Will eCall drive rapid market growth in automotive M2M communications?

Wellingborough, UK. September 6, 2012 — IMS Research, recently acquired by IHS Inc., forecasts that unit sales of connected vehicles in Western Europe will grow to 15 million units by 2019. This equates to a fitment rate in new vehicles of more than 95%. So says a new IMS report on the automotive telematics market.

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Vehicle makers are killing off aftermarket car radios, IMS research suggests

Wellingborough, UK. May 28, 2012 — Are vehicles manufacturers causing the death of the traditional aftermarket car radio? A recent report from IMS Research that forecasts global revenue from aftermarket car radio sales will decline from $6.1 billion in 2011 to $3.2 billion in 2018, suggests this may be the case.

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Mobile NFC metro tickets to be used by 13% of mobile users in the West by 2016

Hampshire, UK. February 2012: A new report from Juniper Research has found that 1 in 8 (13%) of North American and Western European mobile users will use their near-field communications or NFC-enabled mobile phones as a metro rail or bus ticket by 2016. This compares with less than 1% today.

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