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

Product or Service Milestones

Buyouts or Deals of Interest

 

Predictions:

Advertising:

• By 2011, Advertising revenues from print Yellow Pages, Internet Yellow Pages and Local Search will grow from $30.6 billion in 2006 to $38.9 billion globally, representing a 4.9 percent compound annual growth rate (Group's Global Directories 2007 report)
• By 2011, Email marketing spending will top $1.1 billion
• By 2011, Global mobile advertising market will reach $14.6 billion (Gartner)
• By 2011, The US online advertising market will reach $50.3 billion (Yankee Group)
• By 2011, Global market for ad-supported mobile messaging will rise to $12 billion (eMarketer)
• By 2011, Online advertising to surpass newspaper advertising (VSS)
• By 2011, Podcasting to generate $400 million in ads (eMarketer)

Connectivity:

• By 2011, The number of US households subscribing to FTTx (fiber connections) will increase from 3 million in 2007 to 18 million. (Parks Associates 2007 report)
• By 2011, Streaming video and music to generate $27 billion (Insight Research)
• By 2011, We may start to have IPv6-only networks (IETF)
• By 2011, 900 products (base stations or subscriber devices) will achieve the WiMAX Forum Certified mark (WiMAX Forum)
• By 2011, Total worldwide broadband subscribers will number 567 million (In-Stat)

Market:

• By 2011, 25 percent of media will be consumed online (Yankee Group)
• By 2011, Worldwide online game subscription revenue will reach $6.8 billion (DFC Intelligence)
• DOCSIS 3.0
  • By 2011 Penetration of DOCSIS 3.0 will reach nearly 60 percent for CMTS. Penetration for DOCSIS 3.0 CPEs will be slower reaching just under 40 percent. (ABI Research)
• IPTV
  • By 2011, There will be 60 million IPTV subscribers around the globe. (Parks Associates)
  • By 2011, The Asian-Pacific zone will see IPTV subscribers reach 103 million (ABI)
  • By 2011, More than 9 million households in the U.S. will subscribe to telco-provided video service (ABI)
  • By 2011, There will be 72.6 million IPTV subscribers (MRG)
• Data Center
  • By 2011, Server market to reach $81 billion (Research and Markets)
  • By 2011, LAN and WLAN test equipment to generate $1.2 billion (Frost & Sullivan)
  • By 2011, Nanostorage technology will have penetrated nearly 40 percent of the disk drive and memory chip businesses and the market for such devices will grow to a $65.7 billion (NanoMarkets)
  • By 2011, Revenue for online backup services market to reach $715 million (IDC)
  • By 2011, Enterprise spending on Rich Internet Applications to surpass $500 million (ZapThink)
  • By 2011, Hitachi to offer 4TB desktop drives (Hitachi)
  • By 2011, Virtualization services are expected to turn into an $11.7 billion market (IDC)
  • By 2011, The high performance computing (HPC) server market will reach $15 billion by 2011 (IDC)
• VoD
  • By 2011, Television viewers will spend $4.2 billion on VoD services - a compound annual growth rate of 19.5 percent. (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
• Mobility
  • By 2011, Of the 941 mln handsets that will ship worldwide, more than half will be music phones (MultiMedia Intelligence)
  • By 2011, The number of worldwide wireless subscribers and customers to grow to more than a billion (IDC)
  • By 2011, Worldwide wireless subscribers and customers will generate $800 billion in global wireless service revenue (IDC)
  • By 2011, The number of global users of mobile banking technology will exceed 816 million (Juniper Research
  • By 2011, Mobile broadband LTE on 700Mhz spectrum (Verizon)
  • By 2011, Service revenues from the global mobile TV market will exceed $24 billion annually (Multimedia Research Group)
  • By 2011, Ringtones and mobile TV to account for 5.1 percent of mobile revenues (IDC)
  • By 2011, Mobile Event Ticketing goes mainstream, with over 2.6 billion mobile tickets set to be delivered (Juniper Research)
  • By 2011, GPS-enabled mobile phone shipments will increase to 444 million unites (iSupply)
  • By 2011, 29.6 percent of all mobile phones shipped will have GPS (iSupply)
  • By 2011, 75 percent of the US workforce will be mobile (IDC)
  • By 2011, There will be 102 million users of femtocell products on 32 million access points worldwide (ABI)
  • By 2011, Mobile entertainment to be worth $76 billion (Juniper Research)
• HDTV
  • By 2011, LCD shipments are expected to hit 165.3 million units worldwide (iSuppli)
  • By 2011, Global LCD revenue will reach $116.2 billion (iSuppli)
  • By 2011, The number of homes taking the product will jump to 151 million worldwide (Informa Telecoms and Media)
  • By 2011, Ultra-HDTV technology will be available (Philips)
  • By 2011, Nearly 41 percent of those households receiving HDTV programming will receive it via satellite (IDC)

Other:

Product or Service Milestones:

• By 2011, There will only be 3,000 world languages - 50% fewer than in the year 2000.
• By 2011, Half of all music sold in the US will be digital (Forrester Research)
• By 2011, The installed base for the Nintendo Wii will grow to 37.7 million units (iSuppli)
• By 2011, The PlayStation 3 will reach an installed base of 38.4 million units (iSuppli)
• By 2011, Notebook sales will outstrip desktop PCs (IDC)
• By 2011, There will be 1.8 zettabytes of electronic data stored in 20 quadrillion files, packets or other containers (IDC)
• By 2011, The number of virtualized PCs is expected to grow to 660 million (Gartner)

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