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Geneva Is, or is it Asia?
So here are:
- First, a few statistics that were presented:
- The world has 4.6B mobile subscribers or 63% of world population – not that amazing? Essentially, developing countries are in Sweden was 10 years ago.
- 25% of the world's population is connected to the Internet
- China surpassed the U.S. not only to Subscribers mobile, but also subscribers of broadband Internet!
- Now, to the Telecom exhibition itself: Reminiscent of 2001
The previous time I've been at Telecom Geneva in 2001 (the program is only every 4 years), and I can not resist temptation to compare. Without doubt, economic change had its effect. I remember in 2001 the exposure was greater and more full of visitors and exhibitors (I guess maybe 3 times).
There are several explanations for this: First and most, the telecommunications market has been declining for some time (we all know what happened with the M & A and the Nortel's fall and others). Secondly, we are at the bottom of one of the worst economic crisis in years, 3rd right: there seems to be less of a need people to go to shows and exhibitions with the wealth of information on the Internet, video conferencing and such. Because it is also expensive and time consuming, many prefer to stay in the office.
With my nostalgic memories of a veteran of Telecom found this a little sad.
On the other hand there are great advantages, as it was less stressful and may actually have a decent chat with exhibitors and colleagues of age. - The eastward shift:
Another striking observation is the shift from Western-domination of the world's emerging stars from Asia. The biggest booths and were the biggest show business countries of Asia and Huawei had the largest and most impressive stand, so that NTT DoCoMo and ZTE, China Unicom and China Mobile, the stand of Russia, with its magnificent performances Music, India, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Of course we still saw the great "Old" players such as Samsung, Fujitsu, Cisco, Microsoft, and countries who were there with many start-ups include: Spain and Belgium. However, it was quite amazing to see huge booths and impressive in countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Nigeria. And I'm talking about Big booths.It was interesting enough to see who did not show up (at least I did not see them): Ericsson, HP, Nokia, Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent, AT & T, Verizon, Telefonica. In the past, each would have the biggest booth, but this year in Geneva decided to pass.
Sometimes I felt like I was in Telecom Telecom Asia instead of Geneva.
But not only at ground level. Everyone is talking about emerging markets as key growth areas for manufacturers and service providers, especially in many Western countries and about zero GDP growth. - Technology:
In general, I must say that he saw no new land destroying technologies, but if a step back to get a bigger perspective, you realize the last 8 years have changed the telecommunications market of ICT. Many of the "cliches" of 2001 have become real and available and have bridged the gulf! In these I include: fiber to the home (FTTx) technologies, IPTV, wireless broadband, Centrix and hosting services, ICT services for enterprises, digital home networking and more.The battle between WiMAX and LTE appears to have stabilized in 2 positions to complement each: In the territories dominant GSM (like Europe) WiMAX is not able to overcome the preference of LTE as the preferred solution for 4G mobile broadband (although still not ready yet); In addition, WiMAX can be very suitable for specific applications of fixed-band Wireless broadband (as opposed to mobility), such as video surveillance on campus or municipal broadband networks or ad-hoc broadband projects. In countries Emerging WiMAX is more successful and is considered a cheaper and faster solution to get a nationwide wireless network up and running.
- The hot Demo:
One of the applications that really impressed me was the demonstration of NTT DoCoMo of their new social networks and location-based services. They had an iPhone as a phone with an integrated camera of the quality of their social networks, a GPS navigation map and location services based on the database. What was apparently trivial demos and intuitive, but not so easy from the point of view of technology. You point the camera in any direction, while walking down the street and you see on the screen flat on the top of the live view of the street, small icons representing all that may be of interest to you. Some are the names of friends or colleagues so you can send a message with a single click, while others are the name of restaurant left with the menu and prices so that you can opt out or in a clothing store that has 50% off sale, but the municipality building down the street with their opening hours. And one of his colleagues still working in the office on the 20th floor, also can let you know it's time to go home. Some of these features not new, but the integration of all this transparently on top of real vision of the street in front of you, only available for fighter pilots their helmets so far. It's no surprise that the Japanese mobile phone operator, with 50M subscribers is always a pioneer in the mobile space. - The view of Israel:
Finally, as an Israeli, of course, was interested in seeing Israeli companies that are showing. Among them: Amdocs and Comverse (which had a large booth for meetings only), Alvarion and Coppergate who had a small stand of their own. The other companies were in the Israel Pavilion: Telco Systems, TTI, MTI Wireless, Runcorn, IXI Mobile, IPGallery and Fibrolan and OptiWay. The Coppergate Alvarion and invested more at stations (at the time those in the pavilion) and seemed to be ever more traction with visitors. Overall, I have seen better days for the Hitech Israeli industry, where the flag of Israel was receiving the most attention.
Coppergate is a great technology and presents its supply lines chipset to provide home network triple play broadband over power lines. Alvarion has announced a new victory in Safaricom Kenya, for $ 12M-nation WiMAX network wide.
So maybe things are improving after all.
The writer is a former senior executive of HiTech converted an entrepreneur and serves as the CEO of HitechStrategies.
For more information please contact:
Boaz Gruener
www.HitechStrategies.com
Email: boaz@HitechStrategies.com
About the Author
Boaz Gruener, MBA, brings over 20 years of hitech and business experience to Hitech Stragegies. He held several global senior executive positions at Optibase (Nasdaq:OBAS), CTI2 and Nice Systems (Nasdaq:NICE). Within these positions, Boaz was responsible for, and lead, the functions of business development, strategic alliances and channel partners, solution sales, marketing, product management, analysts and public relations.
Boaz Gruener is a registered business coach and mentor under the Ministry of Industry & Commerce program and has mentored many CEOs and startups. He also served as a co-founder and advisory board member in several Internet and technology start-ups. Boaz lectures at the Lahav Executive Program at the Recanati business school of Tel Aviv University and has for the past 12 years served as project faculty of the Global Consulting Program of Wharton Business School in Pennsylvania. Boaz holds a B.Sc. in Computer Sciences from Louisiana State University, USA, and an MBA from Tel Aviv University, Israel.
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