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Revenues from online content will reach €8.3 billion by 2010 in Europe, a growth of over 400% in five years, according to a new study by Screen Digest for the European Commission’s Directorate General Information Society and Media. The nine month long consultancy project crossed many of Screen Digest’s specialist areas and so involved a… Continue reading European Online Content Revenues To Reach €13 Billion

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone services, which in 2006 had less than 38 million subscribers worldwide, should have a subscriber base of over 267 million in 2012, according to a new study released by ABI Research. Michael Arden, principal broadband analyst, said: “”Hosted service providers, the pioneers of commercial VoIP, are going to grow… Continue reading VoIP To Reach 267 Million Subscribers Worldwide

Active home internet usage experienced its largest growth in Spain as the year closed out, according to new research from Nielsen//NetRatings. Active Internet Universe, December 2006  Country  November 2006  December 2006  Growth (%)  Diff.  Australia 10,648,118 10,698,764 0.48 50,647 Brazil 14,448,077 14,419,335 -0.2 -28,741 France 20,876,899 21,183,022 1.47 306,123 Germany 33,282,100 33,396,576 0.34 114,476 Italy… Continue reading Home Internet Usage Increases

New research from Informa Telecoms & Media shows that legitimate online TV and video services will generate revenues of US$6.3 billion in 2012, almost ten times the 2006 figure. Informa says that advertising will consistently outperform a la carte and subscription-based download services in terms of revenue generation and North America will be the largest… Continue reading Online TV Revenues To Grow Massively

The number of mobile phone users accessing the internet on their handsets continued to grow during the last quarter of 2006, according to figures announced today by the Mobile Data Association (MDA). An overall total of 45.6 million unique users were recorded as having used their phones for downloads and browsing the mobile internet in… Continue reading Mobile Internet User Numbers Grow

According to a new study from ABI Research, micropayments for consoles alone will account for over $833 million by 2011, as console vendors and their publisher partners look to monetise both in-game and game-related assets beyond initial game purchases. ABI says that as increasing numbers of gamers participate in multiplayer gaming and community features enabled… Continue reading Gaming To Be Increasingly Monetised

Nielsen Analytics has released a new report which reveals that advertisers and television programmers are finding new and more lucrative advertising opportunities with broadband video. The study also determined that the use of broadband video actually extends the reach of traditional TV, and that broadband consumers are young, affluent, highly educated, and tend to have… Continue reading Ad Opportunities To Grow With Broadband Video

The latest consumer internet research from Point Topic shows that there is a high level of interest in mobile internet applications. BroadBand Consumer Survey 3 (CS3) was carried out in December 2006 by Ipsos MORI and YouGov. They interviewed a representative national sample of 6,500 households in the UK. Point Topic’s initial analysis of those… Continue reading High Level Of Interest In Mobile Internet

A new report from JupiterResearch has found that 37% of broadband consumers are interested in having TV programming delivered to their PC. However, the report, Programming for Three Screens: Leverage PC and Mobile Video to Support Core TV Efforts, adds that there is no industry consensus regarding business models or expectations for video delivered via… Continue reading 37% Of Broadband Consumers Interested In PC TV Programming

IPTV take-up in mainland China will exceed 23 Million subscribers by 2012, according to a new report from ABI Research. ABI says that technological innovations are rapidly redrawing the Chinese telco landscape, with operators compelled to diversify in order to thrive in the competitive environment. The November 2006 announcement of Jiangsu Telecom’s network expansion effort… Continue reading Chinese IPTV Subscribers To Reach 23 Million