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A new Arab Advisors Group survey of Egypts urban households reveals rampant broadband account sharing between neighbors. A massive 81.9% of households that use shared ADSL lines share them with more than three neighboring households. The Arab Advisors Group projects that around a million Egyptian households have access to broadband, due to the widespread practice of ADSL accounts sharing.
A new major survey, "Egypt Households Telecoms and Media Survey Report 2008" was concluded and released by the Arab Advisors Group on April 24, 2008. This survey report can be purchased from the Arab Advisors Group for US$ 4,500. Subscribers to Arab Advisors Group Strategic Research Services can order the report for US$ 3,500.
The 159-page report, which has 262 detailed exhibits, provides the results of a major comprehensive survey of the telecommunications and media usage patterns and habits of the population across the Egyptian governorates of Greater Cairo, Alexandria, Dakahlia, Gharbia, Sohaj and Minya. The survey fieldwork was conducted during March and April 2008.
63.4% of Egyptian households with an ADSL connection reported sharing the ADSL connection with neighbors. Of those, a massive 81.9% share one ADSL line with more than three neighboring households.
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Source: Arab Advisors Group.
Batelco has posted a 10.8% year-on-year rise in net profit to BHD27.4 million (USD72.7 million) for the first quarter of 2008, on revenues that were driven up 17.4% by overseas operations to BHD78.1 million. A company official said that the Bahraini former monopoly achieved a milestone of over 700,000 mobile subscribers in the Kingdom by the end of March, whilst its consolidated group mobile user base reached 3.3 million. Foreign operations now contribute approximately a third of Batelcos revenues and more than 20% of its operating income.Batelco also announced that its pre-paid wireless customers can now enjoy mobile broadband services on handsets, laptops and datacard-equipped devices at maximum downstream connection speeds of 3.6Mbps. The operator has expanded its HSDPA-based O-Net Mobile Broadband service to the pre-paid segment following a contract-only launch at the beginning of this year.
Source: TeleGeography.
Wireless network operator SK Telecom has reported a 3% decline in its first-quarter net profit as a result of higher expenses. Net income for the three months ended 31 March 2008 was SKW382.89 billion (USD387 million), down from SKW396.31 billion in the same period of 2007. Operating revenue for the quarter rose 5% to SKW2,837 billion from SKW2,712 billion a year earlier, but was down 3% on the SKW2,916 billion recorded in the preceding fourth quarter. The company's total subscribers base rose 8% year-on-year to 22.37 million, despite monthly churn rising from 2.6% to 3.1%.
It is clear that the Asia Pacific region is a GSM stronghold, with 1.075 billion of the total 1.36 billion connections using that system and a further 85 million using 3rd Generation W-CDMA. These numbers compare with 1.003 billion and 75.0 million at the end of Q3 07 and 817.6 million and 48.3 million one year earlier, implying annual growth rates of 32% and 77% respectively.
Asia Pacific: Customers by Technology
However, GSM is not the only force in the market and for the moment at least, CDMA is still gaining ground.
It closed the quarter with 182.9 million connections, up 8.2% on the quarter and 21% on the year. The US technology may be wilting in other markets, but its presence in India gives it a lifeline here. How long this will continue though is not clear. In Australia, the technology will become extinct next week as Telstra is finally allowed to shut down its network in favour of its new NextG W-CDMA alternative. Reliance, Indias largest CDMA operator now has over 6 million of its 41 million total connected to GSM systems, while even more worryingly, South Korea seems to be moving away too. At the end of 2006, there were just 30k W-CDMA customers out of a total base of 41 million. At the end of 2007, this number had leapt to over 6 million, with CDMA declining to 37.6 million.
In total, there are five other technologies in use within the AsiaPac region, but all five are in clear decline. There are now fewer than 100,000 customers connected to first generation analogue technology (represented by AMPS, ETACS and NMT). This compares with over 700k three years ago. Other second generation technologies are not faring well either. The US TDMA standard has now almost completely disappeared with fewer than 350k connections in total, while Japans PDC system is in steady decline, losing another 2.7 million customers this quarter to end at 16.76 million.
Source: Cellular News.
Revenue from mobile media and entertainment (MME) services in the US will more than double during the next five years, according to the latest research from Analysys. US MME services (excluding messaging, and mobile browsing and data charges) generated US$3.1 billion in revenue in 2007, and Analysys Research forecasts that revenue will grow to $6.6 billion in 2012, at a compound annual growth rate of 16.3%. The strongest growth will not occur until after 2010, as the technical and market environment for MME services improves, according to the latest Analysys report, Mobile Media and Entertainment in the US: forecasts 2007-2012.
Key trends that are driving market growth include:
Analysys Research forecasts that MME services will account for 12.3% of non-voice service revenue in the US by 2012. Mobile TV and VoD services will experience the highest growth rate of any MME service during the next five years. When combined, broadcast and unicast TV and video services will account for 36% of MME revenue by 2012. By contrast, revenue from personalization services will decline from 47% of total MME revenue in 2007 to 17% in 2012.
"Operators, content providers and device manufacturers will have to work together to increase subscriber awareness of MME offerings and to ensure straightforward pricing, and simpler purchase and delivery processes," said Alexandra Rehak, co-author of the report. "It is also critical that the user experience of MME services be compelling and complementary to the subscriber's experience of entertainment across other media."
From data by CCID Consulting, the sales volume in China's mobile phone market is 150 million units in 2007, which is 24.1% more than that of 2006. If black- market mobiles from smuggling, unregistered brands and other illegal products are counted, the number exceeded 200 million in 2007.
Sales & Growth Rate of China Mobile Market 2000-2007
In 2007, over 60% of users changed their mobiles with over 90 million mobiles sold for this purpose. The reasons could be attributed to faster function upgrades, higher performance- price ratio, shorter product life cycle, and customized service by the network operators. The number of new subscriber reached a new record in recent years with over 86 million new subscribers in 2007 and over 7 million per month.
According to their statistics, new subscribers mainly come from rural markets and 3rd/4th-level cities.
CCID says that the competition of products on the market will be rather fierce while the China mobile market is developing on a large scale. The homogeneity, price wars, and sinking channels will direct consumer behavior, and manufacturers will turn from seizing market share to chasing profit. The certificate of mobile authority and the launch of the China 3G mobile market will stimulate market competition and create concentrated market share in already-advantaged brands and less market share in small brands. It will also create competitive cooperation among manufacturers, distributors and network operators.
Mobile payment is a service at an early stage with an expected 32.9 million users worldwide in 2008, growing to 103.9 million users in 2011, according to Gartner. Short Message Service (SMS) is the dominant mobile payment technology today, driven by mobile money transfers, and it will remain the dominant technology through 2011.
