Research and Markets: United Kingdom - Telecoms, IP Networks, Digital Media and Forecasts

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7cdd18/united_kingdom_t) has announced the addition of the "United Kingdom - Telecoms, IP Networks, Digital Media and Forecasts" report to their offering.

This quarterly report, now at its 10th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in the UK telecommunications market. The report analyses the mobile, Internet, broadband, digital TV and converging media sectors.

Subjects include:

• Market and industry analyses, trends and developments;
• Facts, figures and statistics;
• Industry and regulatory issues;
• Infrastructure;
• Major players, revenues, subscribers, ARPU, MoU;
• Internet, VoIP, IPTV;
• Mobile voice and data markets;
• Broadband (FttH, DSL, cable TV, wireless);
• Convergence and digital media;
• 3G subscriber and mobile ARPU forecasts to 2015;
• Broadband market forecasts for selective years to 2020.

Key developments:

• 800MHz and 2.6GHz auction developments;
• m-commerce initiatives; smartphone penetration approaching 50%;
• Everything Everywhere and BT Wholesale trial LTE in the 800MHz band;
• NFC launches show promise for mobile payments;
• Regulator shows 53% of households receiving bundled services;
• News Corp withdraws bid for BSkyB;
• Vodafone sells 5.5% stake in Indian division Essar and 44% stake in SFR;
• Everything Everywhere reports 1.1% fall in service revenue in H1 2011;
• Regulator allows spectrum trading in the 900MHz, 1800MHz and 2.1GHZ bands;
• Average mobile broadband speeds reach only 1.5Mb/s;
• 17% of the population making use of mobile broadband;
• Virgin Media trials the world's fastest cable broadband, at 1.5Gb/s, 100Mb/ service extended to one million households;
• Government allocates 363 million for regional broadband schemes;
• Fujitsu, Virgin Media, TalkTalk and Cisco announce plan open-access FttH platform to five million homes;
• BT to extend ADSL2+ to 90% of premises by mid-2013;
• Community fibre deployment gaining traction;
• Regular's 2010 market report and data to Q1 2011;
• Operator data to June 2011.

This report is essential reading for those needing high level strategic information and objective analysis on the telecom sector in the UK. It provides further information on:

• Market liberalisation and regulatory issues;
• The impact of the global economic crisis;
• Telecoms operators - privatisation, acquisitions, new licences;
• Mobile data market developments in coming years in light of spectrum auctions and new license awards in 2010;
• 3G developments, regulatory issues and technologies including HSPA and LTE;
• Broadband migration to an FttH architecture;
• Historical and current subscriber statistics and forecasts;
• ARPU statistics and forecasts.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Key Statistics

2. Telecommunications Market

3. Regulatory Environment

4. Fixed Network Market

5. Telecommunications Infrastructure

6. Broadband Market

7. Digital Media

8. Mobile Communications

9. Forecasts

10. Glossary of Abbreviations

Companies Mentioned:

• H3UK
• O2
• Vodafone
• Everything Everywhere
• Virgin Mobile
• UK Broadband
• British Telecom
• Virgin Media
• BSkyB
• Freeview
• BBC
• Tiscali
• Thrive Telecom
• Libera
• The Cloud
• Kcom
• Carphone Warehouse

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7cdd18/united_kingdom_t

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Research and Markets
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KEYWORDS:   United Kingdom  Europe

INDUSTRY KEYWORDS:   Technology  Internet  Networks  Telecommunications

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