by Pivot
Category: Market Trends
Informa: 1.2 Million Video Cord Cutters Worldwide
Informa, a U.K. based market research firm, thinks the pay-TV industry has little to worry about regarding video cord cutters, for now at least. They claim to have counted actual video cord cutters, people who…
Cisco: Mobile Data Traffic Grew Four Times Faster Than Fixed in 2010
Sustained rapid growth of mobile Internet-enabled devices bringing in video/multimedia applications and services will drive exponential growth in worldwide mobile data traffic. Such traffic will reach 6.3 exabytes per month, representing an annual run rate…
Study Outlines SmartGrid Data Opportunity
The incredible amount of data generated by smart meters and the smart grid will drive the global smart grid market from $12.8 billion today to $34.2 billion in 2020, according to a new report from…
Akamai: Average U.S. Wireline Broadband Connection is 5 Mb/s
The average wireline broadband connection speed in the U.S. was 5 Mb/s for third quarter 2010, according to new data released this week from Akamai. That number represents an increase of 8.6% over the previous…
Bad Winter Benefits TV Industry
Many businesses and industry sectors rightly malign the impact of winters storms. TV broadcasters and the TV industry aren’t among them, however. The storm of January 10-13 “didn’t just deposit record-breaking amounts of snow and…
comScore: Mobile Email Access Surging as Web-based Declines
Web-based email usage declined 6% in the U.S. in November 2010 as compared to a year ago while email access via mobile devices exhibited strong growth. Thirty percent of mobile users (70.1 million) accessed email…
FCC: VoIP Represents 15% of U.S. Residential Lines and Growing
Interconnected U.S. VoIP subscriptions rose 22% while PSTN switched access lines decreased 10% resulting in a 6% combined annual decrease from 162 million to 153 million total wireline retail local telephone service connections in 2009,…
Physical Media Still Rules for Video Entertainment Rentals/Sales
Despite all the attention that has been given to network delivery of digital video content in recent months, physical forms of video content continue to represent the vast majority of home video entertainment spending, according…
More Mobile Broadband than Wired Broadband?
Mobile broadband subscriptions will double this year having breached the half-billion mark in 2010, Ericsson estimates. The Asia-Pacific region is expected to lead the way with some 400 million subscriptions by year-end 2011 followed by…
18.5 Million WiMAX, 6.5 Million LTE Subscribers by Year-End
The next twelve months should be a pivotal year for next-generation 4G mobile broadband service deployments as growth in mobile data traffic continues to outpace operators’ revenues, according to Maravedis’s 4GCounts Quarterly Report. As of…
Pew: Two-thirds of Internet Users Have Purchased Content On-line
Nearly two-thirds of U.S. Internet users have made on-line purchases of “intangible” products such as software, articles and music, according to new research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. In the survey of…
Three-Way Tie for Mobile OS Market Share Leadership
Statistically, it’s a three-way tie for mobile OS market share leadership, according to the latest research from The Nielsen Co., though Google’s Android has greater momentum among recent mobile phone acquirers. Android OS-based mobile phones…