It was an impressive week at the annual world’s premier wireless event. Interesting booths and companies, for me, included Samsung’s Galaxy S (to launch this summer?), Blue Ant’s headset devices, and SkyFiber, from Bryan, Texas, is providing an interesting “last mile” option with optical wireless broadband.
Between AT&T’s Randall Stephenson’s comments on his company’s focus on mobility and being at the cutting-edge of the evolving world of converged communications and Samsung Electronics’ J.K. Shin discussing mobile consumer electronics and their impact on personal and professional communications, it was Geek Heaven in Vegas.
Here is the results of the latest semi-annual wireless industry survey, and some of the highlights are:
- Wireless data service revenues increased 25.7% from the last half of 2008 to reach more than $22 billion for the last half of 2009.
- There are more than 285 million wireless connections.
- More than 822 billion text messages were sent and received on carriers’ networks during the last half of 2009- amounting to almost 5 billion messages per day at the end of the year.
- During the 2009 calendar year, there were more than 1.5 trillion text messages reported on carriers’ networks.
- More than 1.12 trillion minutes in the last half of 2009, up 38 billion from the last half of 2008… and breaking down to 6.1 billion minutes-of-use per day.
- More than 257 million data-capable devices in consumers’ hands, up from 228 million at the end of 2008. 50 million of these devices are smart phones or wireless-enabled PDAs and nearly 12 million are wireless-enabled laptops, notebooks or aircards.
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