Growth in revenue for mobile business applications will be close to 50% between 2006 and 2007, and then slow to 44% from 2007 to 2008, reports In-Stat. These strong growth projections are good news for the wireless industry, but may be lower than some may be planning on based upon the literal reading of end-user survey data, the high-tech market research firm says. That's because there is a widening gap between what decision-makers expect that they will do and what they actually implement.
"As business users approach saturation for horizontal mobile data applications, most of the growth potential remains for vertical market applications," says Bill Hughes, In-Stat analyst. "These require more planning and time to implement. The result is that many within the wireless industry may have overoptimistic forecasts."
Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
Posted to the site on 15th January 2008
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