Industry-First Forecast for Global Wireless/Mobile Market

Yankee Group: The Global Wireless/Mobile Premium Forecast examines prospective data across business and consumer wireless segments for key categories such as users by technology, average revenue per user for mobile voice and data services, subscribers by data category and handset sales by technology.

Decisive data in the forecast includes:

• Worldwide wireless operator service revenue will surpass US$698 billion by 2009; data services will account for just more than 21%of the total.

• Total registered cellular lines will reach 2.8 billion in 2009, representing a unique user base of nearly 2.4 billion individuals.

• Text messaging revenue will top US$36 billion in 2009; ringtone revenue to carriers and content providers will reach almost US$28 billion.

Global Wireless/Mobile Premium Forecast Publ. 20051107