The Year 2009 in Telco events
Another year passed and another crisis scared the industry. With ups and downs, with profit and losses, 2009 is still another year with notable first in telco industry, the most important ones being:
- Freezing LTE as Rel.8 and the world’s first commercial 4G/LTE network - TeliaSonera built with Huawei (more about this here)
- The rise of Jajah and the acquisition by O2 demonstrated that there is still market space after Skype
- First GPON network and in general GPON gaining momentum surpassing FTTH as interest at least
Besides these, the industry has grown as numbers of MNOs and MVNOs, in terms of usage of voice, SMS and most notably, data. This only demonstrate that even in times of global crisis, people needs to communicate and this is a basic need, not a premium one any more.
We have seen the most diverse use of mobile technology, such as controlling irrigation systems remotely by SMSes in India in order to avoid long trips on the field, have seen money transfer in some African countries via mobile networks, we have seen new technology like MMS, HSPA or mobile banking penetrate the emerging markets all over the world and in general people adopting more and more the mobile technology if they see a benefit in optimizing or simplifying their life.
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