Import data is analysed by country and destination and has been expanded to include the last three years 2003, 2004, 2005. New industry information enables us to re-estimate the Russian Market, with a higher level of apartment metering.. Deployment of AMR and AMM continues in the US and new countries are following suit. Italy has lead the way with its national installation of advanced meters, the largest ever .Scandanavia is now setting the pace for Northern Europe. The leading Chinese companies have announced increases in production capacity and it is anticipated that China will become a major market and supplier of AMR in the next few years.

There are 1.4 billion electricity meters in the world with a total demand of 107 million meters both new and replacement.

Global demand is expected to rise to 125 million meters by 2011 with an annual growth of 3.1%. It is a comprehensive study of the world market and contains demand forecasts for 184 countries and detailed meter market surveys of the 15 largest markets in Europe, Asia and the Americas, accounting for 80% of demand.