Market researches - 27/05/06

A few set of market information released this week:

• Berg Insight forecasts that the shipments of handset-based personal navigation solutions in the US and Europe will reach 12m units by 2009, up from 1m in 2005. Jentro, Route66 and TomTom were the top three providers of handset-based personal navigation solutions during 2005.

• According to the Converging Media (CM) Index, UK ranked most digital country in Western Europe, ahead of Finland and Italy.

• According to figures from the National Statistics Office (NSA), broadband connections in the UK have reached just below 70% of all connections, with dial-up accounting for 30%.

• Telephia found that 2m US mobile users (1.4% penetration) watched mobile TV in 1Q06, and that they spent $40 more than non-mobile TV users.

• CIR forecasts that the optical Ethernet components market will reach $2.7bn in revenues by 2011, while copper-based transceivers will achieve revenues of $4.7bn.

• According to RNCOS, the GSM mobile market in Latin America grew by 21% in 2005, and is accelerating with 41% growth rate in 1Q06.It forecasts that growth rate should be 52% this year, a figure close to 3G Americas association' s evaluation of 50%, that would bring GSM LATAM subscriber base to 180m this year. GSM accounts for 56% of the region' s mobile users in 1Q06.

• According to Informa, Mobile games, music, TV and video will be worth $26bn by 2011.