Market Trends

Cambridge, Mass., December 12, 2018 – NSR’s Land Mobile via Satellite, 6th Edition released today, forecasts the markets to yield US$ 18 billion in cumulative retail revenues from the satcom land mobile markets, and annual retail equipment revenues to quadruple from $92 million in 2017 to US$ 376 million in 2027. Flat panel antennas driving vehicle connectivity contribute to this rapid growth of equipment revenues, and new form factors and products hitting the market, offering an increasingly diverse range of devices, will further contribute to such growth.

Geneva, Switzerland,  December 11, 2018--​​​More and more people have access to and are using the Internet. However, stronger information and communication technology (ICT) skills are needed to connect people everywhere, highlights ITU's Measuring the Information Society Report 2018. At the same time, ICT prices have dropped globally in the last decade. Improved ICT regulation and policy-making have played a pivotal role in creating the conditions for the reduction of prices, ensuring that part of the efficiency gains of higher ICT adoption are passed on to consumers.

Geneva, Switzerland, December 7, 2018--​​​​​​​​​ITU, the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), estimates that at the end of 2018, 51.2 per cent of the global population, or 3.9 billion people, will be using the Internet. 

Oyster Bay, NY, Dec. 3, 2018 — ABI Research, a market-foresight advisory firm providing strategic guidance on the most compelling transformative technologies, sees the enterprise video solutions market to pass US$ 49 billion by 2023. While changes in viewer behavior and the shift from on-prem hardware to cloud services have posed challenges to some market segments such as encoders/transcoders, middleware, and conditional access (CAS), new opportunities in OTT and cloud video are adding fuel to the market – UHD and ongoing codec transitions (e.g., HEVC) will also help balance out declines and slowing growth in some pay TV markets.

Hertfordshire, UK, Nov. 28, 2018 — As 2018 draws to a close, consumer interest in 4K UHD continues to climb, receiving a further push due to average retail prices reaching parity with HDTV sets, according to the latest market tracking report from Futuresource Consulting.

San Jose, Calif., Nov. 27, 2018 — The internet is made up of thousands of public and private networks around the world. And since it came to life in 1984, more than 4.7 zettabytes of IP traffic have flowed across it. That’s the same as all the movies ever made crossing global IP networks in less than a minute.Yet the new Visual Networking Index (VNI) by Cisco predicts that is just the beginning. By 2022, more IP traffic will cross global networks than in all prior ‘internet years’ combined up to the end of 2016. In other words, more traffic will be created in 2022 than in the 32 years since the internet started, says CISCO. 

Bristol, UK, Nov. 22, 2018 — With the onset of 5G world, vendors are emphasizing new business models and trying to enable them but operator spending plans show they are more concerned about sustaining the growth curve on mobile broadband. According to RAN Research, the wireless research arm of Rethink Technology Research, this mismatch will show up in planned Capex expenditure and the order in which operators expect to deploy different aspects of 5G. It predicts that  early 5G will be all about consumer mobile broadband delivering high speed to the handset, and ignoring new business models.

New York, NY, Nov. 14, 2018 – Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) today released Identifying and Engaging High-Potential Employees, the newest report in the Making Leaders series, which shares insights from experts in talent management on how to spot high-potential employees, what to do with them, and how to know you are doing it right.

Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 14, 2018 – NSR’s Commercial Satellite Ground Segment, 3rd Edition report, released today, forecasts annual global revenues for the Commercial Satellite Ground Segment will grow to US$ 15.71 billion by 2027. Set top boxes (STBs) and antennas capture the largest share of revenues, leveraging the volumes of Satellite TV.

Paris, France, Nov. 12, 2018 — Euroconsult anticipates that 330 satellites with a mass over 50 kg will be launched on average each year by 2027 for government agencies and commercial organizations worldwide. This is a threefold increase over the past decade as the satellite market experiences a paradigm shift with the rise of small satellites and large constellations according to the research firm's latest report, Satellites to be Built & Launched over the Next 10 Years.