Very interesting read on recent trends in the mobile device industry. In this article, the author cites:
“[The] Mobile [industry] is on par with the global automobile industry or the worldwide armaments industry annually, now earning one Trillion (1,000 Billion) dollars in revenues.”
Here’s the article in full (warning: it’s really long).
Tags: statistics
Some more stat pullouts:
* 4 billion mobile phone subscriptions on the planet, covering 60% of the population.
* 3.4 billion actual phones in use and connected.
* 3 billion unique phone owners.
* 3 billion active users of SMS text messaging.
* 1.9 billion cameraphones in use.
* 1.7 billion consumers of various premium data services on mobile.
* 1.35 billion active users of MMS
* 1.05 active users of browsing (“mobile internet”) on the phones.
* The total content industry on mobile is worth 71 billion dollars.
* Messaging on mobile worth 130 billion.
* Total data on phones worth 200 billion.
* Total mobile services, voice and data, worth 800 billion and the total annual revenues of the mobile industry including handset and network equipment sales, worth one Trillion dollars.
* Selling 1.18 billion new phones and adding 650 million new subscrptions last year (2008)
* 3 billion unique phone owners.
* 3 billion active users of SMS text messaging.
How can this possibly be true? I am in the in the first category and not the second.
“How can this possibly be true? I am in the in the first category and not the second.”
Unique phone owners can own multiple phones, each of which count as an “active user” of SMS text messaging. They cite that one in eight phone owners carry at least two phones.