40 mln devices with WiFi support to ship in 2006

ABI Research forecasts that the total number of Wi-Fi-enabled consumer electronics devices will grow from just 40 mln shipped in 2006 to nearly 249 mln in 2011.

Published on: September 29, 2006 Department: Wireless data

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40% of all Internet users will have mobile Internet access by 2012
Global smartphone sales up 29% in Q1 2008, iPhone gets 5.3% share of global market
189 bln mobile messages sent in 2007
12.1% of iPhone usage is Web browsing
80% of mobile operators likely to become data connectivity providers
How digital music gets on the users’ phones
682,000 Wi-Fi phones sold in 2007
400 mln ultrawideband devices to ship by 2013
31% of phones sold in 2013 will be smartphones
49.7% of iPhone users accessed a social network in January 2008
Mobile messaging to generate $212 bln by 2013
52% of Internet users connect wirelessly
WiFi hotspot usage up 89% in the second half of 2007
Mobile broadband usage by income segment in Q4 2007
154% mobile broadband growth in the US in Q4 2007
Mobile/handheld TV could bring $2 bln by 2012
Global mobile infrastructure market reached $850 mln in Q4 2007
Australian mobile data services to grow in Australia by 50% in 2008
WLANs to generate $8 bln by 2012
46.1 mln mobile searchers in the US
By 2011 75% of the US workforce will be mobile
WiFi access points to generate $191 mln in 2012
900 mln GPS units to sell by 2013
115 mln gaming consoles to support Bluetooth by 2012
Contactless technology grew more than 15% in 2007
SMS traffic over the 2007/2008 New Year period increased by 30%
69% don’t know about the most important mobile phone features
Contactless transportation ticketing technology grew 15% in 2007
African-Americans and Hispanics are 50% more likely to be SMS users
56% of Americans use SMS, 33% see ads on cell phones
Europeans spent 1.86 bln on wireless e-mails in 2007
80 mln mobile WiMax subscribers by 2013
300 mln WiFi chipsets to ship in 2007
110 mln GPS chipsets shipped in 2006, 725 mln in 2011
444 mln GPS-equipped mobile phones to ship by 2011
25% of retail Wi-Fi networks use no encryption
Wireless data revenues reached $10.7 bln in the first half of 2007
140 mln ULP-enabled PAN sensors to ship by 2012
Professional services firms spend 40% of their telecom budgets on wireless and data
95 mln CPE devices by 2012
Market for femtocells to reach 36 mln units by 2012
Contactless e-passport transponders to generate $300 mln by 2012
North America and Western Europe to account for 66% of cellular modem sales
Business mobile data apps to generate $100 bln by 2012
Wi-Fi mesh networking shipments up 100% in 2006
SOHO WLAN revenues up 15% in Q2 2007
146 mln Bluetooth hosts sold by 2011
Only 5% of new American vehicles to have embedded Bluetooth
Cellular M2M to generate $8 bln by 2012
216 mln 802.11n chipsets to ship in 2011
Bluetooth device shipments to increase by 34% in 2007
Mobile data apps to generate $100 bln by 2012
OEM shipments of Bluetooth kits to double to 9 mln units by 2012
42% of parents interested in paying for child location services
US wireless data market up 7% in Q2 2007
5 mln Europeans to connect to broadband via mobile in 2007
100 Wi-Fi cell phone models by year-end 2007
Wireless data revenues to generate $44 bln in 2010 in US
Wireless data revenues to grow at 36% a year
87% of Americans to have wireless subscriptions
231.3k WiMAX subscribers worldwide
Mobile WiMAX to connect 8% of global broadband subscribers in 2012
20% of chipsets shipped in 2009 will be dual mode cellular/WiFi
84 mln mobile PCs shipped in 2006 had WiFi
132k hotspots worldwide in 2006
90% of all wireless broadband to be WiMAX by 2012
$159 mln worth of 802.11n products shipped in Q1 2007