Gartner defines mobile payment as paying for a product or service using mobile technologies, such as SMS, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) and Near Field Communications (NFC). It excludes telebanking by using a mobile phone to call the service center, as well as mobile ticketing where the ticket value has been prepaid and stored on the phone. The payment is made via the phone, although not necessarily over a wireless network, as in the case of NFC. Examples include merchandise purchase, payment for parking or transit, paying monthly bills and paying for money transfers.
"Mobile payment could bring revenue opportunities for carriers and, potentially, banks if deployed properly," said Sandy Shen, research director at Gartner. "The business case is more obvious for mobile carriers than banks; however, banks can justify the investment if they look at mobile as an extension of their existing channels and bundle payments with additional banking services."
"The service is easier to justify in emerging markets, where many people are unbanked or underbanked, and there are few payment options," Ms. Shen said. "In developed markets, mobile payment is likely to start as a loyalty scheme, as an extension of existing services. However, banks should be aware of alternative services from nonbanking institutions, such as PayPal and Obopay, that can compete on lower fees and faster transactions and that are more proactive on the mobile front. These could threaten the lucrative card business should momentum build up."
Asia/Pacific has the most mobile payment users with a projected 28 million users in 2008, accounting for 85 percent of the worldwide total. Western Europe is expected to have 499,000 users in 2008, and North America is projected to have 1 million users.
"Asia leads the world in the uptake of mobile payment and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future," Ms. Shen said. "There are three main reasons for this, the first being the early launch of such services in the region, led by the Philippines and Japan. Secondly, there are some significant developing markets in the region, such as China and India, with large numbers of mobile users and insufficient banking and payment infrastructure. Thirdly, Asia is ahead of the world in mobile service development due to the receptive attitude of the end user, who is more willing to try new services."
North America and Western Europe will see slower uptake of mobile payment because of the more established nature of the payment infrastructure in those regions and a higher sensitivity to security. However, Gartner expects that the arrival of advanced mobile payment technologies, such as NFC, has the potential to speed up service adoption as consumers associate the "cool factor" and convenience with contactless mobile payments.
Algerias communications minister has announced that tariffs for ADSL broadband internet services will be cut by 50%. State-owned Algerie Telecom will reduce charges for a 128kbps connection to DZD590 (USD9) a month, while a 256kbps service will cost DZD1,100 and a 512kbps link will be DZD1,500, Telecompaper reports.
A new report from Telecommunications Management Group, Inc. (TMG), "IPTV: The Killer Broadband Application," forecasts that there will be nearly 60 million Internet Protocol television (IPTV) subscribers worldwide by the end of 2010. IPTV -- providing video services over managed IP networks to consumers' televisions -- has been doubling each year since its commercial introduction in 2002. There were 9.9 million IPTV subscribers around the world at the end of 2007, more than double the previous year, and TMG projects more than a 500 percent increase over the next three years. According to Michael Minges, TMG Senior Market Analyst and lead author of the report, "IPTV is revolutionizing the television market by introducing greater competition and providing consumers with a plethora of customizable content, viewable any time."
Other points of interest in the report include the finding that IPTV has succeeded in countries with relatively low pay television penetration but high broadband penetration. This is characteristic of some countries in Europe, which has the largest number of IPTV subscribers and where thereare few regulatory obstacles, nationwide telecommunications operators and widely available broadband networks.
IPTV subscribers by region, 2007 Europe 5.3 million Asia 3.3 million Americas 1.3 millionFrance Telecom is the largest IPTV operator in the world with 1.1 million subscribers at the end of 2007, followed by Verizon's FiOS television service in the United States. With over 50 percent of its broadband subscribers using its "now" broadband TV service, Hong Kong's PCCW has the most successful overall uptake.IPTV is not limited to high-income economies. China and India have launched IPTV, as have several countries in Africa. TMG forecasts that China and the United States will be the world's largest IPTV markets by 2010.The report is a rich resource for operators, manufacturers, regulators, policymakers, researchers and others. In addition to annual historical data and a 2010 subscriber forecast for more than 40 countries that had IPTV at the beginning of 2008, the report includes penetration rates for television households, pay television households, broadband subscribers and broadband households. The report also contains a listing of IPTV providers and pricing around the world.
Source: WASHINGTON, PRNewswire (Based on TMG).
Taiwan's Institute for Information Industry has issued a report on the telecoms market and says that 3G subscriptions reached 6.91 million at the end of last year - representing a rise of 16.5% and a total base of 28.5%. 2G subscriptions fell by 4.2 % to 15.9 million. The Institute anticipates that 3G subscriptions will top 10 million, or 40% of the total base by the end of this year.
The population penetration level reached 105.8 percent.
The Institute also reported that text messaging volumes rose by 26% to 1,256 billion in the fourth quarter of last year. The average subscriber sent just over 54 text messages during the quarter and 18 text messages per month.
Mobile internet access increased by 7.8% to 11.86 million and nearly half of all mobile phones sold included mobile internet services. Just over 55% of mobile internet access is carried out via a 3G handset, compared to 32% being carried out over a GPRS network.
A very complex mobile value chain and a growing business reliance on mobile products have created the need for services that help businesses maximize the value of their mobile investments. In a recent report from ABI Research, mobile device management (MDM) services are forecast to grow from $583 million in 2007 to over $20 billion by 2013, for a compound annual growth rate of 80%.
Mobile device management services include policy development, procurement and asset management, billing audit and reconciliation, enhanced customer care, device/content security, and additional services that are vertical- and occupation-specific. According to principal analyst Dan Shey, The range of services needed to manage a businesss mobile investments requires inputs from many different wireless equipment and services providers including operators, MDM platform vendors, IT services providers, telecom expense management firms, and mobility management services firms. All want to be part of the action.
But the biggest disruptors for the market have yet to make their mark on the industry. Mobile device management platforms are slowly evolving with more and more capabilities for mobile device management services. Their increasing functionality on a growing base of device platforms automates many important mobile device management processes. Not only can these platforms be employed by many value chain suppliers, but more importantly, businesses can acquire and use these platforms themselves.
Shey concludes, Operators are the dark horses in this race: they provide and appropriate revenues for nearly all mobile capabilities, they already use MDM platforms, and they value the mobile business customer highly. MDM platforms, and the possible participation scenarios of the mobile operator, beg the question: Who will manage?
The European Union (EU) has topped the United States in broadband penetration, according to a report issued this morning by the European Commission (EC) that assesses the state of information and communication technology (ICT) growth under the so-called "i2010" program launched by the EC in 2005.
"The European broadband market is developing rapidly and already outstrips that of the United States," the EC wrote. It estimated some 99.2 million broadband lines in the EC, compared with 81.6 million in the United States and Canada combined, and 43.1 million in Japan and South Korea together. In 2007, the number of regular active Internet users in Europe rose by 40 million, to a total of 250 million.
