EITO Newsletter August 2009

We have just released the new EITO Special Report "BRIC countries' ICT markets 2006 - 2010".
The study contains detailed market data including market values and shipment figures, as well as accompanying texts for all individual BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China. In addition the new EITO report includes detailed information on subscriber dynamics in the areas of broadband, 2G/3G, and TV services. The analysis covers all major market segments: IT equipment, software, IT services, communication equipment and carrier services.

The DigiWorld Summit 2009, which is taking place on 18 and 19 November in Montpellier, France, will be devoted this year to the theme of “Open Innovation”.

Now its 31st year, the DigiWorld Summit has earned a reputation over the years as one of Europe’s foremost events for taking stock of the changes at work in the mobile, broadband, Internet and television sectors.

EITO is an official partner of this event. As a member of ACSEL you are eligible for a 25% discount. To take advantage of it, please download the special form and return it to the address indicated on the form, either by fax or by the post.

Resulting from customer feedback the EITO Complete Report has now been reshaped and tightened for easier handling and more convenience. To achieve less redundancy, all tables have been eliminated in the segment chapters, but are now available in the separate data tables chapter at the end of each country chapter. Moreover, an executive summary has been added at the beginning of the report, giving a condensed overview of major trends and developments in the the ICT market . The executive summary focuses on the EU but also contrasts developments in Europe with those in other regions.

All 1-year-subscribers can access the newly repackaged report now in the member section of the portal.


Contact: Frank Frueh, f.frueh[at]eito.com

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The number of mobile phone users worldwide will rise from 3.9 billion in 2008 to 4.4 billion in 2009 and will this year exceed the 4 billion mark for the first time. This is the equivalent to an increase of 12 percent. This means that two-thirds of the world population use a mobile phone.
“The strongest growth in the use of mobile phones now comes from newly industrialized and developing countries”, says EITO chairman Bruno Lamborghini. The number of mobile phone users in India is expected to increase by 32 percent in the year 2009 to 457 million. In Brazil, the number of mobile phone users will rise by 14 percent to 172 million and in China by 12 percent to 684 million.

In industrialized countries, growth rates are considerably smaller. This is due to the fact that levels of mobile phone use are already high. In the European Union, we predict that the number of mobile phone accounts will increase by 4 percent to 641 million in 2009. Thus, in the EU, there are considerably more mobile contracts than inhabitants. “In Europe, the USA and Japan, the trend is for high-quality multimedia mobiles with Internet access”, says Lamborghini. The number of UMTS accounts in the EU will increase by 36 percent to around 172 million in 2009, while the number of conventional accounts on the basis of so-called GSM technology will decrease by 5 percent to 469 million. Turnover in the area of mobile data services is also growing strongly in the EU and will increase by 10 percent to around € 33 billion in 2009. In the UK, the number of UMTS accounts will increase by 40 percent to around 33 million according to EITO estimates. Thus two thirds of the around 81 million mobile phone accounts in the UK are UMTS-capable. In Italy the total number of mobile phone accounts will increase in 2009 by 2 percent to around 93 million, 31 million will be UMTS-capable (plus 26 percent).