Strategy Analytics: 415M Mobile Broadband Modem Devices by 2014

 

Strategy Analytics predicts that "The sales of new devices with integrated mobile broadband connectivity, together with external USB modems, will top 100 million in 2010 .. [and] the installed base will have grown to a staggering 415 million devices by 2014"

A new research paper “Untethering the User: Mobile Broadband Market Outlook on USB Modems, PC Cards & Embedded Cellular Connectivity,” (here), by Andrew Brown, Director for the Strategy Analytics Wireless Enterprise Strategies service, concludes that "Going forward, emerging markets and M2M will represent major opportunities for growth”

See press release - here.

According to the Broadband Forum (here)  and ABI Research (here) there were 430-445M broadband subscribers, globally, in 2009. With the numbers we see here for mobile broadband (which does not include smartphones), we can expect mobile networks capacity to grow to similar size of fixed networks - which will be huge growth, limited by many inherent factors of the mobile networks technology (radio capacity, deployment of fast backhaul links etc). With these numbers and the current state of mobile networks, we must see many innovations in traffic management. 

Related post - "Infonetics Research: Mobile Broadband Card Sales grew 55% in 2009" - here