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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Digital Outlook Report 09 - razorfish
Really good report on all things digital in 09. Quite a bit to digest but worth the read
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
4.1 Billion Mobile Subscribers Worldwide
Report: 4.1 Billion Mobile Subscribers Worldwide Helps Reduce Digital Divide (Slightly)
By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 02 Mar 2009 12:40 PM PST
There are now 4.1 billion mobile subscriptions in the world, a global penetration rate of 61.1 percent: This compares to 1.270 billion fixed line subscribers, corresponding to a penetration rate of 18.9 percent. The really impressive part is the growth rate of mobile subscribers over the last 10 years, which can be seen in the graph below. These figures were released by the International Telecommunication Union, which released its ICT Development Index (IDI) for 2008.
The index includes access and use of fixed and mobile telephony and households with computers and internet, and found that access is growing much faster than actual usage. The strong increase in the number of mobile subscribers in developing countries has helped narrow the gap between countries in the “high” ICT group and those in the other groups. Mobile isn’t the only thing increasing countries’ rankings though—strong movers such as Pakistan, Saudia Arabia, China and Viet Nam also have an an increase in internet users.
There has been a lot of talk about the benefits of mobile technology to developing countries, and the uptake has been rapid (Reuters notes that “while just 1 in 50 Africans had a mobile in the year 2000, now 28 percent have a cellular subscription”), but while voice calls and text are incredibly useful the real benefits will come from more sophisticated digital technologies…and they are on the way—thinks like mobile banking, mobile health assistance and so on are just beginning to take off, and the next ICT Development Index should show a strong increase in the level of access to digital information and services through the mobile networks in developing countries. However, it seems to combine different types of digital access, so I think it needs to be careful to take into account people that access the web and digital services only through mobile devices, but nevertheless have access to the services they need and want. ITU Release.
Press/Play: The Three Hottest Handsets at Mobile World Congress 2009
Welcome to the first-ever edition of TelecomTV's brand new weekly programme, Press/Play. This week, we look back at the brightest and best mobile devices unveiled at Mobile World Congress: Palm Pre, HTC Magic, and Sony Ericsson's concept phone, the Idou.
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Recorded: 03/03/2009 - Barcelona, Spain
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Recorded: 03/03/2009 - Barcelona, Spain
US Wireless Market Q4 2008 And 2008
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- Mar 2009 by Chetan Sharma Consulting
Executive Summary
The US wireless data market continued to ignore the recession doldrums in Q4 2008 and grew 7.3% Q/Q and 38.7% from Q407 to reach $9.4B in mobile data services revenues. In 2008, the mobile data services revenues reached our original estimate of $34B. Even as the global industry crossed 4B in subscriptions and $1T in total revenues, the nervousness due to the current recession has been palpable. While the flailing economy has started to hit hard on the wireless data ecosystem esp. the infrastructure and handsets segments, consumers haven’t really pulled back on mobile data spending overall, just yet. There are sub-segments within mobile data revenue stream that are starting to feel the pinch like data card subscriptions and downloadables. Also, in an event of a longer recession, the fate of the US mobile industry will be more closely tied to the overall economy this time compared to the previous recessions.
- Mar 2009 by Chetan Sharma Consulting
Executive Summary
The US wireless data market continued to ignore the recession doldrums in Q4 2008 and grew 7.3% Q/Q and 38.7% from Q407 to reach $9.4B in mobile data services revenues. In 2008, the mobile data services revenues reached our original estimate of $34B. Even as the global industry crossed 4B in subscriptions and $1T in total revenues, the nervousness due to the current recession has been palpable. While the flailing economy has started to hit hard on the wireless data ecosystem esp. the infrastructure and handsets segments, consumers haven’t really pulled back on mobile data spending overall, just yet. There are sub-segments within mobile data revenue stream that are starting to feel the pinch like data card subscriptions and downloadables. Also, in an event of a longer recession, the fate of the US mobile industry will be more closely tied to the overall economy this time compared to the previous recessions.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Mobile TV’s Modest Numbers in Korea
Mobile TV’s Modest Numbers in Korea
By Rafat Ali - Sun 03 Aug 2008 03:22 PM PST
We have reported on this before, but some new numbers on mobile TV’s non-pickup in Korea…more specifically, the TV broadcasting using digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) format. The story says DMB—which includes the free terrestrial and premium satellite DMB—has an audience of some 13.7 million, according to latest data. That’s up from nine million in December last year. The number of DMB-enabled receivers sold here reached 13.69 million in June.
