Market Corner (2) - 20/08/08

Publié le 20 août 2008 par Jean Arnal

A few set of market information released this week:

France: the French telecom services market reached €10.6bn (+4%) in 1Q08; the number of phone subscriptions increasing to 40m, of which almost 12m for VOIP (+30%); 16.3m broadband connections, of which 15.5m are DSL; 55.7m mobile users (+7%), of which 6.6m are 3G.
ABI Research predicts that the femtocell market would begin a serious ramp-up by 2010.
Maravedis forecasts that the worldwide BWA/WiMAX user base increased to 2m users in 1Q08.
RIM' s Blackberry claims 10% US market share in 2Q08.
A new report forecasts that Chinese TD-SCDMA subscriber base would reach 12m by 2012.
According to Leichtman Research, the US broadband growth fell by 50% in 2Q08 with only a net 887k new high-speed internet users in the US.
According to In-Stat, the worldwide multi-service business gateway (MSBG) devices market will generate over $2.7bn per year by 2012, of which 63% in the USA.
Informa predicts that there would be more than 40m femtocells deployed worldwide by 2013, of which 22m deployed in the year 2013.
According to Juniper, the mobile Internet service users base would increase to 1.7bn by 2013.
ABI Research predicts that there would be more than 32m subscribers using Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks by 2013, of which 12m in APAC region.
Juniper Research forecasts that mobile money transfer services revenues would exceed $5bn by 2013.
A new Strategy Analytics report forecasts that total consumer spending on mobile messaging services would rise 15% to over $88bn by 2012.
The WiMAX Forum is projecting that India would account for about 20% (or almost 28m) of WiMAX subscribers by 2012.
According to CIR, the market for telecom transceivers and transponders modules will grow at a CAGR of 47% to $4.8bn in 2013.
40% of smart phones shipping in EMEA have GPS integrated, according to Canalys.
According to Gartner, worldwide spending on IT products and services would rise 8% in 2008 to $3.4tr.
According to Dell'Oro, DSL port shipment grew 17% qoq in 2Q08.