Goldman Sachs analysts Simona Jankowski and Thomas Lee now predict there will be 15 percent compounded annual growth in revenue in smart phones over the next five years as a result of “more affordable smart phone devices and focus by handset vendors following iPhone.”
That will result in increased email, Web and other data uses, leading to a ballooning of telecom services revenue, from $19 billion last year to $70 billion in 2012.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
iPhone, Other Devices Will Drive Data Revenue to $70 Billion
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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