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Telco Contracts announced in March 2004

Consulting: Internet, Wireless and Broadband Consulting/Project Management

More than a year after the widespread launch of MMS services, operators remain reluctant to divulge too much information about the MMS traffic they carry on their networks. Vodafone, for example, released details of Java downloads by its live! subscribers in July, but stayed silent on MMS traffic.

Mobile operators are almost exclusively selling MMS-capable devices with color screens, many with built-in cameras. By year-end, 23% of all mobile phones in Europe will be MMS-capable and more than 55 million are expected to have built-in cameras. These statistics show a strong and growing base of MMS-capable phones.

According to data released this week by research firm Gartner (gartner.com), worldwide server sales were up 27.1 percent in the first quarter of 2004, reaching 1.57 million units.

With the increase of more and and more Portal Services, Telcos and eGovernments are under pressure to respond with not only single sign on, but single registrations for services bundles.

Linux siphoned market share from UNIX in the relational database management system (RDBMS) market, a niche that grew 158 percent from $116 million in new license revenue in 2002 to nearly $300 million in 2003.

An Arthur D. Little/Exane report, Mobile Operators: Leaders Hit Back, has cast doubt on whether MMS will develop as an additional market to SMS. ADL/Exane cites the poor performance of Vodafone Japan's Sha-Mail service, an MMS equivalent, as one reason MMS is unlikely to generate messaging and revenue volumes for cellcos similar to those experienced with SMS.

NetComm provides Wireless Portal Integration and Consulting, Portal related Propositions within Industry segments such as Travel and e-government, and Product and Services relevent to Portals.

If you are embarking on a large or potentially high-risk project, you will be needing to establish feasibility of one or more solutions with cost projections. Using our Feasibility Study services we can help you assess options and develop a sound business case on which to proceed.

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On this informative course we will introduce the key concepts of Systems Architecture, explaining its importance and how you can use it as a strategic tool in developing a new or managing an existing portfolio of software solutions. You will have the opportunity to discuss the issues as they apply to your organisation.

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At NetComm, we organise our skills and resources using a modern architecture.

We are often asked by our customers to provide advice and references to educational material that can be used to accelerate knowledge transfer. This page contains references to books, articales, web site URIs that provide information in the field of business and systems architecture and modelling which we have given in the past.

Our mission is to assist organisations in their transformation to using real time Internet Technologies: this means we develop strategies and architectures for senior managers to enact change; we sell or build, deploy and integrate solutions that realise the goals of a Web Enabled Real-Time enterprise.

If your business is subject to ever increasing change, your IS strategy probably needs updating to reflect the changing environment. Leverage our experience in delivery IS Strategies and get your strategy back on the leading edge.