Broadband subscription growth took an upswing during the first quarter of 2010, supported in part by healthy DSL growth in every region, strong fiber rollouts in Asia and aggressive IPTV service offerings. These statistics were revealed today by the Broadband Forum at a CommunicAsia press conference, in conjunction with research by industry analysts Point Topic. 

Euroconsult has released a comprehensive study analyzing the mechanisms defense and security agencies will use to satisfy their image intelligence (IMINT) requirements over the coming decade. In its new report "Earth Observation: Defense and Security, World Prospects to 2019," Euroconsult forecasts government procurement of commercial satellite Earth observation (EO) data will reach $2.6 billion by 2019, up from only $735 million in 2009.

Several weeks after the launch of the first 3D TV in the UK, a new report from Kelkoo, the shopping comparison website, reveals that almost one in four households (23%) will own a 3D enabled television set by 2015. With prices predicted to fall by 60% from £1,720 today to just £786 over the next five years, it is estimated that the UK market will be worth an estimated £7.25bn by 2015 with 7.6 million consumers investing in the new technology.

Cisco announced the results of the annual Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2009-2014, which projects that global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes, or more than 3/4 of a Zettabyte, by 2014.　 This amount is 100 exabytes higher than the projected level in 2013, or an increase the equivalent of 10 times all the traffic traversing Internet Protocol networks in 2008. 

CASBAA today  the launch of its exclusive Members Report, "The Philippines in View", highlighting fast-moving pay-TV market trends including pay-TV penetration, advertising revenue, licensing issues, piracy and the general regulatory environment in the Philippines.  

The full report is now available for download by CASBAA Members at the CASBAA Member Zone  at www.casbaa.com. Meanwhile, non-members can access the executive summary from here.

More than 719 million pay-TV subscribers are expected to sign up in 2010 as the economic recovery continues to gain momentum, according to latest forecasts from ABI Research. Digital Home industry analyst Michael Inouye notes, "ABI Research estimates that worldwide pay-TV subscriber numbers will surpass 719 million by the end of 2010 as novel solutions such as Google TV move from trial to commercial launch."

London, June 1, 2010-- The number of IPTV subscribers in Europe is set to increase by 92 per cent within the next five years from 15.4 million in 2009 to 29.6 million in 2015, boosted by widespread deployment of next-generation access networks, according to a report from research firm Analysys Mason.

The report adds that having taken the best part of the previous decade to accumulate a 12 per cent share of the region’s pay-TV market, IPTV operators are now set to gain a 19 per cent share by 2015, making IPTV the fastest-growing pay-TV platform in Europe.

With almost 3.8 billion people, the Asia-Pacific accounts for over 60 percent of the world population. China and India alone has about 40 percent of the world’s total. Given the rising incomes and improving economic conditions, Asia continues to draw satellite service vendors and equipment manufacturers who are always on the lookout for new opportunities.

Connecting the growing mobile and wireless infrastructure in Asia to the World Wide Web is by far the best potential long term market for satellite capacity in this part of the world after television broadcast driven requirements. Our data collection, research and resulting analysis shows that over the next 2 – 5 years internet driven markets will represent 25 – 35% of the South East Asian satellite broadband customer base and by the year 2020 this market will have grown to represent 80% - 90% of the customer base.  

The Pay TV market growth slowed in 2009 due to the recession. However, 2010 is expected to be a better year as operators have been signing up new subscribers, and existing subscribers are migrating to premium channels and advanced services. "As a result of the positive market outlook for pay TV," says ABI Research practice director Jason Blackwell, "global pay TV revenue will net more than $312 billion for cable and telecom carriers in 2010."