Network services and consumer experience specialist Plume has issued its latest Plume IQ report, which analyses consumer purchasing behaviour during Prime Day, one of the premier online shopping events for electronics, especially connected devices like streaming gadgets, tablets, e-readers, cameras and smart doorbells. Comparing 2022 to 2023, the data shows that while the US continues […]

Network services and consumer experience pioneer Plume has issued its latest Plume IQ report for July 2023, revealing Plume’s Quality of Experience (QoE) scores have remained consistently high, despite rising WiFi load, congestion and interference. Over the last three months, Plume IQ has highlighted a growing QoE risk for home networks globally by analysing Plume […]

According to a report by Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data centre industries, cumulative broadband equipment spending is expected to exceed $120 billion (€109.8bn) between 2022 and 2027. The sales of PON equipment for fibre-to-the-home deployments, cable broadband access equipment, and fixed wireless CPE will show a […]

New research from analyst firm Parks Associates shows that 51 per cent of CTV (connected TV) device owners, roughly 44 million households, engage in commerce-related activities on their TV nowadays. The most common are video-related digital purchases that leverage stored payment credentials or direct consumers to a mobile link to complete the purchase. The study […]

Those of us of a certain age can remember the shift from 21” TV sets, then colour, then PalPlus (the so-called widescreen revolution) the move from analogue to digital, and the rising popularity from consumers for flat-panel sets and ever-larger screens. A new report from analyst firm Omdia says that the move towards screens larger […]

As of Q1 2023, global fixed broadband connections reached 1.377 billion, reflecting a growth rate of 1.59 per cent compared to Q4 2022, according to broadband data specialist Point Topic, who also recorded a decline in fixed broadband subscriptions in 18 countries, which mainly include emerging markets, as well as some saturated markets such as […]

Following Apple’s recent unveiling of its Vision Pro headset, S&P Global Market Intelligence believes that the tech firm is set to play a key role in revitalising the AR/VR market. Neil Barbour, associate research analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, commented: “The AR/VR hardware segment found a relatively low ceiling as an extension of the […]

Global shipments of smart home devices continued to decline in the first quarter of 2023 as shipments fell 5.6 per cent year over year to 186.0 million units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker. Smart speakers and networked video entertainment devices faced the steepest declines in the first […]

Omdia research has benchmarked the leading cloud platforms in the games industry. Omdia’s Market Radar: Cloud Platforms for Games 2023 finds that the market for cloud and related services in the games industry will be worth over $12 billion in 2023. The report analyses in detail the capabilities of the seven leading players in this […]

According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, total global revenue for the Broadband Access equipment market increased to $4.6 billion (€42.bn) in Q1 2023, up 7 per cent year-over-year (Y/Y). Spending on infrastructure remained robust. However, ONTs. Modems, and other CPE units to connect broadband subscribers, dropped 7 per cent Y/Y. “For many service providers, […]