Recent Research: February 2009
Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:
- 300M smartphone sales by 2013 (Juniper Research)
- Location-based ads top mobile marketing opportunities (KPMG)
- Global Mobile Market to Exceed US$900 Billion in 2008 (IDATE)
- GPS chipsets to be in 9 of 10 smartphones by 2014 (ABI Research)
- Half a billion mobile TV viewers and subscribers in 2013 (ABI Research)
- 30% of smartphones to be Linux-based by 2013 (IMS Research)
- WiMax to cover 800M in 2010 (WiMax Forum)
- Dual-Mode Cellular/Wi-Fi Handset Shipments to Double from 2008 Through 2010 (ABI Research)
- By 2012, mobile will account for 4% of European advertising spend (Analysys Mason)
- 90% have increased mobile Internet usage in past year (SurfKitchen)
- Mobile Music Revenues to Reach $14.6bn by 2013 (Juniper Research)
- Mobile local search ad revenues to reach $1.3B in 2013 (The Kelsey Group)
- LTE will have 23M subscribers by 2013 (In-Stat)
- $3.1B in mobile advertising revenues in 2013 (The Kelsey Group)
- Mobile banking revenues to top $5.5B in 2013 (Informa Telecoms & Media)
- Shipments of cellular modems to double in 2009 (ABI Research)
- Push-to-Talk penetration to reach 8.5% by 2013 (ABI Research)
- Mobile commerce spending to reach $18.4B within 5 years (ABI Research)
- Nearly 82 million mobile PCs with WiMax will ship in 2013 (In-Stat)
- 330M mobile TV users by 2013 (Juniper Research)