Posts Tagged ‘growth’
Expected Tablet Growth Rate (Intel)
June 11th, 2010
Mobile Carrier Stats from PWC
April 23rd, 2010According to PWC:
- Growth will be driven by making existing customers more profitable and less by finding new customers.
- Large carriers invested more than $160 per subscriber [in 2009] in their networks, a more than 30 percent leap over 2008
- U.S. wireless companies reported an increase in customer retention expenses of more than 50 percent in 2008 compared to 2007.
- On average, use of prepaid minutes increased more than 147 percent in the past four years, from 270 minutes in 2006 to 667 minutes in 2009.
- As of June 30, 2009, 21 percent of all mobile device sales were smart phones, and an average of 12 percent of overall subscribers use smart phones. The average revenue per user for smart phones is $74 compared with total postpaid average revenue of $54.
Growth in Number of App Stores
April 16th, 2010Before 2008 : 3
2008 : 8
2009 : 38
2010 : 48 (till Feb)
Growth Forecast For Wi-Fi Enabled Mobile Handsets
February 26th, 2010Here are the projected growth of Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones in US
2009 : 38 million
2010 : 55 million
2011 : 76 million
2012 : 97 million
2013 : 118 million
2014 : 136 million
2015 : 149 million
More Smartphone Growth
February 16th, 2010
Comcast Growth
February 16th, 2010
Smartphone growth
February 16th, 2010
Random U.S. Broadband Penetration Stats
February 3rd, 2010-
Between 2000 and 2008, residential broadband subscribers grew to 80 million from five million, according to a study by Bret Swanson of Entropy Economics.
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Broadband penetration among active Internet users at home is 94%
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Nearly 99% of U.S. workers connect to the Internet with broadband.
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A typical cable modem today is 10 times faster than a decade ago.
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Wireless bandwidth growth per capita has been no less impressive, showing a 500-fold increase since 2000.
Wi-Fi Hotspot Usage is Shifting Away From Laptops Toward Mobile Phones
February 2nd, 2010With the increasing prevalence of Wi-Fi enabled handsets, hotspot usage by handheld devices has increased significantly. As a percentage of total connects, handhelds increased from 20% in 2008 to 35% in 2009. By 2011 handhelds are anticipated to account for half of hotspot connects reports In-Stat.
Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
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In-Stat estimates that hotspot usage will increase in 2009 by 47%, bringing total worldwide connects to 1.2 billion.
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Wi-Fi handset shipments have increased significantly over the past several years. From 2007 to 2008, shipments increased by over 50%. This growth is a result from increased phone functionality, falling price points, and carrier promotion.
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Wi-Fi-enabled entertainment device, such as cameras, gaming devices, and personal media players (PMPs) shipments will increase from 108.8 million in 2009 to 177.3 million in 2013.
