4 bln phone lines globally

International Telecommunications Union counts 1.27 bln fixed lines and 2.68 bln mobile accounts. The total number of people represented by those figures is unclear because many people, particularly in industrial countries, have both kinds of service.

Published on: September 5, 2007 Department: Telecom

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Average Brit spends 7 hours 9 minutes watching TV
US small businesses to spend $280 bln on IT by 2012
35.3 mln cable and 29.7 mln DSL subscribers in the US in Q2 2008
Total spending in network services to reach $9.1 bln in 2012 in Asia
Telecom spending to reach $923.91 bln in 2008
4.2 mln Internet users signed up for fiber in Q1 2008
EMEA router market generated $1.01 bln in Q1 2008.
44% of North American ISP traffic is peer-to-peer
US cable companies added 1.19 mln new broadband subscribers in Q1 2008
Asia telecommunications market will grow 36% in 2007-2011
$1.5 bln spent on telecom and IT in Pakistan in 2007
19 mln new broadband lines in EU in 2007
Colombian telecom market reached $5.48 bln in 2006
US telecom industry to grow at 7.2%
$17 bln worth of routers to sell by 2012
IT market growth of 5% in 2008
19% of direct assistance users throught it was free
Asia/Pacific telecom services market was worth over $215 bln in 2007
UK SMB spending on managed security reached $42 mln in 2007
US telecom to spend $347.5 bln on IT in 2008
Telecom operations support spending to reach $46 bln in 2008
Asia-Pacific softswitch architecture grew 36% in 2007
Fibre Channel switch port shipments up 30% in Q3 2007
Wireline voice revenues to decline 7%
60% of European broadband users wlould prefer an integrated fixed and mobile service
69% of telecom home pages do not allow customers to log in
Asia-Pacific SMBs to spend $50 bln on telecom in 2007
LAN switches up 6% over the next 5 years
Telecom services grew 8.2% in 2006
4 bln phone lines globally
US small and medium businesses to invest $241 bln into telecom infrastructure
Global service provider market to surpass $9 bln in 2011
14% of spending on US wireline belongs to mid-sized businesses
71 mln fiber broadband users in 2009
19.5 mln unified messaging clients to ship by 2011
Mobile data services spending to grow at 29% a year
US SMBs to spend $16.6 bln on wireline voice in 2007
Network admission control to generate $3.2 bln in 2010
Asia Pacific telecom market to grow at 3.6% a year
55% of US organizations plan to buy network access control solutions
Next-generation switches in Asia/Pacific to grow at 24% a year
300k LTE base transceiver stations to be installed by 2014
WDM optical transport equipment up 56% in Q1 2007
Enterprise spending on wireline data to reach $24.3 bln in 2007
Eastern Europe enterprise network services up 0.1% in 2006
IP VPN and Ethernet services generate 30% of wireline revenues
Global telecom billing market to reach $6.6 bln by 2011
$41 bln to be spent on telecom equipment in 2007
High-end fibre channel up 15% in Q4 2006
Indian SMBs spent over $5 bln on telecom in 2006
96% of Americans had a landline in 2005, 74% will have a landline in 2010
Small and medium businesses to spend $6.7 bln on PBX in 2007
Top router manufacturers: Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel
10-Gig ethernet switches generated $1 bln in 2006
PBX revenues to exceed $7.5 bln in 2011
US telecom market up 9.3% in 2006
Home networks to grow at 20% a year
Telecom vendors earned $8.6 bln in the first half of 2006 in China
7.4 mln pagers in use in US in 2006
Carrier Ethernet switch market to generate $2 bln in 2006
DSL port shipments to double by the end of 2006
Deployment of enterprise optical networking to grow 17% in 2006
MSPPs to generate $1.2 bln in 2006 in Asia-Pacific
Chinese IP server-based PBX revenues to reach $164.1 mln in 2006
Cisco controls 70% of enterprise router markets
Only 5% of US organizations use IPv6
HomePNA 3 shipments to grow 200% in 2007
IP PBX systems to reach 19.1 mln in 2006
2.648 mln metro Ethernet subscribers in APAC
Carrier Ethernet switches up 50% in Q2 2006
Fibre Channel SAN switches up 1.6% in Q2 2006
41% of telecom revenues comes from large firms
Top phone peeves for Americans: automated service, bad manners, being put on hold
35% of all Cisco Fibre Channel switches sold are now 4 Gbps switches
145 mln households worldwide to have a home network by 2010
DOCSIS 3.0 equipment to reach 60% of CMTS market by 2011
