McGuire’s Law

Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:

• Mobile Broadband Market Worldwide to Reach 1 Billion Connections in 2012
• Femtocell Revenue to Reach $4 Billion in 2014
• More than 60% of Handsets Will Have Mobile Browsers in 2015
• Mobile Video Market Set to Triple
• Wi-Fi-Enabled Devices to Exceed 1.9 Billion Units by 2014
• Internet Connected Devices About to Pass the 5 Billion Milestone
• Mobile data offloading set to explode
• 2.6 Billion Wi-Fi Consumer Devices by 2014
• Mobile Banking to generate almost 90 billion text messages per year by 2015
• Wireless Charging of Mobile Devices Has a Market Potential of $4.3 Billion by 2014
• Mobile Gaming Market To Top $800 Million in 2010
• Mobile content revenues to top $3.5 billion in 2014

Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:

• Annual Mobile VoIP Minutes to Double Each Year, Reaching 470.6bn by 2015
• 70x Surge in Wireless Charging Seen by 2014
• Worldwide Wireless E-Mail Users to Reach 1 Billion by Year-End 2014
• Mobile banking usage to double in the next three years reaching 400m people by 2013
• Wi-Fi to bring mobile TV to the masses with revenues reaching $7bn by 2015
• US Spending on Mobile Display Ads Will Nearly Quadruple over the Next Five Years
• Global Mobile Subscriber Base Passes the 5 Billion Mark
• 70% of All Mobile Devices to Be Baseband Modem Enabled by 2014
• Mobile broadband service revenue to more than double by 2014
• Linux-based Mobile Devices Will Outstrip Growth of the Entire Mobile Device Market
• Mobile video revenues to top $2 billion in 2013
• Four out of Five Cell Phones to Integrate GPS by End of 2011
• Global market for handheld healthcare devices to grow 7 percent this year
• Games and Navigation Driving Rapid Gyroscope Growth in Mobile Handsets
• App store downloads to top 25 billion by 2015
• Global mobile data market to be worth US$340 billion by 2014

Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:

• Mobile Apps Revenues to Exceed $30 billion by 2015, Juniper’s Latest Mobile Apps Research finds
• Will There Really Be 50 Billion Connected Devices on the Internet?
• Over 2 billion baseband cellular devices to ship in 2014
• Mobile TV Services Set for Accelerated Adoption after 2012
• Mobile Payment Transactions to Double in Value to $200bn by 2012
• IDC: 30 Million Mobile Broadband Users by 2014
• Survey Finds Femtocells Appeal to 56% of US Consumers
• Mobile banking usage to double in the next three years
• In-Stat: Productivity tools now over half of smartphone app revenues
• Worldwide Mobile Payment Users to Reach 108.6 Million in 2010
• ABI: 5 billion mobile subscribers by year-end
• 471 Billion Mobile VoIP Minutes By 2015
• Touch Screen Module Revenue Forecast to Reach $14B by 2016

Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:

• Smartphone Downloads from Mobile App Stores to Peak in 2013
• Market for Preloaded Software in Cell Phones Hits $7.7 Billion in 2014
• Shipments of Cell Phone Motion Sensors to Rise Fivefold by 2014
• Telehealth enabled home medical device shipments will exceed 2 million by 2013
• Juniper forecasts mobile payments to reach $630B by 2014
• Global smart phone market growth rises to 67%
• Cost Savings From Mobile Health Monitoring to Reach $5.8 Billion by 2014
• Sales of smartphones to total 2.5 billion during 2010 to 2015
• US Wireless Data Market Update – Q1 2010
• Mobile Broadband Modem Sales to Reach 200 Million in 2014
• IDC Forecasts 7.6 Million Media Tablets to be Shipped Worldwide in 2010
• Wi-Fi IC Shipments Forecast to Surpass 770 Million Units in 2010
• Mobile Video Advertising
• Smartphones and Devices To Generate 87% of US Operator Cellular Traffic by 2014
• Mobile VoIP users to exceed 100 million by 2012 finds new Juniper Research report
• Survey Reveals What Fortune 1000 Companies Think about Unified Communications
• Mobile broadband devices will top 100M this year
• ABI forecasts 40% mobile marketing CAGR through 2015
• Mobile game revenues to top $5.6B this year

