Informa Telecoms & Media has released its World Cellular Data Metrics, which indicates that global mobile data revenues were more than US$100 billion in 2005. “The figure of US$102.1 billion is equal to US$52.9 per every
mobile subscription throughout the year or US$4.4 per month.” This is apparently on par with the amount European operators paid for 3G licences…
The first quarter revenues of 2006 were also up 17% year-on-year to US$28.4 billion. Unsurprisingly NTT DoCoMo took out the top spot, and China Mobile came second (I’m assuming because of the size of its user base rather than a high average data usage).