EUROPEAN TELCO MAJOR FIGURES SHOW KEYS TO GROWTH
August 1st, 2011
BY LEE ADENDORFF
THE growth of data revenues and emerging markets contrasted with lacklustre domestic business, particularly in southern Europe, have dominated latest financial figures from the EU's 'big five' telcos - Telecom Italia, Telefónica, France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone.
Trends reinforced analysts' views that operators have, in many cases, reached the domestic limits of the consumer mobile market for voice and are nearing a critical crossroads in data-vs-voice strategies.
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