Abstract
Overview
This annual report offers a wealth of information on the worldwide development
of the mobile sector. Information at a regional level is also provided for the
Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. The report includes
analyses, statistics, forecasts and trends. It provides a comprehensive
insight into the progress of mobile and examines the key issues and
opportunities.
Subjects covered include:
- Worldwide and regional mobile subscriber statistics;
- 3G market overview and statistics;
- Worldwide mobile ARPU and revenue;
- Overview of worldwide call charges;
- Mobile prepaid sector;
- MVNO market;
- Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) and Fixed-mobile substitution (FMS);
- Termination rates, Roaming, Mobile Number Portability (MNP);
- Mobile handset market overview and statistics;
- Regional overview.
The following notes provide some background to our scenario forecasting methodology:
- This report includes what we term scenario forecasts. By describing
long-range scenarios we identify a band within which we expect market growth
to occur. The associated text describes what we see as the most likely growth
trend within this band.
- The projections shown in the tables in this report are based on our own
historical information, as well as on telecommunication sector statistics from
official and non-official, national and international sources. We assume a
possible deviation of 15-20% around this data.
- All statistics for GDP, revenue, etc are shown in US$, in order to
maintain consistency within and between markets. At the same time we
acknowledge that this can introduce some irregularities.
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