Most of the revenue growth in the U.S. mobile ecosystem arguably is going to application providers, one might argue after reviewing estimates made by Chetan Sharma. Voice service revenue was down between 2013 and 2014. Access revenue (mostly mobile data) grew significantly. But total mobile service provider revenues did not grow as much as app provider revenues.
Monday, November 23, 2015
Mobile Ecosystem Value and Revenue is Shifting to App Providers
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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