chetansharma.
com/MobilePredictions2008.htm), Japan and Korea are the benchmarks in terms
of mobile data usage, but the USA will soon be the largest revenue-generating
market. Brazil, the Netherlands, and Czech regions are already doing more than 30%
of their revenues from mobile data. Though a large part of this money is from SMS,
other services are gaining larger shares. The USA has 50-60% data revenues from
non-SMS services, while Japan and Korea have a higher 70-75%. This trend suggests
there is a huge use already of mobile web applications, and it is going to continue not
only in these regions but other parts of the world too.
Another interesting thing is that the western European region reports 100% of the
population has mobiles??”though part of this is due to double phones with single
persons and dual reporting. The USA has more than 75% reach. Mobile subscribers
around the world have already reached 3 billion, and China and India together are
adding close to 13 million every month.
At the same time, the speed of wireless communications is increasing worldwide.
Many countries already have 3G and more are gearing up for it.
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