Australian mobile data services revenues to grow at 21.5% a year
Mobile data service revenue in Australia will increase from 1.7 bln Australian dollars in 2005 to 3.
Mobile data service revenue in Australia will increase from 1.7 bln Australian dollars in 2005 to 3.
IDC found that US wireless carriers generated $1.6 bln in data service and application revenues in Q4 2004 from a base of 178.
In an article on Wal-Mart's massive data collection, The New York Times notes that Wal-Mart has 3,600 stores, 100 mln customers weekly and 460 terabytes of customer data stored on the company mainframes.
42% of the Web analytics buyers surveyed by Forrester Research reported importing data from other customer touch points (such as point of sale systems and call centers) monthly or more frequently, up from 23% that did so in 2004. 25% of those surveyed correlate user survey data with site analytics to build customer profiles that link attitudes with behavior.
The German video market is the largest in Europe in terms of the installed base of DVD. Screen Digest estimates that by the end of 2004, 22.
Korea's mobile data service market is projected to grow about 30% in 2005 to 3.36 trillion won ($3.
According to JupiterResearch, ring tone revenues were $91 mln in 2003, more than doubled to $217 mln in 2004 and will reach $724 mln in 2009. Mobile games revenues were $24 mln in 2003, tripled to $72 mln in 2004, and should reach $430 mln in 2009.
According to IDC, the number of PC data combo cards in Europe is expected to grow from 1.2 mln in 2004 to more than 5.
Strategy Analytics estimates that global revenues from mobile data will grow from around $61 billion this year to just over $189 billion in 2009. The analysts expect person-to-person messaging will account for 48% of the total, leading cellular data application categories such as downloading ringtones, games and entertainment content.
Data service revenues reached 3.6% of net revenues in Brazil in Q1 2004, up from 1.