Here are some of the data you might find interesting regarding the wireless market, up to date for 2Q and 1H of 2007 (courtesy of Chetan Sharma):

    * US Wireless data market grew 7% Q/Q to $5.85B in Q207. For 1H07, US data service revenues stood at $11.35B jumping 81.6% from 1H06.

    * For Q207, data revenues and % contribution of data to revenues (in parenthesis) are as follows :

       1. Verizon – $1.8B (19%)
       2. AT&T  -  $1.65B (17.3%)
       3. Sprint – $1.2B (16.3%)
       4. T-Mobile – $613M (15%)

    * US mobile subscription penetration in Q207 – 80%
    * For US mobile broadcast in Q207, DVB-H is out, MediaFLO is in
    * Verizon recorded 10B SMS in June setting a record of SMS volume at a single carrier.
    * Volume of SMS traffic in Q207 – Verizon (28.3B) while AT&T (18B)
    * For 1H07, handset unit sales and % of world market share (in parenthesis) are as follows :

       1. Nokia – 191M (37.9%)
       2. Motorola – 80.9M (12.4%)
       3. Samsung – 72.2M (14.1%)
       4. SonyEricsson  (9.4%)
       5. LG (7.2%)

    * 3G subscription in the world – 200M according to GSM Association
    * 3G market penetration in the US – 15%
    * Sprint-Clearwire partnership WiMax subscription – 299K
    * Mobile subscription worldwide – 3B (almost 50% world market penetration)
    * Mobile subscribers worldwide – 2.3B (as of July 2007)
    * Net addition (average) of mobile subscribers in China and India for Q207 – 7M
    * World leader in wireless data revenue – NTT DoCoMo ($5.5B)
    * 3G penetration of NTT DoCoMo – 70%
    * US carriers’ market share

       1. Cingular (27%)
       2. Verizon (26%)
       3. Sprint (22%)
       4. T-Mobile (11%)
       5. Alltel (7%)
       6. Rest (9%)

Some interesting local facts:

    * Filipinos send an average of 15 text messages per day
    * Verizon users send 1B SMS per month, Filipinos send 1B SMS per day!