Market Trends

Global 3-D TV Shipments Soar by Nearly 500 Percent in 2011

El Segundo, Calif., May 6, 2011-Driven by a pronounced change in marketing and promotion strategies as well as price declines and an increasing availability of content, worldwide shipments of 3-D TVs will catapult by a spectacular 463 percent to reach 23.4 million units in 2011, according to IHS iSuppli (NYSE: IHS) research.

Global DRM Market to Grow Threefold by 2014

Noida, India, May 3, 2011-Global Digital Rights Management (DRM) market is projected to witness significant growth in near future due to the continuously growing media and entertainment sector according to a new report by RNCOS. Our team of experts says that, mobile content market is projected to be one of the key driving forces for the growth in the DRM industry. Telecom operators are offering premium multimedia content to compensate for their declining voice revenue per user. Besides, enterprise sector will witness significant growth and is projected to offer immense opportunities for implementing DRM. The industry has been experiencing losses worth billions of dollars due to the lack of DRM implementation in corporate.

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Connected TVs Forecast to Exceed 123 Million Units by 2014

Santa Clara, Calif., April 25, 2011—Nearly 20% of all TVs shipped in 2010 featured connected TV capabilities, according to the DisplaySearch Q1’11 Quarterly TV Design and Features Report, the connected TV category is forecast to grow to over 123 million shipments in 2014 (at a 30% compound annual growth rate). Emerging markets will also play a major role in this growth, with Eastern Europe forecast to grow from 2.5 million connected TVs shipped in 2010 to over 10 million in 2014. In addition, DisplaySearch findings indicate that 33% of flat panel TVs sold in China in 2013 will have internet capability.

WTA Releases New Report on What it Takes to Deliver Round-the-Clock High-Availability Services

New York City, April 20, 2011 – The World Teleport Association has published a new report, How to Deliver High Quality of Service 24x7x365, that explores the practices of teleport operators in delivering high levels of service while balancing customer expectations, technology and human capital investment with the bottom line of the business.

Asia - Mobile, Broadband and Digital Economy Overview 2011

Singapore, April 19, 2011--Mobile markets in Asia continued experiencing strong growth during 2010, according to a new Research and Markets report.  A total of more than 2.6 billion mobile subscribers in early 2011 and an average annual growth of over 25% (excluding the most highly penetrated markets) have combined to see the Asia region have the fastest growing telecommunications markets in the world. With difficult economic conditions and some markets saturating it is not surprising that the growth rate has slowed somewhat over the last year or so. This is after a period where annual mobile subscriber growth rates in Asia had been well in excess of 50%.

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Revenues for Broadband Satellite Services to Exceed US$9 Billion by 2020

Cambridge, MA - April 12, 2011 - According to NSR's latest market research report, Broadband Satellite Markets, 10th Edition released today, satellite broadband access is again the leading revenue generator with NSR forecasting revenues from these services will grow almost 15% annually over the coming ten years. NSR expects the total satellite broadband market to generate $9 billion in revenues by 2020, driven primarily by satellite broadband Internet access and VSAT networking to enterprises.

The Russian Telecom Market Generated Rb1.149bn (US$37.8bn) In Service Revenue in 2010

Dublin, Ireland, April 12, 2011--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the Russia Telecom Intelligence Report - Russia: Data Connectivity Boom to Spur Market Growth report to their offering. Broadband services in Russia will help drive Internet revenue to $6.5 billion in 2015, becoming the fastest-growing revenue source in the fixed segment, according to this new report.

The majority of data revenue growth will come from mobile broadband, and Pyramid estimates that connectivity revenue will increase by 183 percent over the forecast period, driven by the planned 3G and 4G network rollouts, as well as growing computing devices proliferation.”

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US Mobile Video Viewers Rise 40% in 2010

New York, NY, April 1, 2011--According to a new mobile video report from The Nielsen Company, the number of U.S. mobile subscribers watching video on their mobile devices rose more than 40 percent year-over-year in both the third and fourth quarters of 2010, ending the year at nearly 25 million people. These mobile video users watched an average of four hours and 20 minutes of mobile video per month in both the third and fourth quarter of 2010–a 33 percent and 20 percent year-over-year increase in each quarter respectively.

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TV Everywhere Platforms Targeting Connected Devices Will Drive Video Delivery Investments to More than $2 Billion in 2016

Scottsdale, Ariz., April 1, 2011--Operators are investing significantly in equipment to deliver video efficiently to iPads and other streaming devices, including PCs, mobile phones and connected TVs. Video-on-Demand hardware, historically used primarily for pay-per-view content, is being repurposed to serve N-Screen or TV Everywhere platforms, while operators invest in Content Delivery Networks to ensure quality of delivery and efficient network utilization.

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Update on US Digital TV Market - Broadcasting and IPTV

Dublin, March 22, 2011--Although the FTA networks, such as ABC, CBS, and NBC all offer digital and increasingly High Definition TV programming, for many years they have been losing audience share to the cable and satellite TV networks. The Big Three are expected to continue to lose market share to the DBS and cable providers as well as, incrementally, to the telcos' IPTV networks. The US now has one of the highest rates of pay TV penetration in the world. By 2010 there were over 100 million pay TV (or Multichannel Video Programming Distributors) subscribers in the US, amounting to over 85% of households. A significant trend in the digital TV market is the shift towards video-on-demand and other forms of online video viewing, a trend which will continue to strengthen along with the growth of broadband networks, according to a new research report by Research and Markets entitled "USA- Digital TV Market-Broadcasting and IPTV."

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