Market Researches - 28 May 2005

• According to Dittberner, Italtel has gained the third position in the softswitch market with 14% market share, trailing only Nortel and Siemens. Italtel ranks first in EMEA markets with 35% market share.

• According to Ericsson, there will be 400m subscribers to broadband fixed networks by 2009, and 100m broadband subscribers on mobile networks.

• According to Diffusion group, the number of networked broadband households (home networks) could reach 162m in 2010, from 35m in 2004. In parallel, the number of home network appliances could grow from 108m to about 1bn in 2010, meaning an average of 6 appliances per home network.

• Worldwide wireless LAN equipment revenue rose 20% to $767m in 1Q05, according to Infonetics Research.

• According to Gartner, 1Q05 mobile phone sales increased 17% to a record 180.6m. Nokia increased its mobile phone market share by 1.6 point to 30.4% in 1Q05. Motorola also increased its position by 0.5% to 16.8%; Samsung's market share increased by 0.7% to 13.3%; LG also increased its market share by 0.9% to 6.2%. But Sony Ericsson position decreased to 5.5%, as well as Siemens dropping 2.5 points to 5.5%.

• According to Informa, the world mobile games market could increase from $2.6bn in 2005 to $11.2bn by2010.

• Carrier next gen voice product revenue is expected to grow to $5.8bn in 2008, from $493m in 1Q05, according to Infonetics.

• IDC reports that the worldwide server market was $12bn (up 5.3%) in 1Q05.

• Research and Markets estimate that 8m electricity meters will be remotely read and connected to GPRS mobile networks, or power line or UWB in Scandinavia by 2010 (from current 1m mark). GPRS could get 60% market share.