The popularity of the social networking sites, smart phones and the interest taken by the leading technology companies like GOOGLE, APPLE, Motorola, Samsung and many others in mobile technologies and VOIP forced us to consider that the telecom industry is the most fastest growing industry of the world. The amount of money the consumers and the businesses investing in these kind of technologies is out of the one’s imaginations. According to research global telecom investments in mobile phones, internet phone/VOIP, mobile apps, accessories and other technologies will reach $25.6 trillion by 2015.
Below are some stats which provides the authentications to the above
- 90% of the world’s population has access to a mobile phone. There are 4.6+ billion mobile phones in the world… that’s 1 cell for every 1.5 people. (Mashable)
- The international calling industry for calling from the U.S. abroad is now estimated at a $23.8 billion market, with 25 percent of international callers use a computer and VoIP software to make calls. (Rebtel and Harris Interactive survey)
- Throwing out that “t” word again… Worldwide mobile voice and data revenue will exceed one trillion dollars a year by 2014. (Gartner)
- Facebook, valued at $50 billion, has 600 million active users. (MSNBC)
- Didn’t know anyone used Twitter? Think again… Twitter had 58 million users at the end of 2009; End of 2010: Twitter had 175+ million users. That’s a whopping 117 million user increase in one year! (NY Times)
- VoIP services revenue is estimated to reach 3.9 billion in 2016. (Frost & Sullivan)
All these stats confirm that the future is the mobile technology including the Internet Phone/VOIP and many other still to come.
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