185.5 mln DSL ports to ship in 2010
Fixed public networks to generate $660 bln in 2010
20% of urban Chinese have a home network
$14.93 bln spent on mobile equipment in China, India and Korea in 2005
Europe to overtake US in digital TV penetration by 2010
Telecoms to invest $4 bln in service delivery platforms
Consumer network storage to generate $1.2 bln in 2011
$2.7 mln worth of intelligent network products sold in 2005
Global telecom vendors saw revenues rise 8% in 2005
Asia-Pacific Ethernet market generated $676.5 mln in 2005
7.1% of US households have no phones
Ethernet switches to grow at 5% a year
Italian telecom market generated 36 bln euros in 2005
Top telecoms respecting online customers: Verizon Wireless, CenturyTel, T-Mobile
Gigabit Ethernet switch spending to increase at 1.8% a year
Ethernet switch revenue reached $1.07 bln in Japan in 2005
Service provider router revenue up 43% in 2005
Avaya maintained 41% of North American call center market in 2005
8.4 mln unified messaging seats shipped in 2005
Chinese telecom revenue down 6.7% in 2005
Speech recognition telephony up 1.6% in 2005
EMEA LAN switch market down by 2.9% in Q1 2006
84 mln Americans to subscribe to bundled services by 2010
Global optical transport market up 9% in Q1 2006
Fibre Channel SAN switch market up 3% in Q1 2006
Media gateways and class 4/5 softswitches to generate $8.4 bln by 2010
DSL access multiplexer ports up 2% in Q1 2006
$10.1 bln will be invested in IP Multimedia subsystems over the next 5 years
Fixed public network grew 0.6% in Japan in 2005
84% of US households pay for some of their TV
23 mln cable customer premise equipment units shipped in 2005
Ethernet switches revenue down 2% in Q1 2006
Fixed public network services up 3.1% in China in 2005
Switches to generate $17.7 bln by 2009
ATCA revenues to reach $790 mln in 2007
Asia-Pacific telecom equipment market to generate $47 bln in 2007
Western European fixed network services down 1.7% in 2005
Fixed network services in Switzerland down 2.6% in 2005
Fixed network services in Sweden down 0.7%
Fixed network services in Spain up 3.8% in 2005
Fixed network services in Czech Republic down 0.8% in 2005
Finnish fixed retail services up 3.1% in 2005
Belgian fixed retail services down 2.5% in 2005
Fixed network service revenue down by 0.7% in 2005 in Ireland
Fixed telecom revenues down 0.1% in Greece in 2005
Fixed telecom revenues flat in Portugal in 2005
North American softswitch market up 110% in 2005
Global optical networking market to grow 12% a year
Asia Pacific wireless telecom to generate $242 bln by 2010
Fixed telecom in Netherlands down 2.6% in 2005
Service provider routers up 43% in 2005
Hosted PBX market to reach $1.3 bln by 2009
DSLAM vendors to ship 89.1 mln ports by 2010
Enterprise routers and VPN generated $8 bln globally in 2005
Intelligent network products to grow at 1.8% a year
CMTS revenue up 15% in Q3 2005
Optical network hardware market flat in Q3 2005
IP PBX revenues up 10% in Q3 2005
US wireline telecom to decline by 8.5% in 5 years
Business networking equipment generated $27 bln in 2004
Enterprise router revenue reached $859 mln in Q3 2005
Service provider router and switched generated $1.86 bln in Q3 2005
37% of Americans to cut the cord by 2009
EMEA routet market up 12.3% in Q4 2005
EMEA LAN switch market up by 10.6% in Q4 2005
3 mln phone users in Ghana
Telecom industry spending up 8.9% in 2005, up 10.2% in 2006
Telecom services shoppers prefer Google
Router shipments up 14% in 2005
Telecom spending up 9% in 2005
Ethernet switch market up 3% in revenue in Q4 2005
Almost 20% of current wireless users plan to cut the cord in the next 12 months
Capex spending by public telecom carriers up 6% in 2005
36.9 mln DLC/MSAN ports to ship by 2009
Telecom market in Portugal to reach 6 bln euros in 2009
62% of US small businesses prefer single bundled telecom solution
210K unbundled lines in UK
76% of Americans signed up for do not call list
Application acceleration market reached $301 mln in 2005
Ethernet switch market up 9.9% in Q2 2005
Mexican telecom market to reach $26 bln by 2010
1 mln unbundled phone lines in UK by year-end 2006
16.9 mln IP DSL set top boxes to sell by 2009
IP multimedia subsystem equipment sales will generate $5.6 bln in Western Europe by 2010
Global metro Ethernet market to reach $26 bln in 2008
North America to account for 43% of business gateway market in 2007
