November 2007
NovemberNov 30 Friday 07
Unified Communications & Web 2.0 Mashup
In-Stat and Wainhouse Research have combined their high-tech market research and data to create the first comprehensive unified communications products and services forecasts.
As the worldwide supply chain for labor, goods, and services has been flattened, accelerated, …
NovemberNov 29 Thursday 07
Global Telecom Services Revenue Rising
Global telecommunications industry services revenue will reach $1.7 trillion by the close of 2008, with continued strong growth in wireless leading the way, according to a market analysis report from Insight Research Corporation.
According to the new industry market …
Popular Session Initiation Protocol Services
IP Networks deployed by fixed and mobile operators will lead to mainstream Voice over IP and SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) services, driven by the increasing popularity of smart devices such as PDAs and smartphones.
ABI Research principal analyst Ian Cox explains, …
NovemberNov 28 Wednesday 07
European Video on Demand Market Growth
New research by Screen Digest reveals how the European TV-based video-on-demand (VoD) and pay-per-view (PPV) markets will develop over the next five years and what the industry is worth today.
From a low penetration of just under eight percent today, Screen Digest …
NovemberNov 27 Tuesday 07
Portable Multimedia Device Usage in Japan
Fueled by market drivers, such as inexpensive flash-based players, growing broadband penetration, and the increasing availability of affordable music and video online, the market for portable media equipment will see strong growth in Japan over the next several years, …
NovemberNov 24 Saturday 07
TelecomTV: EU Moves to Open Markets
Video: EU Commissioner acts to force a level playing field.
NovemberNov 23 Friday 07
High Definition DVD Demand within Europe
European expenditure on Consumer Electronics (CE) in 2007 is estimated at 75 billion Euros. High Definition will help revitalize CE's many product segments over the coming years, according to the market study by Understanding & Solutions.
High definition broadcast …
Telecom Service Provider Equipment Upside
The worldwide market for telecommunications infrastructure equipment will exceed $109.9 billion in 2011, increasing at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.2 percent.
Network equipment sales to service providers (SP) performed strongly during the first …
NovemberNov 22 Thursday 07
Super 3G Mobile Handsets Drive Demand
The worldwide mobile market change towards higher data-rate networks and associated handset availability has meant that by 2012, devices known as Super 3G will become the largest selling handset type, according to Informa Telecoms & Media.
The latest edition of Informa's …
Spending on Managed Services Increasing
The U.S. managed services market will grow at a compounded rate of 10 percent over the next five years as growth continues across all segments of the managed services value chain, says a new market study from Insight Research.
The report notes that in today's …
Europe Leads World in Digital Terrestrial TV
Want to see the latest in digital broadcast television innovation? Go to Europe.
Europe is leading the world in the fast-growing digital terrestrial platform (DTT), though other regions are gaining momentum, according to the latest study by In-Stat.
With analog shutoffs …
NovemberNov 18 Sunday 07
Google's New Android Platform Teaser Video
Video: Google's Sergey Brin intro to Android via a demo.
NovemberNov 17 Saturday 07
TelecomTV: Merging Around CDMA's Decline
Video: Gartner analyst Sylvain Fabre dissects a troubled merger.
Building Value with Subscriber Management
Broadband service providers must learn the art and science of how to apply all the wonderful insights that reside within their datamart, and for very good reasons.
As information becomes a more valuable asset in the effort to win more profitable consumer and business …
More Broadband Video Will Mean Less TV
Within the next three years, more than 16 million U.S. TV households may be using their broadband service more than they use their TV sets today, according to an In-Stat market study.
This is one of the key findings of an In-Stat survey of U.S. consumers about TV …
NovemberNov 16 Friday 07
Rise in Word-of-Mouth Marketing Investment
Spending on word-of-mouth (WoM) marketing jumped 35.9 percent in 2006 to $981.0 million and is expected to top $1 billion in 2007, making it one of the fastest growing alternative media segments.
Driving the growth is the continued consumer shift to alternative media and …
NovemberNov 15 Thursday 07
Upbeat Forecast Persists for Mobile Video
Sales of video-enabled mobile phones hit close to $58 billion worldwide in 2006 and are forecast to more than double to nearly $125 billion by 2010, according to Infonetics Research.
Explosive growth in mobile video subscribers is forecast as well, jumping from a few …
NovemberNov 14 Wednesday 07
Smartphones to Fill Void from PDA Decline
Smartphone Operating System-based phones will grow at more than a 30 percent compound annual growth rate for the next five years globally, taking an increasing share of the overall mobile phone market that is otherwise growing in single digits, according to an In-Stat …
Why Some Americans Will Never Be Online
According to the latest Harris Poll, the number of U.S. adults who are online at home, in the office, at school, library or other locations continues to grow at a steady rate. In the past year, the number of online users has reached an estimated 178 million, a ten …
NovemberNov 13 Tuesday 07
European Broadband Market Hits Saturation
Broadband market saturation is now very evident in several key markets that were previously in the hyper-growth category.
European Broadband Service Providers (BSPs) added 4.2 million new subscriptions in Q2 2007, according to a report just published by Strategy …