Market Researches 1 - 11 June 2005

• Teledensity in LATAM is about 17%, while mobile density reached 32%.
• According to a report by Infonetics Research, the worldwide home network market is booming, growing from $1.2bn to $ 5.5bn by 2008.
• Another report from Infonetics revealed the worldwide PBX and key telephone systems declined 12% to $1.5 bn in 1Q05, but IP PBX revenues jumped 10% to $223m. But Dell'Oro found that the PBX market fell 8% in 1Q05, while the IP PBX segment jumped 18%.
• According to Point Topic, the number of DSL lines worldwide grew 10.5% to 107.3m in 1Q05.
• EU's Information Society Commissioner announced that the number of EU broadband Internet lines in the 25 countries has risen by 70% in 2004 and now stands at 40 m+.
• A new WiMAX alliance is born: the WiMAX Global Roaming Alliance (WGRA) has been launched (www.WiMAXgra.org) by RemotePipes. The alliance will focus on roaming issues and inconsistencies in implementing standards. Big carriers and big vendors are not yet members.
• According to Analysys, 3G will stimulate a new wave of MVNOs that will have a significant impact on customer numbers, churn and ARPU in a number of markets. In a separate report, Strategy Analytics estimates that low-cost MVNOs, shaking up a stagnant European prepaid market, are threatening to grab as much as 15 to 20% of the available market share over the next five years.
• Nokia CEO raised his forecast for global mobile handset sales to 15% or even more.
• According to TelecomPaper, broadband internet access reached about 160m, of which 61m in APAC, 48m in Europe and 47.5m in Americas.
• According to the Japanese Ministry of Communications, the number of IP phone service subscribers in Japan reached 8.3m in March 05, up 57%.