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The report is an indispensable reference tool, featuring statistics on mobile markets for 45 leading economies.
It also includes a directory of web sites for the government agencies and mobile operators from whom the data was obtained.
The report was prepared by Michael Minges, former head of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU)
market research activities and now Senior Market Analyst at TMG. Mr. Minges founded the ITU's "Indicators" reports. He was the
lead author of the World Telecommunication Development Report from its inception. Mr. Minges also created the Digital Access
Index, widely used by countries to compare their progress in information and communication technology. He is an expert on mobile
market analysis in developing regions and has been at the forefront of measuring the mobile Internet.
| 1 | Introduction |
| 1.1 | Purpose |
| 1.2 | Scope |
| 1.3 | Definitions |
| 2 | Mobile multimedia market |
| 3 | Top 10 countries |
| 3.1 | Japan |
| 3.2 | Republic of Korea |
| 3.3 | France |
| 3.4 | Singapore |
| 3.5 | Sweden |
| 3.6 | Germany |
| 3.7 | United Kingdom |
| 3.8 | Finland |
| 3.9 | Norway |
| 3.10 | Spain |
| 4 | Mobile multimedia relationships |
| 4.1 | Internet access |
| 4.2 | Mobile penetration |
| 4.3 | Internet-enabled handsets |
| 4.4 | Text messaging |
| 4.5 | Pricing |
| 5 | Top 10 mobile multimedia operators |
| 6 | Conclusions |
| 7 | Mobile Indicators |
| 7.1 | Socio-economic |
| 7.2 | Mobile penetration |
| 7.3 | Mobile multimedia indicators |
| 7.4 | Internet indicators |
| 8 | Mobile multimedia key performance indicators |
| 9 | Acronyms & Glossary |
| 10 | Methodology |
| 11 | Sources |
| 12 | Bibliography |
| Table 1-1: | Economies covered |
| Table 5-1: | Top 10 mobile multimedia operators |
| Table 11-1: | National data sources |
| Table 11-2: | Mobile multimedia user sources |
| Figure 1-1: | Global Mobile Subscribers |
| Figure 2-1: | Global mobile multimedia users, by region |
| Figure 2-2: | Global mobile data revenue, by region |
| Figure 3-1: | Mobile multimedia users as percentage of population |
| Figure 3-2: | Japanese mobile Internet subscribers |
| Figure 3-3: | Japanese mobile Internet users |
| Figure 3-4: | South Korean mobile multimedia subscribers |
| Figure 3-5: | South Korean mobile Internet users |
| Figure 3-6: | Mobile multimedia users in France |
| Figure 3-7: | Mobile multimedia users in France |
| Figure 3-8: | Singaporean mobile multimedia users |
| Figure 3-9: | Mobile multimedia users in Singapore |
| Figure 3-10: | Swedish GPRS subscriptions |
| Figure 3-11: | Swedish mobile multimedia users |
| Figure 3-12: | Mobile multimedia users in Germany |
| Figure 3-13: | Estimates of German mobile multimedia users |
| Figure 3-14: | People accessing Internet from mobile phone, United Kingdom |
| Figure 3-15: | Mobile multimedia users in the United Kingdom |
| Figure 3-16: | WAP phones in Finland |
| Figure 3-17: | GPRS subscribers in Finland |
| Figure 3-18: | Norwegian Internet users accessing from mobile phone |
| Figure 3-19: | Mobile multimedia users in Norway |
| Figure 3-20: | Mobile Internet users in Spain |
| Figure 3-21: | Mobile multimedia users in Spain |
| Figure 4-1: | The mobile multimedia environment |
| Figure 4-2: | Top 10 countries by Internet penetration |
| Figure 4-3: | Method of access to the Internet |
| Figure 4-4: | Top 10 countries by mobile penetration |
| Figure 4-5: | Top ten countries by mobile household penetration |
| Figure 4-6: | Internet-enabled mobile households |
| Figure 4-7: | Internet-enabled mobile phones |
| Figure 4-8: | Top 10 SMS countries |
| Figure 4-9: | Source of mobile data revenue |
| Figure 4-10: | Income & mobile multimedia use |
| Figure 4-11: | Mobile multimedia pricing in Asia-Pacific |
| Figure 6-1: | Global mobile multimedia users |
| Box 6-1: | Mobile networks for PC Internet access |
