Recent Research: March 2009
Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:
- 148 Million Mobile Data Roaming Subscribers This Year (ABI Research)
- Worldwide mobile game revenues grow to $5.4B in 2008 (Juniper Research)
- U.S. mobile data revenues grow to $34B in 2008 (Chetan Sharma Consulting)
- Mobile gaming poised for 25% CAGR through 2012 (CSMG)
- Study Predicts 913 Million Mobile Banking Users by 2014 (Berg Insight)
- Mobile Internet Device Shipments to Rise Nearly Eightfold by 2012 (iSuppli)
- Non-NFC Mobile Commerce Transactions to Total $1.6 Billion in 2009 (ABI Research)
- 140M mobile TV subs by 2011 (Arthur D. Little)
- Mobile Money Saving Coupons to Increase by 30% During the Next Two Years (Juniper Research)
- 3G, 4G Subs to Nearly Triple by 2013 (In-Stat)
- 472 Million to receive Mobile TV by 2013 (Cantab Wireless)
- Enterprise Mobile Devices to Rise by 56% Between 2008 and 2014 (Andrew Kitson)
- Mobile Application Store Users to Quadruple in Five Years (In-Stat)
- Mobile broadband to be worth $137 billion by 2014 (Ovum)
- Ringback revenues to top $235 million in 2009 (BMI)
- Despite the Naysayers WiMAX Subscriber Revenue Will Grow by 4,500+% in 2009 (ABI)
- The Global Installed Base for Smart Electricity Meters to Reach 76 Million in 2009 (ABI)
- Smartphones Will Double Their Share of the Handset Market by 2013 (In-Stat)
- Enterprise Mobile Devices to Rise by 56% Between 2008 and 2014, Boosted by Increased Usage of Mobile Broadband (Juniper Research)
- Smartphones to Account for 23% of All New Mobile Phones by 2013, as Application Stores Help Drive Demand (Juniper Research)