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Mobile voice revenues will reach their peak during next year, generating $580 billion in revenues, after which they are likely to start declining, according to ABI Research. By 2014, mobile voice revenues will have contracted by 9.6%, due to increased competition. On the other hand, total mobile data services should generate $169 million in 2009 and will grow at a CAGR of 9% until 2014.
By the end of 2009, the declines in annual ARPU will be felt most severely in Asia-Pacific (-8.7% to $105) and Africa (-7.8% to $134). North America’s ARPU, however, will decline for only 0.6% to $526, due to increased use of mobile Internet among the consumers.
As for the capital expenditures, it’s recession out there, so we’re not surprised they’ll shrink 5% in 2009 to $132.5 billion. This is not to say carriers are not investing in infrastructure — quite the contrary, they do spend on core network and radio access network upgrades to support higher data throughput…
Additional details are available on ABI Research’s website.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