21 mln WiMAX chipsets to ship in 2011
Mobile content platforms to generate $7.1 bln by 2010
52 mln machines to be connected to mobile networks in Europe by 2011
18 mln cellular models shipped for M2M apps in 2006
22 mln USB cellular modems to ship by 2012
31.43 mln WiMAX subscribers in Asia-Pacific
Chinese fleet management systems market to generate $300 mln in 2007
179,500 Wi-Fi hotspots globally by the end of 2007
8.39 WiMAX users in China in 2011
Wireless USB to grow at 250% a year
Bluetooth shipments to grow 47% in 2007
North America to have 66 mln machines connected to cellular networks by 2011
Wireless data generated $15.2 bln in 2006
340 muni Wi-Fi networks in the US
Digital radio unit sales, 2004-2012
North American wireless M2M to reach 22.6 mln units in 2011
Remote sensing products generated $7 bln in 2006
Wireless data to generate $7.2 bln in 2006
By 2011 32% of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi shipments will be embedded
Cellular modem sales to reach $10 bln by 2012
In-building wireless systems to generate $3.6 bln by 2011
Consumer spending on mobile data to reach $200 bln by 2011
200 mln Wi-Fi chipsets shipped in 2006
Customers do not care whether they get access through Wi-Fi or cellular
15.9 mln mobile Web logons in UK in December 2006
50k WiFi mesh units shipped in 2006
Mobile enterprise app market reached $1.2 bln in 2005
Contactless payments to reach $870 mln by 2011
2.5 mln wireless-capable multimedia devices shipped in 2006
11% of Americans have bought a wireless game
35% of unlimited data plan users use mobile e-mail
Wireless mesh nodes to generate $90 mln in 2006
222K WiMAX subscribers in 2006
62% of mobile operators to invest in WiMAX
European wireless gadgets sales to reach $44 bln in 2009
Wibree to generate $513 mln by 2011
EDGE to generate $25 bln between 2008 and 2011
14 mln WiMAX subscribers by 2011
Only 6% of mobile subscribers to go for WiMAX and UMTS TDD
143,700 commercial WiFi hotspots in 2006
4.5-10.5 mln ZigBee nodes to be sold in North America in 2006
Mobile Internet penetration in US and Europe
Business travelers spend $300 a month on wireless
Western European WLAN market generated $1.2 bln in January-June 2006
WLAN semiconductor revenue to reach $3.2 bln by 2010
28 mln game consoles with embedded WiFi to ship in 2006
$3 bln in cellular PC cards and embedded modems to sell by 2010
82% of US hotels offer wireless Internet
40 mln devices with WiFi support to ship in 2006
514 mln to subscribe to mobile TV by 2011
248 municipal WiFi deployments in the US by year-end 2006
40 mln global navigation satellite systems receivers shipped in 2005
Cellular base station spending to reach $53.2 mln in 2006
Global mobile cap ex to reach $150 bln by 2012
5 mln cellular modems to ship in 2006
Only 10% of mobile users buy ringtones
45 mln cellular M2M modules to ship by 2011
60% of businesses deployed WLANs
14.9 mln WiMAX users by 2009
10% of US wireless sibscribers to buy mobile video by 2009
60% of US SMBs have a mobile data solution in place
102 mln femtocell users by 2011
Mesh radio shipments up 40% in Q2 2006
14.2% of Americans would adopt mobile video
Wireless tech in manufacturing to grow at 26% a year
300k 802.11n routers shipped already
34.6 mln mobile Internet users in June 2006
RFID market to generate $3.1 bln in 2007
35K RFID readers shipped in 2005
Asia-Pacific WiMAX market to generate $4.3 bln by 2011
740K mobile e-mail subscribers in Asia-Pacific in 2006
80% would choose Wi-Fi when choosing between Wi-Fi and iPod
55 mln wireless Bluetooth headsets to ship in 2006
Fixed WiMAX networks to have 88 mln subscribers by 2011
IP multimedia subsystem apps to generate $14 bln by 2011
13 mln WiMAX subscribers in India by 2012
