market researches - 5 June 2005
According to Datamonitor, radio frequency identification technology (RFID) will be a $6bn market by 2010, of which 43% in NA, 33% in EMEA, 21% in APAC, and 3% in CALA.
Worldwide Ethernet services revenues could be $ 5bn this year and could grow to $22bn by 2009, according to Infonetics.
Cell-phone use in airplanes: capture a lot of attention in the few past months. Vendors are almost ready (Boeing, Alcatel, ..), airlines are interested, but US consumer associations are not. The Consumer Electronics Association prefers that voice communications be prohibited, but data applications be allowed, in order to protect terrestrial wireless services against interference.
According to IDC, the MEA (Middle East and Africa) PC market grew 20.5% to 1.8m units in 1Q05. South Africa and Turkey accounted for 1/3 of shipments. The Central and Eastern Europe PC market expanded 23% to 2.6m units in 1Q05. Russia, Poland and Ukraine accounted for almost Ÿ of regional shipments.
More than 14m of US mobile subscribers sent multimedia (pictures) messages from their handsets in April, up 10% on March, according to M:Metrics. 24.5m mobile users downloaded music clips to their handsets.
US MDU market: currently 31m MDU households (26% of the market), of which 5m are broadband. 10m MDU households are expected to be broadband by 2009, according to In-Stat.
According to Pyramid, fixed-mobile convergence revenues would reach $80bn in 2009.
In Stat estimates that the instant messaging market would grow six-fold between 2007 and 2009. SMS is leveling off and will decline in the future, while EMS (enhanced messaging) has virtually disappeared, and MMS is expected to show nearly 50% CAGR through 2009.
Médiamétrie unveiled OS ranking in April. Windows accounts for 96%, MAC OS 3% and Linux 0.7%.
Analysys found that China's market for telecom business operation support systems (BOSS) would reach $1.5bn by 2008, up from $1bn in 2005.
Telegeography predicts the US home VOIP market would reach $1bn this year and get 4m users. Vonage currently held about 25% of the market, but by the end of the year, Cablevision, Comcast, and Time Warner would have a combined market share of 50%.