Market researches - 16/06/06

A few set of market information released this week:

• 95% of European teenagers (12-18) have their own mobile phone.

• According to Berg Insight, shipments of handset based personal navigation solutions in Western Countries could reach 12m units by 2009, from about 1m in 2005.

• Ovum forecasts that the number of HSDPA connections will reach 16.5m by the end of 2008 and 50m by 2010 in Western Europe, from 0.6m by the end of 2006.