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  issue highlights December 15, 2008 | A Penton Media, Inc. Publication  
Changing buying trends in global wholesale markets

 Vendors: Next year, do less

 Get the message: Mobile messaging five times bigger than Hollywood

 Alcatel-Lucent's big overhaul not so big

editor's perspective
Will IPTV thrive in a recession?
By Carol Wilson

Convention wisdom, at least in the U.S., says that when economic times get bad, people stay home more, and television becomes more important to them as an entertainment option.

There have been strong indications this is true. Restaurants are reporting more empty tables — except at McDonalds, which last week reported increasing sales. Certainly consumers have been spending less on Christmas as more people are laid off or worry they might be.

But can we assume that more consumers are going to stay home and spend more to get a better TV product? I don't think so.

Read more of "Will IPTV thrive in a recession?" online.

E-mail me at cwilson3@telephonyonline.com.


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Changing buying trends in global wholesale markets
Telephony Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson talks with Keao Caindec, chief marketing officer of Reliance Globalcom about the changing buying trends in the global wholesale and enterprise markets during tough economic times.
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telephony blogs

Vendors: Next year, do less
Alcatel-Lucent is set to unveil a new strategy at the end of next week. And some analysts are already saying the company should try to narrow its focus — to do less in 2009.
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Get the message: Mobile messaging five times bigger than Hollywood
The messaging industry continues its steady growth, reaching $130 billion in 2008 and predicted to reach $224 billion by 2013, representing almost 60 percent of carrier non-voice revenues, according to research released today by Portio Research.
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top international news

Alcatel-Lucent's big overhaul not so big
Alcatel-Lucent's new chief executive officer Ben Verwaayen today delivered a much-anticipated description of the equipment vendor's corporate overhaul —
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Evolved HSPA gains ground
A growing number of 3G operators are looking to milk as much capacity out of the current 3G standard before 4G's anticipated rise next decade.
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Sony Ericsson embraces Android
Google's Android mobile operating system gained 14 new converts today, most notably handset-maker Sony Ericsson, adding further momentum to Open Handset Alliance's efforts to reshape mobile computing.
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commentary

The beginning of the pullback

By Teresa Mastrangelo, broadbandtrends.com
Telecom had its own triple play this week with announcements from Nokia, Telecom Italia and AT&T all painting a dire picture for the coming year.
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more international news

Smartphones could hurt bottom line, analysts say
While smartphone adoption has helped the wireless industry weather the economic recession thus far, the high-end handsets might be a mixed blessing in 2009.
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Surviving the Recession: Tough choices in R&D
Telecom vendors are much leaner and meaner today than they were the last time we entered an economic downturn.
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Vanu designs multioperator base station
Vanu is applying its software-defined radio techniques to the problem of network sharing, announcing today a new cell-site architecture that allows multiple "virtual" base stations to co-exist in the same box.
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