Friday, March 23, 2012

Mobile Broadband Significantly Boosts Service Provider ARPU

Although mobile broadband ARPU (average revenue per user) has not completely offset declines in voice revenue for mobile operators at the global level, it has gone some way to stabilise falling blended ARPUs for those operators who have deployed mobile broadband networks and built up a high level of smartphone penetration within their customer base, Wireless Intelligence reports.

A global study of the difference in blended ARPU between mobile broadband operators and those operators that do not provide mobile broadband services shows that the latter group have seen their average blended ARPU decrease at twice the rate of that of the former over the past five years.


Blended ARPU, mobile broadband operators and non-mobile broadband operators, 2005–11
Blended ARPU, mobile broadband operators and non-mobile broadband operators, 2005–11
Source: Wireless Intelligence

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