"It is a welcome change of political direction that today, ICT, the main driver of European growth, is being promoted by all 27 EU Member States in their national policies. This helps Europe compete internationally and modernizes the daily lives of Europeans," comments EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media Viviane Reding. "It is especially good news that 77 percent of EU businesses, 67 percent of schools and 48 percent of doctors are now benefiting from fast broadband connections."
Ticking off Europe's broadband achievements, in its report the EC says more than 96 percent of European schools now are connected to the Internet -- two-thirds of them to broadband, up from almost zero in 2001. In the health sector, 57 percent of doctors now send or receive patient data, up from 17 percent in 2002, with 46 percent of them receiving results from laboratories electronically, up from only 11 percent in 2002. Some 77 percent of EU businesses had a broadband connection in 2007, up from 62 percent in 2005, and 77 percent use the Internet for dealing with banks, up from 70 percent in 2005.
Still, the EC found the pattern of Internet and broadband usage varies widely from country to country. Nearly 40 percent of Europeans don't use the Internet at all, the EC noted, with the lowest usage in Romania (69 percent are unconnected), Bulgaria (65 percent unconnected) and Greece (62 percent unconnected). In contrast, only 13 percent of the populations in Denmark and The Netherlands are unconnected, and those countries also are two of the Top Three in EU broadband penetration, at 35.6 percent and 34.2 percent, respectively.
In its report, the EC also warned, "There are now some signs of fatigue: growth in penetration is slowing down, and there are increasing gaps between Member States in terms of take-up, speed, price and coverage. Bandwidth requirements are on the rise and, although speeds are developing similarly to those in the United States, the migration to high-speed broadband in the EU is sluggish."
"Investment in next-generation networks is not going ahead as quickly as Europe needs," the EC lamented. In hopes of rectifying the situation and encouraging NGNs, this year it is going to "clarify the regulatory provisions for next-generation access."
Source: Telecom Web.
Given the explosive growth in mobile communications, India, through its use of a variety of wireless technologies, aims to reach 500 million subscribers by 2010, according to private sector and government officials attending a Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) conference in Kerala, India. India forecasts that its current level of 240 million subscribers will be doubled within less than two years, thanks to the policies being implemented by the Government of India, especially for universal access in rural and suburban areas.
The effort to connect rural communities is an important issue for ICT operatives in Asia, as regulators, governments and other stakeholders see the urgency of harnessing ICTs to bridge the digital divide and further create new market opportunities for the private sector in Asia.
As a diplomatic inter-governmental ICT organisation, the CTO has assembled regulators, Ministers of Communications and ICT giants to map rural connectivity in this explosive, high-growth market. The forum outlined the latest elements of rural ICT developments, while creating networking opportunities for the industry elite from across the entire value chain.
Commenting on the success of the conference, Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, the CEO of the CTO, said: In our view at the CTO, the central challenge facing the development community in the ICT arena is how to connect the unconnected. In most developing countries, the unconnected are in the rural areas, hence the critical importance of our series of conferences in Africa and Asia on connecting rural communities. These events have been very helpful to our member governments, ICT regulators and industry executives in appreciating the right combination of policies, legislation, regulation, operational strategies, unique business models, innovative financing mechanisms and other local ownership and management arrangements that make rural connectivity initiatives sustainable.
Pakistan's mobile operators have blocked some 1.36 million SIM cards since the beginning of the year after their owners failed to register them as is now required. In addition, even subscribers who did register their details had a limit of 10 SIMs per person imposed and any additional SIM cards were cut off.
A Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) official told the Dawn newspaper that despite the media campaign had been suspended in the first week of this month, the authority will continue to carryout surveys/ground checks of outlets (franchisees/retailers) on a regular basis and mobile companies will be held responsible for any violation on part of registered or unregistered franchisees or retailers.
The regulator issued a requirement last year forcing all mobile phone users to register their details with the phone operators - and a clarification was issued in February to the operators to make the registration process easier.
According to figures from the Mobile World database, Pakistan ended last year with some 76.9 million subscribers, so the loss of 1.36 million subscribers if evenly distributed amongst the operators, while not insignificant is unlikely to be catastrophic.
In related news, India has alleged that Pakistans nine mobile phone towers erected along the border have security-related implications. Tests carried out by the Ministry of State for Home Affairs tested 44 locations inside the Indian border and reported to have found mobile signals from the Pakistani operators leaking across the border at 39 location.
The market for wireless devices and equipment in process manufacturing will grow to over $1.1B in 2012, a growth rate of 32% per year, according to a new ARC Advisory Group study. The data in this study is from 2007 and includes a forecast of market growth through the year 2012.
The market will also change its character during the period, as new standardized wireless sensing products and hardened wireless local area networks (LAN) penetrate the process market. Deployment of wireless in continuous process manufacturing industries (e.g., chemicals, oil & gas, oil refining, electric power, mining & metals) has lagged other manufacturing industries, such as automotive and aerospace, because process plants are often larger and located mainly outdoors, and because the presence of dangerous and potentially explosive materials mandates use of equipment carrying special certifications.
Wireless process sensing is expected to be the fastest growing market segment. Today it accounts for only a small portion of the total market, but according to ARC, it will become the largest segment during the next five years, as the market absorbs a deluge of new wireless sensing products that comply with wireless versions of industrial standards. Two industrial networking standards, WirelessHART and ISA100, both use the same sensor radio hardware as the ZigBee standard, but with their own software. The driving force for wireless process sensing is its dramatically lower installation cost, which ARC believes will cause the normal change-averse process industries to use it wherever they can, leading to more rapid adoption.
Wireless LAN use will also grow rapidly, spurred by the introduction of new access point products that can safely be installed in the hazardous environments that may be present in such plants. The longer range and clearer signals of future IEEE 802.11n wireless will also make them attractive to process industry customers.
Manufacturers in the process industries know that they need better visibility into operations that occur inside their own fence, said Harry Forbes, Senior Analyst at Boston-based ARC Advisory Group. ARCs end user research indicates that manufacturers believe better visibility has huge potential value in the form of more consistent use of best practices, higher plant utilization, and improved operational safety.
Another area of operations where improved (and wireless-enabled) practices have high potential is major equipment turnarounds. These are pre-planned major maintenance activities that are becoming increasingly complex and involve huge numbers of coordinated tasks, contractors, suppliers, and materials over ever-shorter outage periods.
Third generation connection numbers in Europe grew by a record 11.2m in Q4 2007 to reach 81.5m by the end of the 2007 - an 81% improvement year on year. New W-CDMA connections accounted for 45% of net connection growth in the final quarter, which was the lowest proportion for the year, after 46.9% in Q1, 56.5% in Q2 and 46.8% in Q3.
