Global mobile data service revenue, made up of mobile internet and messaging revenue, will rise by 21.4 percent between 2012 and 2014 to represent 40.4 percent of total mobile service provider revenue, ABI Research analysts now predict.
That implies mobile data revenues of about $404 billion of the US$1 trillion mobile customers globally will be spending on their mobile phone services.
North America will be the first region to see mobile data service revenue eclipse voice revenue in 2016, ABI Research now projects.
“Mobile internet service revenue is very much the main driver of revenue growth,” said Jake Saunders, ABI Research VP. “As smart phones have become the entertainment hub in our lives, music, video and TV streaming’s contribution of mobile internet service revenue has jumped to 26 percent in 2012.”
About 85 percent of the traffic traversing the four nationwide U.S. mobile operators networks is data, according to wireless analyst Chetan Sharma. Data accounted for 39 percent of all mobile data revenues carriers collected in the fourth quarter of 2011.
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