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:

• Online ad spending at newspaper Web sites totaled $847 million (Newspaper Association of America)

Connectivity:

• 3 million homes in North America are now connected by fiber-based broadband, while connections are being marketed to another 10 million. Verizon and other former Bell companies accounted for 72 percent of these connected homes. (RVA)
• 56 percent of North American and European enterprises (firms with 1,000 or more employees) consider Web 2.0 to be a priority (Forrester)

Product or Service Milestones

• US wireless subscriber market now totals 255 million, roughly 84 percent of the population. (CTIA)
• Toshiba has officially announced that it will stop producing HD DVD products effectively naming Blu-ray the victor of the format war
• US wireless subscribers now consume more than 2 trillion minutes of airtime a year and send and receive more than 48 billion text messages per month. (CTIA)
• 21 percent of young US consumers use cell phones for banking (Aite Group)
• Cell phone sales up 14 percent YTY
• US wireless combined data revenues now total $23 billion a year, accounting for 17 percent of total carrier revenue. (CTIA)
• 13 million households worldwide receive broadcast via the Internet. (IMS)
• 37 percent of consumers own an iPod or other brand of portable MP3 player (Edison Media Research)
• 96 percent of California households have basic broadband access (Broadband Task Force)
• 25 percent of US households, or 28 million, now have at least one HDTV set (ZDnet)
• 77 percent of the home internet users - or 55 percent of all Americans - have high speed access via cable modem, DSL, a wireless connection, a satellite link or some other way (Pew Internet Project)
• More than 260 service providers are currently deploying WiMAX services in 110 countries worldwide, according to the industry group.
• 16 percent of mobile phone subscribers already use mobile banking services (Harris Interactive)
• 61 percent of broadband Internet users watch online video (Horowitz Associates)
• 25 percent of cellphone owners shop online on their phones (Harris Interactive)
• 52 percent of Internet users connect wirelessly (Pew Internet)
• Americans spend 32.7 hours a week online (IDC)
• There are 12.3 million IPTV subscribers worldwide (Datamonitor)
• MSOs start to roll out faster broadband services by using DOCSIS 3.0Ős wideband downstream channel bonding (CED)

Buyouts or Deals of Interest:

• Amdocs buys JacobsRimell for $45 million, April 9, 2008
• Cox Enterprises Inc. unit Cox TMI Inc. is buying San Bruno, Calif.-based Adify Corp. for an undisclosed amount, May 1, 2008
• Apple bought chipmaker PA Semi for about $278 million, May 1, 2008

 

Predictions:

Data Center:

• By 2008, the global market for operations support systems (OSS) will exceed $46 billion (Insight Research)

CPE:

• By 2008, VoIP IC revenue will rise to $938.4 million (In-Stat)

Market:

• By 2008, CMTS revenue will reach $1.1 billion. (Infonetics Research)
• By 2008, US online ad spending to reach $24.8 billion (eMarketer)
• By 2008, optical market will reach $11.6 billion (Infonetics Research)
• By 2008, US Web widget and application ad spending will amount to $40 mln (eMarketer)
• By 2008, Revenue from advertising on mobile devices will be $479 billion (Group M)
• HDTV
  • By 2008, 4 percent of homes will actively watch HD programming Informa Telecoms & Media)
  • By 2008, HDTV will be seen in 44 mln homes around the world (Informa Telecoms & Media)
  • By 2008, the networks will begin producing shows that are specifically targeted to the high-def audience (Phillip Swann)
• PON
  • By 2008, worldwide OLT and ONT PON equipment revenue is projected to grow to $2.2 billion. (Infonetics Research)

Product or Service Milestones:

• By 2008, telecom companies are expected to claw out 8 percent of the TV business market (Gartner)
• By 2008, video downloads will grow to 215 million (ABI)
• By 2008, a new mobile device category called "nano" or "pico" projectors could be available in various forms (AdLab)
• By 2008, Digital e-newspapers in which one simply downloads a file onto a flexible screen should be available (Amadeus Capital Partners)
• By 2008, IPv6 will be running on some network backbones (3com)

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