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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
CTIA – The Wireless Association® Releases Comprehensive Wireless Industry Survey Results
ORLANDO, CA. - CTIA -The Wireless Association® announced today that wireless data service revenues for 2006 rose to $15.2 billion. This represents a 77% increase over 2005, when data revenue was $8.6 billion Data revenue represents money that wireless carriers earn on services other than voice. Wireless data revenues now total roughly 13% of all wireless service revenues.
“Wireless broadband is providing mobile subscribers with the ability to access content like never before,” said CTIA – The Wireless Association® President and CEO Steve Largent. “Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission reported that 59% of all new high-speed lines were wireless. Wireless broadband is growing faster than cable and DSL combined and because of that fact subscribers are accessing new and exciting types of content on their mobile devices.”
The CTIA Semi-Annual Wireless Industry Survey was released this morning at CTIA WIRELESS 2007®. The world’s largest wireless show, with more than 1,000 exhibitors and 40,000 attendees, is taking place between March 27th and 29th at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
The survey also found that text messaging continues to be enormously popular, with more than 158 billion messages sent in 2006. This represents a 95% increase over 2005. Wireless subscribers are also sending pictures and other multi-media messages in droves, with more than 2.7 billion MMS messages sent in 2006, up from 1.1 billion in 2005.
The foundation for these strong results is a near record increase in wireless subscribership. As of December 2006, the industry survey recorded more than 233 million wireless users. This represents a year-over-year increase of more than 25 million subscribers. The industry’s 12-month record for subscriber growth was reached in 2005, when 25.7 million new users came online.
Other highlights of the survey include: wireless customers using more than 1.7 trillion minutes in 2006, up 20% over 2005, and generating more than $125 billion in total wireless revenues. More information about the survey can be found at
http://www.ctia.org/advocacy/research/index.cfm/AID/10316.
CTIA is the international association for the wireless telecommunications industry,
representing carriers, manufacturers and wireless Internet providers.
http://www.ctia.org
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