Parks Associates has released its latest Consumer Electronics Dashboard research, which shows 66 per cent of US internet households now own a smart TV. The survey from Q3 2023 shows the most popular smart TV operating system is Samsung’s Tizen at 35 per cent, a slight drop compared to Q1, but the decline was not […]

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) expects consumer tech retail revenues to increase 2.8 per cent in 2024, with TV unit sales are forecast to rise just 1 per cent this year. After two years of down trending, US consumer technology spending is expected to return to growth in 2024, the CTA says in its latest […]

According to a research from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, there were a total of 2,900 private LTE/5G networks deployed across the world at the end of 2023, including trial and pilot deployments. Private 5G network deployments are moving from trials to commercial operations and amounted to an estimated 700 networks whereof trials accounted […]

According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks and data centre industries, total global revenue for the Broadband Access equipment market decreased to $4.1 billion (€3.8bn) in Q3 2023, down 14 per cent year-on-year. The lone bright spot this quarter was spending on Fixed Wireless CPE, […]

TV shipments will fall by 2.1 per cent this year. The world’s major manufacturers are still shipping millions of units, and some have enjoyed growth, but Samsung – still with the largest market share (18.5 per cent) – is likely to suffer the hardest with a 9.8 per cent decline in shipments (to 36.3 million […]

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) reports that Wi-Fi 6, 6E and 7 top the list of wireless technologies that network operators, ISPs, device and chipset vendors, enterprises and other companies plan to deploy by the end of 2024 — ahead of CBRS, DAS and private 4G/5G. Furthermore, confidence in investment across the sector is rising […]

German consumers are keeping their wallets firmly closed according to a study from HEMIX (Germany’s Home Electronics Market Index). The first 9 months of this year saw a 6.1 per cent fall in sales of a broad range of consumer electronics compared with the same period in 2022. TVs, the backbone of consumer electronics sales, […]

Throughout 2023, GSMA Intelligence has analysed developments and trends spanning all areas of the telecoms industry and wider digital ecosystem. As the industry will continue to evolve in 2024, the industry research body asks how will their research themes change? Most of the 2023 themes will continue to run their course; though some of them […]

NPAW, a specialist in video business intelligence and predictive analytics, has released the findings of its State of Video Product Analytics 2023 global B2B survey which reveals that, while the use of product analytics is widespread in the video streaming industry, 92 per cent of respondents (employees at streaming providers at the director level and […]

Smart TVs have overtaken traditional TV sets in Italy, according to a report by research institute Censis and audience rating company Auditel. There is currently a total of 21 million smart TVs in Italian homes (+4.4 per cent year-on-year), compared to 20.5 million traditional TV sets. However, if traditional TVs with devices that connect them […]