Market researches - 15/11/06

Publié le 15 novembre 2006 par Jean Arnal

A few set of market information released this week:

According to Nokia/ London School of Economics, mobile TV should be customized and interactive and offer user-generated content. Its success should also be dependent upon the reception of big brands such as national TV networks. The market will only take off in 2008/2009 when standard and frequencies issues are solved.
According to Eurostat, 52% of European households had access to the internet during 1Q06.
e-Media Institute has founded that mobile TV users in the Asia Pacific region should reach 25m at the end of 2008, from 5m at the end of 2006.
IT Research in Sweden reports that the sales of 3G handsets in Sweden have doubled in 3Q06 to over 423k units for a 42% handset market share.
iSuppli said that the number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide will rise to 2.6bn this year and 4bn by 2010.
According to Kagan, there would be about 66m VOD households in the US by 2016.
According to Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), there were 1bn Bluetooth devices in the world now, with about 600m sold this year.