NEW YORK-The number of global wireless users will increase 49 percent during the next four years to total 1.72 billion by 2007, according to the Yankee Group. Analysts further predict subscriber revenues will reach $584 billion in 2007, compared with $387 billion in 2002, making wireless services similar in value to worldwide crude oil production.
“The complete and consistent global analysis that our new forecast provides is increasingly important. It is no longer sufficient merely to benchmark within national markets, and technological islands are disappearing as TDMA and PDC become obsolete,” explained Keith Mallinson, executive vice president of wireless/mobile research at the Yankee Group. “Instead, the GSM family of technologies, including GPRS and W-CDMA, will grow from 70 percent in 2002 to 80 percent market share in 2007, while the CDMA family with cdmaOne and cdma2000 will grow from 13 percent to 16 percent in the period.”
