Advanced data applications will drive wireless services revenues… smart phones that facilitate advanced data applications will drive device revenues… investment in advanced wireless networks to enable advanced data applications will drive the equipment market… advanced wireless networks will fuel demand for services in support of wireless equipment.

In other words, advanced data will become the principal driver of each segment of the U.S. wireless market, according to TIA’s 2008 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast,now in the final stages of production. The 400-page report will be available in February. For ordering information, e-mail marketreview@tiaonline.org or call +1.703.907.7074. TIA members receive major discounts on printed copies and the CD-ROM format, including the multi-user edition.

Data applications, which include text messaging, music, video games, television, global positioning systems, Internet access and other non-voice applications, comprised nearly 16 percent of U.S. wireless services revenue in 2007, up from 6 percent in 2005. Data-related revenue rose 78.9 percent in 2007 compared with only 3.7 percent growth in voice-related revenue. By 2011, TIA projects that data applications will generate nearly 35 percent of U.S. wireless services revenue, more than twice its 2007 share.

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The most comprehensive report on the telecommunications industry, TIA's 2008 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast includes historical data back to 2000 and projections through 2011 and will be available in February to TIA members in print copy for $650 and on CD for $950 and to non-members in print copy for $1,295 and on CD for $1,595. Order by January 31 to get an additional $200 prepublication discount. To order, contact Mary Lou Coffman of TIA at (703) 907-7074 or at mcoffman@tiaonline.org. When ordering reference Code 8ATN.

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