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Strategy Analytics' latest RF & Wireless Component report called “Femtocells Enabled by PicoChip to Square Off Against VoFi,” notes that low-cost femtocells could emerge as an attractive alternative to voice over WiFi (VoFi) in future homes

Openreach, the access arm of BT, has announced that the UK had reached the one million unbundled local loop (ULL) subscriber target in November

Recent research into the mobile phone market has played down the impact new technologies such as WiMAX and UMTS TDD are likely to make

Although news of city-wide municipal fibre networks in the works in Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna surely generate industry buzz, some analysts say that in reality they may have merely marginal effects on Europe's broadband market in the near term

A rash of mergers and acquisitions are changing the shape of the GaAs and compound semiconductor sector which supplies devices to the RFand LED lighting markets

The world market for non-entertainment automotive electronics was estimated at $36.8bn in 2005 and is forecast to reach $52.1bn by 2010, according to the latest figures from Reed Electronics Research

More good news for the chip industry in September with a 9.3 per cent year-over year increase

Three of the world's top 15 semiconductor suppliers are forecast to register greater than 30 per cent growth in 2006: AMD, Hynix and Qimonda, according to market research firm IC Insights

Market research firm IC Insights now expects optoelectronics revenues to grow 13 per cent to a record-high $16.8bn in 2006.

The worldwide electronics industry will continue to grow at twice the rate of world gross domestic product (GDP) throughout this decade, according to Decision Etudes Conseil , the French analytical group in its report World Electronic Industries 2005-2010