Here 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
Posts Tagged ‘growth’
Growth Forecast For Wi-Fi Enabled Mobile Handsets
February 26th, 2010
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.
Kids With Cell Phones
February 1st, 2010
Skype Share of International Traffic
February 1st, 2010
- TeleGeography found that the projected growth of international telephone traffic was almost halved in 2009 – to a mere 8 percent – while Skype’s growth accelerated by 51 percent.
- TeleGeography also notes that over the past 25 years, international call volume from telephones has grown at a compounded annual rate of 15 percent. In the past two years, however, international telephone traffic growth has slowed to only 8 percent on an annual basis, growing to an estimated 406 billion minutes in 2009 from 376 billion minutes in 2008.
- Skype’s on-net international traffic (between two Skype users) is projected to grow 63 percent in 2009, to 54 billion minutes. In comparison, the Skype-to-Skype traffic grew 51 percent in 2008.
- At the end of 2008, Skype had 405 million registered users. Since then the company has passed the 525 million user-mark.
From: http://gigaom.com/2010/01/19/skype-still-snatching-minutes-from-international-carriers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OmMalik+(GigaOM) and http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/19/skype-international-calling-minutes-share/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)
iPhone App Store Sales
February 1st, 2010
Cell Phone Ownership Among Children
February 1st, 2010A recent study by MediaMark R&I group studies cell phone ownership among the pre-teens as of 2009. The corresponding numbers for 2005 is given in brackets
Age-wise
6-7 years : 6.5% (4.9% in 2005)
8-9 years : 17.7% (10.6%)
10-11 years : 36.1% (20%)
Gender-wise
Boys : 18.3% (12.4% in 2007)
Girls : 21.8% (18.6% in 2007)
