7% of US wireless ARPU is data services
Data services currently contribute about 7% of average monthly revenue per customer (ARPU) in the United States, according to Ovum.
Published on: September 29, 2005 Department: Wireless data
Published on: September 29, 2005 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 132k hotspots worldwide in 2006
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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