The UMTS Forum has predicted that voice and data traffic on mobile networks will grow more than 30-fold during the decade ahead. In a new report titled ‘Mobile traffic forecasts 2010-2020’, the 3G/4G industry body indicates that total annual traffic on mobile networks globally will reach 127 EB (Exabytes) in 2020. This represents a 33x increase compared with the 2010 figure.

Western Europe posted over 182m TV households at end-2010, 40% of which are watching TV via terrestrial platforms, 27% via CaTV, and about 26% through satellite, either free-to-air or through paid subscription. The IPTV subscriber base represented about 7% of the total base. InfoCom expects that by 2015, satellite TV will overtake CaTV in terms of TV households, with satellite platforms expected to total 52.4m compared to CaTV, expected to top to 47.6m, according to research firm InfoCom.

Renewed economic dynamism and multi-platform competition are fueling the consumption of pay-TV and broadband in Asia Pacific. However, this growth depends on investment in content, distribution and new technology, benefiting consumers but coming at a high cost for pay-TV channels and distributors, according to Asia Pacific Pay-TV & Broadband Markets 2011, a new report published by leading industry analysts Media Partners Asia (MPA). The result is margin pressure for pay-TV providers in some key markets, predominantly India, as well as potentially in Japan, Korea and Malaysia.

Dublin, May 11, 2011-At the end of 2010, Russia had 219.48mn mobile telephony customers, equivalent to a penetration rate of nearly 154.6%. In 2010, the Russian mobile subscriber base grew by 5.9%. After experiencing a return to positive subscriber growth in Q310, all four of Russia's leading network operators - Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), VimpelCom, MegaFon and Tele2 Russia - continued to experience positive growth in the final quarter of the year, acording to a recent report by BMI.

In 2011, the world’s annual data traffic volume will total almost 8,000 petabytes. That will grow at a CAGR of 50% over the following years, exceeding 60,000 petabytes in 2016 – over seven times more than in 2011. The year-on-year growth will be the fastest in 2012 (58%) and 2013 (56%), slightly slowing down thereafter, accoriding to ABI Research.

Driven by a pronounced change in marketing and promotion strategies as well as price declines and an increasing availability of content, worldwide shipments of 3-D TVs will catapult by a spectacular 463 percent to reach 23.4 million units in 2011, according to IHS iSuppli (NYSE: IHS) research.

The Chinese IPTV market is the most attractive and largest IPTV market in the Asia-Pacific region. It is also the third largest IPTV market at the global level. There is a sustained growth in the demand for IPTV service in China. Further, the networks are being continuously upgraded and there is a constant innovation of services, such as single-play to Triple-play. Deployment of IPTV in various key Chinese provinces as of now is on schedule with new launches anticipated in other smaller and less developed provinces.

The Nielsen Company announced the 2012 Advance/Preliminary TV Household Universe Estimate (UE) is 114.7 million, down from 115.9 million in 2011. Marking the first integration of the 2010 Census counts, the 2012 UEs reflect an aging population, as Baby Boomers increasingly shift out of the 35-49 demographic, as well as greater ethnic diversity.

Global Digital Rights Management (DRM) market is projected to witness significant growth in near future due to the continuously growing media and entertainment sector according to a new report by RNCOS. Our team of experts says that, mobile content market is projected to be one of the key driving forces for the growth in the DRM industry. Telecom operators are offering premium multimedia content to compensate for their declining voice revenue per user. Besides, enterprise sector will witness significant growth and is projected to offer immense opportunities for implementing DRM.

Nearly 20% of all TVs shipped in 2010 featured connected TV capabilities, according to the DisplaySearch Q1’11 Quarterly TV Design and Features Report, the connected TV category is forecast to grow to over 123 million shipments in 2014 (at a 30% compound annual growth rate). Emerging markets will also play a major role in this growth, with Eastern Europe forecast to grow from 2.5 million connected TVs shipped in 2010 to over 10 million in 2014. In addition, DisplaySearch findings indicate that 33% of flat panel TVs sold in China in 2013 will have internet capability.