According to a report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, networks, and data centre IT industries, global PON equipment market revenue is forecast to reach $7.3 billion by 2023, driven by spending on new 10 Gbps EPON and XGS-PON deployments, and on maximising existing 2.5 Gbps GPON networks. Telecom […]
As the competition for fan engagement increases across major global sporting events, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning offer new ways to deliver more sophisticated and connected data experiences. Research from NTT, the technology and managed services companies, highlights sporting organisations need to do more to create the types of experiences that digitally savvy fans […]
Research by Ampere Analysis focuses on critical ratings of US SVoD titles. Ampere has formulated a score from 0-100, created from average user reviews gathered from leading ratings websites and film/TV databases. All titles referenced are available on US SVoD platforms. When looking at the top 25 critically acclaimed shows on each of the five […]
The rollout of 5G technology will proceed at blistering pace, with the number of subscriptions in Asia and North America set to exceed 1 billion units by the technology’s fifth year of deployment, nearly triple the total for 4G during the same time period, according to Elias Gravitinos, principal analyst, IHS Markit. Starting from a […]
In an unintended consequence of the US-China trade dispute, the North American television market has increased its adoption of smart TVs – particularly those based on the Roku TV operating system (OS), according to research firm IHS Markit. Smart TVs in the first quarter of 2019 accounted for 89 per cent of television shipments into […]
Parks Associates research from the 360 View: CE Adoption & Trends report finds 22 per cent of US broadband households have a Wi-Fi network extender and 11 per cent have a Wi-Fi mesh networking product. The firm notes that just over 30 per cent of computing and entertainment device owners report experiencing loss of wireless […]
IABM has released a new Audio Business Report to members, looking at the current state of the industry and identifying the key drivers of change as the audio market goes through a radical transition. This is IABM’s first standalone report on the audio sector, and it will now be regularly updated. Highlights of the report […]
Disney will nearly double its earnings by 2024, largely on the back of Marvel content on its new Disney+ streaming service, according to a Morgan Stanley report. The investment bank forecasts that Disney can double earnings per share from $6.50 in 2020 to between $11 and $12 in 2024, as it builds its Disney+ streaming […]
Ofcom has published the latest league tables on the complaints it receives about the UK’s major home phone, broadband, mobile and pay-TV firms. The quarterly report reveals the number of complaints made to the media regulator between January and March this year about firms in the home broadband, landline telephone, mobile and pay-TV markets. All […]
Half of adults in the UK now use social media to keep up-to-date on the latest news, according to Ofcom’s annual news consumption report. While TV remains the most popular platform for people to access news, usage has decreased since last year (75 per cent in 2019 vs. 79 per cent in 2018). In the […]