Market researches - 01/04/06
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According to IDC, IT spending should grow by a little bit more than 6% in 2006 to $1063bn. Software sales should grow by 7% , while hardware sales should grow at a lower pace. APAC should grow at 9%, with the China market growing at 14% and India growing at 21%. NA and Western Europe should report a growth of 6%.
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Research and Markets' assessment for the Wireless LAN (WLAN) chipset market is expected to be over 140m units shipped in 2005, while sales amounted to $1bn, up 27%.
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Forrester Research predicts that the European music download market will be worth €279m, and could grow to €3.9bn in 2011.
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According to Research and Markets, the shipments of WiMAX CPE equipment is expected to reach 7.2m units in 2010; FLASH-OFDM subscribers are expected to exceed 13m in 2010 while UMTS FDD radio shipments are projected to be valued at $2bn.
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eMarketer has forecast that there will be more than 100m worldwide users of mobile broadcast video services by the end of 2009.
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According to Juniper Research, revenues from the sale of business VoIP hardware and software will reach $5.5bn by 2007, the falling back to $3bn at the end of the decade. The IP-PBX market will reach over $1.6bn in 2007, and the VOIP applications market will pass $500m by 2010.
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According to Maravedis, there will be 768,000 accumulated BWA/WIMAX subscribers in Brazil by 2010.
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Nokia forecasts better 2006 handset market and increased growth rate to 15% to reach 915m units.
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According to Benchmark Group, e-commerce should grow 36% in 2006 and reach some €10bn.
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Google search engine should held 42% market share in the US market, followed by Yahoo with 27.6% and Microsoft.
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ABI Research forecasts home networking hardware sales could grow to $85bn by 2011, up from 14bn in 2005.
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The Diffusion Group (TDG) predicts that the number of Asian FTTH users could grow to 40m in 2010 (from 5m in 2004). FTTH would account at this time for more than 25% of all Asian residential broadband subscriptions.
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Worldwide carrier DWDM equipment market was worth $4.3bn in 2005 and is expected to reach $8.2bn in 2012.