Market researches - 19/09/06

A few set of market information released this week:

• According to In-Stat, revenue from sales of cellular base stations will remain strong through 2008, the begin a steep decline.

• According to Berg Insight, revenues from mobile location-based services (LBS) in the European market will grow with a CAGR of 34% to reach €622m in 2010.

• Analysys forecasts that cellular VoIP services should be worth €21.3bn in Europe and US by 2012, compared with €15.5bn for fixed VoIP services.

• According to Gartner, the worldwide PC market could show a double-digit growth this year with more than 223m units sold in 2006, up 11%, but revenues should decline 2.5% to $193bn, as ASP is down.