Revenue from mobile broadband to double by 2013
The revenue collected from cellular services has reached $624 billion last year, which is a 13% increase when compared to 2007, and is said to possibly go to $877 billion by 2010, according to Infonetics Research. The research also says that in the next 4 years, the revenue that comes about from mobile broadband services is set to increase two – fold, indicating that the number of users will double in the next 4 years.
Stephane Teral, the main analyst for FMC and mobile infrastructure at Infonetics Research, says that there isn’t a doubt that mobile broadband is the next big revenue provide for all mobile operators. However, he said, don’t think that the revenue from voice service will decline. Rather, he said, voice service will continue to account for a larger proportion of the revenue for operators, even as all mobile operators look to diversify their operations.
While the revenue for mobile service providers from SMS/MMS services and mobile broadband is fast increasing, the revenue from voice services continues to be a large proportion of the revenue of most mobile service providers. These revenues are set to increase slowly in 2013 and will be driven by the increase in mobile subscribers in developing countries and the gradual change from fixed lines to mobile phones in developed countries.
The revenue from LTE services has been predicted to increase at a high rate, possibly reaching $41.7 billion in 201, with most of the income coming from North America due to the LTE deployments by AT&T. By the end of 2013, the revenue from W-CDMA/HSDPA service will be 500% more than that from CDMA 1xEV-DO as most of the mobile subscribers continue to be on GSM networks.
The number of subscribers to mobile broadband is should hit 1 billion, according to Infonetics, in 2013.
Source - cellular-news.com
