A Review of the Telecom, Mobile and Broadband Market in Italy and Malta, Includes for Example: Digital TV, VoIP, VoD and IPTV Progress.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c26714) has announced the addition of 2006 Europe - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Italy, Malta to their offering. This report covers Italy and Malta, representing influential and emerging telecom markets. Trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, Internet, broadband, digital TV and converging media including VoIP, VoD and IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. developments. Subjects include: Market and industry analyses, trends and developments Facts, figures and statistics Industry and regulatory issues Research, Marketing, Benchmarking Major Players, Revenues, Subscribers, Prepaid VoIP, IPTV, VoD, digital TV and DTTV See digital cable. Topics Covered 1. ITALY 1.1 Key statistics 1.2 Telecommunications market 1.2.1 Overview of Italy's telecom market 1.3 Regulatory environment 1.3.1 History 1.3.2 Regulatory authority Noun 1. regulatory authority - a governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest regulatory agency administrative body, administrative unit - a unit with administrative responsibilities 1.3.3 Telecom sector liberalisation n. 1. Same as liberalization. Noun 1. liberalisation - the act of making less strict liberalization, relaxation alleviation, easement, easing, relief - the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); "he asked the nurse in Sweden 1.4 Fixed network operators in Italy 1.4.1 Overview of operators 1.4.2 Telecom Italia Telecom Italia is formerly a partially state-owned Italian telco. It was once known as SIP, and it has the largest user base in Italy. Telecom Italia also owns shares in Telecom Argentina and Telecom Personal, fixed and cellular networks in Argentina. 1.4.3 Wind 1.4.4 BT Albacom 1.5 Telecommunications infrastructure 1.5.1 National telecom network 1.5.2 International 1.6 Broadband market 1.6.1 Overview 1.6.2 Cable modems 1.6.3 Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ) 1.6.4 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH) networks 1.6.5 Wireless broadband High-speed wireless transmission of data. What is "high" speed is always a changing number. Wireless systems are typically slower than land-based, wireline networks. In the past, wireless broadband started at 250 Kbps, whereas land-based broadband was generally considered to start at T1 1.7 Convergence - Triple Play & Digital TV 1.7.1 Overview of media convergence Media convergence is a theory in communications where mass mediums merges together to create a new product offering a variety of the properties of each. Such an example is that of the internet. 1.7.2 Key general trends 1.7.3 Triple play models 1.7.4 Regulatory issues 1.7.5 Digital TV 1.7.6 Digital terrestrial TV (DTT DTT Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (Deloitte & Touch Global Operations) DTT Dithiothreitol (cytology reagent) DTT Digital Terrestrial Television DTT Discrete Trial Training ) 1.7.7 Free-to-air TV 1.7.8 TV-over-DSL (IPTV) 1.7.9 Video-on-Demand (VoD) 1.7.10 VoIP 1.7.11 Cable TV 1.7.12 Satellite-based digital pay TV developments 1.8 Mobile communications 1.8.1 Overview of Italy's mobile market 1.8.2 Regulatory issues 1.8.3 Mobile technologies 1.8.4 Major mobile operators 1.8.5 Mobile voice services 1.8.6 Mobile data services 2. MALTA 2.1 Key statistics 2.2 Telecommunications market 2.2.1 Overview of Malta's telecom market 2.3 Regulatory environment 2.3.1 History 2.3.2 Regulatory authority 2.3.3 Telecom sector liberalisation in Malta 2.3.4 Privatisation of Telemalta 2.3.5 Interconnect 2.3.6 Access 2.3.7 Carrier preselection 2.3.8 Number portability See NP. 2.4 Fixed network operator in Malta 2.4.1 Maltacom 2.5 Telecommunications infrastructure 2.5.1 National telecom network 2.5.2 International infrastructure 2.6 Fixed voice market 2.6.1 Overview 2.6.2 Voice over Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (VoIP) 2.7 Broadband and Internet market 2.7.1 Overview 2.7.2 Cable modems 2.7.3 Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) 2.7.4 Wireless broadband 2.8 Convergence 2.8.1 Overview of media convergence 2.8.2 Cable TV 2.8.3 Digital terrestrial TV (DTTV) 2.9 Mobile communications 2.9.1 Overview of Malta's mobile market 2.9.2 Regulatory issues 2.9.3 Mobile technologies 2.9.4 Major mobile operators 2.9.5 Mobile voice services 2.9.6 Mobile data services 3. GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS List of Tables List of exhibits Summary Our latest Italy and Malta Annual Publication, profiles two contrasting and important telecom markets. Italy has Europe's fourth largest market for telecommunications services, with a sophisticated mobile, broadband and digital TV presence. Although the small cable footprint is an anomaly in Europe, out of step with developments elsewhere, the rapidly growing fibre network is enviable, and provides Italians with some of the fastest broadband accesses on the continent. As a result, triple play services are well advanced, and the provision of IPTV, Video-on-Demand (VoD) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in 2006 and 2007 has a strong foundation on which to develop. Malta has Europe's smallest telecom market. The country has been slow to liberalise Verb 1. liberalise - become more liberal; "The laws liberalized after Prohibition" liberalize change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last certain market sectors, but fundamental changes undertaken in 2005 bode well for the coming years. At the end of 2005, the final steps were made to sell the government's remaining share in Maltacom, providing the opportunity for the country's first fixed-line competition. The enormous popularity of VoIP, particularly for international traffic, has significant implications for future fixed-service revenue. The regulator also issued the first 3G licences in late 2005, propelling the country's mobile market into a new era. For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c26714 |
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