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As the name suggests, machine-to-machine or M2M connectivity describes the communication, usually over a cellular network, between machines.

The European telecoms reform package has passed into law, but what does it mean for carriers and users?

Worldwide mobile broadband subscriptions topped 600 million in 2009 according to the ITU, and a growing proportion of those subscriptions are for smartphones, often with all-you-can-eat data plans.

Satellite direct-to-home (DTH) subscription continues to grow steadily at rates of 13% to 15% per year and with the number of subscribers now standing at over 150 million globally, reports TeleGeography.

Juniper Research forecasts that the value of digital and physical goods that people buy with their mobiles will reach $200 billion globally by 2012, compared to less than $100 billion today. The study, Mobile Payments for Digital and Physical Goods, found that digital goods include entertainment and tickets, while physical goods include groceries, gifts and books. This global market sizing report focusses on two major sectors within the mobile payments industry: digital goods payments, like mobile entertainment such as a music track and SMS/barcode ticketing, and physical goods payments, like mobile purchase of almost any consumer product such as a book or DVD using mobile internet or an application.

Research conducted on behalf of fibre network provider Geo suggests that public internet infrastructure congestion is affecting enterprises across the UK.

Backhaul spectrum, like other highly valued finite resources, is being consumed at a rapid rate.

Atlantic-ACM’s US Telecom Wired and Wireless Sizing and Sharing: 2009-2014 tracks trends in US business telecoms spending and expects IP VPN demand to grow at a CAGR (2007-2014) of 13.6%, representing the highest growing product among all business data products.

According to international consultancy Broadgroup’s Data Centres Latin America – Competition, Demand Drivers and Growth report, data centre space is set to grow 61% across seven Latin American markets (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Peru) by 2014. Yet although the region boasts more than 200 data centres (excluding enterprise data centres) across these markets, this is still likely to leave a space shortage following enterprise outsourcing.

The second edition of Infonetics Research’s 2009 Mobile Backhaul Equipment and Services report predicts that the mobile backhaul equipment market will grow by 60% in 2009 to $5.9 billion.