Market corner - 30/03/08

Publié le 30 mars 2008 par Jean Arnal

A few set of market information released this week:

According to NSN, wind and solar technologies would be used extensively to power remote base stations by 2011.
ABI Research forecasts that the fixed-mobile convergence market could grow to 250m users by 2012.
In the USA, mobile phone sales reached 146m units and $11.5bn in revenues in 2007.
According to OVUM/RHK, the overall optical component market was worth $4bn in 2007 (+4%).
According to Dell'Oro, ALU is still leader in digital subscriber line (DSL) with a 39% market share in port shipments. It is also leader in terms of IP digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) and very high-speed DSL (VDSL) port shipments (36% and 47%, respectively). ALU shipped 8.3m DSL lines in 4Q07, and has already shipped more than 158m DSL lines worldwide.
Infonetics ranked ALU as GPON supplier leader with 47% market share in 4Q07 in terms of ports.
According to Infonetics, the worldwide sales of wireless LAN equipment reached $1.9bn in 2007, up 20% and would reach $3.4bn in 2011.
In-Stat forecasts that broadcast mobile TV will take off in China in 2009. The market will grow from 300k in 2007 to 36m in 2012.
According to In-Stat, the market for switched digital video (SDV) equipment, software, and services is expected to grow to more than US$1bn in 2012, from current $165m in 2008.
According to ABI Research, worldwide deployment revenues from in-building wireless systems would grow to $15bn by 2013 (from $3.8bn in 2007).
IMS Research Online forecasts that the global handset market would see slowing growth for 2008, with annual growth only achieving below 6% in 2008.
The telco services market hit $65bn in 2007, including product, network, and IT-related service spending.
Maravedis found that there were 1.73m BWA/WiMAX subscribers at the end of 2007. ARPU was worth over $46.
Hi-Tech: a software can turn a smartphone into a hotspot.
Mobile broadband penetration would reach over 50% in Europe by 2012, according to Exane+AD.Little.
Strategy Analytics found that Mobile Linux is poised to take on the surging smartphone market, and would become as a strong competitor to market leaders Symbian and Windows Mobile.
Infonetics foresees that the mobile data card sales would reach $2.9bn by 2011, nearly quadrupling between 2007 and 2011. There would be 144m mobile data subscribers at that time.
Mobile video: a new survey made by Bamboo MediaCasting in the US market, reveals that most frustrating aspects of mobile video are in decreasing order: price, bad image quality 47%, 27% answered slow loading times, 17% think it’s just too complicated to bother with and 10% felt the available content is too limited.