Insights May 9th, 2016

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The new TomiAhonen Almanac has just been released and, in Mobile is a Trillion Dollar Industry (Key Statistics), we outlines all of the top-line numbers for the mobile industry that he has collated.
Go to Tomi’s blog here to see his extensive breakdown on mobile stats (an essential resource).
Here are some of the key statistics from Tomi’s Almanac.

MOBILE USERS IN NUMBERS

Total Active Mobile Subscriptions (Accounts) including M2M: 7.6 B
Total Active Human-Use Mobile Subscriptions (Accounts):  7.2 B
Total Mobile Reach, including shared mobiles: 5.9 B
Total Unique Mobile Phone Human Users: 5.0 B

MOBILE INDUSTRY REVENUES

Service Revenues: $ 1,197 B

  • Of Which Voice Calls: $649 B
  • Of Which Mobile Messaging: $195 B
  • Of Which Mobile Advertising: $49 B
  • Of Which Other Mobile Data: $305 B

Hardware Revenues : $540 B

  • Of Which Handsets: $409 B
  • Of Which other (Networks etc): $ 131 B

TOTAL INDUSTRY REVENUES: $ 1,737 B (= $ 1.7 T)

MEDIA AND TECH TOP 5 LARGEST AUDIENCES BY UNIQUE HUMANS

Mobile Telecoms Reach: 5.9 B unique humans
Television Audience Reach: 5.3 B unique humans
Radio Audience Reach: 4.3 B unique humans
SMS Text Messaging Unique Users: 4.1 B unique humans
DVD/Bluray Player Audience:  3.4 B unique humans.

INTERNET USE BY ACCESS METHOD: 3.2B TOTAL USERS

Access Internet Only by PC Never by Mobile: 9%
Access Internet by Both PC and Mobile: 43%
Access Internet Only by Mobile Never by PC: 48%
Note Tablets are included in PC count not mobile count

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Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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