicated that they plan to move to 28-nm graphics adapter.

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Sony Ericsson Aspen - first looks Tweet

Sony Ericsson Aspen - first look

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Taiwan market: CHT to triple Wi-Fi access points in 2010 to meet increasing wireless traffic Tweet

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) plans to expand the number of its Wi-Fi access points to 5,000 by the end of 2010 compared to 1,300 units currently, according to company president Shiao-tung Chang.

The expansion aims to ease the heavy traffic burden placed on the carrier's 3.5G and HSPA networks due to CHT's growing mobile service business, Chang said.

CHT aims to sell 100,000 netbooks and 400,000 smartphones in 2010, which in turn will complicate the traffic congestion problem on its mobile broadband networks, according to industry watchers.

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