Revenue collected by service providers for cellular services totaled $675bn in 2009, and is expected to top $829bn by 2014, according to Infonetics Research.
The firm revealed that mobile broadband service revenue jumped 36% in 2009, and indicated that between 2010 and 2014, mobile broadband revenue will more than double.
According to Infonetics Research report, the number of mobile broadband subscribers is expected to reach 1.8bn worldwide by 2014, or 28% of total mobile subscribers. The number of LTE subscribers is forecast to reach 153 million by 2014, mostly in Asia Pacific and EMEA.
In emerging Asian economies such as China and India, data revenue, including SMS and mobile broadband, is already having a positive impact on total ARPU, more than offsetting the rapid decline of voice ARPU that’s occurring despite double-digit percentage annual increases in voice traffic.
The firm reveals that by 2014, W-CDMA/HSPA revenue will almost be seven times that of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO revenue, as the majority of worldwide mobile subscribers are on GSM networks.
