Consumer broadband VAS market grows 30% in 2009 - research

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Consumer broadband VAS market grows 30% in 2009 - research
The global market for consumer broadband value-added services (BVAS) grew by 30 percent during 2009 in revenue terms, and by 13 percent in terms of subscribers, according to the latest Consumer Broadband Value Added Services report from Point Topic. The run rate for consumer BVAS revenues went from USD 39.6 billion to USD 48.9 billion in 2009. This was a greater rate of increase than that for consumer broadband lines which grew 14 percent from 366 million in Q4 2008 to 417 million in Q4 2009. For comparison, plain subscription revenues increased from a run rate of USD 113 billion at end-2008 to USD 129 billion at end-2009. In that context, BVAS revenues contributed an extra 37.9 percent to standard access revenues by the end of 2009.

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