Number of Hungarian wireline subscribers drops to 3.5 mln in Q3 2005
Global central office switching market to drop 17% in 2005
Global mobile telecom infrastructure market to reach $47.9 bln in 2005
Asia-Pacific IP video services to grow at 80% a year
20.5 mln PON subscribers by 2008
140 mln phone subscribers in Africa by 2009
Asia-Pacific telecom revenue reached $7.6 bln in 2004
EMEA softswitch revenues to reach $1.8 bln by 2009
Global telecom services and equipment market reached $1.44 trillion in 2004
Global voice traffic up 14% in 2004
Global market for wireless operations support systems to generate $13 bln in 2005
North American Ethernet switch market up 15% in Q2 2005
Ethernet switch sales up 15% in Q1 2005
Fiber-optic and wireless broadband access systems to generate $16.3 bln in 2005
7.5 mln global households have video on demand
EMEA service provider router market up 23% in the first half of 2005
Western European wired telecom revenues up 3.2% in Q1 2005
EMEA Ethernet switch revenues up 1.4% in Q2 2005
41% of large US business to increase telecom spending in 2005
Ethernet switches up 11% in Q2 2005
Extension line shipments to grow 6% in 2005 in Western Europe
Telecom TV market to reach $600 mln by 2009
PBX/KTS market up 12% in Q2 2005
Eastern European telecom market up 4.2% in 2004
By 2007 more than 50% of telecoms expect VOIP to constitute more than 50% of traffic
Optical network hardware generated $2.7 bln in Q2 2005, 10% growth
Global service provider router and switch sales up 10% in Q2 2005
L2-L3 Ethernet switch revenues up 10% in Q2 2005
Telecom and datacom equipment generated $57.5 bln in 2004
Worldwide router sales up 4% in Q2 2005
Network storage market up 16.1% in Q2 2005
83% of US companies to use high-speed lines for WAN services by 2009
16.5 mln extension lines shipped in Western Europe in 2004
Japan switching systems market to fall in 2005 and 2006
2.37 bln minutes spent on international calls in the US in 2003
Telecom services and equipment to generate $1.81 trillion by 2009
Intelligent network products down to $2.8 bln in 2004
Optical transport equipment up 10% in Q2 2005
Western European mobile network infrastructure to reach $11.9 bln by 2005
Asia-Pacific Ethernet switches to grow at 9% a year
Latin America softswitch revenues to reach $6.5 bln in 2009
Next generation network switching to reach $10.3 bln by 2009
$2.4 bln of optical transmission equipment sold in Western Europe in 2004
Host bus RAID controller shipments up 25% in 2004
EMEA Gigabit Ethernet revenues to grow 6% in 2005-2009
Global service provider router sales to grow 12% in 2005
DSL access multiplexer port shipments up 6% in Q1 2005
Optical transmission equipment sales down 1.5% in 2004
Extension line market up 7% in Latin America, 11% in Central and Eastern Europe
Softswitch sales in North America to grow by 27% in 2005
IP-PBX lines will generate $185 mln in Eastern and Central Europe
Next-generation switching to grow 14% in 2005
Half of telecom customers prefer a package deal from a single provider
20% of companies plan to spend on VOIP, 18% will buy IAS
UK and Irish firms will reduce telecom spending by 0.1%
2004 telecom spending up 9% in Turkey
Global service provider capex to reach $278 bln by 2009
47% of Americans buy at least 2 telecom services from the same provider
Telecom spending to reach $165.2 bln by 2009
52.5% of telcos think customers would switch to different video provider for cost reasons
Edge and core routers to generate $8.4 bln by 2009
Metro Ethernet equipment market generated $1.7 bln in 2004
10% of adult Americans cut the landlines
DSL port shipments up 2% in Q1 2005
WAN services market to grow at 4.5-6.5%
Layer 2/3 managed Ethernet switch market up 23.5% in 2004
Global optical network revenues down 10% in Q1 2005
Service provider routers and switches generated $1.63 bln in sales in Q1 2005
Global PBX/KTS sales down 12% in Q1 2005
Revenue assurance and outsourcing market to grow to $143 mln in 2009
Global L2-L3 switch revenues for Q1 2005 down 7%
Global enterprise router shipments down 9% in Q1 2005
EMEA LAN switch market down 6.9% in Q1 2005
Asian telecom capex spending to grow 3% in 2005
Consumer spending on voice, long distance, dial-up, cable and broadband reached $114.8 bln in 2004
Global DSLAM market to stay flat at $3.1-$3.3 bln
62% of consumers would buy an integrated cell phone and landline
