The MPB team spent the last few days at the fall CTIA show in San Francisco. For those of you not familiar with CTIA, they host two events per year - the "Big Show" which takes place in the spring, and the fall show. There were lots of announcements (far too many for us to report on) but we will post a couple highlights that we saw later this week.
In terms of the overall market, things are moving briskly, with the following stats being reported by CTIA:
-As of June 2007 the U.S. wireless consumer market surpassed the 243 million subscriber mark, representing roughly 81% of the overall national population.
-U.S. subscribers now send an average of 1 billion text messages every day, transmitting 28.8 billion messages in June alone.
-Wireless data service revenues for the first half of 2007 rose 63% year-on-year to $10.5 billion. Data revenues account for 15.5% of all wireless service revenues.
-Wireless subscribers in the U.S. sent 2.6 billion MMS messages during the first half of 2007, which is nearly twice as much as last year.
-Wireless customers used more than 1.1 trillion voice minutes in the first half of this year, up 18% year-on-year.
