Global - Industry - Overview - The Market in 2002 (archived)

Synopsis

This report summarises the telecommunications market as seen at the end of 2002. It deals with business-to-business and business-to-customer trading, the Internet and the online services market, the need for and the slow development of broadband infrastructure and its effect on the market, and the attempts to provide higher speed over wireless and mobile networks. The report gives an overview only, with cross references to detailed reports.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. E-trading and E-services Market
  • 2.1 Highlights:
  • 2.2 Booming Market
  • 2.3 Problems with m-commerce and SET
  • 2.4 Teleshopping and online transactions
• 3. Internet and Online Services Market
  • 3.1 Highlights:
  • 3.2 Half a billion users
  • 3.3 Regional Overviews
  • 3.4 New business models needed
• 4. Broadband and High-speed Network Market
  • 4.1 Highlights:
  • 4.2 Lack of last mile bandwidth
  • 4.3 Broadband is of national importance
  • 4.4 Wireless broadband
• 5. Wireless market
  • 5.1 Highlights
  • 5.2 Commodity product
  • 5.3 New developments are faltering
  • 5.4 Regional Overview
  • Table 1 - Growth global e-commerce market – 1999 – 2003
  • Table 2 – Internet users per region – 2002 - 2005
  • Table 3 – Broadband subscribers by country – June 2002
  • Table 4 – Regional breakdown DSL broadband subscribers – 2001
  • Table 5 –Mobile subscribers by region (millions) – 1993 - 2002