Market corner - 13/10/07

Publié le 13 octobre 2007 par Jean Arnal

A few set of market information released this week:

According to the DSL Forum and Point Topic, IPTV customer base rose 179% to over 8.2m by June 2007, of which over 60% in Europe. APAC accounted for 27% and Americas for over 13%.
According to Point Topic, DSL has a 2/3 share of the broadband access connections, while cable has 22% and fiber 11%.
China leads the DSL connections with almost 45m, followed by the US with almost 28m and Germany with almost 17m.
According to Analysys, quad-play is an unproven strategy to improve revenues and reduce churn. The target is different for TV services (families) and for mobile (individuals).
According to Rakon, the GPS transceiver market would be boosted by the buyout of Navteq by Nokia.
According to IDC, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Sri Lanka saw a combined mobile growth of 73% in value to $3bn in 2006 and of 119% in volume to 89m.
According to Sony Ericsson, the global handset market sales would top 1.1bn units in 2007.
According to Telephia, demand for LBS services in on the rise, and evolve to more navigation services.