Given the extent to which the fourth quarter Christmas boom is driven by the lower-cost and prepaid market, however, this is not a surprising result. It was GSM, of course, which was dominant in terms of net additions, with 13.8m in Q4 2007, giving it a total of 39.3m for the full year, against 36.5m for its 3G derivative.
Nevertheless, proportionately speaking the growth in the GSM base only amounted to 6.5% for the year, which led to a strengthening of the contribution of the 3G base to the total. At the end of 2006, W-CDMA customers accounted for 6.9% of all European mobile connections; at the end of 2007, the proportion of the total made up of 3G enabled connections had risen to 11.2% - with 1.2pp of the increase (the highest ever) coming in the fourth quarter.
Europe: % Customers W-CDMA, Q4 02 - Q4 07
The proportion of customers outside of the GSM/W-CDMA family remained extremely small at the end of 2007, but it did increase marginally over the course of the year.
The growth rate for Europes CDMA base amounted to 26.1% in the 12 months to 31st December 2007, taking the total over 1m in the third quarter to end the year at 1.12m. Offsetting this to a small extent was a 23% decline in the size of the legacy analogue base, although this amounted to less than 50k customers in absolute terms. The result was an increase in the proportion of the total European base made up of CDMA and other customers from 0.168% at the end of 2006 to 0.176% a year later. The vast majority of the CDMA connections were of the 1x or 1x EV-DO variety at the end of the year, which when included took the 3G total to over 82.5m.
Just as search became critical on the desktop, search will become increasingly important in the mobile space. The growth of consumer options to search on-deck and off-deck, SMS, and via branded or white-label search providers in the mobile domain has created opportunities for advertisers to reach consumers through sponsored search opportunities. ABI Research believes mobile search advertising growth will be driven by this escalating array of options, as total search-related mobile advertising expands from $813 million in 2008 to $5 billion by 2013.
We are seeing strong growth of mobile search services within an on-portal and off-portal context, says ABI Research director Michael Wolf. However, given the constraints of mobile platforms and the specific needs of mobile users, mobile search services and the integration of advertising - need to be thought out carefully by branded providers, white-label search vendors, and carriers.
The growth of mobile-search-related advertising will be strong across many regions, with Asia-Pacific showing the greatest overall gains. On-portal, off-portal, and SMS-based search will be important drivers of search-related advertising, with total SMS searches growing from 13 billion in 2008 to over 76 billion by 2013.
Branded providers such as Yahoo and Google see the importance of the mobile platform, as the overall population of Internet users on mobile devices exceeds that of PC-based Internet users, continues Wolf. While mobile search incorporates more contextually relevant information such as location, consumers will increasingly look to search as a way to discover content and pertinent information that could drive purchasing behavior. Providers that can supply the most applicable solutions tailored toward mobile users will ultimately win in the marketplace.
A new report by Juniper Research into the mobile financial services sector has found that the number of consumers accessing banking services and products via their mobile phones will reach 816 million by 2011, a tenfold increase on the number using such services in 2007.
The report found that financial institutions are delivering an increasing variety of products in the mobile environment including financial information services, funds transfer, bill payment and presentation, account management and customer service.
According to the report, the annual number of global mobile banking transactions will rise from 2.7 billion in 2007 to 37 billion by 2011, as a greater number of services are deployed worldwide. It adds that increased consumer confidence, due to the enhanced security measures that are being utilised in mobile financial services will be crucial to greater service usage levels.
However, the report cautioned that a number of hurdles to service deployment and user adoption have yet to be overcome, including financial regulation, payment transaction costs, revenue share issues and customer support difficulties.
Other findings from the report include:
The number of cellphones in circulation in Brazil totaled 125.8 million at the end of March, up 1.36% from February and 23.2% higher than the same month one year before, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday by telecommunications regulator Anatel.
Net additions in the month were 1.69 million. In the first quarter, net additions reached 4.83 million.
"The strong growth seen in 2008 is due at least in part to the practice of selling multiple subscriber identity module, or SIM, cards per subscriber, which artificially inflates the number of wireless subscribers and net additions." Morgan Stanley said in a research report.
"As a result, we believe revenues and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or Ebitda, growth may not follow subscriber growth at the same pace. So far, we have not seen this trend, but we will be following close as wireless operators report first quarter results over the next few weeks," it added.
Brazil's main operator are Vivo Participacoes, which is jointly owned by Spain's Telefonica and Portugal Telecom; TIM Participacoes, the local unit of Telecom Italia and Claro, the local unit of Mexico's America Movil.
According to new data from the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the countrys mobile operators added 1.38 million new subscribers in March 2008 to raise the total user base to 38.93 million. The figures show that market leading Telenor subsidiary GrameenPhones subscriber base increased by 610,000 in March to reach 17.81 million; Orascom Telecoms Banglalinks customer base grew by 430,000 to 8.31 million; Telecom Malaysia International Bangladesh (AKTEL) signed up 90,000 users to take its total to 7.45 million (after slipping behind Banglalink in the first two months of the year); Warid Telecom Bangladesh (which launched in May 2007) has already firmly established itself in fourth place with 2.79 million subscribers at the end of March, up from 2.6 million in February; SingTel-backed CityCell (the only CDMA operator in a GSM-dominated field) added 50,000 users to end the month with 1.56 million; and finally state-owned Teletalk was reported to have 1.01 million customers, compared to a million the month before. The latest growth figures bring the impoverished countrys cellular penetration rate to an estimated 27%.
Russia's largest mobile phone operator, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), has reported that net profit for 2007 almost doubled to USD2.07 billion compared to USD1.08 billion in 2006. Revenue for the year ended 31 December 2007 increased 29% to USD8.25 billion from USD6.38 billion. Consolidated OIBDA grew 31% to USD4.223 billion, with OIBDA margin amounting to 51.2%, up from 50.6% in 2006. Subscriber numbers across the group's operations rose 13% to 85.77 million, while it gained 6.21 million new subscribers in Russia during 2007.On a quarterly basis, MTSs net profit more than quadrupled in the final three months of the year to USD460 million compared to USD110 million in same period of 2006. This was less than analysts had anticipated, but revenues, which rose to USD2.33 billion in the period from USD1.81 billion a year ago, were higher than forecasted. MTS said monthly ARPU rose to USD10 in Russia in the fourth quarter.MTS said it expects revenues to grow by at least 25% in 2008, fuelled by an increase in the demand for voice services and a higher consumption of extra services and data transfer. The company plans capital expenditure of up to USD2.5 billion for the year.
The total number of mobile connections in the UK surpassed 70 million during the fourth quarter of 2007, finishing the year on 70.99 million. In total there were 4.10 million net additions during the year, up from 1.35 million in 2006, while on a proportionate basis the annual customer growth rate almost tripled from 2.1% to 6.2%. This was due in part to the one-off loss of 1.30 million customers in 2006 as a result of T-Mobile's change in policy regarding active users, but even if we discount this there would have been an increase in customer growth in 2007. This is despite the fact that penetration is well over 100%: at the end of 2007, in fact, the penetration rate had reached 116.5%, up from 110.1% a year earlier.
