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Archive for May 11th, 2012

OCO-2 bus and payload come together

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AMC-16 suffers new solar array circuit failure

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SES announced that the solar arrays aboard its…Read more

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SES S.A. results Q1 2012

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SES S.A. reported financial results for the three…Read more

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Globalstar, Inc. results Q1 2012

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Globalstar, Inc. announced its financial results…Read more

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5.8 Million 3G Subscribers in Singapore

May 11th, 2012 by me

Singapore, May 11, 2012–Singapore has continued to grow both its mobile subscriber base (152% penetration by December 2011) as well as its value-added data services. The launch of 3G services has been particularly insightful. There was an obvious period of uncertainty surrounding the introduction of 3G. After launch in 2005 the take up rate was initially slow. Subsequently, however, there has been a strong upsurge in demand. No doubt this has been helped by the wider availability of more affordable, high feature handsets. By early 2012, there were more than 5.8 million 3G subscribers in a country where the total mobile market was around 7.8 million. In other words 3G subscribers represented a compelling 74% of the total subscriber base as 3G rapidly became the normal' mobile service in the country, according to a new Research and Markets report.

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Network Managed Services Will Grow from $14 Billion in 2012 to $25 Billion in 2017

May 11th, 2012 by me

Singapore, May 11, 2012–Five years ago, network operators were still hesitant to outsource operations and entrust their business to someone else, so the amount that they spent on network managed services totaled just US$5 billion in 2007. Today, almost every network operator depends on managed services for at least part of their operations and network managed services totaled US$12 billion in 2011, according to a new report by ABI Research.

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