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The US VoIP Regulatory Battle Heats Up
Recent rulings in South Carolina illustrate how antiquated telecom regulation has become. This In-Stant Analysis examines the current legal controversy surrounding Time Warner Cable’s (TMCs) desire to offer VoIP services in competition with rural incumbent telephone companies. The FCC has backed TMC’s right to PSTN interconnection. The South Carolina Supreme Court thinks otherwise.

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The Revolution WILL be Televised—Directly to Your Handheld!
This presentation is a re-enactment of the keynote speech given by In-Stat analyst Gerry Kaufhold at ARC International’s ConfigCon Silicon Valley 2007. It includes slides along with an audio recording of analyst commentary. The presentation explores how low-power, high-performance semiconductors are creating a revolution that brings high-quality video, audio, music and information directly into users’ hands and how the user experience of today’s portable market is quickly outpacing what traditional service providers can deliver. It also debunks the widespread notion that consumers have to wait for the broadcast TV networks and movie studios to get “on board” with electronic delivery before the market will really blossom. Forecasts for WiFi “hotspots”, WiMAX devices, and four categories of portable devices are included.

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T-Mobile’s VoIP Home Service: Goodbye to the PSTN
T-Mobile recently announced its new Talk Forever Home Service, an add-on to the HotSpot@Home fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) service that T-Mobile introduced in 2007. This free In-Stant Analysis answers questions such as: Is this just another discounted domestic calling plan? Why aren’t other providers with wireline and wireless networks offering something similar? How amenable are consumers to integrated fixed and mobile voice services? What is the ramification of this product announcement on T-Mobile’s competitors? What will they need to do to counter its effects? How will cable operators be specifically affected? Where would T-Mobile be without this offering?

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2008 China TMT Ecosystem
In-Stat China's analyst team has worked closely with TMT industry players in China to create a mapping that gives outside players an all encompassing snapshot of China's intricate TMT market and its major players.

Ten Big Predictions for China in 2008
With so many technologies taking root in China, it’s hard to predict what will be the next big thing. This list highlights our analysts’ top ten predictions for the coming year.

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Mobility Trends and the Impact on the Health Care CIO
This presentation by In-Stat's Bryan Van Dussen provides a peak over the horizon at mobility trends affecting health care IT managers and CIOs. The presentation takes a practical, yet provocative look at what trends are most likely to affect budget, technology, and management choices.

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Mobile Entertainment Evolves in the Real World
Mobile entertainment is becoming a broad-based development. This white paper utilizes recent In-Stat research to explore the opportunities, obstacles, and threats that this phenomenon poses to today’s mobile service operators.

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Utility Computing Garners Demand Up-Market
Utility computing, while not a completely new concept or technology is starting to garner measurable demand, especially among larger firms. This white paper highlights recent survey data that should provide valuable insight for those interested in current adoption trends in utility computing—especially providers engaged in, or considering offering a utility computing service.

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M&As; Reshape The Telecom Equipment Industry
In a recent Business Communications Review article, In-Stat's Keith Nissen explores the shift in mergers and acquisitions activity as Web-based applications continue to gain users and prominence.

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Increased Content to Drive the HD Wave in Asia
Asia/Pacific high-definition television set shipments have increased quickly in the last year. At the same time, the content and programming services associated with HDTV have captured the imagination of a small, but growing, audience of TV viewers who rave about the service’s extraordinarily clear and crisp picture quality. Beyond that, the prospect of all that goes with HDTV has also excited TV broadcasters and multichannel service providers with its potential to boost incremental monthly revenues. This free white paper explores the current and future market for HDTV in this region, and includes In-Stat’s revenue forecast through 2012.

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AMD's Holistic Vision for the Future: Torrenza Enables Platform Innovation
Changes in performance scaling and increasing market demands, particularly on servers, is driving the need for new solutions that are cost effective and flexible. Accomplishing this requires a holistic approach to system design that combines silicon, software, and tools into highly adaptable and scalable solutions. To accomplish this task, AMD has launched the Torrenza initiative to create an open environment for innovation using open standards and the foundational benefits of the x86 architecture.

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The Evolution of Online Entertainment: UGC & Broadcast TV Merge on the Internet
The world of online entertainment is exploding with new opportunities. This Webinar indicates that the battle is just beginning between the likes of Google and CBS, NBC, Fox and Disney, and, that over the long haul, the broadcast TV networks have strategic advantages that will give them the lead. In addition, it also includes findings on User Generated Content (UGC) and discusses how online entertainment is going to create bold new markets that compete with, complement, and confound all of the traditional big media players.

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Online Entertainment Evolves in the Real World
The world of online entertainment is experiencing explosive growth. This white paper includes excerpts from recent In-Stat research to explore this explosive evolution and answers questions such as how is UGC evolving? And, in what regions is it growing? What are the six vectors of growth facing professional video content companies? What do TV Networks need to do to support dozens of new usage models? And, will the same adjustments need to be made to portable, mobile and VOD service?

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Leveraging Hosted Applications Solutions to Enhance Customer Value
Developed with sponsorship from Alcatel-Lucent, this white paper defines the capabilities of hosted application solution providers, explores the value propositions for service providers, and describes the characteristics that service providers should look for in the solution providers that they partner with to deliver these applications.

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Broadband Household Segmentation: The Impact on Service Provider Consumer Applications Strategies
Consumer attitudes and behavior regarding communication services have dramatically changed over the past decade and understanding the lifestyles of broadband households, and how technology buying decisions are made, will be vital to future market success.This paper attempts to better understand the attitudes and behavior that will drive the adoption of next-generation applications and services. It contains results from a survey of over 1,000 North American households that currently subscribe to broadband Internet access service in addition to other In-Stat data.

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The Common Platform Technology: A New Model for Semiconductor Manufacturing
The cost of semiconductor manufacturing continues to climb and drive changes in the market. Not only have state-of-the-art 90nm and 65nm fabs now reached an average cost of nearly US $5 billion, the cost of developing the process technology continues to rise with each generation.