Mobile Apps Worth Billions To Operators

Written by Adam Gosling

Thursday, 02 August 2007

Industry research house ABI Research, has released estimates of the value it thinks the mobile applications business will be worth by 2012 and the numbers are staggering. Mobile applications such as e-mail, sales force automation tools, mapping applications as well as raw Internet access will generate over US$100 billion in worldwide revenue by 2012, according to ABI. These mobile data applications and services are predominantly aimed at business customers to make them more efficient and improve their work quality so the money to pay for them is there for the taking. ABI defines its business applications and services for mobile handsets to include information access, computing, integrated information access/computing, business process solutions and communications. If you include the communications category real-time communications such as voice services and messaging, the combined revenues from all mobile business categories is expected to grow from US$242 billion in 2007 to global revenues of US$389 billion by 2012. Principal analyst Dan Shey says, "The industry is at the cusp of some phenomenal growth for data applications and services delivered to the handset. Although voice will still generate the bulk of revenues from business customers, mobile data services revenues will become 26% of ARPUs by 2012, a 29% compound annual growth rate." The researcher notes that information access/computing and business process solutions, relatively new applications, will experience the highest growth rates of all because they address specific business of industry needs. "Business functions and processes require different amounts of communications, computing and information access. Value chain players that participate in creating products with the right mix of these mobile capabilities will be riding a wave of growth for mobile solutions having CAGRs of between 80 and 90%." Mobile Business Applications and Services Related news items Tiny Rugged UMPC WIth Vista -10/10/2007 Consumers Want FMC: Companies Don't See The Benefit -02/10/2007 Nokia Buys Map Company For US$8 Billion -02/10/2007 Seven In Unwired Takeover Bid -26/09/2007 Ultra-Mobile Sales Ready To Rocket -16/09/2007 Newer news items Yellow Cabs Offer New Mobile Booking Service -24/08/2007 Australian Idol Live On Next G -19/08/2007 Doh! Phone Pirate Could Get Five Years -17/08/2007 3 Trials Alternative Mobile TV Technology -15/08/2007 Nokia Adds PlayReady -06/08/2007 Older news items Mobile TV Gets A Big Boost -19/07/2007 Google Begins Taunting Cell Phone Carriers -19/07/2007 Google Experiments With AdSense For Mobile -16/07/2007 Nokia Takes A Skype Tablet -11/07/2007 Big Brother Fans Go TXT Crazy On 3 -08/07/2007 Tag This Now: