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Market researches - 27/05/06
A few set of market information released this week: Berg Insight forecasts that the shipments of handset-based personal navigation solutions in the US and Europe will reach 12m units by 2009, up from 1m in 2005. Jentro, Route66 and TomTom were the top...
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Market researches - 25/05/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Dell'Oro, the total mobile infrastructure equipment market declined 15% in 1Q06 versus 4Q05, due to CDMA sales weakness and in spite WCDMA was the only technology that increased. According...
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Market researches - 19/05/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to IDC, the mobile messaging market should grow to $15bn in 2010 in Western Europe. SMS remains important source of revenue for operators. According to Juniper Research, Mobile WiMAX subscribers...
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Market researches - 17/05/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, the UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) is expected to garner sales of about 7.8m units by 2011. In-Stat forecasts that the APAC telecom equipment market will continue to grow robustly, from...
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Market researches - 12/05/06
A few set of market information released this week: Ericsson projects a global mobile market of three billion mobile subscribers by 2007. It expects the global mobile infrastructure market to show moderate growth, while the addressable market for professional...
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US mobile handset market
According to the NPD Group, handset sales in 1Q06 grew 11% to $2.3bn and 35m units, with Motorola benefiting the most of the change. APS was about $66 in the quarter. Motorola led the US market with 29%, followed by Nokia and Samsung, both with 18%. LG...
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Why to do it simple, when you can make it complicated?
Why to do it simple, when you can make it complicated? At the beginning, the story seems very simple. Lucent bought Riverstone for $207m to improve its Ethernet portfolio. Well and probably a good decision at that time. Few weeks after Alcatel bought...
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Fiber-optic cable market overview
According to KMI, the amount of fiber-optic cable installed worldwide jumped 15% in 2005, and should grow at a CAGR of 10% through 2010. NA reported a 36% increase in installations in 2005, followed by Western Europe with 22%. In the next three years,...
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IPTV market overview
IPTV market overview Infonetics is assessing the IPTV infrastructure market to be worth $6bn in 2009, from $400m in 2005. IP set top boxes are the main revenue segment with a share of 42% of all IPTV equipment revenues, and their sales would nearly double...
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Market researches - 06/05/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to iSupply, the mobile handset market is assessed to reach 932m units shipped (+14%) this year. On the same subject, CBC World Markets predicts a 970m units shipped in 2006 (+50m units than...
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Market researches - 03/05/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Analysys, Chinese telecom operators are forecast to invest some $25.7bn in capex this year, down 1%. According to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), worldwide sales of semiconductors...
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Market researches - 29/04/06
A few set of market information released this week: In-Stat forecasts that online gamers in China should grow to 61m by 2010 from 25.5m in 2005. iLocus reports that NetCentrex delivered 29% of VoIP local call over broadband platforms. VoBB accounts for...
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Market researches - 29/04/06
A few set of market information released this week: In-Stat forecasts that online gamers in China should grow to 61m by 2010 from 25.5m in 2005. iLocus reports that NetCentrex delivered 29% of VoIP local call over broadband platforms. VoBB accounts for...
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Market researches - 26/04/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to NDP Group, mobile video watching has a long way to go before becoming a mass practice among mobile phone users. Only 28% of all mobile phones in use are capable of playing digital video,...
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Indonesia: new ICT infrastructure
Indonesia is starting two major projects to improve its Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure -- Universal Service Obligations (USO) Program and National Fiber Optic Backbone (NFOB) Project. With the first USO program, it hopes...
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Market researches - 22/04/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Telecom Trends International, the worldwide handset market revenues reached $117bn in 2005, of which over 60% captured by Nokia, Motorola and Samsung. The research report predicted that...
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UMA Services are coming
UMA Services are coming UMA is a wireless, short-distance technology using non-licensed spectrum. Backed by the UMA specifications and the 3GPP, it is becoming a hot demand from telcos and mobile operators, anticipating FMC and IMS deployments. Of course,...
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Market researches - 21/04/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Informa, fixed-mobile convergence services will generate $28bn in revenue by 2011. It estimates that there would be 92m subscribers to converged services by 2011, 3% of overall global subscriptions,...
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Metro Ethernet market update
According to Infonetics Research, the worldwide metro Ethernet equipment revenue would likely triple to $15.5bn by 2009, from $4.9bn in 2005 and $2.6bn in 2004. Carrier Ethernet switches and routers would account for 32% of the metro Ethernet equipment...
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Market researches - 15/04/06
A few set of market information released this week: MSN Messenger has a global market share of 61%, but ranges from 90% in Latam to 33% in NA. According to In-Stat, business location-based services could reach 1m subscribers by 2010. There are 82 m Instant...
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Market researches - 12/04/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, the number of cellular phones with multimedia capability will double in the next two years. According to Maravedis, the number of broadband mobile connections in Brazil, such as...
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3G market update
In-stat reports that mobile operators continue to roll out new 3G networks, but the rate of new deployments has slowed. In 2005, 35 new WCDMA networks were deployed, as well as 7 new CDMA2000 1X EV-DO systems. The 3G worldwide subscriber base would grow...
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Market researches - 05/04/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to IDC, HP’ s ProCurve Networking solutions should held about 18% market share in EMEA, with more than 44% in Finland, more than 20% in France, Netherlands and Sweden. According to Senza Fili...
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US telecom services
According to TIA, US telecom services were $311bnin 2005, and are expected to grow to $325bn this year. Mobile services will continue to gain at the expense of wireline services. Mobile services are growing at double-digit rates to $119bn in 2005, while...
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Mobile music content
ABI Research found that full track music downloads to mobile phones grew 1900% in 2005 for a revenue of $251m. This figure should grow to $9.3bn by 2011. Growth should be driven by the availability of a broadband network, devices with enough memory (8...