Market researches - 21/04/07

Publié le 21 avril 2007 par Jean Arnal

A few set of market information released this week:

According to Crown Castle/ Modeo, their mobile TV trial has revealed relative strong demand for mobile TV: an average 15mn of use a day, with 64% of users were very satisfied and 35% satisfied.
According to In-Stat, the worldwide market for Multi-Service Business Gateway (MSBG) would grow to $2.6bn in 2011 (from $615m in 2006). Cisco is leading this market.
In the USA, more than half of all US cellphones are cameraphones, according to M:Metrics.
In-Stat assesses the User-Generated Content worldwide revenues to increase to $1.6bn in 2011 (from $80m in 2006).
Yankee Group sees the Chinese WiMAX market to reach 8.4m users in 2011. The market would be driven by smaller players and municipal WiMAX providers and not by traditional big 4 telcos.
The recent FCC decision not to allow mobile calling in flight does not prevent international big airlines companies to trial the service. Latest in date: Air France, BMI, RyanAir and Quantas.
According to Cable Digital, the combined worldwide shipments of cable data and voice modems hit a new record with 30m units in 2006.