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ADSL only suitable for BT, says research firm
News Only BT will be able to afford to roll out ADSL even after the local loop is unbundled, according to a study from research firm Ovum. Ovum's research compared the four main broadband technologies -- DSL, fixed wireless, cable and fibre -- and...
[September 27, 2000, 14:18]
Open source in education: Winning hearts and minds
Talkback After reading your piece "Open source in education: Winning hearts and minds" I'm left with a question: When was the last time Ovum analyst Gary Barnett used Linux or open source? Does Ovum have any alliances with proprietary software companies?
[March 7, 2006, 18:39]
UK 'leads G7' for broadband availability
News According to research from analyst Ovum, the UK became the most "extensive broadband market" in the G7 group in the last part of 2004, leaving Canada, Japan, the US, Germany, France and Italy behind. Brian Condon, chief executive of the Access to...
[February 21, 2005, 16:30]
DSL Max may save BT's broadband blushes
News According to analysts at Ovum, BT will begin trialling a wholesale version of ADSL broadband known as DSL Max in September. According to Richard Mahony, an analyst with Ovum, this could mean a theoretical upstream speed of 832kbps, compared to the...
[August 30, 2005, 18:05]
Unix decline extends SCO revenue drop
Talkback The ovum article also said: "We believe that the most likely outcome in SCO's case against IBM is failure and our advice to existing users of SCO's technology is to make plans to migrate away from it.
[June 2, 2005, 19:06]
VoIP 'has reached the mainstream'
News Speaking at the VoIP for Business conference in London on Wednesday, Peter Hall, research director at Ovum, said: "IP telephony has reached the mainstream. Ovum predicts IP PBXs will hit 50 percent penetration by 2007 and 60 percent by 2008.
[June 1, 2005, 16:15]
Businesses set to demand more of IT in 2009
News That's according to analyst house Ovum's 2009 predictions for the IT services sector which, among other things, suggests business will pursue outsourcing contracts to cut costs on the short term and want to find out exactly how cloud computing...
[December 16, 2008, 7:56]
Fresh calls for 3G over 2G spectrum
News On Monday the GSM Association (GSMA), which represents the operators, released a study it had commissioned from analysts at Ovum. Making 3G data services more cost-effective would, of course, help fend off rival technologies such as mobile WiMax...
[June 25, 2007, 14:16]
New boss has six months to make Novell work
News Everyone knew that Hovsepian was going to become CEO," says Ovum's Lachal. He doesn't have much time," says Laurent Lachal, senior analyst at Ovum. Ron Hovsepian, the new chief executive at Novell, will have to improve the company's sales in the...
[June 23, 2006, 16:55]
Orange gets into broadband
News Analyst firm Ovum gave the offer a cautious welcome, The broadband deal is good value, and customers also receive a VoIP service as a second line, although they are still required to pay the BT line rental," said Ovum's Carrie Pawsey.
[August 31, 2005, 12:25]
Analysts split over benefits of iPhone deal
News Jonathan Arber, analyst at Ovum, said: "The key benefit is that you have the Apple name next to your brand. Some mobile network operators may have issues with running Apple content when they have spent considerable time developing their own, said...
[July 6, 2007, 11:20]
Businesses biding time on Vista upgrades
News Adoption is likely to increase in the second half of the year, according to Ovum's Bradshaw. Vista is a much bigger change for businesses than XP, which was essentially a Windows 2000 update, said Ovum analyst David Bradshaw.
[May 18, 2007, 9:57]
UK regulator Oftel's role examined
News The next big Internet hope -- broadband -- is now under question with Ovum suggesting it will be too costly for other telcos and the industry and the European Commission urging Oftel to bring forward its July 2001 deadline for unbundling the local...
[September 27, 2000, 15:14]
BT may follow Freeserve with price hike
News Analyst firm Ovum describes UK ADSL prices as the most expensive in the world and two recent surveys put the UK at the bottom of the league table in term of homes connected via broadband services. Tim Johnson, analyst at research firm Ovum believes...
[May 17, 2001, 17:29]
Bad times here to stay for IT sector
News The report, published by Ovum Holway, will claim that the bad times are not yet over because there is no exciting new technology on the horizon to drive IT expenditure. Richard Holway, director at Ovum, told the Financial Times that spending on IT...
[June 4, 2001, 16:31]
VoIP Quality: Can you make the right call?
White Papers • A new webcast in association with Ovum and BT • The latest Ovum paper: Meeting the demands of business-critical applications with next-generation networks 73% of organisations that have either deployed VoIP or are planning to, said that...
[November 29, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft deal may give BT edge over broadband rivals
News Zeta Tsatsani, senior analyst at Ovum, told ZDNet UK that the alliance with Microsoft will widen the range of services that BT will make available to BT Broadband customers, for an additional fee. Angus Porter, the managing director of BT Retail's...
[November 8, 2002, 11:50]
Open source in education: Winning hearts and minds
News Barnett from Ovum lays the blame on the lack of availability of open source educational applications and the usability of open source software. For companies like Microsoft the school market is important because they're leading innocent young minds...
[March 7, 2006, 14:00]
WAP hit by consumer backlash
News But Michele Mackenzie, author of Ovum's "WAP Market Strategies", says network operators will now have to focus their energies on getting past consumer disillusionment over the mobile Internet. As a new report from Ovum puts it, the WAP market is...
[May 24, 2000, 12:03]
European mobiles dial up ringback tones
News This is a further phase in mobile phone personalisation and one that analyst house Ovum today said will be worth $721m (£401m) in Western Europe in 2008, up from around $16m this year. Ovum points out that in the Philippines, the launch of a...
[August 26, 2004, 10:35]
