Market Researches - 10/08/07

Publié le 10 août 2007 par Jean Arnal

A few set of market information released this week:

According to In-Stat, the Bluetooth market had another successful year in 2006 that could continue in 2007 (+34%). However, market growth for Bluetooth products is beginning to slow.
According to ABI Research, mobile data applications and services used by business customers will generate over $100 billion in worldwide revenue by 2012.
Strategy Analytics found that mobile phone shipments reached 258m in 2Q07, up 4% qoq.
According to ABI Research, the smartphone market segment will grow from 218 million units in 2007 to 426 million units in 2012.
According to iSupply, the strong demand for VDSL would boost the demand for copper in coming years.
According to CCID Consulting, Nokia, Motorola and Samsung are increasing their combined Chinese market share for mobile phones by almost 10% to over 61%. The main driver for the growth is the Nokia and Motorola major offensives in the low-end mobile phone market in the first half of 2007.
Ovum predicts that China will rank by IPTV user among the top five countries worldwide by 2009.
China's PC market is expected to enjoy a CAGR of 13.2% in the following 5 years, said IDC.
Juniper Research forecasts HSPA technology to dominate mobile broadband network deployments over the next five years. About 33% of mobile subscribers will use a mobile broadband connection by 2012. This will represent over 1.2bn users!!!
Chinese HDTV service market are generally adopting wait-and-see strategies, so HDTV subscriber growth will be slow in China over the next several years, according to In-Stat.
The French PC market grew almost 8% in 2Q07 to 1.85m units shipped in the quarter. This is below the European average at 9%.
ABI Research founds that Motorola' s ultra low cost handsets (ULCH) are at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix, followed by Nokia, Samsung and LG.
According to GFK Turkiye, 4.3m handsets were sold in Turkey in the first five months of this year. Nokia is the market leader with over 50% market share.