Crisis slows the development of Canadian digital market
Center for the Analysis of the Information Society and Telecommunications of IE Business School, presented this week in collaboration with IDATE, the report DigiWorld 2009 Spain, where he stressed that in our country market developments in 2008 first in the series, behaved worse than the global average, as it would have produced a decline of about 1%, with a whole greater than the 59,900 million euros.
Economic sectors based on global information technology and communications grew by 4.8% in 2008 over the previous year, reaching 2.74 billion euros, or nearly 7% of world GDP.
After several years growing at a rate of 6% or higher, this slowdown is related to l maturity of new technologies in developed countries, and exacerbated by the economic situation.
Only the market for hardware, software and IT services have achieved significant growth in 2008 compared to 2007, reaching 5.9%, while the telecommunications and especially the audio-visual consumer electronics and have registered a fall.
Global slowdown
According to the report DigiWorld 2009 Spain, the world market for telecommunications services, which between 2005 and 2007 experienced an average of 6%, slowed in 2008 with a growth rate that has fallen to 4.2% and a total turnover value in almost one trillion euros.
Mobile services account for over half of this market and provide for themselves all the growth in the sector, which lost despite growth of 12% in 2007 to 8% in 2008.
The number of lines in the world exceeded 3,800 million and it is estimated that nearly half the world population has landline phone móvil.La continued the decline begun in 2002 and their share in global services telecommunications has increased from 48% in 2001 to 27% in 2008.
Not so with the market for broadband Internet: This access meant the end of last year almost three-quarters of Internet access worldwide.
The number of connections are then estimated in 415 million, with nearly 68 million new subscribers during the año.Por its part, the market for telecommunications equipment and television services in 2008 grew almost 5% in the first case and about 5.4% in the second. Globally, last year was good for consumer electronics, although they had strong growth in the first half and decreased in the last six months.
As for the software and computer services, on the one hand, and computer equipment, on the other, one can say that both have suffered a noticeable slowdown in growth. The first happened in 2007 growing to just over 7% in 2008 to make 5.1%. Computer equipment have declined nearly one percentage point growth compared to 2007.
COUNTRY QUOTA
The approximately 2.74 billion euros from markets DigiWorld in 2008 are still concentrated in two t
hirds more than in advanced economies, despite a much stronger dynamic emerging regions, which have gained nearly five points of market share world since 2005. Northern America last year accounted for 30.6% (29% corresponds to the U.S.) world market of Information Technologies and Communications and is estimated to have risen 2.9% over 2007, reaching the 839,000 million.
For his part, estimated at 902,000 million euros, the European ICT market represents nearly one third of the global market. In Asia / Pacific, was recorded in 2008 sales estimated at just over 680,000 million euros (the region represents one quarter of the world market) and the average growth has remained at 6%, although this dynamic set of masks important differences between countries as Japan and South Korea on one side and the other emerging countries.
Japan alone almost 40% of sales in the region for several years but has a very weak growth. China and India continue to be the countries' pull 'of the current growth in the area of digital markets. Japan along with China, South Korea and India are close to 80% of the total regional market.
LATIN AMERICA
DigiWorld markets of Latin America accounted for just over 7% of the world and, although slowed, growth in the region is sustained (10%).
In telecommunications, mobile services have achieved great success with over 420 million customers and an average density of 76% in late 2008 in the region. In banda ancha, Latin America had 26 million subscribers: with a density of 5% can be said to be at the forefront among emerging regions in this type of access.
Finally, Middle East and Africa represent about 4% of global markets for ICT and were an estimated value of 123,000 million euros.
SPANISH SITUATION
Within this global picture, in Spain DigiWorld markets have been marked by the crisis, a situation that has been particularly sensitive to consumer electronics. The telecommunications market reached a turnover of 30,360 million euros (counting only the end-user services), which represented a decrease of 2.1%.
Mobile telephony continues to be the main contribution of the sector revenue, although its growth has slowed, to assume about 50% of the total market and more than 15,000 million euros.
For its part, the markets for hardware, software and IT services in Spain were the only ones that showed growth in all markets DigiWorld, 5.9% to 18,196 million euros. The component that increased was the most laptops.
In fact, 72% of investment in computers in 2008 was in notebooks, compared to 65% in 2007. The audiovisual sector and of consumer electronics were the most blamed the crisis. The first, due mainly to a decline in advertising revenue, revenue was reduced by 5.3%, remaining at 5.407 million euros.
