A report by Boston Consulting sponsored by Liberty Global claims exploitation of personal data could be worth $670 billion annually by 2020. The consultant says that value represents both ‘organisational’ and consumer economic benefits but will only be achieved if people ‘trust’ organisations with their personal data. Most of the value is in cost savings […]
Canalys has released its final worldwide country-level smartphone data for Q3 2012. The estimates show that the smartphone market reached 173.7 million units, growing 44 per cent year-on-year. Samsung topped the table for the third consecutive quarter, followed by Apple. Together, both vendors accounted for nearly 50 per cent of the market. Sony jumped into […]
Sandvine’s new Global Internet Phenomena Report, reveals that Netflix now accounts for 33 per cent of peak residential downstream traffic in the US. This puts it massively ahead of rivals: Amazon’s video service only causes 1.75 per cent of peak residential downstream traffic. Hulu causes 1.38 per cent of residential peak downstream traffic, with HBO […]
By 2017, ABI Research expects over-the-top (OTT) revenue to quadruple to $32 billion, up from the expected $8.2 billion in 2012. Subscription services, such as Netflix, have led the OTT markets the past couple of years, which has helped push the market towards healthy growth. By 2014, however, ABI Research expects OTT rentals to surpass […]
Findings from independent survey research firm 451 Research’s ChangeWave service show that while Netflix leads among ‘paid alternative TV providers’, the Amazon Instant Video service is making big gains among consumers.din “While Netflix still holds the largest share by far of the paid alternative TV market, consumers continue to shift towards Amazon’s Instant Video service,” […]
The UK’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport has revealed findings of a study that suggests the impact of radio spectrum on the UK economy is worth more than £50 billion a year. The Analysys Mason study, commissioned by Government, found spectrum use was valued at £52 billion in 2011, an increase of 25 per […]
Worldwide tablet shipments totalled 27.8 million units in the third quarter of 2012, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. The tablet market grew 49.5 per cent year over year in Q3 and 6.7 per cent over the second quarter of 2012. Android shipments, led by Samsung and […]
The expansion of high-speed broadband deployment and growth in smartphone uptake in Germany offers operators an opportunity to consider expanding their service portfolio to IT solutions, according to a report from Pyramid Research. “Currently three mobile operators offer commercial LTE services, focusing their investment on expanding the coverage across the country,” says Pyramid Research Analyst, […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its latest Home Networking Devices vendor market share and forecast report, which tracks residential gateways; broadband routers; HomePlug Powerline adapters; multimedia over coax (MoCA) set-top boxes (STBs), optical network terminals (ONTs), and coax-Ethernet adapters; and HPNA/G.hn adapters. “Among the wide variety of gear we track for […]
Research from analyst firm Parks Associates analysing broadband and pay-TV services, business models, and consumer preferences indicates that broadband penetration is above 70 per cent in several Western European countries, and up to 30 per cent of the broadband population in some countries prefer PCs over TVs for watching video, with a strong corresponding preference […]