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This report to Congress provides insights into the competition, revenues, and market trends in the U.S. mobile communications industry. It includes data on mobile telephone subscribers, mobile data market revenues, and paging subscribers from 1996 to 1999. The report also includes forecasts for mobile data users and smartphone adoption in the coming years.
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Report to Congress • Fifth Annual CMRS Competition Report • August 3, 2000
U.S. Mobile Revenues as a Percentage of Total Telecommunications Revenues Source: Federal Communications Commission
Mobile Telephone Subscribers: 1996 to 1999 Source: CTIA, 2000
U.S. Mobile Data Market - Total Revenues (millions) Source: Thomas J. Lee, The U.S. Mobile Data Report – A Special Edition of Mobile Outlook, Equity Research: United States Wireless Services, Salomon Smith Barney, Sept. 21, 1999, at 7..
Mobile Data Forecasts • 21.3 million mobile data users in the U.S. by the end of 2001 - Yankee Group • 21 million smart phones worldwide by end of 2000, 48 million by 2002 and 204 million by 2005 - Ovum • By 2003, more than one-half of world’s estimated one billion mobile phone subscribers will be connected to the Internet - Phone.com
Paging Subscribers: 1996 to 1999 Source: The Strategis Group, The State of the U.S. Paging Industry: 1999 (1999).