Market research

ð According to IDC, 30m U.S. mobile subscribers would be consuming commercial video/TV content and services on their handsets by 2009. Related ARPU could be up to $10.

ð IDC forecasts that the number of voice over broadband connections (on IP and non-IP networks) in Western Europe should grow to 22m by 2008, from current 2.5m.

ð Infonetics found that service providers are adopting Ethernet as fast as possible to answer demand.

ð China SMS could reach 360m users and $4.5bn by 2008, according to Analysys.

ð According to TNS Telecoms, U.S. wireless spending per household decreased to $50.6 in 4Q04. US customers on average spend 32% of their total telecom dollars on wireless.

ð In-Stat reported that MTU/MDU (multi-tenant unit/multi-dwelling unit) market should grow from $364m in 2004 to nearly $1.5bn in 2009. The MTU/MDU market should be impacted by fiber deployment.

ð Strategy Analytics believes that the Chinese broadband Internet use will be the driving force behind the Asia-Pacific market for the next few years. In the region, broadband internet users should grow to 176m by 2010 from current 61m. China would account for about 64% by 2010, from current 40%.

ð Gartner estimates there would be 3bn mobile subs. in the world by 2010, a 100% increase on current figures.

ð Gartner found that the storage management software market grew 12% to $5.6bn in 2004, while the storage resource management (SRM) segment grew 31% to $612m.