Rating: Also 22.2 million 4G users in 2012. Shurley shome mishtake?
courtesy Pyramid Research
Just over half (59 percent) of all handsets sold in the UK 2012 will be smartphones, according to the latest figures from Pyramid Research. Significantly, that number will rise and smartphones will represent 84 percent of all handsets in 2017. Given the growing percentage of the British population being ‘elderly’ and since they are the chief smartphone Refuseniks, that figure makes sense. The Press release also says that the number of 4G subscribers in the UK expected to reach 22.2 million in 2012. That’s obviously a mistake – the company must mean by 2017. GoMobile News wonders how many publications will blithely report that number.Anyway, according to Olena Kaplan, an associate analyst with Pyramid Research and a co-author of the report, “3G services are expected to remain the most prominent technology over the next five years, with 62.7 million subscribers in 2017, down from 63.6 million in 2012, due to subscriber migration to 4G.”
Thanks to the UK’s shift towards superfast broadband and with the launch of long-anticipated LTE services, total mobile data revenue will grow from £13.2 billion ($20.6 billion) in 2012 to £16.2 billion ($25.8 billion) in 2017.
The report’s authors also say that they expect mobile penetration in UK to reach 140.3 per cent (or 87 million subscriptions) in 2012.
That equates to a CAGR of 2.7 per cent over the next five years. It should then reach 154.8 per cent penetration of the population (or 101 subscriptions).
The report also contains a detailed breakdown of the UK communications market revenues from 2010 to 2017 (see graph).
The figures show that mobile voice revenues will decline whilst at the same time revenues from mobile data will increase.
The report is entitled, ‘UK: Fiber Deployment and Launch of 4G/LTE Boost Broadband’ and is priced at $990.
Of course, if Pyramid is right and there are 22.2 million UK 4G users by Q1 2013, then Olaf Swantee at EE is going to be a very happy man.
As GoMobile News readers will know, EE only started selling 4G handsets in October [2012] and EE is currently the only UK operator to be able to offer 4G.
You can get a flavour of what this report covers by downloading an excerpt from here.
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