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NEWS & VIEWS
August 2016
Frost & Sullivan
celebrates Asia-Pac’s
best ICT firms
SINGAPORE – Frost & Sullivan
is continuing to recognise best
practices and outstanding performances by technology firms in
Asia-Pacific.
At the 2016 Frost & Sullivan ICT
Awards ceremony held in June this
year in Singapore, 37 awards were
presented to some of the leading
ICT firms operating in Asia-Pacific.
Andrew Milroy, senior vicepresident, digital transformation,
Asia-Pacific, Frost & Sullivan, said:
“We are excited to host the annual awards for the 13th time and
will continue to host them in the
years to come, as these awards
play an important role in recognising best practices by ICT firms
in Asia-Pacific. We hope that this
recognition will help ICT firms to
continue to push the boundaries
of excellence.”
The contenders for the Frost
& Sullivan Asia-Pacific ICT Awards
were evaluated on a variety of
actual market performance indicators, which include revenue
growth, market share and growth
in market share, leadership in
product innovation, breadth of
products and solutions, major cus-
tomer acquisitions, and business
and market strategy, among other
category-specific criteria.
One of the award-winners this
year is Hong Kong’s PCCW Media.
Its over-the-top (OTT) service, Viu,
received the Asia-Pacific Telco
Helen Sou,
senior vicepresident of
digital media,
PCCW Media,
receiving the
Asia-Pacific Telco
Digital Service
Provider of the
Year award for
Viu, PCCW’s
OTT service.
Pictured with
her is Manoj
Menon, partner
and Asia-Pacific
managing
director, Frost &
Sullivan.
The 2016 Frost & Sullivan ICT Awards recognised best practices and
outstanding performances by technology firms in Asia-Pacific.
Digital Service Provider of the
Year award.
Cris Duy Tran, consulting analyst, digital transformation, Frost
& Sullivan, explained: “Viu’s ability
to anticipate and meet market demand through service quality and
strategic execution has enabled it
to grow sustainably in the competitive industry.
“The successful engagement
to three important factors — flexibility, content and coverage — has
solidified the company’s position in
product leadership in the digital
service industry.”
Other award recipients include
Telstra, Orange Business Services,
ChungHwa Telecom, Telkomsel,
Penta Security, Arkadin, Amdocs,
Symantec, Huawei and BroadSoft,
which scooped the Asia-Pacific
Hosted Telephony and Cloud
UC Platform Provider of the Year
award.
Expressing his delight at the
win, Jonathan Reid, managing
director, Asia-Pacific and Emerging
Markets, BroadSoft, added: “We
have been investing significantly
in the Asia-Pacific region and enabling our service provider partners
to take advantage of the growth we
are seeing in unified communications in our markets.
“We believe our award-winning
BroadWorks and BroadCloud software platforms and UC-One services are resonating very well with
our customers, as is our service
provider-focused go-to-market
approach.”
Public service broadcasting retains relevance
LONDON – Public service broadcasters (PSBs) in the UK still account
for more than half of broadcast TV
viewing; more importantly perhaps, around three in four viewers
are satisfied with their services,
Ofcom has reported.
In the UK regulatory and competition authority’s new PSB Annual Research report, Ofcom wrote
that the five main public service
channels provided by PSBs — BBC
One, BBC Two, Channel 3 services
(ITV, STV, UTV), Channel 4 and
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Channel 5 — reached 84% of the
TV population in a typical week,
and accounted for 51% of all
broadcast TV viewing in 2015.
However, overall TV viewing
continues to fall; comparatively,
PSBs held a 70% share of viewing
a decade ago. Viewers are now
watching 26 minutes less a day
than in 2010 and while the average
viewer watched three hours and
36 minutes of TV per day in 2015,
there is a widening generational
gap in the viewing habits of the
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APSCC 2016
Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Bombay Exhibition Centre Goregaon
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youngest and oldest audiences.
Viewers under 25 are watching
around a quarter less broadcast TV
than in 2010, while the average
viewing of those aged 55-64 has
only declined by 5%. Viewers in the
16-24 age group in particular have
embraced on-demand services,
and spend around a third of their
daily viewing time watching free or
paid on-demand services.
Live TV accounts for 36% of
daily viewing in this age group, a
14% point decrease in two years.
Jane Rumble, director of market
intelligence at Ofcom, concluded:
“Our research shows that UK audiences still watch and value public
service broadcasting. But there are
significant differences in the viewing habits of older and younger
audiences.
“As media and technology
continue to evolve, it is important
that broadcasters respond to these
changes, so they can keep meeting the needs and expectations of
viewers.”
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