69.2 mln Japanese using Internet from mobile devices
Korean RFID shipments to reach $551.8 mln in 2006
Chinese Wi-Fi market to grow at 45% a year
Wireless infrastructure and application services to reach $56.7 bln by 2010
WLAN enterprise market up 6% in Q1 2006
289 mln ultrawideband devices to ship by 2010
Distribution of EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA worldwide
Ringtones are a $3 bln industry
200 mln UltraWideBand products shipped by 2011
Mobile messaging market in Western Europe to generate $15.4 bln by 2010
5 mln wireless machine-to-machine connections in Europe
Top activities among UK wireless subscribers: text messages, photo messages
Top activities among US wireless subscribers: text messages, photo messages, browsing news, buying ringtones
250 mln vehicles could be connected to wireless networks
17% of UK business travelers use hotspots
WiMAX to generate $5.4 bln by 2010
RFID spending to reach $3 bln in 2010
WiMAX chipsets to generate $950 mln by 2009
Top countries for .eu registrations: Germany, UK, Netherlands, Italy, Cyprus
4-5 mln Americans use mobile email and messaging
58% of online Americans use WiFi only if it is free
Wireless data services generated $8.58 bln in 2005
Global WLAN equipment generated $763.5 mln in Q3 2005
Women more likely to use mobile picture messaging, men more likely to listen to mobile music
Best US WiFi hotels
7.2 mln WiMAX customer premise devices to ship by 2010
3 mln intelligent antenna handsets to ship in 2006
40% of mobile users would pay extra for multimedia
48 mln WiMAX connections by 2010
500 mln Bluetooth radios to ship in 2006
60% of WLANs completely unprotected
EMEA WLAN market up 33% in Q4 2005
430 mln WLAN chipsets to ship in 2009
USA to earn $25 bln from wireless licenses in 2007-2009
6 mln wireless email users in the US
74 mln mobile portal users in Western Europe by 2010
Top unwired cities: San Francisco, NYC, Chicago
47% of WiFi users have digital cable TV
63% of all wireless data packets are generated by browsing
90% of airports to support WiFi in 2 years
72% of large companies to use voice over wireless by 2009
Asian location-based services market to reach $771.9 mln by 2010
Wireless mesh access points to generate $974.3 mln by 2009
Enterprise WLAN sales up 9% in Q3 2005
Online DVD rental market has 6.3 mln subscribers, $1 bln revenue
In 2010 4% of all global broadband will be WiMAX
WLAN equipment sales up 17% in Q2 2005
866 mln Bluetooth devices by 2009
Asia-Pacific WiMAX equipment market to generate $2 bln by 2009
Bluetooth shipments to reach 316 mln by 2005, 866 mln by 2009
580 mln ZigBee units by 2010
6% of Western European enterprises are interested in mobile data apps
WLAN market to reach $5 bln by 2006
65% of home networks support Wi-Fi
40% of US adults use WWW for news, weather and sports
120K Wi-Fi hotspots by year-end 2005, 200K by 2008
Revenue from wireless hotspots to reach $969 bln in 2005, $3.46 bln in 2009
WLAN revenue up 18% in Q2 2005
38% of home users leave their wireless networks open
LAN and WLAN test equipment to generate $1.2 bln by 2011
WLAN equipment spending to grow at 20% a year
850 mln mobile workers by 2009
53% of industrial users consider deploying wireless sensor network in 2006
Top 50 wireless universities cover 98% of their campus with Wi-Fi
Global WLAN revenues up 18% in Q2 2005
Global WLAN revenue up 18% in Q2 2005
7% of US wireless ARPU is data services
Mobile subscribers with data packages pay extra $7.86 a month on average
84K hotspots globally in Q2 2005
European mobile content and entertainment to generate 32 bln euros by 2012
Only 21% of large enterprises highly satisfied with their wireless contracts
WLAN switch sales up 52% in Q2 2005, Cisco and Linksys lead