Customers and Annual Customer Growth Rate
Monthly ARPU - Top Four Operators
The key to the year's strong customer growth was the performance of Vodafone, which added 2.06 million active customers, over half the total net additions for the market in 2007. It finished the year with an estimated 16.75 million active subscribers, up 14.1% year-on-year, compared to a 0.9% decline in 2006.
Vodafone was the only operator to record double digit customer growth in 2007, although Hutchison was not too far off with an 8.4% annual growth rate. Market leader O2 - the only operator to record over 10% growth in 2006 - saw a 4.4pp drop to 6.7% in 2007. However, it still managed to record a 0.2pp increase in market share to 28.4%, as well as breaking the 20 million barrier in Q4 to finish the year with 20.13 million active customers.
Vodafone saw the greatest gain in market share, however, adding 1.6pp to reach 23.6%.
Orange, which saw its second place taken by Vodafone in Q1 07, lost 0.8pp of share in the year to finish on 22.1%. It added just 0.31 million customers in 2007, down from 0.48 million in 2006, and ended the year with 15.64 million connections. In fourth place, T-Mobile saw its fifth successive yearly decline in market share, ending 2007 down 0.5pp on 14.5%. It did at least manage a net gain in customers, although the increase was only 0.26 million.
Virgin, which operates as an MVNO on T-Mobile's network, was the only operator of the top six to see a net loss of customers in 2007, dropping 31.4k as a result of a poor performance in the first half of the year. It lost 0.5pp of market share in the year to finish on 6.3%. Finally, Hutchison added 0.24 million in the year to finish on 3.11 million, with market share up 0.1pp at 4.4%.
The 2nd chart offers a comparison of the ARPU figures for the top four operators. It should be noted that since not all four publish a quarterly average for monthly ARPU, certain adjustments have been made for the sake of comparability: T-Mobile's figure is only released in Euros, so has been converted to pounds sterling using the relevant exchange rates, while Orange's monthly figure has been derived from the annual average that it publishes. The chart demonstrates that O2 has maintained the highest ARPU figure of the top four for the past three quarters, the increase in ARPU in 2007 suggesting that the company has been focusing on increasing customer value rather than on raw customer growth. Vodafone, by contrast, has paid for its strong customer growth with a fall in ARPU. Meanwhile, the upward trend of T-Mobile's ARPU has seen it match Orange's Q4 07 figure of £22.10, although both companies' figures should be approached with a degree of caution for the reasons stated above.
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The service and cruise staff are still fantastic, but unfortunately, I must report that IMO their food in the MDR is not the same quality that one had expected in the past and was one of the important items that made the cruise line a favorite in many cruisers' eyes.
I want to start out by saying that everyone has different opinions on certain aspects on cruise ships and my comments are a consensus of 6 others in my family who I cruised with (all adults) and we discussed this new ship in detail throughout the cruise. I am sure others on our cruise will have different views and I welcome their opinions for comparisons.
Here we go:
The Ship is magnificent and the public rooms are unbelievable.
The state room that we had (Aft Balcony) was also wonderful with a great interactive large TV.
The Bathroom was really nice with a beautiful sink and great More shower. Loved the amenities they provide...shampoo, conditioner, lotion (all in small bottles and not in a dispenser like some other ships), also q-tips and cotton balls and plenty of storage space.
Unfortunately, the beautiful stateroom had very little storage space for three people in a cabin on a 12 day cruise. Perhaps for 2 people on a 7 day cruise, but we found this to be a serious negative. We lived with placing clothes on the bottom of the small closet and piling shoes in a corner of the room.
Stateroom attendants....great
Dining Room Staff....great
Cafe al Bacio staff.....the best!
Specialty Restaurant Staff....great, especially the Lawn Grill and Qsine
Entertainment....good to great. Loved the comedian Phil Tag and the Piano Player Kyle Esplin.
"House" Band Sipra....the best on the high seas who gathered increasing numbers of dedicated "cruise groupies" as the cruise went on.
Food: Very Disappointing in the MDR, but the Escargot and French Onion Soup were great and available every night. The people in my group who turned their noses up when I ordered the Escargot ended up ordering it each night when in the MDR.
The fact being that the food in the MDR was so inferior to the specialty restaurants that we ended up going to 4 specialty restaurants instead of two that we planned on for our cruise.
None of them IMO were worth the $40 / person they charge but the Murano which we heard so much about was a major disappointment (not in terms of service), but in the taste of the food. All in our group had eaten in specialty restaurants on NCL and the food was equal or better for almost half the price.
The specialty restaurants seem to have become what the old Celebrity MDR food was like that I experienced several years ago.
The Ocean view buffet was very good most of the time, especially for breakfasts, and at other times, I really enjoyed the salad bar and pasta station.
Martini Bar and Molecular Bar....outstanding!!
Loved the different drink packages and we felt it was worthwhile signing up for it depending on your preference for drinking alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks.
Fun cruise activities (Quest, Theme and Pool Parties) were somewhat lacking and the normally funny and ever popular Newlywed Cruise Game was very disappointing to say the least.
Lastly, the cruise overall was wonderful and I never have been on a cruise I did not enjoy! Less
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Ben Arfa – to think he was once flying at Newcastle
But there are reports in France that in fact Ben Arfa will not be given any squad number, and with Ben Arfa being left behind and not on the trip to New Zealand, and having to train with the Reserves because he reported back to training overweight – it looks like Ben Arfa's time at the club is over.
Hatem Ben Arfa was fined round £1.6M for reporting back to pre-season training 3 lbs over his specified return weight, and we cannot help but think it is a complete waste of Ben Arfa's talent.
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Subject: Re: [APG] Dr. George Phillips in Alabama
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:07:20 -0600
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Thomas McAdory Owen, *History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography,* 4 vols. (1921; reprint, Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Co., 1978),
4:1357-58, has biographies of two individuals of this name:
PHILLIPS GEORGE, physician, member constitutional convention 1819, was born
May 1, 1769 in Delaware, and died September 15, 1835, at Selma; son of
George and Jane (Edgar) Phillips, the former a native of Ireland, who came
to America and settled in Delaware in 1768 bringing with him his wife and
one child. ... He was elected to the constitutional convention from Shelby
County in 1819, and later in the year, moved to Dallas County. At that time
he withdrew from the practice of medicine and devoted his entire time to
planting. ...was one of the incorporators of the University of Alabama and
was a trustee of the institution, 1821-1833...."
