End of 2009
Total Subscribers : 422 million (9% increase YoY)
DSL : 65%
Cable : 25%
Fiber Broadband : 11%
Number of broadband subscribers by 2014 : 501 million (CAGR 20% 2009-2014)
Posts Tagged ‘worldwide’
Number of Broadband Subscribers Worldwide
February 16th, 2010
Mobile web consumption grows 148% worldwide in 2009
February 3rd, 2010-
North American mobile web consumption increased 110 percent in 2009
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Worldwide access grew 148 percent in 2009
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Mobile devices now represent 1.3 percent of all web pageviews in North America, with Apple’s iPhone operating system accounting for 65.1 percent of mobile web traffic in the region–Google’s Android OS is second at 12.4 percent, followed by Research In Motion’s BlackBerry OS at 8.7 percent.
Huge Christmas for iPod Touch
January 4th, 2010
Admob: Where are all the iPhones used?
December 23rd, 2009- In November, 50% of unique Apple visitors were located in the United States. The next four biggest markets were the U.K., France, Canada and Germany.
- In total, 23 countries had more than 100,000 unique Apple visitors.
- 50% of unique Apple users were located outside of the US, up from 39% in January 2009.
- The iPhone accounted for 71% and the iPod touch 29% of the total unique Apple users in November. In raw numbers: 18.0 million iPhones; 7.3 million iPod touches; 25.2 million total.
- The fastest growing countries between January 2009 and November 2009 were Japan, France, Australia and China. See the bar graph below.
Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales
December 17th, 2009| REGION | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| Asia/Pacific | 453M | 480M | 547M |
| East Europe | 96M | 81M | 85M |
| Japan | 41M | 35M | 35M |
| Latin America | 142M | 120M | 127M |
| Middle East/Africa | 133M | 129M | 140M |
| North America | 182M | 183M | 190M |
| West Europe | 174M | 187M | 198M |
| Global | 1.2B | 1.2B | 1.3B |
ABI: WiMax Growing
December 7th, 2009ABI Research:
- Expect the total number of worldwide subscribers to be at around two million come January.
- Clearwire has declared it has 173,000 subscribers.
- Yota, in Russia, had 100,000 subscribers in August and 200,000 in October.
- PacketOne in Malaysia, has reached 130,000 subscribers.
- UQ Communications once expected to reach 300,000 subscribers by the end of 2009 in South Korea
From: http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/nearly-two-million-mobile-wimax-subscribers-worldwide-by-years/ and http://www.goingwimax.com/research-shows-wimax-use-growing/
Jiwire: Mobile Audience Insights Report
November 17th, 2009
All from the Jiwire Mobile Audience Insights Report at: http://www.jiwire.com/downloads/pdf/JiWire_MobileAudienceInsights_Q309.pdf
Informa: Mobile Data Growth Projection
November 14th, 2009Mobile analysts from Informa have predicted that mobile online usage is set to grow to 25 times its present levels by 2012.
While this sounds like great news for mobile operators, the revenues are not likely to grow at the same rate. In fact, it is expected that mobile revenues may only double in the same time period.
From: http://www.accuracast.com/search-daily-news/mobile-7471/online-mobile-traffic-jam-predicted/
In-Stat: Hotspot Usage Up 47% in 2009
November 14th, 2009In-Stat estimates that hotspot usage will increase by 47% in 2009, bringing total worldwide connects to 1.2 billion.
Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
- Total worldwide hotspot venues will reach 245,000 locations in 2009.
- AT&T is on course to experience 500% usage growth for 2008 vs. 2009.
- Asia-Pacific will experience the greatest growth in venue deployments over the next few years, largely driven by large-scale deployments in China.
- Survey results suggest that security concerns by individuals, not corporate users, are limiting hotspot usage.
From: http://www.dailywireless.org/2009/11/13/hotspot-usage-up-47-in-2009/
Sandvine: Random Internet Stats
November 14th, 2009- Sandvine observed a condensing in the number of hours during which the network is under near-peak usage, from 6:00pm to 11:00pm in 2008 and 7:00pm to 10:00pm in 2009.
- Real-time entertainment traffic (streaming audio and video, peercasting, place-shifting, Flash video) has exploded to now account for 26.6 percent of total traffic in 2009, up from 12.6 percent in 2008.
- The research also shows that over an average month the top one percent of subscribers account for 25 percent of total Internet traffic, showing a vast difference between the data needs of most network users and the consumption kings.
- The following applications and services are each about 1% of global traffic: Facebook (closer to 1.5%), iTunes, Xbox Live and Xbox Live Marketplace, Rapidshare and MegaUpload
- YouTube alone is about 5% of global Internet traffic, and is about 10% of all Internet traffic in Africa
- In Africa, almost 30% of active subscribers have Skype running. In the Caribbean and Latin America, the figure is almost 18%
From: http://mhgoldberg.com/blog/2009/11/shift-to-real-time.html
Full report here in PDF: http://sandvine.com/downloads/documents/2009%20Global%20Broadband%20Phenomena%20-%20Executive%20Summary.pdf
