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Global Mobile Market - Key Statistics and Insights

Considering the enormous pressure the economic downturn has placed upon industry growth in general around the world ? the mobile sector could well be the envy of other sectors when taking stock of the overall picture. Subscriber growth is still on the rise with the developing markets offering further opportunities for growth; there is a growing demand for higher bandwidth multimedia services offered by smart phones - and around there world there continuing technology developments via the deployment 3G and 4G services. Wireless services are a key area for telecoms industry growth and industry players around the world are competing heavily for a lead position in these developments.

Latest developments:

Despite the positive future ahead for the mobile sector ? it must also be acknowledged that many carriers are currently facing financial woes, with stagnating revenues, declining ARPUs and increasing competition from other types of players like Apple. Another looming issue around the world is the allocating of mobile spectrum. The fact that businesses are knocking on the doors of their governments asking for spectrum is a clear indication that this ?telco real estate? market is hotting up. In 2013 Android OS is well and truly the leading smart phone operating system with roughly 70% market share.

Key statistical information:

Global mobile subscriptions; Mobile subscribers by region; Global mobile capital expenditure (CAPEX); Global mobile services revenue; Global top 20 mobile operators by connections; Global top 11 wireless carriers by revenue and subscribers; Global smart phone operating system market share; Regional mobile data traffic growth; Active mobile subscribers in selected African countries; Active mobile penetration in selected African countries; LAC countries mobile subscribers and penetration; Asia mobile subscribers by country; Asia mobile penetration by country.

Published By: Paul Budde Communication Pty Ltd
Date Published: Apr 2013

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Digital Media - Online Video Streaming, iVoD and Mobile TV Insights

Online video streaming and is one of the fastest growing digital formats and marketers are certainly recognising it?s potential. Online video streaming/web TV over the Internet is being used by many different industries for advertising, marketing, demonstration, entertainment and communication purposes. The success of Google?s YouTube has been well documented and YouTube continues to dominate in terms of viewers and streaming. In 2013 it is attempting to capitalise further on this popularity by introducing paid subscriptions for popular content. Netflix, initially operating in the iVOD sector alone has also entered the streaming video market and is gaining prominence and expanding internationally. Improvements in mobile technology and the introduction of smart phones have also assisted the development of mobile TV/video and we can now see it has a bright future ahead.

This report provides an insight into the key trends taking place in online and mobile video media. For information on IPTV and home networking systems, see separate report: Global ? IPTV, Smart TV and Digital TV Insights.

Latest developments:

In 2013 around a couple of billion online videos are watched worldwide each month; Online Video-On-Demand has gained the attention of Internet heavyweights Google and Facebook; the US is an interesting market to watch for VoD developments with Hulu, Blockbuster, Netflix and Walmart Vudu just some of the players vying for position; there is a movement towards creating online video ?channels? over the Internet aimed at target audiences and YouTube has established a number of popular channels of its own.

Companies mentioned in this report:

Google YouTube; Facebook; Netflix; Amazon; Hulu; Microsoft Zune; Walmart Vudu; Playstation; Apple; Blockbuster (Dish Network); Blinkx; Barnes and Noble.

Published By: Paul Budde Communication Pty Ltd
Date Published: Sep 2013

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