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.

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.

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.

Despite consumer belt-tightening, Pay-TV has weathered the recession storm and seen consistent growth throughout the 19 Western European countries. Overall, the Pay-TV subscriber base has expanded by almost 11% a year in Western Europe since 2008 reaching 73 million, or 42% of all TV households, according to the e-media Institute.

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.

IPTV subscriptions will reach 131.6 million globally by year-end 2015, a CAGR of 23 percent, driven by the introduction of IPTV in emerging markets and the extension of coverage in developed markets to secondary and tertiary cities, according to a new report by Pyramid Research.

Early expectations of 3D TV were over hyped by the press, while current coverage laments the fact that 3D has not lived up to its promise.  The reality is somewhere between the two extremes.  3D channels have been launched in North America, Europe, and Asia in 2010.  More will come in 2011.  In addition to linear TV channels, 3D content is being made widely available on pay-TV providers VOD systems.  Those who are experimenting with 3D VOD now are expected to make linear 3D channels available as well.

Driven by ever-increasing communications needs from cockpit and cabin applications, revenue in the global aeronautical satellite communications market grew by almost 25% in 2010 and will continue to grow at a steady though slower pace over the next decade, according to a new report from Euroconsult.

According to NSR's newest market research report, Oil & Gas via Satellite released today, challenges within traditional Oil & Gas markets of the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico limit long term retail revenue, and future growth will come increasingly from Greenfield opportunities. However, despite lower growth, the traditional markets will continue to provide stable revenue opportunities for established satellite players.

According to the most recent market data from ABI Research, there were more than 704 million pay-TV subscribers globally at the end of 2010, increased more than 56 million subscribers from 2009.  The Asia-Pacific region, which owns 57% of global pay-TV subscriptions, remains the largest pay-TV market in the world.