Report: Samsung leads advanced TV shipments
Advanced TV revenues are forecast to grow by a 5 per cent growth rate from 2019 to 2025 to $22 billion, according the new DSCC Quarterly Advanced TV Shipment and…
LatAm: 41% of TV sets are Smart TV
Smart TVs have experienced a great deployment in Latin America. By the end of 2020, there will be 111 million devices installed, forecasts Dataxis, equating to 41.4 per cent of…
Forecast: Home networking shipments to drop 1% in 2020
Global home networking unit shipments are only expected to decline by 1 per cent in 2020, dipping from 193.9 million worldwide to 192.1 million, according to forecasts from Dell’Oro Group.…
Forecast: Broadband access equipment spend to drop 7% in 2020
Global spending on broadband access equipment and CPE is expected to drop 7 per cent in 2020, dipping to $11.4 billion, before increasing 5 per cent in 2021 according to…
Forecast: 5G infrastructure spend to double
Worldwide 5G network infrastructure market revenue will almost double in 2020 to reach $8.1 billion (€6.9bn), according to the latest forecast by research and advisory company Gartner. Total wireless infrastructure…
Research: Smart speakers increasingly linked to smart TVs
Findings from Hub Entertainment Research’s annual study – Evolution of the TV Set – reveal more viewers are using smart TVs linked to smart speakers to fill gaps in TV…
Forecast: Smart home device markets to rebound in 2021
A desire to keep a closer eye on what is happening around their homes as consumers shelter-in-place will help the smart home market weather the global Covid-19 pandemic in 2020,…
Research: Lockdown, eSports boost PC hardware market
Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, reported in its newest gaming market study regarding the PC Gaming Hardware Market, which consists of personal…
Research: “STBs can adapt to have a role in OTT market”
Parks Associates research shows the number of hours per week consumers spend watching online video has almost doubled from 3.6 hours per week in 2017 to nearly seven hours per…
Survey: Connectivity challenges during pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic created a surge in home network usage and issues, and disrupted customer contact-centre operations for broadband service providers around the globe, according to the findings of a…
Study: 54% US homes own smart TV
According to market research and consulting company Parks Associates, more than 50 per cent of US broadband households own at least one smart TV, making the smart TV the primary…
Survey: 25% piracy device users have malware problem
Americans using illegal piracy devices are much more likely to bring malware and hackers into the home, a Digital Citizens Alliance survey of 1,512 US has consumers found. In the…
Survey: Lockdown raises data privacy & broadband concerns
While Covid-19 lockdown has prompted a positive shift in UK households’ digital activity, concerns around data privacy and security breaches alongside broadband reliability issues have created underlying levels of anxiety…
Forecast: 190m 5G subs by year-end
Communications technologist Ericsson expects the global number of 5G subscriptions to top 190 million by the end of 2020 and 2.8 billion by the end of 2025. These forecasts are…
Sports market for AR glasses?
With more people taking up new activities every day, there is an increase in the data available for analysis. Smart watches have led the game in this area, tracking and…
Report: Broadband access equipment revenue down 15%
According to a report by Dell’Oro Group, total global revenue for broadband access equipment dropped to $2.5 billion, down 15 per cent year-on-year from Q1 2019. The first quarter activity,…