Birds-Eye.Net tracks events and predictions related to the broadband industry each year. Note that if no source is listed, the information came from multiple sources. For global broadband numbers check out our world telecom numbers spreadsheet.

Actual Events:

Advertising:

• Internet ad revenue reaches new quarterly high of 4.2 billion in 3rd quarter.

Buyouts or Deals of Interest:

• Cisco buys Arroyo for $92 million, August 22, 2006
• Google buys dMarc Broadcasting for $102 million, January 17, 2006
• Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion, October 9, 2006
• Motorola buys IP STB vendor Kreatel (Sweden) for at least $67 million Euros, January 17, 2006
• RedHat buys JBoss for $350 million, April 10, 2006

Connectivity:

• Only 20% of broadband households (HH) in the US have some kind of network. (Pew Survey)
• Cable penetration fell to 62.3 percent (Television Bureau of Advertising)
• Satellite market share increased to 24 percent (Television Bureau of Advertising)

CPE:

• IPTV:
  • Motorola maintains its worldwide lead in the IP set-top box market in 2006; Amino Communications moves up to 2nd place, while Yuxing moves down to 3rd. (Infonetics Research)
• Mobile:
  • MP3 Players are either owned or rented by 26.7 percent of US households, and 2 1/2 times more likely to own or rent in the presence of children ages 12-17 years. (Nielsen Media Research)
  • PDA are found in 16.4 percent of US households since 3rd quarter of 2003, PDA ownership has increased by 4.5 percent. (Nielsen Media Research)
• Security:
  • 50 million trusted platform modules (TPM)s were sold. (IDC)
• Video:
  • DVDs are found in 81.2 percent of US households, versus 79.2 percent for VCRs. (Nielsen Media Research)

Market:

• HDTV
  • 15 percent of cable TV subscribers own a HDTV television set (CTAM)
  • 26 percent of US households own a high-definition TV (CEA)
• IPTV:
  • Worldwide IP set-top box revenue dipped a bit in the fourth quarter but nearly tripled from 2005 to 2006, reaching $455 million (up 195 percent). (Infonetics Research)
  • IPTV service provider revenue jumped 178 percent in 2006 to $2.8 billion worldwide. (Infonetics Research)
  • EMEA is the leading region for IPTV service revenue, accounting for 49 percent of the worldwide total in 2006, followed by Asia Pacific with 35 percent. (Infonetics Research)
• VoD
  • Viewers spend $1.617 billion on VoD services in 2006. (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
  • The portion of US digital cable households that have used VoD grew to 60 percent. (Leichtman Research)

Product or Service Milestones:

• IPTV
  • The number of IPTV subscribers grew 166 percent in 2006, hitting 7.2 million worldwide. (Infonetics Research)
• PON
  • World wide PON subscribers nearly doubled in rising to 6.5 million. (Infonetics Research)
• Video
  • The mean reported number of programs recorded each week in a DVR is 11.3 programs recorded per week. (Leichtman Research Group)
• Web
  • The next generation of the Internet has begun and its called "Web 2.0".
  • There are 100 million websites in 2006, up from 18,000 in 1995.
  • 12 million US adults are keeping blogs, 57 million are reading them.

Video and Media:

• Video streams in the US hit 7 billion per month.

Predictions:

Market:

• Optical
  • By 2006 modest growth is likely when the market will top $10 billion. (Infonetics Research)

Product or Service Milestones:

• By end of 2006, Cable MSOs will achieve 8 percent share of the residential telephone market and whereas telcos' will obtain less than 1 percent of the residential video market. (Convergence Consulting Group)

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