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Canalysis reports an impressive growth of the worldwide smart phone market, the market grew an impressive 95% over the same quarter a year ago to 80.9 million shipped units. Although Nokia retains the leadership position with a 33% share of the market, Apple achieved a 17% share worldwide. According to Canalysis vendors will face rising price pressure in 2011 as the growth increasingly comes from the mid-range of the market.

While the smart phone market growth has so far mainly been driven by the high-end segment, the market is now reaching a tipping point where the mid-level makes up a growing proportion of that growth. Smart phones are becoming the standard!

In the past weeks two TEM acquisitions took place. Vodafone announced the acquisition of two telecom expense management companies: TnT Expense Management and Quickcomm. Later that week TMT Ventures announced the acquisition of Ezwim.  

The specifics of the Vodafone deal were not announced. Combined, Gartner estimates that the two acquired TEM companies generate under US$25M in revenue. Based on the estimated 2009 revenue of the acquired companies, their trended growth over the past 36 months as well as considering comparable TEM acquisitions; Gartner estimates that the two companies were likely acquired by Vodafone for less than US$40 million. TnT has appx 85, and Quickcomm 35 staff.

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Smartphones are very common in today’s enterprise; Strategy analytics claims that over 90% of organizations now have employees using smartphones within their organizations. Depending on the size of the organization, this can cover tens of thousands of individuals. Gartner even claims that by 2013 the mobile phone will overtake PCs as the most common web access device worldwide.

Increased productivity, improved efficiency and response times are some of the important benefits of wireless solutions. But to ensure cost control and security a formal mobility policy is crucial for any organization.

To ensure that policies will be effective, consider the following tips:

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Operators have spend millions in promoting smartphones and services in the past years and customers have finally started to adopt smartphones in big numbers.

Fantastic news for operators?

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Automate Invoice Management to Generate Immediate Hard Dollar Savings

Comprehensive telecom expense management (TEM) solutions have been shown to be highly effective in reducing telecom costs, generating strong ROI and paying for themselves in less than one year of operation. An automated invoice management system will generate hard dollar savings and productivity gains.

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This week Gartner published its annual TEM MarkeScope Research and identifies some interesting trends:

• TEM services continue to be popular among enterprises as they are eager to reduce telecom expenses.
• The market for global capabilities is maturing – ahead of Gartner predictions.
• Demand in Europe is growing ; although the market is a couple of years behind the US, Gartner expects that 2009 and 2010 will be breakout years, as companies based in Western Europe start to adopt TEM services in greater numbers.

The US is still dominating the TEM space; this is also reflected by the providers reviewed in the research as almost 75% of the profiled TEM players are based in the USA.

Link to research http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=1032315&ref=g_fromdoc

Telecom costs continue to increase and the number of corporate mobile phones increased in 2008 by 13%. These are some of the findings from the Ezwim Telecom Monitor 2008 (Ezwim hyperlink), a statistical analysis among Ezwim’s Telecom Management user base that offers an accurate picture of how the corporate mobile is being used by employees.

Key facts:

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Interesting piece of research reveals that consumers consider setting-up mobile applications and services is too complex. This holds them back from buying new (more advanced) phones and trying new services. This is bad news for operators and device manufacturers that are spending millions on bringing new devices and services to market…..

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Just before Christmas the news was released that Israeli TEM player MTS acquired the Telecom Expense Management Operations of US based AnchorPoint. This is yet another TEM acquisition/merger ……in 2008 Tangoe acquired Information Strategies Group (ISG) and HCL Technologies acquiring Control Point Solutions. 

Market consolidation in the TEM space is taking place and will accelerate. Why? Here are some reasons:

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AOTMP, the resource for telecom environment management, announced the final selections for the 2009 Industry Excellence Awards. The Awards were developed to recognize enterprises and industry suppliers committed to telecom and IT management best practices.

TEM players selected as finalists for Innovation of the Year include a.o. Ezwim, Visage Mobile and Asentinel. Stay tuned for the final winners that will be announced in February during the TEM 2009 conference in Orlando, Florida.