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Next paradigm shift in telecom industry: F&S

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CIOL Bureau
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SINGAPORE: Shifting paradigms in the telecommunications industry dictate the need for fixed-mobile convergence, user migration and first-time user market for broadband, the emergence of wireless technologies such as 3G cellular services, WiBro, fixed-wireless services; and to some extent, fixed-mobile substitution.

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Manoj Menon, partner and South East Asia managing director at Frost &

Sullivan, said, "While the various economies in Asia Pacific are experiencing different cycles in the telecommunications industry, they share a common sanguine outlook for one particular sector - broadband.

"Even the most mature broadband markets are set to embrace good growth

potential in the coming year," he added.

F & S said in a statement that the sagging fixed-line revenues and price erosions continue to loom the telecommunications industry. Plagued by stiff competition and fast-maturing cellular markets, service providers are compelled to seek new growth opportunities to keep shrinking profits at bay.

Despite the increasingly challenging landscape, large pockets of growth still exist in the Asia Pacific telecommunications industry, the statement said.

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