NSR’s Satellite Manufacturing and Launch Services, 5th Edition, report, released today, projects that over 1,800 satellites weighing more than 50 kilograms will be ordered and launched over the next decade, generating US$ 300 billion across global markets. Satellites launched by entirely new commercial and national operators will complement replacement and expansion missions from traditional players, sustaining the market above $26 billion per year.

The increased adoption of IPTV in the APAC region has resulted in significant growth of the Global IPTV Market, leading to a projected CAGR of 20.32 percent from 2014-2019, says research firm TechNavio.

IPTV operators in the APAC region are focused on increasing their customer base and revenue through promotional campaigns and providing services with low installation costs. China, Japan and South Korea are some of the leading revenue contributors in this region.

According to a new market research report entitled "Commercial Drones Market by Type (Fixed Wing, Rotary Blade, Quad Rotor), Technology (Energy & Propulsion System, Automation, Collision Avoidance), Application (Government, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Retail) & Geography - Global Forecast to 2020", published by MarketsandMarkets, the total commercial drones market was valued at US$ 15.22 Million in 2014 and is expected to reach US$ 1.27 Billion by 2020, at an estimated CAGR of 109.31% between 2014 and 2020.

Futuresource Consulting has announced its latest 4K report, which will review the progress in the broadcast, video, and display industries. With the 4K industry gathering pace, a sustained flow of 4k content will be critical to the long term success of 4k.

While disc playback of 4k content will not be a possibility until late 2015, OTT (Over the Top) video services are driving early roll-out of 4k video services with several now available in the market. Several further propositions are set for launch in 2015/6 from both standalone providers and traditional Pay-TV platforms.

LTE-Advanced networks have been actively deployed around the world. At the end of 2014, LTE-Advanced covered its first 100 million people worldwide, just 4 years since the network’s inception. ABI Research predicts that the coverage will reach 1 billion in 4 more years.

“As heavy subscribers’ data traffic growth has exploded, ABI Research anticipates fierce competition for more spectrum, as well as an active migration to VoLTE and higher data modulation schemes such as LTE and LTE-Advanced, which has higher spectral efficiency”

The worldwide pay-TV market is expected to grow 5% in 2014, surpassing 924.4 million subscribers. “IPTV is expected to grow a market leading 14% in 2014, followed by satellite TV platform at 7%. The growth rates of cable and terrestrial TV platforms are expected to slow to around 3%,” comments Jake Saunders, VP and Practice Director of Core Forecasting at ABI Research.

Mobile operators in nineteen Arab countries had 406.3 million cellular lines at end of the 1st quarter 2014, up from 401 million at yearend 2013, a growth of 1.3%. In 2013 the cellular lines base had grown by a healthier 9.1%. A new report from Arab Advisors Group analyzes and ranks cellular operators in the Arab World. The three cellular operators in Egypt; Vodafone, Mobinil and Etisalat were the largest Arab cellular operators in terms of subscriptions by end of March 2014.

Global mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014. Global mobile data traffic reached 2.5 exabytes per month at the end of 2014, up from 1.5 exabytes per month at the end of 2013 according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2014 to 2019.

Last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 30 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. One exabyte of traffic traversed the global Internet in 2000, and in 2014 mobile networks carried nearly 30 exabytes of traffic.

NSR’s Energy Markets via Satellite, 5th Edition report finds that although near-term challenges exist for some segments of the Energy market, the long term opportunities remain strong.  At over US$ 3.8 Billion in retail revenues split between Oil & Gas, Mining, and Utility Markets by 2024 - new capacity, terminal form factors, and the ever-increasing focus on improving productivity of remote operations will drive demand for satellite communications across the Energy Sector.  

The number of pay TV homes in the Middle East and North Africa will double between 2010 and 2020 to 21.3 million, according to a new 208-page report from Digital TV Research. Turkey will account for 37% of the 2020 total.