A.5 justification information for draft new G.XGS-PON
Source: Editors G.XGS-PON
Study Questions: Q2/15

Operational Bulletin No. 1251 (1.IX.2022) and Annexed List: Status of Radiocommunications between Amateur Stations of Different Countries (In accordance with optional provision No. 25.1 of the Radio Regulations) and Form of Call Signs assigned by each Administration to its Amateur and Experimental Stations (Position on 1 September 2022)

Status of Radiocommunications between Amateur Stations of different Countries (In accordance with optional provision No. 25.1 of the Radio Regulations) and Form of Call Signs assigned by each Administration to its Amateur and Experimental Stations

Operational Bulletin No. 1280 (15.XI.2023) and Annexed List:
Mobile Network Codes (MNC) for the international identification plan for public networks and subscriptions (According to Recommendation ITU-T E.212 (09/2016)) (Position on 15 November 2023)

Operational Bulletin No. 1283 (1.I.2024) and Annexed List:
List of issuer identifier numbers (In accordance with Recommendation ITU-T E.118 (05/2006)) (Position on 31 December 2023)

Mobile Network Codes (MNC) for the international identification plan for public networks and subscriptions (According to Recommendation ITU-T E.212 (09/2016))

List of issuer identifier numbers (In accordance with Recommendation ITU-T E.118 (05/2006))

Information technology - ASN.1 encoding rules: Specification of JavaScript Object Notation Encoding Rules (JER)

Object identifier-based resolution framework for IoT grouped services

ITU-T X.660 - Supplement on guidelines for using object identifiers for the Internet of things

ITU-T X.1058 - Supplement on code of practice for personally identifiable information (PII) protection for telecommunication organizations

Inter-IMS network to network interface - Protocol specification

Stage 3 description for number identification supplementary services using Signalling System No. 7 : Stage 3 description for number identification supplementary services using Signalling System no.7 - Connected line identification restriction

Stage 3 description for number identification supplementary services using Signalling System No. 7 : Stage 3 description for number identification supplementary services using Signalling System No.7 - Connected line identification presentation

Stage 3 description for number identification supplementary services using Signalling System No. 7 : Stage 3 description for number identification supplementary services using Signalling System No.7 - Calling line identification restriction

Stage 3 description for number identification supplementary services using Signalling System No. 7 : Stage 3 description for number identification supplementary services using Signalling System No.7 - Calling line identification presentation

ISDN user-network interface layer 3 specification for basic call control

40-Gigabit-capable passive optical networks 2 (NG-PON2): Physical media dependent (PMD) layer specification

Indoor optical camera communication transceivers - System architecture, physical layer and data link layer specification

Fast access to subscriber terminals (G.fast) - Physical layer specification

High-speed indoor visible light communication transceiver - System architecture, physical layer and data link layer specification

Fast access to subscriber terminals (G.fast) - Power spectral density specification

Architecture and specification of data communication network

Procedures for the identification and selection of common modes of operation between data circuit-terminating equipments (DCEs) and between data terminal equipments (DTEs) over the general switched telephone network and on leased point-to-point telephone-type circuits

Modification to SSE reason identifier codes to support voice band data and text relay

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However, Shopify’s stock isn’t on fire only because of its good Q3. There are some other reasons why Shopify is exciting investors this morning. Here’s what to know:

Shopify’s ‘outstanding’ results

Shopify would probably disagree with the statement that the company had a good Q3. As the company’s president, Harley Finkelstein, said in a press release, the results were “outstanding.”

Why was the quarter so outstanding? A big part of it was the company’s Q3 revenue, which came in at $2.16 billion. That represents a whopping 26% year-over-year growth rate from Q3 2023.

As Reuters notes, it even surpassed many analysts’ lofty expectations of $2.11 billion in revenue, leading to the ninth time in a row that the company has beat analyst expectations on sales.

Not only did Shopify beat analyst expectations again, but its 26% revenue growth for this quarter marked “our sixth consecutive quarter of greater than 25% revenue growth excluding logistics,” Shopify CFO Jeff Hoffmeister said.

In a slide deck, Shopify also announced that as of Q3 2024, the company had facilitated $1 trillion in global sales since the platform’s inception and that it now has a 10% share of the U.S. e-commerce market.

Okay, but why did Shopify have such a good Q3?

As also noted by Reuters, Shopify attracted more merchants to its online e-commerce platform this quarter. One of the attractions for the merchants seems to be a new artificial intelligence tool Shopify started rolling out in June called Sidekick.

Sidekick is an artificial intelligence assistant currently in early access for some merchants. Shopify says the AI bot “will act as your very own advisor, guiding you with tailored, skilled advice to make your business stronger.”

It does this by shouldering some of the mundane but necessary tasks that any businessperson needs to do to manage their business. Sidekick can help easily keep track of a merchant’s inventory, generate myriad reports that reveal new insights about your business, and even suggest ways to attract more customers to a storefront.

Sidekick is in addition to another AI tool Shopify offers, this one called Shopify Magic, which helps merchants create product images for their wares, write product descriptions, and even help them generate FAQs for their stores.

These AI tools are making it easier than ever for customers to manage their storefronts, and their availability is clearly a draw for some merchants.

The future looks promising, too

But Shopify’s stock isn’t only surging because the company had a terrific Q3. If anything, investors seem most excited about what the company has predicted will happen next.

Shopify’s current quarter, Q4, is arguably the most important of the year for the company and its merchants. This is the all-important holiday shopping quarter—and Shopify has anounced it has strong hopes for the period.

The key metric that Shopify has forecast is its revenue expectations for Q4, which the company says it expects will “grow at a mid-to-high-twenties percentage rate on a year-over-year basis.”

That’s music to investors’ ears, as it means Shopify expects it may do even better in Q4 than its just-completed outstanding Q3. That revenue growth estimate is also more than the 22.7% revenue growth many analysts were expecting, noted Reuters.

A resurgent stock

Shopify’s stock started 2024 with prices hovering in the high seventies before dropping to the low sixties over the summer. But since the beginning of the fall, SHOP shares have been on an upswing. Today’s 23% surge means SHOP shares are actually up over 38% year-to-date.

However, despite the resurgent stock, SHOP shares are nowhere near their all-time high of above $152 per share. Those highs were achieved in mid- to late-2021 when e-commerce was enjoying a pandemic boom as more people preferred online shopping over brick-and-mortar stores.

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