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Is it in Geneva or in Asia?

So here it is:

1. First, some statistics that Present:

• The world now has 4.6 mobile subscribers, representing 63% of the world's population – is not it amazing? Basically, developing countries, where Sweden was for 10 years.
• 25% of the world's population is connected to the Internet
• China surpassed the U.S. not only to mobile subscribers, but also the number of subscribers to broadband Internet!

1. Now for the exhibition Telecom itself: Reminiscence 2001
   The last time I was at Telecom Geneva in 2001 (the program is only every four years), and I can not resist the temptation to compare. Without doubt, the economic transition has taken its toll. I remember from 2001, the exhibition was bigger and more crowded visitors and exhibitors (I would say that maybe 3 times).
   There are several explanations for this: First and foremost, the telecommunications market is in decline since some time ago (we all know what happened to the M & A and slowing Nortel and others). Second, are at the bottom of an economic crisis worst years, the third reason: it seems that there is less need for people to go to shows and exhibitions in the abundance information on the Internet, video conferencing and others. Because it is also expensive and time consuming, many prefer to stay in office.
   With my nostalgic memories Telecom veteran found it a little sad.
   Furthermore there was also great benefits because it is less stressful and may in fact have a decent conversation with exhibitors and former colleagues.
2. The TSE passage:
   Another striking observation is the change from Western domination of the world of the rising stars of Asia. The biggest and greatest show stands were from Asian companies and countries Huawei booth was the most numerous and important, so do NTT DoCoMo and ZTE, China Unicom and China Mobile, the stand of Russia with its magnificent musical, India, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Of course, you always saw the big "old" players such as Samsung, Fujitsu, Cisco, Microsoft, and countries that were there, with many start-ups were Spain and Belgium. But it was very surprising to see the huge and impressive stands of countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Nigeria. And I mean the Grande cockpit.

   It was very interesting to see that there are (at least I do not have to see): Ericsson, HP, Nokia, Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent AT & T, Verizon, Telefonica. In the past, each would have the biggest booth, but this year in Geneva, decided to pass.
   
   Sometimes felt a bit like Telecom Asia Telecom Geneva.
   But this is not just on the floor. Everyone is talking about emerging markets as key growth areas manufacturers and service providers, especially in many Western countries to see around zero GDP growth.

3. Technology:
   Overall, I must say that I have not seen the new earth shattering technology, but if a step back and get a broader perspective, you realize the last Eight years have changed the ICT market Telecom. A large number of buzzwords "of 2001 have become real and available and have bridged the gulf! These include: Fiber to the home (FTTx) technology, IPTV, wireless broadband, Centrix and hosted services, ICT services for enterprises, digital home networks and much more.

   The battle between WiMAX and LTE appears to have stabilized in two positions for each supplement: In the territories dominant GSM (like Europe) WiMAX is unable to overcome the preference for the preferred solution for LTE 4G mobile broadband (though not yet to do list), on the other hand, WiMAX may be appropriate for vertical applications specific broadband fixed wireless (in opposed to mobility), such as video surveillance, the campus or municipal broadband projects or ad hoc broadband. In emerging WiMAX is more successful and is considered a cheaper solution and fastest national wireless network up and running.

4. The Show news:
   An application that has really impressed me was the demonstration NTT Docomo of their social networks and new services location. They had an iPhone as a phone with a camera integrated quality social networks, a GPS navigation map and location-based services database. What demos were apparently trivial and intuitive, but not so easy from a technological standpoint. You point the camera in any direction while walking on the street and see on the screen flat on the top of the live view of the street of small icons that represent everything that may be of interest. Some are the names of your friends or colleagues so that you can send a message with a single click, others are the name of the restaurant on your left with the menu and prices to enable decide on a file or a fabric store has a sale 50% off, until the municipal building in the street with its opening hours. And one of his colleagues is always in the office on the 20th floor, you can also let you know it's time to go home. Some of these features are not new, but the integration of all this to perfection in the top of the current view of the street in front of you, was available only for fighter pilots on their helmets so far. No wonder that the Japanese mobile operator, with 50 million subscribers is still a pioneer in the mobile space.
5. The Israeli view:
   Finally, As an Israeli, I naturally was curious to see the Israeli companies that are on display. Among them: Amdocs and Comverse (which had a great support only for meetings), Alvarion and Coppergate who had a small stand. The remaining companies have been in the Israeli flag: Telco Systems TTI, MTI Runcom Wireless,, IXI Mobile, and IPGallery Fibrolan and OptiWay. The Coppergate Alvarion and invested more in their cabins (and those in the pavilion) and seems to become more traction with visitors. Overall, I have seen better days for the Israeli Hitech industry, where he became the flag of Israel most attention.
   Coppergate received excellent technology and the introduction of its chipset supply lines to offer triple play broadband home networking through lines supply. Alvarion has announced a new victory for Safaricom in Kenya, for a $ 12 million WiMAX network across the National.
   So maybe things are going well, then everything.

The writer is a former senior officer Hitech, become and act as CEO HitechStrategies.

For more information, contact:

Boaz Gruener
www.HitechStrategies.com
Email: boaz@HitechStrategies.com

About the Author

Boaz Gruener, MBA, brings over 20 years of hitech and business experience to Hitech Stragegies. He held several global senior executive positions at Optibase (Nasdaq:OBAS), CTI2 and Nice Systems (Nasdaq:NICE). Within these positions, Boaz was responsible for, and lead, the functions of business development, strategic alliances and channel partners, solution sales, marketing, product management, analysts and public relations.
Boaz Gruener is a registered business coach and mentor under the Ministry of Industry & Commerce program and has mentored many CEOs and startups. He also served as a co-founder and advisory board member in several Internet and technology start-ups. Boaz lectures at the Lahav Executive Program at the Recanati business school of Tel Aviv University and has for the past 12 years served as project faculty of the Global Consulting Program of Wharton Business School in Pennsylvania. Boaz holds a B.Sc. in Computer Sciences from Louisiana State University, USA, and an MBA from Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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