Stat Spot
CategoryStat Spot: SMS long-term growth
2.3 trillion
…SMS messages will be sent worldwide in 2010, up from 936 billion in 2005. Asia will account for the lion’s share of th..
Stat Spot: T9 licenses
2 billion
…T9 predictive text input licenses sold by Tegic. T9 revolutionised text messaging in 1995 by significantly reducing the n..
Stat Spot: Q3 2006 handset shipments
251m
…handsets shipped in Q3 2006, up 21.5% on the same period last year. Nokia gained 2.6 percentage points to record market share ..
Stat Spot: M2M revenues
$74b
…in annual worldwide revenues from wireless machine to machine (M2M) communications by 2011. This represents significant growth..
Stat Spot: Handset churn
25%
…of users would change their operator because of problems encountered with their handset, according to a survey of 1859 UK mobile..
Stat Spot: Panasonic/NEC joint venture
50/50
…split between Panasonic and and NEC in the new joint venture to produce a common platform for mobile handsets. The company is..
Stat Spot: Handset ASPs
9%
…decline in the average selling price (ASP) of Nokia’s handset in Q3 2006. Nokia’s ASP was just EUR 93, compared to EUR 102 at Mo..
Stat Spot: Nokia price cuts
5 – 10%
…is the amount by which Nokia is rumoured to have cut prices across its N-Series range of devices in the last two weeks, prom..