Some sizing and ideas about the networking market and the convergence beyween telecoms and IT markets Read more »
Networking – converged, converging or eternally independent?
Mobile devices – the battle between East and West for a $545 billion market
The mobile device market is massive – in 2021 there were 1.7 billion shipments worth $545 billion and an installed base of 3.7 billion. Growth in the year was 25% in spending and 8% in shipments, although the installed base didn’t grow. The number of non-Internet enabled basic phones and […] Read more »
Mobile devices and international politics
A look at the annual changes and future challenges of the mobile device and smart phone market Read more »
IP telephony surges in the politicised network market
Service Provider and Enterprise Networks have been extremely important during the pandemic; nevertheless most Telcos and organizations have been relying on those already installed to keep people, governments and businesses connected. In total the market grew by 1% to $187 billion in the year to the end of March, but […] Read more »
Networks – $185b, 2.1b ports shipped in 2019
A look at network equipment sales and market shares in 2019 Read more »
Mobile devices – a $361b market, 1.4b shipments, 3.2b installed base in 2019
My look at the 2019 market for mobile devices with a forecast to 2025 Read more »
The ITC market’s top suppliers – a 10-year perspective
Having made my predictions for the year, I wanted to follow up with the long-term vendor share developments in the ITC industry. In the Figure above I show market shares for the top 12 suppliers in the years to then of September in 2009 and 2019. There have been a […] Read more »
Network spending at $186b – service providers beat enterprise customers
A look at ITCandor's latest findings for the service provider and enterprise network markets to Q2 2019 Read more »
Europe ITC – €1.6T revenue, €160B net profit, 6m workers
More stats on ITC in Europe Read more »
Huawei v Cisco vie for control of the $181b network market
A look at the enterprise and service provider network markets Read more »
Mobile devices in Q2 2018 – ‘smart’ dominates, but we need something more secure
An update on the Q2 2018 market form smartphones and some ideas about the need for more secure devices Read more »
Network equipment market – big, slow and important in Q2 2017
A précis of my findings for network markets split into enterprise and service provider areas. Read more »
Mobile device market up 3.1% to $81.1b in Q2 2017 – Apple maintains its leadership
ITCandor's latest update on the mobile device market in Q2 2017 Read more »
Order our Q2 2017 EU data center research reports
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2016 UK IT market up 12% – the Brexit phoney war
A sizing and forecast of the UK IT hardware market. Read more »
Enterprise network sales slip 5.6% in Q1 2016
More market shares - this time on enterprise and service provider networks Read more »
Network markets static in 2015
A look at service Provider and Enterprise market shares and developments Read more »
Enterprise networks up 3.7% in Q3 2015
My latest on sizes and shares in the network markets Read more »
Client IT hardware devices – the shipment perspective
Unit shipment stats for client hardware Read more »
Nokia buys Alcatel Lucent for €15.6 billion, overtakes Huawei
The proposed merger will create a new number 2 in networking Read more »