Market researches - 10/07/05

ð China has shipped some 60m handsets in 1Q05, down 6.5%, according to Research and Markets.

ð The market for macro cellular base stations will increase sharply from 1.8m in 2004 to 3.5m in 2009, reports In-Stat.

ð The number of worldwide cellular subscribers will hit 2.6bn in 2009, up from 1.6bn in 2004, according to In-Stat.

ð Infonetics Research forecasts that the reconfigurable optical-add/drop-multiplexer (ROADM) equipment market is expected to nearly double to $200m this year, and could grow to almost half of all metro WDM revenue by ’08.

ð Consumer demand for mobile downloads is set to triple in the next 12 months, creating a $9bn global market for mobile content in 2006, according to LogicaCMG. 20% of mobile phone owners worldwide have already experienced downloading content to their handsets, a percentage expected to rise to 60% in the next 12 months.

ð Adoption of bundled services is on the rise, according to In-Stat. 47% of respondents in an In-Stat survey do purchase more than one service from a single provider, and 10%-15% of respondents are purchasing multiple service bundles, from two or more providers.

ð According to ForceNine Consulting and SMS, voice is still perceived as the killer mobile application. 

ð Point Topic estimates that about 17.5m people in the world were using retail VOIP by the end of March (including Skype and VoiceGlo).

ð Jupiter Research estimates that Europe will have 184m 3G mobile subscribers by 2010, up from 5.1m in 2004.