Consumer electronics noticed a decline in turnover of 7.17% compared to growth of 8.1% in 2007 and 15.6% in 2006, there was a drop in sales of all products except for the consoles and LCD televisions.
Economic sectors based on global information technology and communications grew by 4.8% in 2008 over the previous year, reaching 2.74 billion euros, or nearly 7% of world GDP.
After several years growing at a rate of 6% or higher, this slowdown is related to l maturity of new technologies in developed countries, and exacerbated by the economic situation.
Only the market for hardware, software and IT services have achieved significant growth in 2008 compared to 2007, reaching 5.9%, while the telecommunications and especially the audio-visual consumer electronics and have registered a fall.
Global slowdown
According to the report DigiWorld 2009 Spain, the world market for telecommunications services, which between 2005 and 2007 experienced an average of 6%, slowed in 2008 with a growth rate that has fallen to 4.2% and a total turnover value in almost one trillion euros.
Mobile services account for over half of this market and provide for themselves all the growth in the sector, which lost despite growth of 12% in 2007 to 8% in 2008.
The number of lines in the world exceeded 3,800 million and it is estimated that nearly half the world population has landline phone móvil.La continued the decline begun in 2002 and their share in global services telecommunications has increased from 48% in 2001 to 27% in 2008.
Not so with the market for broadband Internet: This access meant the end of last year almost three-quarters of Internet access worldwide.
The number of connections are then estimated in 415 million, with nearly 68 million new subscribers during the año.Por its part, the market for telecommunications equipment and television services in 2008 grew almost 5% in the first case and about 5.4% in the second. Globally, last year was good for consumer electronics, although they had strong growth in the first half and decreased in the last six months.
As for the software and computer services, on the one hand, and computer equipment, on the other, one can say that both have suffered a noticeable slowdown in growth. The first happened in 2007 growing to just over 7% in 2008 to make 5.1%. Computer equipment have declined nearly one percentage point growth compared to 2007.
COUNTRY QUOTA
The approximately 2.74 billion euros from markets DigiWorld in 2008 are still concentrated in two t
For his part, estimated at 902,000 million euros, the European ICT market represents nearly one third of the global market. In Asia / Pacific, was recorded in 2008 sales estimated at just over 680,000 million euros (the region represents one quarter of the world market) and the average growth has remained at 6%, although this dynamic set of masks important differences between countries as Japan and South Korea on one side and the other emerging countries.
Japan alone almost 40% of sales in the region for several years but has a very weak growth. China and India continue to be the countries' pull 'of the current growth in the area of digital markets. Japan along with China, South Korea and India are close to 80% of the total regional market.
LATIN AMERICA
DigiWorld markets of Latin America accounted for just over 7% of the world and, although slowed, growth in the region is sustained (10%).
In telecommunications, mobile services have achieved great success with over 420 million customers and an average density of 76% in late 2008 in the region. In banda ancha, Latin America had 26 million subscribers: with a density of 5% can be said to be at the forefront among emerging regions in this type of access.
Finally, Middle East and Africa represent about 4% of global markets for ICT and were an estimated value of 123,000 million euros.
SPANISH SITUATION
Within this global picture, in Spain DigiWorld markets have been marked by the crisis, a situation that has been particularly sensitive to consumer electronics. The telecommunications market reached a turnover of 30,360 million euros (counting only the end-user services), which represented a decrease of 2.1%.
Mobile telephony continues to be the main contribution of the sector revenue, although its growth has slowed, to assume about 50% of the total market and more than 15,000 million euros.
For its part, the markets for hardware, software and IT services in Spain were the only ones that showed growth in all markets DigiWorld, 5.9% to 18,196 million euros. The component that increased was the most laptops.
In fact, 72% of investment in computers in 2008 was in notebooks, compared to 65% in 2007. The audiovisual sector and of consumer electronics were the most blamed the crisis. The first, due mainly to a decline in advertising revenue, revenue was reduced by 5.3%, remaining at 5.407 million euros.
Consumer electronics noticed a decline in turnover of 7.17% compared to growth of 8.1% in 2007 and 15.6% in 2006, there was a drop in sales of all products except for the consoles and LCD televisions.
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