Ofcom published second annual International Communications Market report.
Ofcom analyses trends in the global television, radio and telecommunications sectors in year 2006. It compares the UK with eleven other countries: France, Germany, Italy, the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Japan, Canada and the United States.
The report also contains an insight into four countries that are at different stages of development in their communications markets: Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Interesting points to note from this report is that in UK 53% of total telecoms revenues come from mobile services.
Italy has the highest number of active mobile connections with 139 subscriptions per hundred people followed by the UK with115. The number of mobile connections is also high in Russia at 106.
Highest number of mobile connections is seen in India, Brazil, China and Russia. These four countries have in total 660 million mobile subscribers, which accounts to 40% of all global mobile users.
India alone doubled number of subscriptions in last year to 150 million subscribers, compare to 70 million in UK.
China is biggest texter - 429 billion texts were sent in China last year, making it 967 text messages per mobile user.
Mobile phones are more and more used to do other things apart from making calls and send text messages. According to report, in the UK, a quarter of users record their own video clips and listen to music through their mobile. In the UK, 33% of mobile users send picture messages on their mobile, 16 % use it to connect to the internet and 10% use their mobile for email.
France has most number of IPTV subscribers: 1.5 million, compare to 43000 in UK.
3G handsets and services are on the rise with Japan in clear lead - over 50% of all handsets are 3G enabled handsets. 3G handsets in UK are over 10% of all handsets.
