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New Integrated Forecast Shows 18.6 Percent of World's Population Currently Has Mobile Phones

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The Yankee Group, the pioneer in communications and networking research advisory and consulting services, today predicted that the global wireless user base will increase by 49 percent over the next 4 years and reach 1.72 billion by 2007. The Company's new Global Wireless/Mobile Forecast, released today, also shows global cellular subscriber revenue growing from $387 billion in 2002 to $584 billion in 2007, making wireless services similar in value to worldwide crude oil production.
Speaking at the Company's Wireless Leadership Summit now under way at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, Keith Mallinson, executive vice president of Wireless/Mobile Research, said: "The complete and consistent global analysis that our new forecast provides is increasingly important. It is no longer sufficient merely to benchmark within national markets, and technological islands are disappearing as TDMA and PDC become obsolete. Instead, the GSM family of technologies, including GPRS and WCDMA, will grow from 70 percent in 2002 to 80 percent market share in 2007, while the CDMA family with cdmaOne and CDMA2000 will grow from 13 percent to 16 percent in the period."
The Yankee Group derives its demand-driven forecast by tightly integrating handset assessments with subscriber and operator projections, thereby providing the industry's most representative and accurate market outlook.
More information about the Global Wireless/Mobile Forecast is available at www.yankeegroup.com/di.

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The Yankee Group (http://www.yankeegroup.com)

The Yankee Group is a global leader in technology research, analysis, and consulting. The company helps businesses understand the opportunities, risks, and competitive pressures of developing, deploying, and consuming products and services that drive communication or information exchange. Now in its fourth decade, the Yankee Group is based in Boston with offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim.

About the Wireless Leadership Summit

The Yankee Group's 2003 Wireless Leadership Summit, June 24 and 25, 2003, in New York City, brings together global wireless technology and solutions vendors, North American wireless carriers, major enterprise users, business journalists, and Yankee Group analysts who cover wireless technology, services, and enterprise markets. The conference addresses success formulae for increasing mobile adoption, stimulating use, and crafting cost-effective, profitable wireless services and solutions for senior business decision makers serving corporate and consumer markets.


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KEYWORD: NEW YORK MASSACHUSETTS
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING
COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS ADVERTISING/MARKETING TRADESHOW INTERNET
SOURCE: Yankee Group