Market Trends

New York City, October 29, 2014 – A new report from Euroconsult, the Paris-based technology consultancy, shows just how much African nations rely on C-Band satellite services for television, Internet access, banking, energy production, civil aviation and government operations, and demonstrated the potential damage to economies and civil society of attempts by the mobile and wireless industry to gain access to C-Band spectrum. 

Wilmington, DE, October 28, 2014 – NSR’s newly released Government and Military Satellite Communications, 11th Edition, report forecasts the global government and military market will demand nearly 700 traditional FSS transponders and 75 Gbps of HTS capacity by 2023, generating over $7.8 billion in annual retail revenues. Increasing demand from current users, coupled with new customers and evolving bandwidth-hungry applications, will drive this resurgence in a market that has seen declining revenues in 2013 and H1 2014.

San Jose, Calif., October 24, 2014--Gaming consoles and over-the-top (OTT) devices, such as Apple TV and Roku, are helping online TV work its way into our living rooms to directly compete with traditional television. According to Adobe Digital Index's “Q2 Video Benchmark” report, online TV content viewed through these devices saw the biggest market share increase of all device types.

Singapore, October 23, 2014--The worldwide Pay TV market is expected to surpass 920 million subscribers by the end of 2014. Overall, Pay TV average revenue per user (ARPU) is expected to drop slightly due to increasing price competition, but at a lower rate compared to the ARPU drop in 2013 according to ABI Research.

Wilmington, DE, October 22, 2014--NSR's Satellite-Based Earth Observation (EO), 6th Edition report, released today, projects that data, value-added services and Information Products from satellite-based Earth Observation will grow to US$ 5.1 billion by 2023, up from US$ 2.1 billion in 2013. The market will shift gears in the wake of new very high resolution data available and increased demand from commercial and enterprise customers.

Albany, NY October 21, 2014--All telecommunication services (fixed line or mobile) are basically made up of a combination of hardware devices and embedded software that enables the hardware in undertaking various operations. Along with the embedded software, there are two other software applications that are critical for the proper management of the telecom network. These are OSS and BSS.

Washington, D.C. October 20, 2014--The global market for airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms and payloads is thriving, with recent assessments pegging its latest value at close to $20 billion and forecasts of up to $43 billion by 2020, accoridng to a recent report from Airborneusa.com

London, UK,  October 20, 2014--The results of the latest research conducted by Point Topic and Adroit Economics points to a Euro 40 billion opportunity for the SMEs in Europe by the end of the decade.  Extending work recently conducted for the European Commission BRESAT project has revealed significant potential for growth and productivity.

Dallas, Tex., October 15, 2014--New research from Parks Associates finds more than 46 million households worldwide will subscribe to a 4K UHD pay-TV service by 2018. Pay-TV providers will deploy this service as a differentiator, especially among younger consumers who are more likely to use new pay-TV features, such as TV Everywhere and cloud DVR, but also have slightly lower subscription rates for pay-TV services. In the U.S., 82% of consumers 18-22 have a pay-TV subscription, compared to 87% among older consumers.

Amman, Jordan, October 10, 2014--A new report from the Arab Advisors Group provides an overview of data centers located within the GCC countries and their services. The research revealed that co-location services were the most common in the GCC region, offered by nearly all analyzed data centers.