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Worldwide Wireless Handset Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2005 to 2011
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December 2005
Published By:
Wintergreen Research
Page Count:
402
Order Code:
R49-338
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The worldwide telecommunications markets including wireless handsets are set for extraordinary growth, doubling from $123 billion in 2004 to $282 billion by 2010 based on expansion of wireless communications markets. Communications represents opportunity for expansion of economies. The wireless based communications systems are vastly improving the ability of people to communicate from anywhere.
The ability to achieve voice communication makes people more efficient. People use wireless handsets because they are convenient. Worldwide penetration is expected to get higher than 50%, and unprecedented penetration of technology. More information can be communicated not in real time, and is available, as people need it. Young men use wireless handsets. They lead the market in underdeveloped countries.
Once young men have handsets, the young women get them, and then the youth give handsets and connectivity to their parents. In developed countries, penetration is expected to climb over 95%. Messaging systems play a significant role in passing information asynchronously, increasing the usefulness of systems. Short messaging is popular.
3G data services are not achieving strong growth, though they will have some uptake as web sites are designed for wireless connectivity. Camera phones are popular, but not for transmitting pictures. Games are sure to catch on.
Underdeveloped countries use communications to achieve trading and exchange of goods. As people have portable communications devices, they want more things and can make an economy emerge where there was none before.
A Siemens representative tells about putting a refrigerator size telecom switch in a rural South African village and coming back 10 years later to find a thriving village with shops and civilization. When people were coming and going to the city of Johannesburg, they would carry goods in both directions, creating demand for more items because communications had been implemented. Trade went in both directions from the village to the city and from the city to the village.
People like to talk to each other. Wireless handsets are poised to be ubiquitous. The ability to prepay for services and the low cost of a handset make this technology available worldwide, the first technology to penetrate underdeveloped economies.
Worldwide telecommunications and communications equipment market forecasts, shipments in dollars analysis indicate strong growth in very large existing markets. Markets for wireless handsets at 882 million unit shipments in 2004 are anticipated to reach 2.1 billion unit shipments by 2011. Units last 1.5 years on average, with prices declining significantly.
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