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Business leaders throughout the United States are beginning to notice the long-term ramifications associated with the latest announcement from telecom industry leader, NEC.

Mobile advertising has evolved beyond an experiment to become a legitimate marketing channel for mainstream advertisers. However, the mobile channels remains challenged in certain key areas such as certain industry vertical proof points and ROI.

Switch2VoIP offers VoIP for Call Center in India with a great variety of services and features. The company aims at providing their users with an all-inclusive communication experience that too at the most competitive price ever. Users will have unlimited access to Voice over Internet Protocol channels for one single account. This feature is helpful for users who need multiple channels for the purpose of conducting simultaneous business calls or make calls to more than one client or individual at a time. Companies can now get rid of those service providers who charge per channel thereby charging more on bills.

Simple Telecom, a leading provider of telephone numbers and related services, announced a pair of new offerings that can be used with phone numbers arranged for by the company. A new "click to call" system makes it even easier than previously for the company's customers to allow Web visitors to contact them by phone, while the company's new Postcode Prompter feature enables the automatic routing of calls made directed at 1300- or 1800-based numbers to appropriate local branches. Founded in 2006, Simple Telecom has become one of Australia's most innovative telephony specialists, while also delivering the greatest value possible for the wide range of services detailed at http://www.thenumberzguy.com.

Switzerland's relative economic wealth has driven investment by operators in infrastructure, with the incumbent Swisscom investing in fibre and launching LTE in 2012. The competition has also been investing in LTE, with all three mobile network operators offering commercial services since June 2013. High capital expenditure into new infrastructure and increasing competition for data services will be eroding the profit margins for all main operators in short-term, but we still expect the market to expand until the end of the forecast. Meanwhile, fixed-line telephony services will continue to be displaced by more modern IP alternatives.

The Philippines telecoms market is largely a two-horse race dominated by incumbent Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) - which owns 63.4% subscription share - and Globe Telecom - with 36.6% share of the mobile market in Q114. A new entrant - media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation -launched its MVNO service under the ABS-CBNmobile brand in December 2013 using the network infrastructure of Globe Telecom. Despite the new competition, BMI believes market dynamics is likely to remain in favour of PLDT and Globe Telecom given their strong brand and unassailable scale, which make it hard for new entrants to compete effectively.

The Turkish telecommunications market is a relative outperformer compared with its regional peer s, however there is downside arising from the interference of the government with bans on both Twitter and YouTube in early 2014 in response to political criticism. Despite this challenge the market remains in good health with strong growth in fixed and mobile broadband subscriptions, as well as pay-TV subscriptions in 2013. The mobile market is more volatile, with IP voice and messaging substitution beginning to take hold and putting pressure on revenues. The largest operators - Turk Telekom and Turkcell - are responding with an increased emphasis on fixed-mobile service bundles, with TV central to those offerings. This could put Vodafone at a disadvantage, as it has yet to develop its own pay-TV service for its fledgling fixed broadband business. Broadband video aside, the main catalysts for change in the Turkish market continue to be the arrival of MVNOs and roll out of mobile number portability.

The main competitive dynamic at play in Hungary is between operators encouraging subscribers to upgrade their handsets or move to higher capacity data services. Overall market saturation and price erosion in traditional services has shifted operator focus to upselling data services, which has begun to yield results. There is however additional pressure on traditional service revenues as a consequence of higher smartphone penetration as users substitute voice and messaging usage to IP alternatives. Meanwhile, in the wireline segment there is a n opportunity for service providers to migrat e users to higher speed services such as cable over DOCSIS3.0 and FTTx, thereby raising ARPU. The medium term outlook is therefore mixed, with operators that position their product to capture growth from customers upgrading services likely to outperform.

Chile is one of the most developed telecoms markets in Latin America, making it a high value market for operators, but market maturity does bring its own challenges. A high penetration rate in the mobile market means subscription growth opportunities are diminished, requiring operators to target subscription migration, wireless data services and value-added service.

Established in 2008, Interact has rapidly expanded to offer a comprehensive portfolio voice, video and data communication solutions to business customers. The company has demonstration facilities located at their City of London offices. Interact are experts in the installation of specialist video conferencing rooms and can arrange trials for most of the products that they sell.

PpBoX is a virtual receptionist - an automated application - that can answer calls on any home or office landline and intelligently determine the caller’s intention (unwelcomed sales call, genuine caller such as a customer or a colleague, etc.) and direct the call to the right person from a user-specific list.

