Friday, June 22, 2012

Tablets Will Drive Personal Hotspot Adoption

Mobile modem sales will see a 16 percent compound annual growth rate to 2017, says Strategy Analytics.


Where 150 million units will be sold globally in 2012, 312 million will be sold in 2017, according to Strategy Analytics


By 2017, over 35 percent of stand-alone modems will be mobile hotspot routers, driven by growth in consumer electronics devices such as eBook readers, tablets and ultrabooks. 


In 2012, cellular modem sales will grow fastest in North America, at 69 percent year on year growth, followed by Asia Pacific at 34 percent;


The mobile broadband device installed base of USB modems, PC cards and embedded notebooks and netbooks will grow from 266 million units in 2012 to 688 million by 2017 and LTE will comprise 48 percent of all cellular modem shipments by 2017, Strategy Analytics says. 

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