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Friday June 22 , 2007

$250 mln in WiFi sales in China in 2005
$3 bln in cellular PC cards and embedded modems to sell by 2010
$3 bln needed to bring WiMAX to 98% of US households
$5.2 bln will be spent on Wi-Fi, $115 mln on WiMAX in 2005
$54.7 mln of WiFi+VOIP handsets sold in 2004
1 mln Zigbee devices will be shipped in 2005, 80 mln in 2006
1.2 mln wireless data cards sold in Europe in 2004
10 mln US households have WLAN
10% of Americans use wireless networks
10% of US wireless sibscribers to buy mobile video by 2009
100 mln WiFi-enabled cell phones by 2010
100 mln wireless sensors in use by 2008
100-150 ZigBee chips in every house by 2007
102 mln femtocell users by 2011
11 mln Wi-Fi units sold in Q3 2004
11% of Americans have bought a wireless game
115 mln people use mobile data services
120K Wi-Fi hotspots by year-end 2005, 200K by 2008
13 mln WiMAX subscribers in India by 2012
14 mln WiMAX subscribers by 2011
14% have tried out neighbor's Wi-Fi
14.2% of Americans would adopt mobile video
14.9 mln WiMAX users by 2009
143,700 commercial WiFi hotspots in 2006
146 Bluetooth chipsets to sell in 2004
15.9 mln mobile Web logons in UK in December 2006
17 automakers to support Bluetooth in 2005
17% of UK business travelers use hotspots
17.6 mln WLAN access points were sold on consumer market in 2004
180K Australian households to have home WLAN by year-end 2005
19 mln ZigBee units to ship in 2006, 123 mln in 2009
2.1 bln cellular subscribers to use GSM/GPRS/CDMA2000 in 2009
2.5 mln wireless-capable multimedia devices shipped in 2006
20 mln fixed WiMAX installations by 2009
200 mln UltraWideBand products shipped by 2011
200K hotspots by 2008
21% of home WLAN users browse Internet from the bathroom
22% of WiFi devices fail to connect on the first try
222K WiMAX subscribers in 2006
248 municipal WiFi deployments in the US by year-end 2006
25-30K WiFi users in Russia by 2008
250 mln vehicles could be connected to wireless networks
27% of enterprises to use voice-over-WLAN by mid-2006
27% of US users have heard of VOIP, 13% considered it
28 mln game consoles with embedded WiFi to ship in 2006
287K Australians to have wireless broadband by 2008
289 mln ultrawideband devices to ship by 2010
3 mln intelligent antenna handsets to ship in 2006
3.2 mln used enterprise wireless email in 2004
30 mln WiFi users by the end of 2004
30% of companies installed WLANs by year-end 2004
300 mln Bluetotth products to ship in 2004
300k 802.11n routers shipped already
33% of Western European Wi-Fi-enabled laptop owners never use Wi-Fi
34.6 mln mobile Internet users in June 2006
35% of unlimited data plan users use mobile e-mail
35K RFID readers shipped in 2005
36% of businesses provide wireless access to back-end
37% of laptop plan to buy a WLAN card, 30% have one
38% of home users leave their wireless networks open
39 mln WLAN users by the end of 2004
4-5 mln Americans use mobile email and messaging
4.5-10.5 mln ZigBee nodes to be sold in North America in 2006
40 mln devices with WiFi support to ship in 2006
40 mln global navigation satellite systems receivers shipped in 2005
40% of mobile users would pay extra for multimedia
40% of US adults use WWW for news, weather and sports
40K hotspots globally in 2003
43% of mobile text messages is spam
430 mln WLAN chipsets to ship in 2009
44.2% of mobile users interested in in-flight wireless data services
44601 devices with integrated media and WiFi will ship by 2008
45 mln cellular M2M modules to ship by 2011
450,000 customers pay T-Mobile for WiFi hotspots
47% of companies with WLANs are thinking of integrating Wi-Fi and cellular
47% of WiFi users have digital cable TV
48 mln WiMAX connections by 2010
5 mln cellular modems to ship in 2006
5 mln wireless machine-to-machine connections in Europe
500 mln Bluetooth radios to ship in 2006
50k WiFi mesh units shipped in 2006
51% of medium businesses to have WLANs by year-end 2005
514 mln to subscribe to mobile TV by 2011
52% of Americans use WiFi, 50% - wired Ethernet, for home networking
53% of industrial users consider deploying wireless sensor network in 2006
55 mln wireless Bluetooth headsets to ship in 2006
58% of online Americans use WiFi only if it is free
580 mln ZigBee units by 2010
6 mln wireless email users in the US
6% of Western European enterprises are interested in mobile data apps
60% of Americans know what Wi-Fi is, 72% familiar with wireless networking
60% of businesses deployed WLANs
60% of US SMBs have a mobile data solution in place
60% of WLANs completely unprotected
62% of mobile operators to invest in WiMAX
63% of all wireless data packets are generated by browsing
65% of home networks support Wi-Fi
69% of wireless access points sold to consumer market in 2004 were 802.11g
69.2 mln Japanese using Internet from mobile devices
7% of US wireless ARPU is data services
7.2 mln WiMAX customer premise devices to ship by 2010
70,000 Australians use Wi-Fi
72% of large companies to use voice over wireless by 2009
74 mln mobile portal users in Western Europe by 2010
740K mobile e-mail subscribers in Asia-Pacific in 2006
8.5 mln WiMAX subscribers by 2009
80% of US wireless carriers offer Wi-Fi
80% would choose Wi-Fi when choosing between Wi-Fi and iPod
802.11g access point prices declined 10.3% in June 2004
