Despite the continuing growth of international voice traffic that market is now a zero-sum game according to Stephan Beckert, vice president, strategy at TeleGeography. According to Beckert, wholesale traffic into the top ten destinations in terms of wholesale revenue in 2009 grew by 6 billion minutes, but that growth was accompanied by a US$600-million drop in revenue.
The international bandwidth market continues to grow in excess of 50 percent per year, but the available capacity on the global subsea cable infrastructure is more than keeping pace with the emergence of new transport technologies, says Tim Stronge, vice president, research at TeleGeography.
The advent of Ka band satellite's 100Gb+capabilities represents an opportunity for the sector to break the shackles of its perception as technology-of-last resort and dramatically increase its market universe, according to sectoral CEOs speaking at an industry panel at PTC'11.
The advent of high-throughput satellites - Ka or Ku-band spacecraft using multiple spot beams to massively increase capacity and cut cost per bit - is set to shake up not only the satellite arena but also terrestrial broadband market, says Mike Kenneally of NewSat.
Vodafone Fiji is confident it can enable a significant new revenue stream with its M-PAiSA money transfer service. CFO Divik Deo told a PTC'11 Pacific Islands telco session yesterday that the seven month old service has the capability of evolving beyond basic money remittance into a range of bill payment, casual wage payment, expense claim reimbursement, social welfare and micro health transactions.
Neutral Tandem is aiming to evolve the current Ethernet exchange market place by adding regional and global connectivity into its offerings.
Australia's NBN Co has announced A$1.6 billion (US$1.6 billion) worth of contracts over five years to three companies for the supply of fibre and associated passive network equipment. The deals will see all three companies - Corning, Prysmian and Warren & Brown Technologies - boost their Australian presence and manufacturing capability.
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