Communication and Mobile Phone Market Analysis

Kyaw Thu
18-4-19

Objective of the study

To explore the communication market situation in UK and analysis of mobile phone global market share.

Source of Data

open data source https://data.gov.uk/dataset/cd7abd63-5053-433c-a8a3-4a964e4c7e92/the-communications-market-report.

https://www.idc.com/tracker/showtrackerhome.jsp

  • CMR 2018
  • IDC data

Getting Raw Data 

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1 Communications industry revenue – telecoms, TV, radio and post (£bn) 
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5                                                                 Telecoms
6                                                                       TV
     X  X.1  X.2  X.3  X.4  X.5
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4 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
5 38.8 36.9 35.4 35.8 36.1 35.6
6 13.5 13.5 13.7 14.1 14.2 13.6

Revenue in Billion from Communication Market, UK ( 2013-2017)

     mcomm y2013 y2014 y2015 y2016 y2017
1 Telecoms  36.9  35.4  35.8  36.1  35.6
2       TV  13.5  13.7  14.1  14.2  13.6
3    Radio   1.2   1.3   1.3   1.3   1.3
4     Post   4.4   4.4   4.5   4.3   4.1

Plot of 2013 Revenue (Billion)

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Plot of 2016-2017 Revenue (Billion)

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Finding of UK Communication Market

Data are only available for the period of 2013 - 2017. There are four main categories in the communication industy which incude Post, Radio, Telecoms and TV. Telecoms and TV business are the largest revenue makers in the UK communication market.

World wide Mobile Phone Sales Record 2017-2018

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IDC Report

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Findings

According to the sales record of mobile phone, Chinese brands-Huawei and Xiaomi are much improved in their year to year change percentage (40 percent +) and Apple market share down to the third place in 2018. Samsung YoY shrinking 10 percent in the market.