Wireless data shoots up 40 per cent YoY
September 14, 2008
Looks like its good times for wireless data revenue makers, considering there has been an increase of 10 per cent in wireless data revenues in 2008, as compared to just two years ago, as per trade group CTIA. U.S. carrier service revenue from wireless data, or non-voice services, reached $14.8 billion in the first half of the year, up 40 percent from the first half of 2007, according to the results of CTIA’s semi-annual wireless survey presented during the CTIA Wireless conference in San Francisco this week.
As per records, a whopping 7.5 billion text messages were sent in the US in June, up 160 per cent over the 28.8 billion sent in June 2007. Damn, I am sure, I occupy half that amount anyway. That apart, US is shoulder to shoulder with Europe in the usage of 3G services as well, with 28.4 percent of American mobile subscribers using 3G devices versus 28.3 percent in the largest countries in Europe.
There were more than 262 million wireless users in the U.S. as of June 2008, an increase of almost 20 million from June 2007, and U.S. wireless customers used more than 1.12 trillion minutes in the first half of 2008, up 10.9 percent over the first half of 2007, CTIA said.
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