Advances in mobile communications technology have made enormous changes in every aspect of life. The MWC 2014, themed on Connected City, illustrated the impact of these changes. Looking into the future, telecom operators around the world will continue to strengthen their presence in home, education, healthcare, and smart city by launching various application services. This report profiles major telecom operators' LTE applications in 2014 and for the future.

'Russia: Next-Generation Network Expansion and Focus on Data Subscribers to Drive Market Growth,' a new Country Intelligence Report by Pyramid Research, offers a precise, incisive profile of Russia's mobile and fixed telecommunications and pay-TV markets based on comprehensive proprietary data and insights from our research in the Russian market. Published annually, this presentation-quality, executive-level report provides detailed analysis of the near-term opportunities, competitive dynamics and evolution of demand by service type and technology/platform across the fixed telephony, broadband, mobile and pay-TV sectors, as well as a review of key regulatory trends.

Recent reports say that people do not want to change their phone numbers. Changing the number is too much of a fuss because then the individual has to inform all the people about his or her number. Privacy has become a huge cause of concern among individuals, especially those who have businesses and companies.

The cooperation between Microsoft and Nokia can be dated back to 2011. So far the cooperation has failed to give Microsoft's smartphone business the much needed shot in the arm, and the gap between Windows Phone and Android remains insurmountable. With Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announcing massive layoffs of Nokia-related staff, the four-year partnership is coming to an end, so are the Nokia X series and Nokia's feature phone business. This report profiles the element of motivation behind the layoffs and examines its impact on the smartphone industry.

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When small to medium sized businesses want to get the most of their employees, ProCom is announcing their services for installing VoIP systems to businesses in Garrett County, Maryland and most of the state of West Virginia this fall 2014 season. Their installation will result in better office efficiency and includes many features to take business operations to the next level. Voice over Internet Protocol is a system where the phone lines in the building are connected to the high-speed internet in Garrett County, all for one low monthly fee.

VoIP Communication Reviews is a newly launched website that now provides a guide and tips on the latest equipment and services. The site conveniently lists up to date articles on equipment such as a monaural USB headset for PCs, wireless headsets for phones, Bluetooth phone headsets, plus VoIP phones for Mac and industry news releases. Visitors can click on the headlines to read the full articles and see where they were posted; specific tags are also listed.

Focus for investment among MNOs shifts to supporting high-end mobile data services

Projects are underway in Yemen to improve telecommunications infrastructure

As of the first quarter of 2014, Chinese mobile phone users totaled around 1.25 billion and user adoption of 3G and 4G combined reached around 37%. Sales volume of smartphones in China arrived at 95.6 million units in the same quarter. Samsung and Apple both saw significant growth in market share. As for Chinese brands, Xiaomi was the best performer. This report examines the development of the Chinese smartphone market during the first and second quarter of 2014 from the perspectives of telecom operators and branded vendors.

VOIP, or Voice Over Internet Protocol, is a means for telecommunication that uses an internet connection to connect people around the world for a fraction of the cost of international phone calls through a traditional hard line. VOIP is increasingly essential for businesses who have clients and manufacturers overseas, and getting the right VOIP provider can make all the difference in making the right first impression with new and potential clients. VOIP Billboard is a site that has been getting a lot of attention lately for providing invaluable insight on such providers, and has now published a Nextiva review to help business users decide on their exciting packages.

4G has been rolling out around the country for quite some time. There are many benefits to this new service, and most of them relate to speed and download times. 3G might have been the best solution available in the past, but that has now changed. Experts claim that 4G can be up to five times faster, which obviously means a significant change for both business and personal users.

The Taiwanese telecom market is among the most mature in the region, with 126.8% mobile penetration in 2013 and 84.7% of the market is postpaid. Taiwanese mobile market looks to an exciting year ahead in 2014 as six operators have obtained their 4G licences and are expected to introduce 4G services by end-2014. However, operators face short-term ARPU squeeze from the regulators who have imposed compulsory cuts to mobile termination rates and requirements to provide free peering between 2013 to 2016. That said, the migration towards 4G market should open up new data-driven revenue sources for operators such as mobile payment, mobile commerce and cloud computing services.

OTT, M2M, Big Data and the Cloud drive the Global Telecoms Industry

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