7.4 mln pagers in use in US in 2006
About 45 mln pagers were in use nationwide in 1999. Nowadays the total is 7.4 mln, down from 8.2 mln in 2005, according to The Paging Information Resource.
Published on: December 28, 2006 Department: Telecom
Published on: December 28, 2006 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