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The rules of the game are changing and a new set of challenges accompany the new opportunities for fixed carriers. Incumbents may have weathered the storm in the telecoms market better than alternative carriers but they now face serious challenges from VoIP and mobile operators.

As broadband ? particularly DSL ? numbers in Europe rise, content and applications are finally, if slowly, emerging. Peer-to-peer file transfers, meanwhile, create new challenges not only for the legal community but also for network managers.

Broadband And Fixed Market Status Report, from Baskerville, publishers of Telecom Markets newsletter, provides readers with a complete and detailed overview of today's broadband and fixed mobile market, and a clear insight into the way it will develop tomorrow.

Based on extensive interviews with Baskerville's senior editorial team, this detailed report discusses the key issues facing all players on the value chain, especially incumbents and alternative carriers.

Each of the 5 in-depth interviews with Baskerville editors, as well as the overview by editorial director Mark Newman, gives a candid and independent viewpoint, supporting all reasoning with accurate data and the behind the scenes insight from each editor's personal contacts.

Coverage of the report

	Operator Strategies VoIP, Broadband and FMC: The velvet revolution Anthony Cox, Editorial Director of Telecom Markets, evaluates how the incumbent fixed operators are preparing to face new challenges to their dominance
	Broadband Content Broadband Content ? current horizons, future prospects Steve Mullins, Editor of Broadband Markets, finds that digital property rights? issues are still limiting the spread of content in the broadband networks
Broadband Subscriber Database	Broadband in Europe and the US An Overview of the broadband market in Europe and the US In spite of slowing growth in Europe?s broadband customer base, Lucy Berridge, analyst for the Broadband Subscriber Database, believes that there is still plenty of room for growth ? particularly in the under-served markets
	Broadband In Asia Pacific Asia Pacific: second-tier Broadband Markets a boost for fixed sector Although broadband penetration continues to be low in many markets, Nicole Mc Cormick, editor of Asiacom, expects that the regulatory changes being made by a number of second-tier market will push broadband take-up and help relieve the decline in wireline telecom services revenues.
	Broadband In Latin America Latin America: Grounds for cautious optimism A better year in 2003 allowed operators to re-group after the financial difficulties in 2002. Leslie Hillman, editor of Latincom, believes that the surviving operators are becoming stronger and more viable competitors in the market. This bodes well for the rest of 2004.

Why you need this report:

• Understand all the complex factors that influence the future of the broadband and fixed markets
• Evaluate the state of play in the Latin American and Asian markets
• Discover the major challenges facing key players, including incumbents and alternative carriers, on the value chain
• Uncover what future opportunities the industry holds for you.