Market Corner - 22/09/08

Publié le 22 septembre 2008 par Jean Arnal

A few set of market information released this week:

Major U.S. carriers are said preparing Xmas season with launching high-end handset next month.
comScore M:Metrics found that mobile searching is gaining in popularity and frequency of use in Western countries, with penetration reaching over 9% in both the UK and USA.
According to ABI Research, carrier spending on RAN networks (radio-access) would grow 3.4% in 2008 to $54bn. The number of base stations to grow from 3.6m in 2007 to 5.2m in 2013. Ericsson leads the pack with 29% market share followed by NSN with 23% and ALU with 13%.
Napster is being purchased by Best Buy for nearly $127m.
According to Nielsen, 50% of US tweens (age 8-12) own a mobile phone.
Italian and Japanese scientists have established a new world record for wireless optical transmission at 1.28 Terabit/s (or 1280 Gigabit/s).
According to Gartner, the global telecom market is on track to reach $2 trillion in 2008, up 7.6%, of which $1.6bn in telecom services. Gartner forecasts that the telecom service segment would grow at a CAGR of 4.4%, when the telecom equipment segment would grow at a CAGR of 8.7%.
According to Nokia, mobile replacement accounts for 30%-35% of the handset market in India.
Forrester Research predicts that 2008 IT spending will continue to grow 5.4% this year, but outlook will be softer than expected in 2009.
According to Nielsen, more than 20m US telephone households are wireless only (penetration of 17%).
KDDI said that its mobile phone sales may likely fall some 20% in the coming winter shopping season, following DoCoMo' s mobile phone sales in 2Q08 (-21%).