Consumer Spending on Mobile Internet Access Will Approach Fixed Access by about 2016

Global end user spending on mobile Internet access spending will almost reach fixed network levels of spending by 2016, PwC now projects.


Spending on mobile access increased from 26 percent of total global Internet access spending in 2007 to 40 percent in 2011, and will account for 46 percent in 2016. Another way of looking at those figures is that mobile access revenue earned by service providers will be about half of all global revenue in that category. 

Global end user spending on fixed network and mobile Internet access will increase to $493.4 billion in 2016, a 9.3 percent compound annual growth rate. 


Mobile broadband subscribership soared in 2011 and mobile access spending jumped 30.5 percent, says PwC. 

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