Market researches - 05/04/07

Publié le 5 avril 2007 par Jean Arnal

A few set of market information released this week:

According to GFK, 22% of French households are equipped with DTT (digital terrestrial TV).
Screen Digest estimates that Europe would have 5.6m IPTV households by the end of this year (2.9m last year). Infonetics found that worldwide IPTV equipment revenue tops $1bn in 2006, and that worldwide IPTV subscribers jumped to 7.2m in 2006.
The Japanese government has launched the Asian Broadband Program to develop internet broadband access in Asia. Current projects include telemedecine, tele-teaching, multi language translation, RFID tagging technology R&D, e-commerce, IPv6, etc. Targeted countries are China, S. Korea, Singapore and Thailand.
According to Analysys, 50% of all voice traffic in Western Europe would originate on mobile phones as soon as next year.
According to FTTH Council and TIA, nearly 8m US households are already passed by fiber, up 100%, of which 1.3m are subscribers. Verizon has the lion' share of the market.
In its latest PON and FTTH Equipment report, Infonetics said the worldwide passive optical network (PON) equipment sales grew 71% in 2006, reaching almost $1bn, and forecast to reach $2.4bn in 2010. FTTH PON equipment revenues account for 60% and FTTB equipment for 40%.