In its latest report, Digital Dragons, The Boston Consulting Group reports that despite dot-com gloom lingering in Europe and the US, Asian e-commerce markets are booming. Business to consumer commerce in the Asia-Pacific region is growing at a rate of more than 100% a year mainly due to increased online activity from large, established consumer… Continue reading Boston Consulting Reports That B2C Markets In Asia Are Booming

Around one quarter of homes across France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK will have a broadband connection by 2005, according to the latest projections from the McKinsey Quarterly. This is some 28 million households and could rise to around 70 million, or 60% of homes, by 2010. Broadband connections allow the fast… Continue reading Broadband Take-Up Will Depend On Companies’ Strategies, Says McKinsey

In light of recent reports proclaiming the success of online financial services sites and the growing popularity of online banking, Jupiter MMXI forecast that the days of free content on such sites may be limited. Online banking and share trading sites have previously been free to access but the suggestion is that ‘premium services’ will… Continue reading Success Of Online Finance Sites May Result In Less Free Content

Debt-laden British Telecom (see Forecasts) was facing another blow today as it was usurped by Orange as the UK’s second largest mobile telephone operator. In the three months to June 2001, Orange added 830,000 new subscriber base taking its total to 11.9 million. In March the companies both had around 11 million subscribers but BT… Continue reading Orange Takes The No.2 Spot In The UK Telecoms Market

In its new report Interactive Consumer Broadband: Sex, Sport and Shopping?, Analysys claims that ISPs and telecoms operators are ‘deluding themselves’ if they believe that broadband media entertainment will reap rich rewards. In the battle for viewers, cheap, higher-quality digital tv will prove more attractive to consumers than whatever degree of interactivity may be offered… Continue reading Broadband Poses No Threat To TV, Reports Analysys

Q1 cable statistics from the Independent Television Commission (ITC) show that cable TV penetration has risen by 2.1 percentage points year on year to 28.5% of homes passed and marketed. Cable TV take-up rate has increased by 10.1% in the same period, with 3.6m or 15% of TV households subscribing. The ITC figures also show… Continue reading ITC Publishes Q1 Cable TV Statistics

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India is expected to see rapid growth in the number of internet users in the next few years, despite the slowdown and lack of venture capital funding for investments there, according to an Economic Times’ report on a recent IDC India survey. The survey shows that there will be 37.5 million web users in India… Continue reading Strong Net User Growth Predicted In India

The number of women using the Internet in the Asia-Pacific region has increased by an average of 36% since January, according to a Nielsen NetRatings report. The report says that women now comprise 48% of the Australian internet audience and 46% of New Zealand Net users. In South Korea the number of online women is… Continue reading Women Take Up The Net In Asia, Says Nielsen NetRatings

Although a fair few internet companies shut down in June, 53 according to Webmergers, this represents a plateau in the dot-dom death dot toll as a comparable number ceased to be in May (54). In April, the number of companies which shut down or declared bankruptcy was 59 and so far the number of ‘substantial’… Continue reading Internet Shutdowns ‘Hold Steady’, Says Webmergers