Mobile broadband to be worth $137 billion by 2014
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25 March 2009 | Published by Ovum
London - Newly released mobile broadband forecasts by global advisory and consulting firm Ovum, show that users accessing the Internet via mobile broadband enabled laptops and handsets will generate revenues of $137 billion globally in 2014, over 450% more than in 2008. However, operators will need to content themselves with the fact that user growth will be far faster than revenue growth, meaning more users and more data traffic, but declining average revenues per user (ARPUs).
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Mobile broadband is finally delivering on the 3G promise & uptake has exploded around the world over the last 18 months, both in terms of access to the internet via laptops & handsets. However, operators, infrastructure vendors & device vendors still need to understand: • Future user demand in order to size the opportunity for new services and address the impact on the operator’s network capacity. • Future market value to assess the return on investment to be expected from future investments in this market For more information, please see the report “Mobile broadband users and revenues forecast pack: 2008–14”.
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Newly released mobile broadband forecasts by global advisory and consulting firm Ovum, show that users accessing the Internet via mobile broadband enabled laptops and handsets will generate revenues of $137 billion globally in 2014, over 450% more than in 2008. However, operators will need to content themselves with the fact that user growth will be far faster than revenue growth, meaning more users and more data traffic, but declining average revenues per user (ARPUs).
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