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Mobile penetration to break 100% by 2013

By: , IntoMobile
Friday, August 24th, 2007 at 2:58 PM

SNL Kagan announces US mobile phone market penetration to hit 100% by 2013While the European Union can already boast of having more mobile phones in their country than actual human beings (their mobile penetration was recently pegged at 103%), the US is lagging pretty far behind. Still, for the behind-the-times US wireless market, hitting 84% market penetration by year-end and 100% penetration by 2013 is quite a feat.

SNL Kagan not only predicts 100% penetration in the US by 2013, they are also counting on wireless carriers making more money from data usage – increasing Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) about 1.5% over the next 10 years .

The data market looks to be the most promising revenue stream for carriers. No wonder we’re seeing the likes of Sprint dumping huge wads of cash into their 4G high-speed data network – XOHM, anyone?

[Via: MocoNews]

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Varun

    Above 100% means 2 cell phones per person ?

    I think tat will be case in future .. each person will have One work cell phone and a personal cell phone.

    Its the case with many execs these days who carry a blackberry in addition to a normal phone

  • Viggo

    Varun, in Norway we are encouraged by taxation to have a work phone and a personal phone. An additional bonus is beeing able to turn off the work phone, still beeing able to make private calls.

    Will, are you implying that Europeans are more shy than Americans? And Africans are the least shy of us all?