Bonus: A cool collection of data: “Singularity is Near Graphs”

Another Bonus: Morgan Stanley’s Internet Trends (including lots of mobility linkages)

Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:

• More Than 1 in 10 Mobile Subscribers to Use Mobile Ticketing in 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Global market for mobile patient monitoring pegged at $1.9B by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• 50 Billion Connections 2020 (Ericsson)
• US Mobile eCommerce Revenues set to Rise to $23.8bn in 2015 (Coda Research)
• Nearly Half of Mobile Phone Users Worldwide to Make Mobile Payments by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• 487 Million Users to Enjoy HD-Quality Mobile Voice in 2015 (ABI Research)
• Shopping by Mobile Creates an $8bn Opportunity for Mobile Advertising and Coupons (Juniper Research)
• 1.7 billion smartphones by 2014 (Analysys Mason)
• Global Smartphone Shipments Jump 50 Percent to 54 Million in Q1 2010 (Strategy Analytics)
• Report Predicts 894 million mobile banking users by 2015 (Berg Insight)

Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:

• US Wireless Data Market Update: Q4 2009 and 2009 (Chetan Sharma)
• Companies Able to Reach 1 Billion Customers via Smartphones by 2013 (research2guidance)
• Touchscreen Mobile Device Sales Will nearly Double in 2010 (Gartner)
• Number of Mobile VoIP Users Will Approach 300 Million by 2013 (In-Stat)
• Mobile managed services expected to generate $29 billion by 2014 (Informa)
• More Than 130 Million Enterprise Users in the Mobile Cloud by 2014 (Juniper)
• In 2014, Monthly Embedded Mobile Data Traffic Will Exceed 2008 Total (ABI)
• Physician smartphone adoption said to top 80 percent by 2012 (Manhattan Research)
• Mobile Retail Market to Exceed $12 Billion by 2014 (Juniper)
• WiMAX device shipments surged in 2009 (Maravedis)
• Global Location-Based Platform and Infrastructure Revenues to Reach $1.8 Billion by 2015 (ABI Research)
• Web 2.0 mobile revenues expected to reach $19B by 2014 (Juniper)
• North American smart phone shipments to exceed 65 million units in 2010 (Canalys)
• Sizing up the Global Mobile Apps Market (Chetan Sharma)
• US Smartphone Ownership Expected to Reach 162 million by 2015 (Coda Research)
• Mobile Broadband Subscriptions Surpassed 271 Million by Year End 2009 (ABI Research)
• USA Mobile Handset Data Traffic Climbs toward 327TB per Month in 2015 (Coda Research)
• Mobile Data Traffic from PC Modems and Routers Will Increase Fourfold by 2014 (ABI)
• Mobile Web Presence Based Revenues to Generate $6bn by 2012 (Juniper)
• 1 Trillion Connected Devices by 2013 (Cisco)
• Global Mobile Data Market Update 2009 (Chetan Sharma)

Bonus: The Tomi Ahonen Cheat Sheet on all major mobile industry numbers

Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:

• Smartphone Market Grew 39% in Q4 2009 (IDC)
• Netbook Shipments Grew 79% in 2009, Further Growth in 2010 (Strategy Analytics)
• Wireless M2M Modules in Security Apps to Reach 22 Million by 2014 (Berg Insight)
• Mobile Cloud Application Revenues To Hit $9.5 billion by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Cisco forecasts mobile data traffic to grow 39-fold through 2014 (Cisco)
• Embedded Mobile and M2M Device Revenues to Rise to $19 Billion by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Global telecom services market estimated at $1,440 billion in 2009 (IDATE)
• Mobile messaging revenues expected to top $233B by 2014 (Portio Research)
• App stores anticipated to generate $15 billion in 2013 (Futuresource)
• WiMAX to Cover More Than 800 Million People by End of 2010 (The WiMax Forum)
• ITU sees 5 billion mobile subscriptions globally in 2010 (ITU)
• Mobile shopping will balloon to $119B by 2015 (ABI Research)
• More Than One Billion Mobile Workers Worldwide by Year’s End (IDC)
• Mobile Location-Based Services Market to exceed $12bn by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Over 160 Million Smartbooks Expected to Ship in 2015 (ABI Research)

Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:

• Mobile Consumer Electronics Device Shipments to Grow 55-Fold in Six Years (ABI Research)
• Connected Devices Fuel 1 Billion New Mobile Broadband Subs by 2014 (Strategy Analytics)
• Cellular Broadband Chipset Shipments Expected to Grow 35% YoY Through 2014 (IDC)
• Pre Pay Mobile Broadband to reach a third of a billion users by the end of 2013 (Tariff Consultancy)
• Mobile Augmented Reality App Downloads to Pass 400 Million Annually by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• US Mobile video users to climb to 74m by 2015 - Little future for FLO TV. (Coda Research Consultancy)
• Mobile Devices with 3rd-Party Security to rise to 77 million by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• 4G Mobile Consumer Service Revenue Will Exceed $70 Billion in 2014 (ABI)
• Data Revenues Will Push Mobile Biz Past $1 Trillion (Informa)
• Mobile Security Market to Exceed $4 Billion by 2014 (ABI Research)
• USA will have 365.7 million mobile subscribers in 2014 (IE Market Research)
• Unified Communications to Grow by 50% to $30 Billion by 2013 (Wainhouse Research)
• Embedded Mobile and M2M Devices to Rise to 412 Million Globally by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Gartner forecasts mobile app revenues to near $7 billion in 2010 (Gartner)
• Gartner measures all apps of apps stores worth 4.2B dollars in 2009 (Gartner)
• Mobile Game Industry Revenue Nears $540 Million In 2009 (SNL Kagan)
• Consumer demand increases for rich communication services on mobile (Collibria)

Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:

• Nearly Two Billion Bluetooth Chipsets to Ship in 2014 (ABI)
• Almost Two Million Mobile WiMAX Subscribers Expected by End of 2009 (ABI)
• Mobile Coupon usage to triple exceeding 300 million people globally by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Nearly Half of Mobile Phone Users Willing to Pay for Mobile Apps (Samsung)
• Mobile Internet Devices Expected to Surpass One Billion by 2013 (IDC)
• Operators to spend $800 million on subscriber data management by 2013 (Infonetics)
• Global Navigation System Shipments to Exceed 500 Million in 2010 (ABI Research)
• The Next Internet Boom: Connected Cars (iSuppli)
• Mobile Device Shipments to Nearly Double Before 2015
• Contactless Smart Card Shipments to Break the One Billion Barrier 2014
• Global WiMAX Deployments Hit 500 in 2009

Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:

• Mobile Coupon Redemption Value to Approach $6bn Globally by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Cellphone Memory Card Revenue to Reach $9 Billion By 2013 (Strategy Analytics)
• Smartphone sales to overtake standard mobile phones by 2012 (Infonetics Research)
• Mobile Coupon Redemption Value to Approach $6bn Globally by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Mobile subscribers to hit 5.9 billion in 2013, driven by China, India, Africa (Infonetics Research)
• Quarter of All Cars to Support Remote Cell Phone Control by 2016 (iSuppli)
• Mobile broadband to overtake fixed-line internet connections in the UK in 2011 (MobileSQUARED)
• One in six users to own NFC-enabled phones by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• US Mobile Data Market Update Q3 2009 (Chetan Sharma)
• Wi-Fi Hotspot Market Surge to 1.2 Billion Connections (In-Stat)
• Mobile Handset Accessories Market to Turn Over Nearly $55 Billion This Year (Michael Morgan)
• International mobile money transfer services to exceed $65bn by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• 88 percent of PNDs sold in 2015 will have integrated cellular connectivity (Berg Insight)
• Shipments of Mobile WiMax Chipsets Will Reach 4 Million by Year’s End! (Maravedis)
• International mobile money transfer services to exceed $65bn by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Augmented Reality on the Mobile to Generate $732 million by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Mobile will account for 11.7% of digital ad spend in 2014 (Berg Insight)
• Unified Communications Market to Approach $4.2 Billion in 2014 (ABI Research)