"PHILLIPS, GEORGE CRAWFORD, planter, was born May 15, 1815, in Georgia, and
died August 30, 1872, in Dallas County; son of George and Mary (Martin)
Phillips (q.v.); brother of William Sidney Phillips (q.v.). ... He studied
medicine under his father and was about to leave for a medical college, when
the death of his father occurred. He became administrator of his father's
estate and engaged in planting. He represented Dallas County in the State
legislature ... assisted in the organization of the Alabama and Tennessee
River railroad ..."
For George Jr., there is no mention of service on the UA board.
These biographies contain *much* more information. I would offer to scan the
pages and e-mail them to you offline, but my scanner and computer are having
a spat right now.
Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Good morning folks,
I am researching a Phillips family who has tremendous connections with the U
of AL in the early days of the university. One of the early leaders was Dr.
George Phillips, a local physician in and around Selma, Dallas Co., AL. He
had one known son named William Sidney Phillips who was a local attorney in
I have found a Geo. Phillips in the 1830 census of Dallas County and the
oldest person in the household is 60-70 yrs old and several younger people
in the household. William S. Phillips was born about 1805 somewhere in
Georgia and died in Selma in 1872.
I am searching for any personal or family information about Dr. Phillips but
all the stones I have overturned have only been revealing name only. I
found he was also involved in the early government of Alabama as a member of
the house of representatives and a trustee for the university system in
I cannot find a place or time of death for him even though I have not
researched the probate records of Dallas County yet. If anyone has any
ideas I would be interested in entertaining them.
Oh by the way I have contacted the U of AL archives and am awaiting anything
they might have to offer.
Alvie L. Davidson CG
Lakeland, Florida
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The Cabot fire chief says sprinklers would have been little help in fighting the fire that destroyed the junior high building last week because the fire was in the attic, above where the sprinklers would have been installed.
But in fact, state school officials say sprinklers arent about saving buildings anyway; theyre about saving lives.
Its unfortunate what happened (in Cabot), but the purpose of sprinklers is to save occupants, said Doug Eaton, director of public school academic facilities for the Arkansas Department of Edu-cation. Putting out the fire is secondary.
Cabot Junior High North met all the state building codes eight years ago when it was constructed, he said. The code requiring sprinklers was not adopted until 2003. Before that time sprinklers were an option.
Yet a school could be built today without sprinklers and still be in compliance with the state fire codes, said Jacksonville City Engineer Jay Whisker.
Reading from the Arkansas Fire Prevention Codes, Whisker said schools fall under Group E buildings and that no sprinkler systems are required unless the building is larger than 20,000 square feet. He said even then there are exceptions. If each room has an exterior exit at ground level then sprinklers wouldnt be required.
Eaton said state law requires the adoption of building codes and those codes are periodically changed.
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So in Cabot that means only the new high school is required to have sprinklers. Whether any of the other buildings have sprinklers is a question that Fire Chief Phillip Robinson had not answered at press time.
None of the schools in the Sherwood or Jacksonville area have sprinklers. Most were built 30 years or more ago. The newest of those schools, Clinton Elementary, was built in 1994, about 10 years before the sprinkler requirement was added.
Beebes campus is covered with multi-million dollar buildings that look alike.
But they were built before 2003, when sprinklers were not required, so with the exception of the auditorium stage they probably dont have them, said Belinda Shook, school superintendent.
Shook checked with architect Steve Elliott to make sure the district was in compliance with the state code on the addition to the junior high building.
She said Elliott told her the addition did not have sprinklers but it did have fire walls instead.
We count on (architects and state officials) to know the code and make sure we do what were supposed to do, Shook said.
Lonoke School District is building a middle school which will have sprinklers but none of the older buildings have them.
Beebe Fire Chief William Nick said that Thursdays fire brought back memories of the blaze that destroyed Beebe Middle School in 2000.
That school didnt have sprinklers and Nick said he wished it had. By the time the fire burned through to the attic, there was no stopping it. Cabot brought its new ladder truck to fight that fire and Beebe got to return the favor on Thursday when his department arrived with a rescue truck, a tanker, a pumper and the ladder truck bought since the middle school fire.
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Houston Chronicle: 'Looking at both sides of the San Jacinto story rewrites Texas history' (see below)
The Comical's resident illegal alien cheerleader at it again. Texas is rewriting its history for the new Hispanic majority. He takes pot shots at VCT (unnamed) for 'scouring' news articles for quotes by Aztlan-ers, made in jest, regarding their agenda. Also pulls out his 'conservative' name-calling. My family will be voting with our feet as soon as my husband retires. I left Calif., and we'll leave Texas, too.
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General Motors' online videos featuring gay men in skimpy briefs washing a Chevy Camaro never would have hit the Web if the automaker had taken a look at them, GM's gay community outreach official says. (Thanks to mjoseph1958 for this link to a site where you can still see the "brief" ad about 2 minutes into a conservative newscast.)
GM yanked the "Bumble Bee Boys in Briefs" videos off YouTube after they were disclosed here Wednesday by Drive On, with company officials calling them "not in good taste."The videos promoted the Camaro and Chevrolet Gay Day at the Movies, a Los Angeles event on June 28 where the new Transformer movie was screened. Bumblebee is a character in the movie played by the Camaro.
The videos were produced by GM's Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transsexual outreach unit, but were not circulated through the regular approval channels, LGBT news site The Advocatequotes a GM official as saying. Travis Parman, who handles LGBT community relations, told the site:
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If you're like me then the news that Dave Grohl may have hinted the Foo Fighters are breaking up is likely to make you let out a resounding 'Nooooooooo WTF!!!", but in an open letter he posted on Facebook yesterday he makes it clear that the band is merely going away for a while and that he's "not sure when the Foo Fighters are going to play again" and that 'it's a good thing for all of us to go away for a while'.
Don't f**k with my emotions Dave.
His open letter on the Foo Fighters facebook page was in response to their New York performance in Central Park over the weekend where Grohl said he wasn't sure when their next gig would be. This resulted in a social media sh*tstorm that the band was breaking up.
I'm not sure about you, but this open letter hasn't exactly put my mind at ease hey.
So it seems the Foo Fighters are just taking an extended break then? Mmmmmmmm.
And while were on the subject of the Foo Fighters…we may as well press play hey and start off the day with some real music. A rare in studio acoustic version of Times Like These.
F**k yeah.
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'Bring on the bacon'
June 19, 2013
Adrian Conner is a vegetarian — most of the time.
Conner replicates the music and antics of Angus Young in the all-female AC/DC tribute band Hell's Belles, and the Austin, Texas, resident will be traveling with the band to headline Keystone's Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour on Saturday.
"I'm into food, and I'm into experiencing, so I will try bacon stuff," Conner said. "I want to know what things taste like. It might give me a stomachache because it's very rich. Last year, I had peanut butter and bacon pizza. It was kind of like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with cheese."
This is Hell's Belles second appearance at the hog-centric festival, which takes over River Run Village for two days, Saturday and Sunday.
