Latest Stats from the Wireless World

-
I attended Mobilize 2009 yesterday. It was an interesting conference and many of the big names in the wireless industry were present.

The main trends highlighted at the conference were:
  1. Mobile broadband and Smart Phones represent a big opportunity
  2. Wireless carriers are updating their networks to handle the mobile data demand which was jump-started with iPhone
  3. More Android phones will be launched in the coming months
  4. The Mobile Application market will continue to grow
  5. Companies are trying to figure out how to make Mobile Advertising work

Following are a few stats which were mentioned during the presentations:
  • There will be 1 Billion mobile broadband subscribers by 2013
  • 100k websites are created every 24 hours
  • There are 5 Billion websites today
  • There are 1.6B Internet users today and 98% primarily access it via the PC
  • There are 1.3B fixed/wireline phone lines in the world
  • 210B emails are sent every 24 hours
  • 1B searches are done on Google every day
  • 1B pictures are added to Facebook every month
  • Collectively people spend 5B minutes on Facebook every day
  • Currently, Facebook has 250M users and 120M visit Facebook every day
  • 65M people who use Facebook mobile spend double the time on the Facebook PC site compared to users who do not use Facebook mobile
  • The biggest cost of Mobile Application Development is QA (Quality Assurance)
  • 4,000 Mobile Applications today use users location information
  • In surveys, 70% of people say that they do not like location based advertisement. However, many respond to the ad when presented with it
  • In the US, within last one year, number of people who access the Internet from their phone has increased 104% to 22M
  • 50% of Mobile data traffic is generated by Social Networking sites
  • 800M people will be on online social networks by 2012
  • ATT has 38 data centers is planning to offer Cloud Computing
  • Mobile data usage has increased 400% in last one year and 50% of the increased usage is coming from video
  • Qualcomm's FloTV will cover 200M PoPs by YE2009.
  • In Japan and Korea, wireless/mobile TV penetration is 40%. The main reason is that the service is free
  • US will have 280M wireless subscribers by YE2009
  • Wireless carriers in the US will generate $160B in service revenue in 2009; of which $45B will be from data i.e. 40% YoY increase
  • US wireless subscribers will use 2.3 Trillion voice minutes in 2009
  • US wireless subscribers will send/receive 1.7 Trillion text messages
Please verify the stats before using them.




Popular posts from this blog

Obituary: Charles T. Munger

-
Image
My hero, Charlie Munger , passed away on November 28th, 2023. He was 99 years old.  I met Munger in 2007 at my first Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting . It was admiration at first few words. I liked his depth of understanding in multiple domains, his honesty, and his willingness to share his wisdom. Since then I have read all his available writings and seen him many times in Omaha or Los Angeles at various shareholder meetings. He profoundly influenced Warren Buffett and the entire investing and business world. The world has lost a great leader, thinker, and teacher.  Munger's response to my letter      Since meeting Munger, I continue to learn from him and share what I am learning.  Following are a few Munger teachings that have become my habits:  1. Inversion: When you want to solve a problem, start with inverting the problem. For example, if you have to figure out how to keep the airplanes safe, work on figuring out how they can crash.  2. Multi-disciplinary thinking:
Read more

Marry the best who will have you and other wisdom from Munger and Buffett

-
I spent the last weekend in Omaha, Nebraska with two of the my heroes- Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett . After attending the Berkshire Hathaway (BH) for a few years, I still get amazed how a shareholder meeting attracts 40,000+ people and the meeting is about two guys having fun. Everyone else  enjoys watching them have fun. The format is six hours of open Q&A. There is no preparation by Munger and Buffett. Anyone can ask anything about anything expect what BH is going to buy/sell next. You will see it in the notes  that a wide variety of topics are covered. Notes from previous years are available here . The David Sokol issue was covered by Buffett and that part of the meeting has been recorded so I have not covered it in my notes. You can see it here. Munger talked more this year compared to previous years. I just love this man. He is brilliant! Following are my random notes from the meeting: Buffett does two things in his job- 1) keep operating managers happy
Read more

Systems Thinking as taught by Ackoff

-
One of my heroes is Dr. Russell Ackoff . I have read a few books he has written and have learned Systems Thinking from him. I am surprised that the field of Systems Thinking is not well understood. Following is my attempt to share what I learned from one of Ackoff's recent lectures. Albert Einstein once said, "You can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it." According to Dr. Russell Ackoff most managers agree with Einstein's statement but not many know what it means. It is easy to agree with something whose meaning is vague. In the Renaissance era, when the science as we know it today was born, a scientific inquiry method called Analysis was developed. Analysis comes naturally to us. Just watch kids breaking new things and being curious about the parts. The understanding of something follows a three step process in analytical thinking: 1. Take it apart 2. Understand (function, role, behavior) what the parts do 3. Assemble the understanding of the pa
Read more