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1) Mobile premium content generated $16.3 bln in 2006
Driven by a seemingly insatiable consumer appetite for personalization and entertainment content on wireless handsets, companies that provide the platforms that deliver premium content to mobile phones reaped a $4.2 bln share of the $16.3 bln mobile premium content market in 2006, according to iSuppli.
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Total Mobile
Content Revenue Market Share by Market Participant, 2006-2011
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Market Participant
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2006
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2007
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2008
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2009
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2010
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2011
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Content Provider and Aggregator
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7,714
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9,715
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11,832
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14,422
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17,064
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19,329
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Mobile Operator
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4,421
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5,294
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6,135
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7,109
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7,971
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8,537
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Content Enablement Platform Provider
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4,193
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4,936
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5,618
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6,397
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7,067
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7,468
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Total
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16,328
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19,945
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23,585
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27,928
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32,102
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35,334
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Source: iSuppli
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2) 56% of mobile connections in Western Hemisphere are GSM
GSM attains an market share of 56% in the Western Hemisphere and growing. EDGE is available through 59 operators in 24 countries. Globally, GSM’s net additions in 2006 far exceed the entire customer base of any other mobile wireless technology. In the past year, GSM gained 461 mln new customers worldwide, compared to 48 mln CDMA customers, according to estimates by Informa Telecoms & Media. In Latin America, GSM grew its subscriber base by more than 81 mln customers, surpassing the 200 mln customer mark, while CDMA added 6 mln customers for a total customer base of approximately 62 mln. There are over 700 GSM operators in service worldwide across 220 countries. This includes over 208 EDGE deployments worldwide, which highlights the winning combination of coverage, speed, devices, and low latency provided by the still-growing technology. The GSM family’s 3G services are being delivered across the world as well, with 155 UMTS commercial networks in service, 97 of which have already deployed HSDPA.
3) 250 mln users to rely on converged fixed and mobile networks for their calls by 2011
ABI Research has found that by 2011, some 250 mln users will be making and receiving phone calls over converged fixed-mobile networks and access points, and the firm expects capital expenditure in FMC infrastructure to exceed $450 mln by 2011. That equates to around 10% of households and 8% of enterprises using some form of FMC access point on the premises.
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