Market researches - 17/05/06

A few set of market information released this week:

• According to In-Stat, the UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) is expected to garner sales of about 7.8m units by 2011.

• In-Stat forecasts that the APAC telecom equipment market will continue to grow robustly, from $43 bn in 2005 to $47bn in 2007.It also found that APAC capex was about 12.9% of service provisioning revenue in 2005.

• ABI Research reports that shipments of UWB products would increase to 300m units by 2011, in spite of the lack of standardization on the technology.

• According to Telecom Trend, High-Speed Packet Access would contribute more than 60% of the infrastructure revenue in the year 2012. The report also predicts that spending on the CDMA2000 family of technologies will gradually decline.

• According to IDC, the Western European mobile phone shipments grew 11% to 40.7m units. Nokia (34% market share), Motorola (18% market share), Samsung (17% market share), Sony Ericsson (market share of 9% and BenQ/Siemens with 6% market share dominate the WE market.

• According to Ovum-RHK, the optical networking market totaled $2.6bn in 1Q06, up 5%.