US PC users are split between home Ethernet and home Wi-Fi
33% of Western European Wi-Fi-enabled laptop owners never use Wi-Fi
WLAN switches up 45% in Q2 2005
Half of online Americans have used WiFi hotspots, 20% use them frequently
14% have tried out neighbor’s Wi-Fi
WiMAX equipment revenues to reach $124.5 mln in 2005
Enterprise WLAN market to reach $3.5 bln by 2009
Australian mobile data services revenues to grow at 21.5% a year
New Zealand mobile data services to grow at 16.2% a year
$54.7 mln of WiFi+VOIP handsets sold in 2004
Wireless music market to reach $1.2 bln in the US by 2009
70,000 Australians use Wi-Fi
Citywide Wi-Fi costs $150,000 per square mile in maintenance costs over 5 years
WLAN market to reach $5 bln by 2006
Top Wi-Fi countries: US, UK, Germany, France
47% of companies with WLANs are thinking of integrating Wi-Fi and cellular
Machine-to-machine communications to reach $270 bln by 2010
From 2004 to 2009 ZigBee node shipments to grow at 200% a year
EMEA WLAN market up 6.1% in Q1 2005
180K Australian households to have home WLAN by year-end 2005
21% of home WLAN users browse Internet from the bathroom
450,000 customers pay T-Mobile for WiFi hotspots
69% of wireless access points sold to consumer market in 2004 were 802.11g
17.6 mln WLAN access points were sold on consumer market in 2004
100 mln WiFi-enabled cell phones by 2010
Most unwired cities: Seattle, San Francisco
Asian youngsters spent $15.2 bln on mobile data services in 2004
20 mln fixed WiMAX installations by 2009
WLAN equipment revenue up 20% in Q1 2005
WLAN semiconductors to generate $3 bln by 2009
80% of US wireless carriers offer Wi-Fi
Intel attributes laptop sales growth to Centrino
US mobile data services and applications generated $1.6 bln in Q4 2004
Wireless networking chipsets to grow at 23% a year
$5.2 bln will be spent on Wi-Fi, $115 mln on WiMAX in 2005
Australian WLAN market up 119% in 2004
10 mln US households have WLAN
Mobile browsing patterns: 57% look for weather, 44% for sports scores, 44% for national news
2.1 bln cellular subscribers to use GSM/GPRS/CDMA2000 in 2009
India will have 3,500 Wi-Fi hotspots by year-end 2005
Korean mobile data services market to reach $3.3 bln in 2005
29% growth in wireless Internet users worldwide in 2004
UltraWideBand nodes and chipsets to grow at 400% between 2005 and 2008
Number of WiMAX customers to grow at 64% a year between 2009 and 2012
51% of medium businesses to have WLANs by year-end 2005
43% of mobile text messages is spam
EMEA WLAN market up 9.3% in Q4 2004
85.9 mln wireless sensors by 2010, 85% of them ZigBee
8.5 mln WiMAX subscribers by 2009
Airport WiFi customers spend 40 minutes online on average
Wi-Fi equipment revenues up 15% for 2004, but down 21% in Q4 2004
WLAN equipment unit shipments to grow 200% by 2009
Wireless PC card modem market to grow 10 times by 2010
44.2% of mobile users interested in in-flight wireless data services
$3 bln needed to bring WiMAX to 98% of US households
WLAN equipment revenues to grow 13% in 2005
100 mln wireless sensors in use by 2008
WiFi hotspots will cost $12 bln in missed revenues to US cellular companies
52% of Americans use WiFi, 50% - wired Ethernet, for home networking
17 automakers to support Bluetooth in 2005
More than 50,000 Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide
Getting WiMAX to 74% of US households would cost $18 a month
Mobile device management to generate $5 bln by 2010
WLAN sales in Europe, Middle East and Africa increased 9.2% in Q3 2004
44601 devices with integrated media and WiFi will ship by 2008
Only 4.7% of US cellular revenues come from data
3.2 mln used enterprise wireless email in 2004
11 mln Wi-Fi units sold in Q3 2004
Public wireless LANs to bring 4.7 bln euros globally in 2009