Bacon for your brain
This is the third year that Keystone has hosted the bacon tour, wafting skyward the heavenly, smoky scents of bacon samples, bacon-inspired dishes and even Beggin' Strips snacks for four-legged bacon lovers. The event brings in more than a ton of the good stuff from Colorado and Iowa and offers it up for Summit County connoisseurs from more than a dozen food vendors.
If you get tired of crunching it in strips, you can also get your pork-back fix by visiting the festival's Biggest Bacon Bloody Mary Bar, sponsored by Hair of the Dawg Bloody Mary Mix. There's even food for your brain, with a bacon education series that includes a seminar on how to launch your own bacon empire.
"The Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour believes bacon education is at the core of a healthy bacon economy," said event co-founder Brooks Reynolds in a news release. "So, we've introduced a lecture series hosted by certified bacon instructors including the likes of Eden Farms' Nick Jones and Denver Bacon Co.'s Justin Brunson. With famous bacon purveyors at the head of the class, participants are sure to receive a first-class bacon education."
Eric Clayman and Brunson, of the Denver Bacon Co., will take attendees through the steps required to get a bacon enterprise off the ground and running toward the next Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour. Tips include how to create a bacon recipe, finding a USDA processing plant, creating packaging, setting up distribution and lighting up social media channels with buzz about your tasty offering.
"There's all this interest in bacon right now, and there's probably a lot of people who have experimented with making bacon at home and thought, 'I should sell my bacon,'" Clayman said. "So we thought we would take people through the realities of that. It's not a simple process at all because it involves meat; it starts with USDA inspection. We are very similar to that person who is sitting in our lectures and thinking about making bacon at home, because that's where the idea came from."
Denver Bacon Co. has grown from processing one pork belly at a time, which equates to about 10 pounds of bacon, to cranking out 1,000 pounds in a batch. Clayman said the seminar will take people through his company's story of bringing a home recipe to a restaurant recipe and building it into a product that's now available for sale in stores and restaurants. He said he's also excited to experience the camaraderie of people who are bacon enthusiasts.
"We were part of the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines, (Iowa) and just the people, the T-shirts that people are wearing, the enthusiasm, the mania around bacon," he said. "So I'm looking forward to being immersed in that again. I'm looking forward to seeing what sort of T-shirts show up; there was some hilarious stuff."
Fighting the food coma
Be sure to wash down your piggy provisions and newfound knowledge with a healthy dose of AC/DC rock. Aside from the altitude, which makes it hard for Hell's Belles to breathe and even harder for them to sing, Conner said the band also has to combat the lethargy that comes from full bellies and the fact that their set is earlier in the day when people aren't quite ready for an explosion of '80s rock.
"It's early in the day; people aren't drunk yet," she said with a laugh. "They are thinking, 'Are people watching me? What's going on? Do I like this music?' We've got to work them into it. If people aren't freaking out to 'You Shook Me' and getting more involved, there's something wrong with them."
But, ultimately, it's all worth it for the bacon.
"We love bacon, and we love the festival," Conner said. "The girls in the band all love meat, and they love bacon. They are looking forward to bacon, so bring on the bacon."
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By NB Staff | October 4, 2009 11:12 AM EDT
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Why people like Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin is a classic populist politician. What makes her so popular is her very nature. She is the definition of "grassroots", a working mother who successfully entered politics at the municipal level and worked her way up to the governorship. She didn't manage this by impressing people with her five different institutions of education, or how many books she had written on Russian foreign policy. No, she managed it because she inspired Americans who felt that Sarah was "one of them."
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In an interview with the Financial Review Sunday show on Channel 9, Mr Funke Kupper said some businesses were being "hampered by a multilayer set of governments and regulations" and that change was needed to ensure everyone was brought up to speed and operated under the same rules.
"We are starting to see that some of the markets judged to be critical are now allowed to be managed from overseas; our view is: make sure that is what you want from a risk perspective but also recognise that over time that starts to erode the consistency under which we have worked and in our submission to the inquiry [financial systems inquiry] we will set out the choices that Australia has in that regard," he said.
Mr Funke Kupper was referring to the decision to allow London-based LCH.Clearnet to operate in Australia and clear over-the-counter derivatives.
His comments come after Prime Minister
Labor and the Greens, which control the balance of power in the Senate, said they will not support a repeal of the Qantas Sale Act.
Mr Funke Kupper admitted he had one hand tied behind his back on foreign ownership controls, which influenced the government's decision to reject a merger proposal between the country's largest stock exchange and the Singapore Stock Exchange in 2011.
Qantas parallels
"The challenge that we have is that global regulations are starting to change that balance.
"So far we have had consistency, we are the national infrastructure it's critical to the economy. We have significant restrictions – oversight from regulators, a 15 per cent ownership limit – and that model works very well for Australia, but what we are starting to see some successive decisions that slowly start to change that."
Mr Funke Kupper also agreed there were parallels between the ASX and Qantas that are potentially holding both companies back.
"I think we have restrictions on us but they work. We are critical infrastructure, we are highly successful and a highly profitable business.
"Only last year we raised $500 million to support our business and shareholders were happy to give us that money, so we are in a very powerful and strong position. What we are asking for is policy consistency, so that we can continue to do that."
ASX has a monopoly in the Australian market over clearing and settlement. Rival exchange operator Chi-X has about 10 per cent of the cash equities business, while ASX has the remainder.
ASX recorded a $189.6 million half-year profit on Thursday, up 10.6 per cent from a year earlier, helped by improved investor confidence and $18 billion worth of companies listing on the stock exchange in the December half.
Mr Funke Kupper dismissed suggestions that the ASX's profitability won't be as good in 2014 with initial public offering (IPO) activity expected to fall to around $10 billion this year.
"If you look at our revenue growth, $25 million worth of revenue growth in the first half, $7 million of that was IPOs - pleasing - but as a large business by no means the only source of revenue growth," he said.
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Do you want to have a hand in keeping sports people in tip top condition? As a sport rehabilitator, you can have an integral part in helping everyone from the occasional jogger to the professional athlete get back on their feet after an injury, or assist in enhancing their performance levels safely and effectively.
The sport rehabilitation degree focuses on guiding people to return to or maintain safe involvement in sport and exercise. It is built around a blend of theoretical understanding and the development of practical competencies and applications, which is accredited by the British Association of Sport Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRaT).
Opportunities are available for you to gain supplementary vocational qualifications throughout the course, including sports taping techniques (such as Kinesiotape and Rock Tape), Gym Instruction and Pitch-side First Aid.
Guaranteed accommodation
If you accept your place by 31 July 2017, we can offer you a guaranteed place in University of Cumbria owned or partnered accommodation.
