Market researches - 25/08/06

Publié le 25 août 2006 par Jean Arnal

A few set of market information released this week:

According to In-Stat, mobile users continue to opt for streaming music services over wireless video services. Furthermore, video sevices are more costly and need digital rights management technology.
Datamonitor forecasts that the European DTV market would surpass the US by 2006-end. By year-end, Europe should have some 65m households and the US 35m, shifted from analog to digital services. IPTV services should also be a key market in Europe. By 2010, Europe should have about 10m IPTV subscribers (or 9% digital service penetration) versus 6m in the US.
According to Dell'Oro, Cisco maintains its lead over the IP telephone market, worth $500m (+42%) in 2Q06.
Point Topic made the assessment that number of subscribers to retail voice over IP (VoIP) services rose by 83% during 2005, from 10m to almost 19m subscribers worldwide, of which 8.8m in APAC, 5.3m in Europe and 4.6m in Americas.
According to MDA, 50% of UK cellphones have cameras and are MMS-ready.
Dell'Oro is seeing the 2Q06 worldwide mobility infrastructure market declining 3%, due to weak CDMA sales (-26%), while GSM spending is restarting in China, helping to offset weakness in North America and Latin America.
ABI predicts that by 2011 there will be 102m users of femtocell products (small cellular base stations designed for use in residential or corporate environments) on 32m access points worldwide.
Frost & Sullivan forecasts that revenues from mobile content in Latin America are expected to grow at a CAGR of 28% to reach $2.6bn in 2011.
Gartner maintained its forecast for 2006 global cell phone handset sales of 960m units. In 2Q06, mobile handset sales amounted to 229m units, slowing to 18% growth versus 24% in 1Q06. Nokia had 33.6% of the market in the quarter, while Motorola held an overall share of 21.9%.
According to Dell'Oro, the sales of softswitches and media gateways grew 8% to $742m in the second quarter of 2006. Softswitch sales for Voice-over-Broadband subscriber services were particularly strong in the quarter (+66%). Nortel, Siemens and Cisco lead the IP Telephony-Carrier market.