Market Researches 2 - 11 June 2005

• LG and Nokia assessed the worldwide 3G handset market to be about 50m units in 2005, of which 22m in Europe.

• Chinese 3G subscribers could reach 6.2m in 2006, 73m in 2008 and 200m in 2010, according to the Chinese Information Industry .

• According to Pyramid Research, fixed-mobile convergence revenues are expected to reach $80bn in 2009, or 6% of total communications spend worldwide.

• Worldwide, wireless subscriber growth is experiencing robust expansion, according to In-Stat. The worldwide wireless market would grow to more than 2.3bn subscribers by 2009.

• IDC forecasts that Asia excluding Japan would have 900m mobile subscribers by 2009.

• According to Infonetics, the worldwide optical network hardware revenue decreased 10% to $2.3bn in 1Q05. Infonetics forecasts annual optical network hardware revenue to increase 4% in 2005 and hit $10bn by 2008.

• Insight Research assesses that European international VoIP bypass call market would be $31bn this year.

• According to Multimedia Research Group, IP TV subscriber revenue will grow from about $400m in 2004 to over $6 bn in 2008.

• Strategy Analytics estimates TV-enabled mobile phones to account for 1.9m units this

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   year and for 73m units in 2010.