Course study options
We also offer this course with an integrated foundation year - click below for more information.Integrated Foundation Year
Course outline
Course summary
You'll learn to work with a range of sport and exercise clients or groups, co-ordinating effectively with physiotherapists, occupational therapists, podiatrists, masseuses and sports scientists. We teach through practical and theoretical activities, using a mixture of reports, case studies, essays, presentations, reflective logs, practical demonstrations and examinations to assess your performance.
We develop practical competence in a range of sport therapies and recuperative activities, such as fitness assessment and recovery techniques. You'll learn to prevent, examine and treat sport-related injuries, supported by in-depth study of physiology, kinesiology, anatomy, psychology, nutrition, research methods, and ethical and legal issues associated with practice. Opportunities are made available throughout the course for you to gain supplementary exercise and massage vocational qualifications, including gym instruction and first aid.
Year one
Compulsory modules
- Human Anatomy
- Introduction to Sport and Exercise Physiology
- Biomechanics of Human Movement
- Research Methods I
- Sports Massage
- Musculoskeletal Injuries and Assessment
- Qualificatory Practice Unit 1
Year two
Compulsory modules
- Functional Sports Rehabilitation
- Sport and Exercise Physiology
- Research Methods II
- Coaching for Strength and Conditioning and Performance
- Therapeutic Practice I
- Therapeutic Techniques
- Qualificatory Practice Unit 2
Year three
Compulsory modules
- Injury and Rehabilitation
- Dissertation
- Therapeutic Practice II
- Neurodynamics in Sport
- Qualificatory Practice Unit 3
Optional modules (subject to availability and demand)
- Exercise for Health and Disease Prevention
- Psychology of Injury and Rehabilitation
Programme Specification
Programme specification
For detailed summary of all course content please read our programme specification for this course.
Entry requirements
2017 entry
96-112 UCAS tariff points - to include GCSE in English at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent). Potential to succeed can be measured in a number of ways including academic qualifications and skills obtained outside academic study such as work experience. We have a points range so we can take into account all of the information on your application form and adjust the offer from the evidence provided.
Find out more about qualification options from the UCAS tariff table.
Please check selection criteria for any additional entry requirements.
2018 entry
96-112 UCAS tariff points - to include GCSE in English at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent). Potential to succeed can be measured in a number of ways including academic qualifications and skills obtained outside academic study such as work experience. We have a points range so we can take into account all of the information on your application form and adjust the offer from the evidence provided.
Please check selection criteria for any additional entry requirements.
Selection criteria
Application information
Full-time courses
Apply online through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), between September 2015 and January 2016; they will send your application on to us. Applications submitted after this date will be considered late and the course you have applied for might be full by this time; however, we will consider you for alternative suitable courses.
Their website www.ucas.com provides all the information you need about universities, courses, locations, entry requirements and financial support. You are allowed to select up to five course choices. You need to use the correct UCAS campus and course codes as not all courses are offered at every campus. You will be asked for the following information when you apply online:
Institution code name: UoC
Institution code: C99
Campus location:
- A Ambleside
- B Brampton Road, Carlisle
- E University of Cumbria at Energus, Workington
- F Fusehill Street, Carlisle
- L Lancaster
- T University of Cumbria in London
- Y University of Cumbria at Furness College, Barrow-in-Furness
Part-time courses
Applications should be made online directly to the university; visit our website or contact email@example.com for details and guidance. There is no official closing date but we would encourage you to apply as early as possible, as many courses are competitive.
What makes a good application?
We consider all aspects of your application, not simply your qualifications and grades. We look at your academic background and performance, relevant experience (particularly for professional courses where some voluntary or paid experience is required) and your reference. Above all, we look for motivation, commitment and potential-evidence that you can benefit from study at higher education level.
Make sure you include:
- Relevant qualifications/evidence of ability: check our website for the specific entry requirements required for each course. Tell us your previous academic results and your projected grades.
- A supportive reference, from an employer or your school or college.
- A good personal statement.
- Explain clearly what attracts you to the course and tell us about your wider interests and experience. If you are applying for a course that incorporates professional training and placements, you should include any relevant experience or visits you have made in the workplace. Highlight your individual strengths and qualities, personal skills, capacity for teamwork, contribution to the community and your enterprise, originality and determination. Select some activities which bring out these qualities.
What next?
When we receive your application, we will send you an acknowledgement and if you are successful at this stage you will get either an offer (with an invitation to visit the campus to which you have applied), or an invitation to interview on a particular date. If we are not able to offer you a place on your chosen course we will usually try to offer you a place on a similar course and will contact you to discuss this. Alternatively, if we think you are suitable, but cannot offer you a place on your preferred campus because of the level of competition, we will offer you a place at another campus if one is available.
And if I accept?
The admissions team will contact you and send further information from February onwards about accommodation, and from May/June onwards about preparing to join the university. If you have any other queries, please telephone the admissions offices for information and advice on 0845 6061144.
Deferred entry
We welcome applications for deferred entry on some courses. If you have specific plans during your year out, indicate these on your personal statement as they may be relevant to your course and could enhance your application.
International students
Applications for full-time undergraduate study are made through UCAS. Please see the international pages of our website for full details of our entry requirements (including English-language skills) as well as contacts for advice and support.
From 2009 the UK Border Agency introduced a Points-Based Immigration System (PBS) for students coming to the UK from outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Students entering higher education will need to obtain a Confirmation of Acceptance (CAS) plus finance confirmation to obtain a Tier 4 student visa. UK education providers are licensed by the UK Border Agency. When students apply for their visa (or entry clearance) they will need a valid Certificate of Acceptance of Studies from the university. Please note that a CAS is not a guarantee that a visa will be issued.
See the following websites for further details: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/studyingintheuk
Additional costs
All students will need to purchase stationery, course books and personal equipment. Extra costs may also be applicable to cover field trips, membership fees etc. The following PDF link below provides an overview of these costs for this course.Additional costs
Graduate destinations
There is a high demand for sports rehabilitators in the exercise and fitness industry, giving you plenty of chance for employment. Your degree will leave you eligible for membership of BASRaT as a Graduate Sport Rehabilitator. The professional body is further accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA), enabling employment prospects within the NHS.
You can also put your degree to work in GP referral programmes, therapeutic work with sport clubs, teams and individual performers, private sports injury clinics, or in consultancy.
Resources and facilities
You'll have full access to the physiological and biomechanical equipment in our Physiotherapy and Sport Laboratory, for exercise and fitness testing, and injury screening. Our sports complex boasts a large, multi-purpose sports hall and an air-conditioned fitness suite with 12 cardiovascular stations, eight fixed weight stations and a free weights area.
Our Sports Injury Clinic, organised by staff from the sport rehabilitation degree, provides a brilliant opportunity to practice your skills with real clients. Open to staff, students and members of the public, this free service provides students with a real life environment for learning.


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