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...receives a call - were downloaded worldwide, one-third of them in Japan. Delivered by the Internet or text message, they account for 80-95% of a "phone personalization" market that was worth $3.2 billion last year and will reach $6.5 billion in 2008, according to London market-research firm Ovum. That makes ring tones a bigger business than CD singles, which last year racked up $1.4 billion in sales. And the market is even bigger if "caller tones" - in which the caller, not the recipient, hears the tune - are included. Caller tones are already big in Korea, and Ovum predicts...
...DARIO BETTI, Ovum analyst...
...epididymis.” To live up to the title, three of the four avant-garde jugglers donned spermatozoan headgear and sang of the miracles of conception while the last ersatz sibling lolled about the stage in the filmy garb of a gigantic ovum...
Fiber networks, notes analyst Michael Philpott of London research firm Ovum, are "future proof," meaning it's hard to imagine anything coming along that's faster. Scaglia, a telecommunications engineer and ex-CEO of Italian mobile-phone operator Omnitel, co-founded e.Biscom with Italian financier Francesco Micheli in 1999. A public stock offering in March 2000 raised $1.5 billion. The company now has about 145,000 fiber customers who connect through e.Biscom's FastWeb service, plus an additional 100,000 who access FastWeb's souped-up DSL service. While 145,000 fiber customers might not sound like...
...Only state-controlled banks ponied up this time. The second thing that may make this rescue different is that MobilCom CEO Thorsten Grenz outlined a restructuring that could make it work, including slashing 3G and a third of the workforce. "The loan was put together in a panic," says Ovum chief analyst Julian Hewett, "but they've got businesses that can survive if they completely give up on the 3G idea." Of course if MobilCom does survive, the problem of overcapacity in Germany's - and Europe's - wireless sector will remain. Which means it's only a matter of time...