50% of Western European PBXs to be IP-based by 2007
Global next generation voice products market up 40% in Q1 2005
2-3% of Australian households have cut landlines
Global Ethernet service revenues reached $2.5 bln in 2004
Asia Pacific mobile operator capex increased 11% in 2004
Mobile infrastructure sales up 14% in Q1 2005
16% of multiservice switches are sold to wireless service providers
62% of telecom customers would buy landline+cell phone integration
Bandwidth demand grew 42% in 2004
European data center market to reach 745 mln euros in 2007
Metro Ethernet to bring $7.6 bln by 2008
Passive optical network fiber shipments to reach $2.2 bln in 2008
54% would buy television from telecom if the price was right
Central and Eastern European telecoms lost 0.5% of landlines in 2004
Telecom transport spending to reach $309.6 bln in 2005
Telecom support services generated $246.5 bln in 2004
Telecom market to grow 12.9% in Thailand, 9.1% in Philippines, 7.3% in India
Chinese communications market to generate $68 bln in 2005
Mexican telecom market to grow at 6% a year
41% of enterprises to spend on disaster recovery and storage back-up
Cable companies add 6-11K new voice customers weekly
Worldwide telecom revenues to grow at 5.9% a year
10 Gigabit Ethernet ports shipments grew 70% in Q4 2004
Telecom spending reached $784.5 bln in 2004
Wireline services to decline at 3.2% a year
Telecom revenues for voice services in Western Europe to decline 3% a year
Wireless carrier preselect market to reach $4.6 bln by 2009
US telecom revenues to reach $1.1 trillion in 2008
IP PBX sales to generate $8.9 bln in 2009
Softswitches and media gateways generated $1.35 bln in 2004
Telecom marketing budgets grew 2% in 2004
10-Gigabit networking products to generate $570 mln in 2005
Gartner names growth markets for telecoms: broadband, managed services and mobile
ATM and frame relay spending to remain flat
22% of organizations deployed unified messaging, 85% are aware of it
Business gateways to generate $1.2 bln in 2004
Host access market to generate $492 mln in 2008
Sales of high-speed routers reached $260 mln in Q2 2004
Western European telecom market to grow 3.7% in 2004, 3.8% in 2005
Large enterprises will spend $38 bln on wireline telecom in 2004
Wireline telecom revenue to decline 1.6% a year
Telecom service prices fall down 10% every year
15% of Americans to cut the telephone cord by 2009
20.8 mln DLC ports shipped in 2003
India to become third largest telecom market in 2010
Brazilian SMB telecom spending to increase 10-30% in 2005
Fiber to the premises to grow 54% a year till 2009
Service provider router and switches market yp 31% YTY in Q2 2004
Optical networking to grow 12.9% till 2009
LAN switch market down 2%
5 mln broadband gateways shipped in 2004
Only 2% of US spectrum is sold through auctions
Router market to grow 14% each year till 2008
Ethernet switch market will grow 14% in 2004, then decline for 3 years
Asian Fibre Channel market grew 43.3% in 2003
WAN optimization market to grow 16%
30% of US and UK population to use VOIP by 2008
In South Korea 74% of telecom business will be mobile in 2008
Corporate IP telephony market to generate $5.5 bln in 2008
2.6 mln Americans switch numbers in the past 6 months
WiFi voice to capture $20 mln by 2009
Telecom spending to reach $99 bln in 2004, $121 bln in 2007
10% of phone customers are interested in cutting the landline
Cellular infrastructure contracts down, US and China still lead the world
Softswitch market grew 42.4% in 2003
Interesting Comcast facts
ATM switch market to decline 3% in 2004
Telecoms will increase ad spending in 2004
More Americans cut their landlines
Router and swtich revenue up 13%
European telecom network market to grow 4% in 2004
60,000 Americans cut landlines and use cell phones
VoIP market to reach $288 mln in Australia
Competition in telecom brings lower prices
Worldwide telecom spending to go above $1 trillion in 2004
Professional VoIP market to top $2.2 bln by 2007
US long distance rates rising
Router market will grow 6% over the next 5 years
Israel telecoms to lose money in 2004
Hint to telecoms: build Ethernet, not landlines
Sales of semiconductors for telecom markets substantially up
Landlines still a priority for US telecoms
Asia Pacific telecom investment to rise
US telecom spending rose 4.7% in 2003
Single-bill telecom bundles popular in 2004

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