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Ovum estimates over 2 billion mobile broadband users by 2014 PDF Print E-mail

A newly released mobile broadband forecast by global advisory and consulting firm Ovum, shows that users accessing the Internet via mobile broadband enabled laptops and handsets is expected to generate revenues of $137 billion globally over the next 5 years. 

However, operators will need to modify thier infrastructure and billing plans to accept that user growth will be far faster than revenue growth, meaning more users and more data traffic, but declining average revenues per user.

Users of mobile broadband services (3G and 3G+ technologies) is expected grow from 181 million in 2008 to over 2 billion in 2014, growth of 1024%, according to Ovum’s latest research. In 2014 Ovum forecasts that there will be 258 million users worldwide accessing mobile broadband services through laptops, via USB modems, datacards or have embedded mobile modules.

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