The global market is gaining momentum and witnessing a high demand owing to substantial benefits, such as range extension, building penetration and hole-filling, delay spread, co-channel interference, multiple access interference, multipath management, system capacity, and power control, which results in increased profitability. Due to the increasing demand for high-speed wireless internet and extensive adoption of smartphones, the smart antenna market is witnessing considerable growth. Additionally, the growth in demand for smart antenna in various applications, such as Wi-Fi systems, WiMAX systems, cellular systems, RADAR, and others, is estimated to boost the market demand over the forecast period. Technological proliferation and growing consumer interest in advanced technologies have further resulted in the increased adoption of smart antennas.

The following section discusses in detail the different intelligent pumps used across industry verticals. Intelligent pumps have garnered much attention attributed to their features such as high energy savings, improved pump efficiency, and reduced costs, among others.

The following section discusses in detail the different intelligent pumps used across industry verticals. Intelligent pumps have garnered much attention attributed to their features such as high energy savings, improved pump efficiency, and reduced costs, among others.

Brewer’s yeast market has been segmented on the basis of type, application, and region. Various raw materials used in the market include molasses and pure yeast culture. Based on product, the market has been segmented into dry yeast and liquid yeast. Brewer’s yeast, which is the leftover yeast after brewing operations, is used as a feedstuff for pigs, ruminants, poultry, & fish and as a flavoring ingredient in the food industry. Brewer’s yeast, which is commonly extracted from large breweries, is used as a protein supplement in animal feed. On the basis of application, the market has been segmented into food supplements and feed supplements.

The market leader for local telephony is the incumbent Telefónica Chile (trading as Movistar). Its main competitors are VTR, the GTD group (including GTD Manquehue, GTD Telesat, Telsur, and Telcoy), Entel, and Claro. Apart from southern Chile, where Telsur has operated since 1893, Telefónica Chile was the only operator authorised to provide local fixed-line until 1980, when the government licensed Compañía Telefónica Manquehue (now GTD Manquehue) and Complejo Manufacturero de Equipos Telefónicos (CMET) to offer local telephony in parts of the Santiago metropolitan area. Entel entered the local telephony market in 1995 and VTR in 1997. Several other operators launched competing local services during the 1990s. A few companies (Will, Fullcom, Netline, and Quantax) launched services between 2005 and 2008 with fixed wireless or IP telephony offerings.

The cloud market has particularly strong growth potential, underpinned by government initiatives and major investment by vendors in infrastructure and human capital. A new cybersecurity law will protect local cloud and hosting players from growing international competition. Growing international concerns about Chinese companies' ability to disrupt and stifle competition will limit the potential growth trajectories of players such as Huawei and Inspur.  Softening demand for tablet computers, mitigated by lengthening notebook replacement cycles and the power of smartphones as a computing alternative, weakens the outlook for devices and associated software and services.  Low-cost smartphones and phablet devices will continue to pose downside risks to household PC penetration in low-income areas where price sensitivity remains high. Improving levels of enterprise PC penetration by industrial sector and region in 2015 suggest that there were significant strides towards PC uptake made during the course of the 12th Five Year Plan (2011-2015). Strong government emphasis on technological development and innovative prowess will continue to keep IT services levels elevated over the short- and medium term.

The degree of competition in Ecuador’s oil and gas sector can be characterised as low, with just one company – the state-run Petroecuador and its subsidiaries – dominating the production of natural gas and oil derivatives and accounting for the bulk of crude oil output (78.4% in 2017). Nevertheless, the participation of private companies in the sector is set to increase, given the measures of the administration of president Moreno to attract private investment in the domestic oil and gas extraction industry – as evidenced by the launch of new bidding rounds, and the reinstatement of the production-sharing modality in oil and gas concessions.

Most of the advanced specialist care services are available only in the Metro Manila region or other large urban areas while healthcare services outside these areas is much more rudimentary. Private for-profit healthcare services providers generally supply the highest quality services in the Philippines, as their business model allows them to raise sufficient capital to purchase the most sophisticated medical devices and pay sufficient wages to attract the highest skilled medical professionals. The Philippines is highly import dependent in the medical devices and pharmaceuticals subsectors and local manufacturers are generally limited to producing lower value-added medical devices or cheaper generic drugs.

Power generation is a competitive economic activity in India, in the sense that it is populated by both central, State and private players, some of whom engage in electricity trading through power exchanges. Outside the open market, however, off-take prices charged by generating companies are often fixed under long-term PPAs, and consumer-end electricity prices are heavily regulated too. Transmission, in need of significant upgrades, is mostly State-owned. Generation and distribution in the wind and solar renewable segments are more competitive because generation costs are relatively fixed and decreasing, while feed-in tariffs are higher than those for conventional electricity. Although net metering has been adopted by several States, it is not universally successful, because of the widely varying electricity prices between States. In addition, large-scale renewable power feed-ins strain T&D capacity and thus is considered higher-risk by power distributors. All this makes the competitive landscape for the power sector in India different from State to State, but sharing the common denominator of significant levels of central and State scrutiny. Some of the challenges the sector faces include fickle fossil fuel supply, delays in the acquisition of land and right of way, inadequate infrastructure supporting power projects in remote areas, and environmental compliance.

The level of competition in Chile’s consumer goods and retail sector is relatively low, with a few large private companies, mainly of Chilean origin, holding dominant positions in the major channels. In 2017, 70.6% of the sector’s net revenues corresponded to eight private companies, of which three were multi-channel retailers operating department stores, supermarkets, home improvement centres and shopping centres. Moreover, there is a sustained concentration process in the department store channel, marked by increasing positions of the four biggest players in 2012-2017, whereas the concentration in the supermarket channel has exhibited a more volatile behaviour.