WiFi hardware revenue up 9% in Q3 2004
Corporate WiFi market leaders: Cisco, Symbol, Airespace, Proxim, 3Com
30% of companies installed WLANs by year-end 2004
Global enterprise mobility solutions market to bring in $16.5 bln in 2004
100-150 ZigBee chips in every house by 2007
146 Bluetooth chipsets to sell in 2004
27% of enterprises to use voice-over-WLAN by mid-2006
Users name $8.00 as the price to pay for hotspot access
WiMax base stations to generate $2.6 bln in 2009
WLAN IC market to generate $2.1 bln in 2008
Wireless LAN integrated circuits to generate $2.1 bln in 2008
25-30K WiFi users in Russia by 2008
Only 40% of European companies interested in mobile data, 4% ready to invest in mobile apps
19 mln ZigBee units to ship in 2006, 123 mln in 2009
200K hotspots by 2008
UWB to grow at 400% a year
Wi-Fi unit shipments to increase 20% in 2004
1.2 mln wireless data cards sold in Europe in 2004
UWB market to enjoy 400% CAGR till 2008
287K Australians to have wireless broadband by 2008
SMS share in mobile data to drop from 90% in 2003 to 40% in 2008
Taiwan LAN manufacturing revenues up 27.1% in Q1 2004
39 mln WLAN users by the end of 2004
84% of corporate WLAN deployments have never had a break-in
Wireless PC data cards to grow 47.8% a year in Western Europe
802.11n to take 55% of consumer market in 2008
Chinese WLAN market to grow 33% a year
Europe, Middle East and Africa bought 720 000 GPS devices in first half of 2004
Wireless adoption among life and health insurers is at 5% in 2004
Bluetooth shipments reach 3 mln devices a week
EMEA WLAN equipment market up 188% in Q2 2004
Global WLAN hardware sales up 3% QTQ in Q2 2004
Embedded WiFi market to grow at 66.2% CAGR till 2008
802.11g access point prices declined 10.3% in June 2004
1 mln Zigbee devices will be shipped in 2005, 80 mln in 2006
Enterprise WLAN access point market to grow 75% in 2004
SMB wireless market to grow 93% in 2004
300 mln Bluetotth products to ship in 2004
36% of businesses provide wireless access to back-end
Productivity is the top reason for installing WLAN
27% of US users have heard of VOIP, 13% considered it
Top news sites from Nielsen/NetRatings
Chinese WLAN market falls 28.7% in Q1 2004
Almost 700K wireless networks in the US
Wireless will only take up 3.6% of broadband, WiMax the most popular standard
Most unwired US colleges
22% of WiFi devices fail to connect on the first try
10% of Americans use wireless networks
60% of Americans know what Wi-Fi is, 72% familiar with wireless networking
30 mln WiFi users by the end of 2004
WCDMA grew 33% in Q4 2003
WiFi revenues up 55% for 2003, consumer market up 66%
Last mile wireless solutions market to reach $3 bln by 2009
Wireless e-mail pushes worker productivity
802.16 and 802.20 market to outpace $1 bln by 2007
Wireless shipments increased 214% in 2003
37% of laptop plan to buy a WLAN card, 30% have one
115 mln people use mobile data services
WiFi unit shipments up 214% in 2003
Hotspot statistics - most unwired countries
Taiwanese double WLAN production
Wireless security market $8.4 bln by 2008
40K hotspots globally in 2003
IDC: wireless games will bring $1 bln by 3006
$250 mln in WiFi sales in China in 2005
Nomad: 3.8 M WiMax users in UK by 2006
Hot spots in Asia: good growth, little money
IDC: Centrino laptops will get 42% market share in 2003
VoIP: Big in Europe
Wireless e-mail productivity
In-Stat/MDR: 1.3M VOIP US subscribers in 2003
In-Stat/MDR: Wireless security providers up
ABI: Wifi deployment - a million hot spots a year
Disruptive: 25M Hybrid Devices by 2006
Wireless notebooks: 95% by 2006
China wireless apps up
US VOIP sales
IDC: Wi-Fi at home in the US up 7%
Low-power wireless networks
802.11g picked up where 802.11b left

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