Market researches - 24/07/06

Publié le 24 juillet 2006 par Jean Arnal

A few set of market information released this week:

According to Harris Interactive, Americans are not keen on sending pictures and videos with their cell phone. 58% of mobile users state they have not used any of these services; 18% have sent pictures, and only 3% have tried sending video clips.
According to Infonetics, the VOIP equipment market could report a strong growth in next years. The worldwide PBX market should reach $11.9bn in 2009, mainly driven by the IP PBX market.
Idate forecasts 250m VOIP users in the world by 2011, vs 25m in 2005.
Gartner has released its estimates for 1Q06 mobile phones sales. 224m units should have been shipped, up 24%, in the quarter. Nokia is the leader with 34%, followed by Motorola with almost 21%.
According to Telecompaper, nearly 40 mobile virtual operators were active on the Dutch market at the end of March 2006, and accounted for 2.5m mobile users.
Analysys forecasts that China could spend up to $2.5bn in deploying its first 3G network.
According to CIR, the market for 10-Gigabit transponder and transceiver modules used in data and telecommunications networks will top $4.2 by 2011.
According to The Diffusion Group, global IPTV subscriptions are forecast to rise to 34m in 2010, from 2m in 2005.
According to Infonetics, the VPN services market was worth$23bn in 2005 and is forecast to grow by 22% to $29bn by 2009,
A new report from Juniper Research predicts that Broadcast Mobile TV will reach revenues of $11.7bn worldwide by 2011, of which $2,9bn in Japan and $1.8bn in the US.
According to Norson, vendor revenue from the Chinese GSM equipment market in 1Q06 reached $571m, about 45% of local GSM capex
WDSGlobal estimated that the wireless industry worldwide looses as much as $4.5bn annually when handsets are mistakenly returned as defective (up to 63%). The firm estimates that every device returned costs network operators, vendors and retailers about $64.
IDC estimates that mobile phone shipments in 2Q06 reached 240m units, up 22.5%.