—Mobile phones accounted for 48.4 percent of all DMB subscribers.
—Car navigation systems and other DMB-enabled terminals used in vehicles accounted for 37.8 percent of DMB receivers, followed by portable media players at 9.4 percent and USB devices at 3.8 percent.—Laptop computers were the least popular DMB device, accounting for just 0.9 percent of all receivers.
Bu the overall viewership numbers remain minuscule: TNS Media, a local research firm, overall viewer rating for the day was just 1.172 percent, peaking at 3.585 percent during the commuting hours of 6 to 7 p.m. in the survey. And, even more surprising: male viewers in their 50s proved the largest audience for mobile TV rather than the convention wisdow that tech-savvy youngsters would be watching TV on the go. Viewership was also relatively high among men in their 40s and 30s, but minuscule among women and younger customers.
Report: Mobile Music To Hit $14.6 Billion In 2013
Report: Mobile Music To Hit $14.6 Billion In 2013
Juniper Research has predicted that the total mobile music services market will hit nearly $14.6 billion by 2013. Although there will be a sharp fall in ringtone revenues as users find alternatives this will be more than offset by growth in full-track downloads, streamed music services and ringback tones. Driving the growth are improvements in technology (higher memory, handset form factors, reduction of data costs) as well as an increase in the willingness of major labels to participate in mobile ventures. User-generated content will also help raise the total. This is a massive reduction from their predictions of a year ago, when Juniper thought total mobile music sales would hit $17.6 billion by 2012Report: Mobile Payments Of $860 Billion By 2013; Revenue Of $10 Billion
Report: Mobile Payments Of $860 Billion By 2013; Revenue Of $10 Billion
Mobile banking will take off over the next 5 years, led by behavioural challenges in the developing world as people who currently have no access to banking or electronic payment services take up mobile banking. Informa Telecoms & Media predicts that in 2013 almost 300 billion transactions worth more than $860 billion will be conducted using a mobile phone, which would represent a 12-fold increase in gross global transaction values in just five years. Assuming that the key players in the industry cooperate effectively the total revenue opportunity for mobile payments and banking will be over $10 billion by 2013, with the biggest revenue coming from mBanking services which are predicted to be worth $5.5 billion by that time. Near Field Communication (NFC)—which lets people swipe their phone over a sensor which reads a chip—is not expected to be a huge part of this, held back by a lack of availability of NFC-capable handsets and uncertainties regarding the business model. Informa does predict it will grow though, forecasting that in 2013 about 11 percent of all mobile handsets shipped will be NFC-enabled and that over 178 million mobile subscribers will be regularly using mobile NFC phones to buy physical goods and services, such as tickets, locally at the point of sale. Other predictions include:
—Remote Payments: Informa predicts that by 2013, over 445 million mobile subscribers will be regularly using their mobile phone to purchase physical goods and services remotely. In 2008 about a third of the total of $71 billion in mobile payments and transactions was for mobile digital content, but Informa reckons that by 2013 over 95 percent of mobile transactions will be for physical goods and services.
—Mobile Banking: By 2013 there will be 977 million users of mobile banking services worldwide, compared to around 67 million at the end of 2008 forecasts Informa.
—Mobile Money Transfer: Informa predicts that by 2013 almost 424 million consumers will be sending over $157 billion of personal funds via mobile domestically whilst a further 73 million will be sending $48 billion of funds via mobile internationally.
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