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Digital Technology - Italian Market Trend - IQ 2011

Milan, 14 June 2011 – SIRMI SPA has recently issued its analysis on the Digital Technology Market for the first quarter of 2011. The market still maintains a negative trend (-2,5%) in comparison with the same period of last year, owing to the persisting economic critical situation. No sign of recovery is expected for the full year.

Here below, a summary of the analysis:
ITALIAN ICT Market - IQ 2011



In the first quarter of 2011 ICT Market trend is still negative, due to the critical economic and financial moment and the consequent reduction of propulsion to expense by families and enterprises.

ICT Market registers a total End User contraction of -2,5%.

All IT Market sectors decrease, with the exception of Software, that shows a flat trend.

Services is the category with the strongest decrease: Management Services (-2,8%), and Development Services (-5,9%).

In the course of 2011 it is expected a partial recovery for TLC Market, but also the full year will close with a negative sign. First quarter of 2011 closes with a total decrease of -2,3% in terms of end user expenses; in particular, the TLC Fixed maintain a strong negative trend (-4,1%).

The current economic situation with the consequent limited growth or negative trends of the market needs a moment of deep attention and analysis by parties involved in the market to defend their competition.

In order to support the above analysis, SIRMI monitors some particular markets collecting data and making some particular evaluations.

End Users
SIRMI analyses a significant sample: the first 1000 companies in terms of ICT value acquired.

Distributors
SIRMI analyses the trend of the first 20 companies that represent more than the 70% of the full sector for a total amount of about 6 billions of euro.

ICT Operators
SIRMI constantly monitors about 3/4000 companies surveyed in its database.

Vendors
With the different quarterly analysis and other initiatives "ad hoc", SIRMI constantly analyses the most important hardware and software vendors.


To complete the analysis SIRMI shows in the following tables some estimates for the full year 2011

ICT ITALIAN MARKET – Estimates for the full year 2011