Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report estimating that Europe’s overall telecom market growth will be around 2-4% at best for both 2007 and 2008.

2007 European Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Overviews reports that the ailing fixed-voice sector has steadily pulled down market growth, which has otherwise been pushed upwards by a vibrant broadband sector and emerging trends and possibilities in the mobile data sector.

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Source: Circuits Assembly 28 March 2008

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report which finds that while North Korea’s communications market is hindered by government repression, South Korea is a leader in 3G technology.

2007 Asia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in North and South Korea which is available at finds that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is seriously impeded by the country’s economic state and government repression of communication. On the other hand, it finds that the South Korean mobile market, which looked like it had reached a point of saturation, again found a way to grow by a further 5% (in subscribers and revenue) in 2006 and this growth pattern was continuing.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report which finds that there are attractive investment options in China’s dairy industry, the fastest-growing food industry in the country.

New Report Identifies Investment Opportunities in China’s Dairy Industry finds that China witnesses the fastest growth of the dairy industry in the world. It says the overall sector is enjoying rising growth year on year.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report which outlines the challenges and forecasts to 2013 for the top five different wine producing countries in the Southern hemisphere.

Southern Hemisphere Grape Supply and Wine Production finds that while Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina and Chile have five different sets of challenges, they are all subject to the same consumer trends, and the same global market in grapes and wine.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report which examines the factors affecting the world’s most rapidly growing mobile and  fixed telephony markets, Africa.

2007 Africa - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband Overview finds that Africa’s telecoms future looks very promising and offers great opportunities to service providers, equipment vendors and investors.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report which forecasts that South Africa’s long-term insurance market is expected to show a 12% annual growth rate in the period 2007-2012.

South African Insurance Industry Forecast till 2012 also finds that the S.A. short-term insurance market will grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17% in the next five years.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report showing that Sweden has one of the highest broadband penetration rates in Europe, the result of an effective government broadband policy and a population quick to adopt emerging technologies.

2006-2007 Europe - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Scandinavia reports that considerable investment in fast mobile networks has also made mobile broadband a realistic proposition. The share of dial-up revenue fell from 72% in 2001 to 9% in 2006, and in 2007 TeliaSonera stopped providing dial-up for new subscribers.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report showing that poverty in Central America is more widespread than in the rest of Latin America, and this is reflected in the development of telecommunications.

2008 Latin America - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Central America reports that apart from Costa Rica, fixed-line teledensity in the Central American nations is lower than average for Latin America, while in mobile telephony, only El Salvador and Panama are slightly above the regional average. Nevertheless, all telecoms markets are growing.

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Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report showing that the worldwide unit shipments of music phones exceeded a billion units in 2007, outnumbering shipments of personal media players like the  iPod by almost 300 million units.

Wanted: Multimedia Handsets Consumer Desires Meet Operators ARPU Needs reports that by 2011, of the 941 million handsets that will ship worldwide, more than half will be music phones.

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