Information Technology and Communications research
BT and Virgin Media are the sole suppliers of fibre optic broadband connections to homes and businesses in the UK and, while Virgin Media connects for its own business, other companies such as Talk Talk, Sky and Vodaphone are forced to use Openreach and have been spending years arguing that it […] Read more »
Like most market researchers I’m both liberal and international in my outlook and can’t hide my unhappiness about the UK’s decision to leave the EU. It’s too late in Britain to wish the referendum at the end of June had gone the other way, but we need to consider how market […] Read more »
Formula 1 has much to show commercial IT how to run future systems. Read more »
For anyone attending my presentation at IP Expo and/or interested in what’s going to happen in the UK IT and Communications market, this is a pdf of my presentation. Let me know if you have any comments or questions. [email-download download_id=”11894″ contact_form_id=”11897″] Read more »
Source: ITCandor from OANDA historical data Part of my methodology each quarter is to look at currency movements of international currency against the $US. My Figure shows the movement of the average value of each local currency in Q2 2016 compared with their rates in Q2 2015. Those on the […] Read more »
ITCandor launches it's new 'data center impressions' service for EU business planners Read more »
ITCandor has a continuous information service for executives of suppliers and user organisations in Europe. Each quarter you’ll receive 3 reports which size, discuss and analyse the martin in Europe. We are happy to customise our findings for other countries and regions on request. Read more »
The IT and Communications industry is highly profitable for successful companies, with the smallest and largest enjoying the greatest profitability. In the UK we spent £146B on its products which created profits before tax of around £35B in 2015: an extra 10% of that collected by UK government could help out the […] Read more »
The results of ITCandor's Brexit survey Read more »
Please complete my survey - it should help with looking at the effect of the UK leaving the EU Read more »
Some ideas on the UK leaving the EU Read more »
Some stats on cloud computing in EMEA with market shares and forecasts to 2020 Read more »
A look at developments in the PC market in 2015 Read more »
A look at printer and peripheral markets in 2015 Read more »
Some sizing of the mobile device market in 2015 Read more »
Apple's revenues will decline in 2016, but it remain at the head of the industry Read more »
The slackness of the market will also be apparent in region spending growth. In particular: The Americas will outperform the others, growing by 0.5% to $2.3T; vendors will need to offer innovative products to persuade these sophisticate users to buy yet more technology EMEA will grow by 0.3% to $1.7T; […] Read more »
EMEA is a region full of country markets. Germany is the largest, followed by the UK. For the second year running I expect the strongest growth (3.8%) to be in Turkey and the steepest decline (-10.7%) to be in Russia. The lifting of sanctions on Iran will lead to growth […] Read more »
My latest on sizes and shares in the network markets Read more »
Some data on local v dollar growth rates by country Read more »