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Entertainment-on-Demand: Online Gaming Services
This report gathers data from three large-scale consumer surveys
and examines consumer interests and preferences. In addition, the
report analyzes the potential opportunities and threats
gaming-on-demand services will bring to different players in the
gaming industry value chain and provides detailed information on the
major companies catering to gaming-on-demand services.
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Residential Voice-over-IP: Analysis &
Forecasts
While voice-over-IP has slowly made its way into the
enterprise space, early projections of its viability in the
residential market were way off base. However, as U.S. cable companies
expand their service offerings to include telephony, VoIP becomes a
logical and viable technology for the delivery of derived voice
services. This report analyzes how the residential VoIP market has
evolved and evaluates the drivers and inhibitors which will determine
when, where, and in what form derived voice will emerge in U.S.
households.
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Digital
Music: Market, Services, and Consumers
Who is using digital music and why? Is there any hope for
fee-based digital music services? Will digital music really be the end
of the recording industry? Digital Music: Market, Services, and
Consumers addresses these issues and examines how digitization
will impact the industry’s value chain. It provides the latest
consumer data, market analysis, player profiles, and revenue forecasts
and is a comprehensive guide to digital music, a must-have for those
impacted by this dynamic change.
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Unlicensed Broadband Wireless: Solutions and Applications
The success of Wi-Fi has ignited interest in extending the use
of unlicensed wireless technologies to bridge the last-mile
bottleneck. WiMAX, the trade association promoting such technologies,
has recently begun to gain more industry support. This report examines
the existing broadband wireless solutions in the unlicensed spectrum,
their current and potential applications, the possible impact of WiMAX
standardization, and other market drivers and inhibitors. The report
also includes profiles of equipment vendors and best practices of WISPs.
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Public Hot
Spots: Moving Beyond Road Warriors
Wi-Fi® networking solutions have revolutionized the way in
which users in the office and at home access data. Now, a much-hyped
“next frontier” is the public access market – hotels, airports, the
local coffee shop, and other locations. This report dissects this market – from a thorough examination of the technology
and service players (and their subsequent business models), all the
way down to primary consumer data that pinpoints both the
opportunities and challenges for this sector.
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Electronic Living @ Home 2002 (Multiclient)
Consumer Electronic Ownership and its Role in the Connected Home
The number of both data- or PC-centric network nodes and the number of
networked entertainment nodes are set to explode in the next few years, but
without a fundamental understanding of the consumer, the risk of failure is
amplified as companies try to capitalize on this emerging market in this
unforgiving economic environment. Electronic Living @ Home will provide the insight into purchase behavior and electronics
ownership for both Internet and non-Internet households that provide the
foundation for solid business models and intelligent market decisions for
entering and succeeding in this high-tech arena.
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Personal Area
Connectivity Solutions: The Next Generation
Personal area connectivity solutions capable of extremely high data
transfers and designed from the ground up for quality-of-service may
soon play a major role in connecting any number of devices in the
home. This report examines the technologies and players – from
802.15.3 to ultra-wideband – that are drawing attention from a great
many industry sectors, including consumer electronics, computing,
digital imaging, and communications. This report presents a
comprehensive and accurate assessment of the market opportunities for WPANs, including market sizing through 2007.
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U.S. Mobile Market Intelligence
U.S. Mobile Market Intelligence consolidates extensive consumer
survey data and competitive intelligence with an expansive number of
forecasts into one convenient, desk-top resource covering all the key
market segments. It is a critical tool in crafting product, service,
and marketing strategies and applies Parks Associates expertise in
emerging consumer technologies to the mobile phone industry. Pages:
168; Figures: 166
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Chinese Telecom Market: Overview and
Analysis
Headlines about the 2002 market reorganization, the IPO attempts of
the two largest Chinese telecom companies, and the recent buzz
surrounding 3G standards and development have attracted tremendous
attentions to the Chinese telecom industry, the brightest spot in the
global telecom market. This just-in-time report offers insights and
analysis from a pure Chinese perspective. It summarizes the
reformation process, outlines the government’s regulations and perspective, analyzes the new competitive landscape with
a special focus on mobile and data services, describes the opportunities for
access network and other equipment vendors, and makes predictions about
the prospects for “convergence.” The report also profiles the
background, market share, competitiveness, and strategies of the six
major telecom operators.
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The Business of Home Networking: Challenges and Opportunities
for Broadband Service Providers
This report offers a convincing argument as to why service
providers will play a pivotal role in the diffusion of home network
solutions. It also reviews Parks Associates’ latest consumer research
on managed home network services; discusses price sensitivity to
managed home network services; defines the revenue potential for
managed home network services; and provides detailed forecasts for
home network service adoption through 2007.
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Primary Perspectives: E-Enabled Home Security
As personal and property security and safety concerns continue to rise
among U.S. consumers, companies from a broad range of fields are now
addressing the home security market with "e-enabled" applications.
From two-way connectivity to remote access to home security systems,
this report examines emerging trends in home security services from
the consumer perspective using a recent survey of more than 10,500
U.S. Internet households. It examines home security and home
management ownership and use and probes consumer interest in emerging
home security applications. Pages: 78; Figures: 88
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Broadband Access @ Home III
(Multiclient)
The rate at which new broadband subscribers are signing on has been
declining for some time. After reaching a pinnacle of 55% in the third
quarter of 2000, the quarterly rate at which new broadband subscribers
were added declined to a low of 14% in Q4 2001. Primary consumer
research is essential in gauging the pulse of this evolving
marketplace. It is for these reasons that Parks Associates introduces
our third multi-client focusing upon the residential broadband market, Broadband Access @ Home III. Pages: 313; Figures: 370.
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Trends in U.S. Broadband Adoption
While broadband subscriptions among U.S. households enjoyed
significant growth in 2002, the dominant cable broadband and DSL
service providers struggled with a difficult economy, an uncertain
regulatory environment, and a host of other challenges. Trends in U.S.
Broadband Adoption analyzes these challenges and attempts to make
sense out of the turbulent and rapidly changing market for broadband
services among consumers.
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Primary Perspectives: A Profile of Today’s Home Network Owner
Drawn from a survey of more than 10,500 U.S. Internet households, this
report offers a detailed examination of the early home network
adopter. This report offers demographic characteristics such as age,
annual household income, and presence of children in the home and
technology-specific characteristics such as desktop and laptop PC
ownership, types of networking technology deployed, and primary
network applications.
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Primary Perspectives: Consumer Demand for Mobile Data Services
Service providers are hoping to move up the value chain and begin
offering more content and network applications to their subscribers.
The objective is to use advanced service offerings to increase both
the number of subscribers and the average revenue per user (ARPU).
Whether this strategy succeeds will be largely determined by consumer
demand for mobile data connectivity and the services that this
platform makes possible. The purpose of this report is to assess
consumer interest in and demand for mobile data services.
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Installing Dealer ePanel:
1Q 2003, 3Q 2002, & 1Q 2002 Survey Reports
(Multiclient)
These separate reports cover the results of the first quarter
and third quarter surveys of the Installing Dealer ePanel. The ePanel has been developed
with the aid of a Dealer Advisory Board of selected dealers chosen for
their experience in the market, breadth of product line, and a desire
to enter new markets and expand their offerings. The purpose is
to provide stakeholders in this market with a mechanism to monitor the
pulse of Installing Dealers.
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Advanced
Entertainment Households