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To: Return to Sender who wrote (6878)	11/14/2002 4:45:29 AM
From: StanX Long	Respond to of 95640

Telecoms spending to exceed 1.2 trillion dollars in 2003 sg.news.yahoo.com Thursday November 14, 3:29 PM The global telecoms sector is poised to pull out of its economic slump with worldwide spending on services forecast to exceed 1.2 trillion US dollars next year, an industry report said. "The telecom market is ready to rebound and an important component for recovery is next generation technologies," said Mark Winther, an analyst with technology research house International Data Corp. (IDC), on Thursday. "Advancements in mobile and wireless solutions, IP telephony, and broadband will drive revenues to a whole new level," he said. The IDC report said the dismal atmosphere in the industry created by over capacity, saturation and slumping economies, was giving way to optimism spurred by expanded wireless services, increased data traffic and broadband penetration. "Worldwide spending on telecommunications services will exceed 1.2 trillion dollars in 2003," it said. By 2006, revenues from wireless telecom will rise to 542 billion dollars from 351 billion dollars this year. In 2006, voice stream services will generate revenues of 892 billion dollars and 308 billion dollars will come from data services, the report said.

To: Return to Sender who wrote (6878)	11/14/2002 4:49:21 AM
From: StanX Long	Respond to of 95640

This must create chip demand, Stan. Convergence of Mideast mobile phone, Internet users to soar by 2005 sg.news.yahoo.com The number of mobile phone users in the Middle East who access the Internet with their cellphones is set to soar to 75 percent by 2005 from the current 25 percent, one of the region's leading wireless information service providers said. Enhanced messaging systems, exponential growth in mobile phones and cutting edge technology that will power mobiles in the future "indicated that the lines between the PC and the mobile were being blurred at a rapid pace," said Bashar Dahabra, chief executive officer of Info2cell.com. The number of mobile phone users in the Middle East is growing at a rate of between 20 and 25 percent annually, Dahabra said, predicting that the mobile phone-owning population would gradually outpace television and PC owners. Estimates are that more than 3.5 million of the 275 million people in the Arab world are logging on to the Internet, led by computer-savvy Emiratis in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The Jordan-based Arab Advisors Group released a study in June of 10 Arab countries that found they had a total of more than 16.5 million subscribers for global system for mobile (GSM) services by end-2001. Morocco had the highest number of GSM cellular customers, followed by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Bahrain and Syria.