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Taipei, July 4 (CNA) The production value of Taiwan's
information and communications technology (ICT) industry will show an
approximately 30 percent year-on-year growth to reach NT$1.35 trillion
(US$58.7 billion) in 2010, according to a report by the Market Intelligence
Center (MIC) of the government-backed Institute for Information Industry.
MIC deputy head Chang Chi said Sunday that Taiwan's ICT industry has been
recovering since the second half of 2009 after reeling from the global
financial crisis in the first half of that year, and is expected to continue
its growth momentum in 2010.
By sector, the mobile telecommunications sector will generate the highest
production value of approximately NT$785.9 billion, or 58 percent of the
total, followed by the cable communications sector at NT$232.3 billion, or 17
percent of the total, he predicted.
Meanwhile, the wireless communications sector's revenues will reach NT$120.5
billion, or 9 percent of the total, and another 16 percent, or NT$212.8
billion, will come from exports of communication chips and spare parts, the
MIC forecast.
Growth in the global ICT services market in the next few years will be driven
by emerging markets such as China
and India,
the MIC predicated, noting that global mobile subscriptions reached 4.6
billion in 2009 and are expected to amount to 6 billion by 2013.
Meanwhile, up to 460 million households worldwide used broadband Internet
last year, which translates into US$10.8 billion in revenues, and the number
could reach 700 million households by 2013, according to the MIC.
It also forecast that global revenues of broadband services will grow by 10
percent this year.
The report also shows that the production value of business communications
was about US$34.1 billion last year and could increase to US$57.8 billion by
2013, with integrated communications services expected to be the biggest
contributor.
In terms of communication chips, the MIC anticipates that the shipments of
MediaTek, the main producer of GSM/EDGE baseband chips, will exceed
Qualcomm's to make MediaTek the world's largest cell phone baseband chip
supplier.
The MIC said that shipments of global mobile handsets will hit 1.32 billion
this year and top 1.5 billion by 2013, with smartphones occupying 25
percent-30 percent of the market.
Driven by iPhone and Android, shipments of Taiwanese smartphones in the third
quarter of this year will break the 23 million units mark, according to the
MIC.
In addition, the production value of business broadband products will reach
US$47.9 billion by 2013, mainly from Switch L2-L3 products, the MIC added.
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