2- market researches 05-14-05

Publié le 14 mai 2005 par Arnal

Photo messaging currently concerns about 7% of US mobile users (or 13m users).
According to IDC, US wireless data services amounted to about 6% of mobile services, and are expected to grow to 15% in next years. Messaging accounts for 50% of current data revenues.
According to IDC, China should be a huge market for IPTV. The country could have some 9m IPTV users in 2008, from estimated 300k at the end of this year.
The Yankee Group forecasts MVNO market in the US to be a $10bn market by 2010, and will serve about 29m customers.
The North American VoIP Service Revenue market is expected to grow to $20bn by 2008 (from $1.3bn in 2004) by Infonetics. See more information at: http://www.infonetics.com/resources/purple.shtml?ms05.vip.nr.shtml
IDC found that US wireless subscriber paid downloads in 4Q04 reached 100m units and $250m in revenues.
About 6.8m Symbian-enabled phones were shipped in 1Q05, up 180%. Today there are about 48 different phones equipped with Symbian OS, of which 12 for 3G service.
US FTTx connections are growing. 398 communities in 43 states can now offer fiber connectivity. More than 1.6m households are passed, but only 198k have subscribed so far. That gives a low take rate, far behind the commonly agreed break even take rate of 30-35%. In Japan, 2.3m households are connected and about 550k in Europe.