Tablet ownership set to quadruple
Tablet ownership in Western Europe is set to quadruple in the next five years as the percentage of online consumers to own a tablet increases from 14% in 2012 to 55% in 2017, according to a new Forrester forecast. The dramatic growth follows what was a pivotal year...Tablet buyers look for price-performance
As the consumer continues to battle with over-indebtedness, price-performance is becoming a bigger issue – and end-users are looking far more closely at specifications to ensure that they do not pay too much by “buying features they will not use”. This is...Wireless infrastructure spending to rise
Capital expenditures on wireless infrastructure equipment will continue to increase this year as mobile operators increasingly transition to 4G long term evolution (LTE), but more heterogeneous architectures such as small cells will also need to be deployed to ease...Virtualisation grows software-centric telcos
Software-defined network (SDN) and large-scale network virtualisation are two emerging telecom industry technologies that will combine to drive a more software-centric and programmable telecom infrastructure and services ecosystem. According to new research from...