New Report Predicts Strong Future for Mobile TV




-/June 07, 2006 - Wi-Fi Technology News/-A new report, ‘New Mobile Services - Europe 2006’, from Portio Research, the result of an extensive survey of European mobile phone users in early 2006, gives a resounding ‘thumbs up’ for Mobile TV. Significantly over 50% of those interviewed were interested in Mobile TV and were prepared to pay for it, at an average price of €10 Euro per month.




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Verizon and Microsoft Sponsor Communications Technologies Study



Verizon Business, Microsoft Sponsor International Study; Create First-of-Its-Kind Collaboration Index to Measure Impact of Communications Culture, Technologies

Reading UK -/June 06, 2006 - Wi-Fi Technology News/- Collaboration is a key driver of overall performance of companies around the world. Its impact is twice as significant as a company’s aggressiveness in pursuing new market opportunities (strategic orientation) and five times as significant as the external market environment (market turbulence).*



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Sales of Home Media Servers will reach 50 million units in the U.S. by end 2010




Demand for media backup, competition among video providers, and wider accessibility of IP content are driving deployment of media servers

Dallas, Texas -/May 25, 2006 - Wi-Fi Technology News/- Annual sales of home media servers will reach nearly 50 million units in the U.S. by the end of 2010, according to Parks Associates' new report "Media Servers: Analysis and Forecasts." The report, which defines a media server as a hard drive-based platform with media sharing software linked via a home network, finds that demand- and supply-side drivers will spur the growth of these media centralization platforms over the next five years.



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Can Motorola Q Match the Input and Usability of Nokia 9300 and Treo 700w?



STRATEGY ANALYTICS: Nokia 9300 Outperforms Treo 700W and Blackberry 8700c As Motorola Q is Finally Released

Boston, MA -/May 25, 2006 - Wi-Fi Technology News/- Strategy Analytics, the global research and consulting company, today released, "Nokia 9300 Best New Converged Device in USA Beating Blackberry 8700c, Palm Treo 700w and Cingular 8125," its latest converged device benchmark report. These results come from over 70 hours of hands-on consumer testing by the Strategy Analytics Advanced Wireless (AWL) Panel.



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Supplemental Value-added Services to Drive Revenue in Bundled Services




Study finds that appeal for additional broadband-enabled services will add 16% to monthly triple-play revenues by 2010

Dallas, Texas -/May 19, 2006 - Wi-Fi Technology News/- The addition of incremental value-added services, such as TV-based caller ID and home monitoring, to basic triple-play service bundles in the U.S. will boost monthly revenue per subscriber to $206 by 2010, according to Parks Associates' "The Business of Bundled Services: Consumers, Models, and Uptake." By definition, a bundle features any combination of landline voice, wireless voice, high-speed Internet, or television from a single service provider. Current revenue per subscriber from triple-play bundled services is $148 per month.



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Trustive Releases Global Research Project into the Wi-Fi / WLAN Marketplace




London (The Wireless Event) -/May 18, 2006 - Wi-Fi Technology News/-Trustive, Europe's leading Hotspot aggregator, today released results of an extensive global research project into the WLAN marketplace. Trustive's WLAN Roaming Research 2006 involved more than 100 Hotspot operators with more than 44,000 Hotspots in Europe, Asia and the U.S.



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19 Million Homes Across US and Europe Now Use Wi-Fi Technology




Wireless Home Emerges As Mass Market Trend

Boston, MA -/May 12, 2006 - Wi-Fi Technology News/-The wireless home is becoming a reality for millions of consumers according to a new survey of 2000 internet users from Strategy Analytics' Connected Home Devices service. 20% of broadband subscribers across the US and Europe now use Wi-Fi to share their Internet connection between PCs and other devices, according to the report just released, "Home Network Adoption: Wi-Fi Emerges As Mass Market Phenomenon".



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France Telecom remains the largest broadband service provider in Europe




AOL, Pan Europe ISPs Struggle to Grow

London, UK -/May 5, 2006 - Wi-Fi Technology News/- With 7.6 million broadband subscribers at the end of 2005, France Telecom remains the largest broadband service provider in Europe, according to the latest Strategy Analytics Broadband Service Provider Subscriber Database.



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Apple's deeper mobile play is inevitable




San Francisco, CA and London, UK-/April 19, 2006 - Wi-Fi Technology News/- Visiongain believes that the years 2006 and 2007 will see Apple's product offerings accelerate as it focuses on convergence technologies. This is one of the findings of visiongain's latest report, "Apple in Wireless: Strategic options in a converged marketplace."



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Increasing Penetration of Wireless Markets Will Drive Growth




STRATEGY ANALYTICS: GaAs Device Market Will Break Through $3 Billion in 2006

Boston, MA -/April 7, 2006 - Wi-Fi Technology News/- The Strategy Analytics annual five year outlook for the Gallium Arsenide microelectronics industry, "GaAs Industry Forecast: 2005-2010," predicts that GaAs device revenues will grow by 36 percent over 2005 to 2010, breaking the $3 billion barrier in 2006. Overall market growth will continue to be derived from wireless markets, with cellular handsets as the primary driver, over the next five years.



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