Archive for the Wireless data Category
266 mln wireless subscribers in the US by 2013
Wireless subscriber growth is slowing due to market saturation, with US carriers adding only 26 mln new subscribers in the next five years to reach 266 mln in 2013. Adoption by teens and young adults ...
Internet usage habits among smartphone subscribers
Internet Service Accessed via Phone iPhone Smartphone Market Any news of information via browser 80.4% 32.2% 10.7% Accessed web search 56.6% 18.3% 5.0% Watched any mobile...
Location-based mobile social networking to generate $3.3 bln by 2012
Location-based mobile social networking revenues will reach $3.3 bln by 2013, but successful business models may differ from what many observers expect, ABI Research says....
Growth of photo messaging users in April 2008 in US and Europe
Age United States Europe 13-17 68% 13% 18-24 55% 8% 25-34 53% 16% 35-44 63% 15% 45-54 73% 17% 55+ 67% 36% Total 60% 16% Source: comScore ...
Mobile user activities among 7 countries
US EU FR DE IT ES UK Total mobile subscribers, mln. 226 224 46.5 49 47 34 47.5 Sent/received photos or videos 23.9% 27.6% 24.7% 20.6% 31.9% 31.1% 30.7% Liste...
Stats on accessing Internet via mobile device around the world
Audience, 000 % of Mobile Subscribers Country May-07 May-08 Change May-07 May-08 France 907 1,265 40% 2.0% 2.7% Germany 663 963 45% 1.4% 2.0% Italy 1,595 ...
40% of all Internet users will have mobile Internet access by 2012
Roughly 40% of all Internet users worldwide currently have mobile Internet access. The number of mobile Internet users will reach 546 mln in 2008, nearly twice as many as in 2006, and is forecast to s...
Global smartphone sales up 29% in Q1 2008, iPhone gets 5.3% share of global market
Worldwide smart-phone sales were 32.2 mln for Q1 2008, up 29% from Q1 2007, but half of that increase was due to the surge in North America, Gartner says. Smart-phone sales in North America were 7.3 m...
189 bln mobile messages sent in 2007
189 bln mobile messages have been sent by US mobile-phone subscribers in 2007. Gartner forecasts 301 bln mobile messages sent in 2008. Those figures would still account for only a small fraction of th...
12.1% of iPhone usage is Web browsing
US consumers said they spent 12.1% of their iPhone usage time accessing the Internet, a stark contrast with 2.4% for all mobile phones on average, according to iSuppli. Furthermore, iPhone owners spen...
80% of mobile operators likely to become data connectivity providers
80% of mobile operators agreed that becoming a mobile data connectivity provider is either quite likely or highly likely, according to 3-ple Media. Average revenue per user (ARPU) from traditional ser...
How digital music gets on the users’ phones
Source of digital music on the phone France Germany Italy Spain UK US Transferred from PC 85.8% 88.7% 86.9% 87.3% 83.6% 75.2% Direct to phone - transferred from friends/f...
682,000 Wi-Fi phones sold in 2007
Sales of Wi-Fi phones increased by more than 60% in 2007, according to Infonetics Research. Last year vendors sold 682,000 Wi-Fi phones worldwide, compared to 358,000 in 2006....
400 mln ultrawideband devices to ship by 2013
ABI Research says shipments of UWB-enabled devices will grow from virtually nil today, to more than 400 mln in 2013....
31% of phones sold in 2013 will be smartphones
The market for smartphones will grow from around 10% of the total handset market in 2007 to 31% of the market in 2013, ABI Research says. The market is currently dominated by Nokia (52%) and Symbian (...
49.7% of iPhone users accessed a social network in January 2008
M:Metrics found that a staggering 30.9% of iPhone owners watched mobile TV or video, versus a 4.6 market average, and more than double the rate for all smartphone users, according to M:Metrics. Usage ...
Mobile messaging to generate $212 bln by 2013
Mobile messaging will grow to $212 bln by 2013, according to ABI Research....
52% of Internet users connect wirelessly
29% of internet users use the internet someplace other than home or work at least every few weeks, with 21% doing this at least a couple days a week, according to Pew Internet. 22% of internet users i...
WiFi hotspot usage up 89% in the second half of 2007
Hotspot usage by business users increased 89% in the second half of 2007 over H2 2006. Europe expanded its worldwide share of hotspot use to 40%, up from 31%, as America's representation dropped from ...
Mobile broadband usage by income segment in Q4 2007
Household Income Share of Mobile Broadband Computers Mobile Broadband vs. Total Internet Total Households 100.0% 100 $0-$24,999 5.5% 59 $25,000-$49,999 15.3% 80 $50...
154% mobile broadband growth in the US in Q4 2007
The number of computers using mobile broadband technology to access the Internet grew by 154% in Q4 2007 versus Q4 2006. Q4 2006 Q4 2007 Percent Change Mobile Broadband 854 2,168 15...
Mobile/handheld TV could bring $2 bln by 2012
Broadcast television could reap an additional $2 bln in annual revenue by 2012 delivering content to mobile and handheld devices if an industry standard is adopted and technology deployed quickly, acc...
Global mobile infrastructure market reached $850 mln in Q4 2007
Dell'Oro Group reported that the worldwide mobile infrastructure market grew more than $850 mln in Q4 2007, over Q3 2007. While GSM continued to be the dominant contributor to this growth, WCDMA is fi...
Australian mobile data services to grow in Australia by 50% in 2008
New mobile data services will grow in Australia at a rate of more than 50% in 2008, according to IDC. By mid 2009, 3G subscribers will exceed 2G subscribers by 9%, 3G revenues will exceed 2G revenues ...