Market Trends

London, UK,  Dec. 15, 2018 – Global defence expenditure grew by 4.9 percent in 2018, the fastest growth rate since 2008, according to the annual Jane’s Defence Budget report, released today by business information provider IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO). Global defence spending grew for the fifth consecutive year to reach a total of USD1.78 trillion in 2018, significantly exceeding the post-Cold War record of US$ 1.69 trillion in 2010, according to the report.

New York City, NY, December 14, 2018- The World Teleport Association (WTA) today released Automating the Teleport a new research report that shares insights from thought leaders in the industry on how automation will play a critical role in transforming the teleport from traditional antenna farms to data centers with dishes that layer on value-added capabilities and services. Based on interviews with executives from teleport, satellite and technology firm, the report offers guidance on what to automate, how to analyze the cost and benefit, and how to avoid deployment nightmares. The report is sponsored by Kratos. 

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. 

Amman, Jordan, December 6, 2018--A new research from Arab Advisors Group reveals that FTA satellite TV average ad  rates are highest during night time between 21:00 and 22:00 Saudi Arabia’s time.  Peak average advertising rate, of 31 analyzed FTA satellite TV channels in the Arab   World, reached US$ 2,778 for a 30-second TV commercial. The average advertising rate for a particular time segment represents the mean advertising rate for a  standard 30-second TV commercial spot (known as a TVC) in that time segment hroughout the week.

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.