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Ovum has revised its outlook for the global optical equipment industry to account for changes in the global economy seen since the research and analysis firm’s last report in June.

­The latest report from telecoms industry analysts Ovum, reveals that, despite the economic gloom, emerging market growth and the development of mobile data services will continue to power the sector to ever greater heights.

Mid range phones may suffer during ChristmasHartley, Ovum analyst, says only some high end handsets will survive Mid range handsets may suffer in the run up to Christmas, according to Steven Hartley, senior analyst at Ovum.Hartley has predicted that a

Nokia Siemens Networks is the clear market leader in the WDM ((Wavelength Division Multiplexing) deployment of 40 Gigabit per second (40G), according to the new Ovum report “Global 40G/100G market update”*. With a market share of 35 percent, the company is a full 12 percentage points ahead of the nearest competitor. Nokia Siemens Networks pioneered 40G in both research and implementation. The ...

According to a new Ovum forecast, the market for GPS-enabled mobile devices will grow rapidly, from an estimated 163.9 million shipments in 2007 to almost 572 million in 2012. In the early years this growth has been driven by the CDMA players, namely Qualcomm, serving large CDMA markets,

Revenues from wireless services will see strong growth over the next year despite widespread economic gloom, projects research firm Ovum.

Ovum has previously expressed the need for handset OEMs to more deeply integrate web applications.

I read about Nokia and Madhouse a few days ago. Basically, Nokia’s venture arm has made the investment. Now, I was going to write about this myself -but Ovum’s Eden Zoller has done all the hard work for me. Read here great article here: Related posts:Mobile Advertising company Madhouse serves 2.3 billion mobile ad impressions Madhouse ...

Today I bumped into an interesting opinion piece called "Open Source in Mobile Phones: Challenges for Software Vendors" by Adam Leach, principal analyst at Ovum. Adam analyzes the current mobile environment, the emerging growth of open source and how ISVs need to evolve to meet new customer expectations. In particular: "ISVs need to be familiar with open source environments to be able to respond t...