ABI Research recently released its latest "Mobile Carriers and Revenue" Market Data, which states that global mobile data service revenue, comprised of mobile Internet and messaging revenue, will see growth of 21.4 percent between 2012 and 2014 to make up 40.4 percent of total mobile revenue. Total mobile service revenue is expected to hit $1 trillion worldwide by next year.
Developing markets will play a large role in this growth as LTE network deployment in Latin America and Africa will spur on mobile growth that should surpass mobile data pricing declines in developed markets.
Meanwhile, North America is expected to be the first region to have mobile data service revenue top voice revenue, doing so by 2016. According to Ying Kang Tan, a research associate for ABI Research, the bundling of unlimited voice calls and texting with pricier data plans by carriers such as Verizon and AT&T will play a large role in this.
“While global messaging service revenue is in gradual decline, mobile internet service revenue is very much the main driver of revenue growth (2012: US$ 244.2 billion, 21 percent year-on-year),” added Jake Saunders, VP and practice director of core forecasting at ABI, in a statement. “As smartphones have become the entertainment hub in our lives, music, video and TV streaming’s contribution of mobile internet service revenue has jumped to 26 percent in 2012.”
The "Mobile Carriers and Revenue" Market Data acts as a comprehensive source of financial and operational benchmarks for markets as well as individual mobile cellular carriers. These benchmarks include service revenue and gross profit.
ABI Research recently provided Broadcom's new multimode transceiver — which covers GSM, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS — with a review. One of the world's smallest transceivers of this type, the BCM2193 began production at roughly the same time as a similar Mediatek solution.
Earlier in March, ABI Research hired enterprise authority Jason McNicol as a senior analyst.
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Brooke Neuman 
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