The contract was completed as estimated by the network equipment supplier Ericsson on Thursday. The driving force behind currently two million new signatures per day are therefore emerging markets like India and China.
|
|
In the next few years the number of mobile phone contracts will continue to increase dramatically, including mobile broadband contributes significantly. Already in 2015 there will be world’s 3.4 billion mobile broadband connections, then Ericsson.
For the end of the decade, the company expects that a total of 50 billion will be on mobile devices online. “This will include things such as vehicles, medical equipment or weather,” press text to such an Ericsson spokeswoman. This is direct communication between two machines (machine-to-machine communications, M2M) for driving factor.
Emerging mobile markets
How important emerging markets for mobile growth, Ericsson illustrated with an example. Was there in 2000, some 720 million mobile phone contracts worldwide, China alone now exceeds that value. That Asia is essential for growth, current market research to confirm numbers. “India and Indonesia have over the last four quarters together contributed more than 150 million subscriptions,” said ABI Research analyst Bhavya Khanna. The highest annual growth rates can be won with more than 22 percent of Africa, but this is related to the relatively low mobile penetration.
“We estimate that the current five billion of which contracts to about four billion customers,” said the spokeswoman for Ericsson. For, especially in Western markets, the mobile phone penetration exceeds 100 percent partly clear. In such regions, mobile broadband is the engine of growth. “The success of Apple’s iPad shows that mobile operators can sell in markets saturated with user devices, additional contracts,” said ABI Research VP of Forecasting Jake Saunders. Global has seen surpassed in volume, according to Ericsson at the end of 2009, the mobile voice telephony traffic.
Machine communication
Ericsson’s vision of networked devices 50 billion, goes far beyond cell phones, USB dongles and netbooks with integrated data modem. Rather M2M systems will play an increasingly important role. Conceivable, for example, smart meters and tracking solutions for the route optimization in transport. Possible systems include further digital cameras with a direct online connection or vending machines, the request automatically populate its own.
Kein Kommentar
Kommentieren