The changing trends of Communications landscape: Is R & D geared for it?

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The changing trends of Communications landscape: Is R & D geared for it?

By Syed Veqar-ul-Islam

Country Director- Pakistan & Afghanistan

Nokia Siemens networks

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Our market vision of 2015 – the World connected

Applications pre-dominantly

in Internet

Broadband Everywhere

5 Bn people connected

Multitude of business models

Applications predominantly

in Internet

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The challenge

Are you ready?Business convergence is happening now.

» Operators need to transform in order to thrive in this new landscape «

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User penetration (%)

2003 2005 2007 2009 20110

20

40

80

100

60

User penetration (%)

2003 2005 2007 2009 20110

20

40

80

100

60

The opportunity in New Growth Markets

• Overall high growth opportunity in emerging markets

• The cellular penetration supersedes the PC penetration by far, which drives our believe that mobile owners will drive the growth

• Internet in emerging markets will be fixed and mobile

Source: Nokia Siemens Networks 2007

Mature markets Emerging markets

PC penetration

Cellular user penetration

PC penetration

Cellular user penetration