Market researches - 24/11/05

• According to Nortel, China will grant 3 or 4 3G licenses covering the three available technologies (WCDMA, CDMA2000 and TD-SCDMA) in early 2006, and in the case of WCDMA go straight to HSDPA.

• According to iSuppli, less than 5% of broadband subscribers will use WiMAX technology by 2010.WiMAX usage will be limited over the next few years to broadband access in rural and under-served areas of the developed nations and as a backhaul technology for mobile and public Wi-Fi networks.

• The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is planning to invest $400m to offer 1 million landline phones in Bangladesh for improving tele-density to 1% from the present density of 0.4%.

• The total value of black market transactions in Asia-Pacific in 2004 was estimated to be $4.5bn, according to TGlobal Standard.

• In-Stat estimates that VoIP ICs would grow from $209m in 2004 to $1.3bn in 2009.

• Taiwan will invest about $185m in 2006 in WiMAX development.

• Worldwide cable modem subscribers are set to reach 50m by the end of this year, rising to 99m by 2009, according to In-Stat.

• According to Gartner, global handset sales rose 22% to 205m unit in Q3. New annual forecast for 2005 is 810m units sold. Mobile handset shipments in the APAC region rose 27% to 52m units.

• According to Screen Digest, IPTV will attract 8,7m European subscribers in 2009 from 658k today.