802.11g picked up where 802.11b left
802.11n to take 55% of consumer market in 2008
802.16 and 802.20 market to outpace $1 bln by 2007
82% of US hotels offer wireless Internet
84% of corporate WLAN deployments have never had a break-in
84K hotspots globally in Q2 2005
85.9 mln wireless sensors by 2010, 85% of them ZigBee
850 mln mobile workers by 2009
866 mln Bluetooth devices by 2009
90% of airports to support WiFi in 2 years
ABI: Wifi deployment - a million hot spots a year
Airport WiFi customers spend 40 minutes online on average
Almost 700K wireless networks in the US
Asia-Pacific WiMAX equipment market to generate $2 bln by 2009
Asia-Pacific WiMAX market to generate $4.3 bln by 2011
Asian location-based services market to reach $771.9 mln by 2010
Asian youngsters spent $15.2 bln on mobile data services in 2004
Australian mobile data services revenues to grow at 21.5% a year
Australian WLAN market up 119% in 2004
Best US WiFi hotels
Bluetooth shipments reach 3 mln devices a week
Bluetooth shipments to reach 316 mln by 2005, 866 mln by 2009
Business travelers spend $300 a month on wireless
Cellular base station spending to reach $53.2 mln in 2006
China wireless apps up
Chinese Wi-Fi market to grow at 45% a year
Chinese WLAN market falls 28.7% in Q1 2004
Chinese WLAN market to grow 33% a year
Citywide Wi-Fi costs $150,000 per square mile in maintenance costs over 5 years
Contactless payments to reach $870 mln by 2011
Corporate WiFi market leaders: Cisco, Symbol, Airespace, Proxim, 3Com
Disruptive: 25M Hybrid Devices by 2006
Distribution of EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA worldwide
EDGE to generate $25 bln between 2008 and 2011
Embedded WiFi market to grow at 66.2% CAGR till 2008
EMEA WLAN equipment market up 188% in Q2 2004
EMEA WLAN market up 33% in Q4 2005
EMEA WLAN market up 6.1% in Q1 2005
EMEA WLAN market up 9.3% in Q4 2004
Enterprise WLAN access point market to grow 75% in 2004
Enterprise WLAN market to reach $3.5 bln by 2009
Enterprise WLAN sales up 9% in Q3 2005
Europe, Middle East and Africa bought 720 000 GPS devices in first half of 2004
European mobile content and entertainment to generate 32 bln euros by 2012
European wireless gadgets sales to reach $44 bln in 2009
Fixed WiMAX networks to have 88 mln subscribers by 2011
From 2004 to 2009 ZigBee node shipments to grow at 200% a year
Getting WiMAX to 74% of US households would cost $18 a month
Global enterprise mobility solutions market to bring in $16.5 bln in 2004
Global mobile cap ex to reach $150 bln by 2012
Global WLAN equipment generated $763.5 mln in Q3 2005
Global WLAN hardware sales up 3% QTQ in Q2 2004
Global WLAN revenue up 18% in Q2 2005
Global WLAN revenues up 18% in Q2 2005
Half of online Americans have used WiFi hotspots, 20% use them frequently
Hot spots in Asia: good growth, little money
Hotspot statistics - most unwired countries
IDC: Centrino laptops will get 42% market share in 2003
IDC: Wi-Fi at home in the US up 7%
IDC: wireless games will bring $1 bln by 3006
In 2010 4% of all global broadband will be WiMAX
In-Stat/MDR: 1.3M VOIP US subscribers in 2003
In-Stat/MDR: Wireless security providers up
India will have 3,500 Wi-Fi hotspots by year-end 2005
Intel attributes laptop sales growth to Centrino
IP multimedia subsystem apps to generate $14 bln by 2011
Korean mobile data services market to reach $3.3 bln in 2005
Korean RFID shipments to reach $551.8 mln in 2006
LAN and WLAN test equipment to generate $1.2 bln by 2011
Last mile wireless solutions market to reach $3 bln by 2009
Low-power wireless networks
Machine-to-machine communications to reach $270 bln by 2010
Mesh radio shipments up 40% in Q2 2006
Mobile browsing patterns: 57% look for weather, 44% for sports scores, 44% for national news
Mobile device management to generate $5 bln by 2010
Mobile enterprise app market reached $1.2 bln in 2005
Mobile Internet penetration in US and Europe
Mobile messaging market in Western Europe to generate $15.4 bln by 2010
Mobile subscribers with data packages pay extra $7.86 a month on average
More than 50,000 Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide
Most unwired cities: Seattle, San Francisco
Most unwired US colleges
New Zealand mobile data services to grow at 16.2% a year
Nomad: 3.8 M WiMax users in UK by 2006
Number of WiMAX customers to grow at 64% a year between 2009 and 2012
Online DVD rental market has 6.3 mln subscribers, $1 bln revenue
Only 10% of mobile users buy ringtones
Only 21% of large enterprises highly satisfied with their wireless contracts
Only 4.7% of US cellular revenues come from data
Only 40% of European companies interested in mobile data, 4% ready to invest in mobile apps
Only 6% of mobile subscribers to go for WiMAX and UMTS TDD
Productivity is the top reason for installing WLAN
Public wireless LANs to bring 4.7 bln euros globally in 2009
Revenue from wireless hotspots to reach $969 bln in 2005, $3.46 bln in 2009
RFID market to generate $3.1 bln in 2007
RFID spending to reach $3 bln in 2010
Ringtones are a $3 bln industry
SMB wireless market to grow 93% in 2004
SMS share in mobile data to drop from 90% in 2003 to 40% in 2008
Taiwan LAN manufacturing revenues up 27.1% in Q1 2004
Taiwanese double WLAN production
Top 50 wireless universities cover 98% of their campus with Wi-Fi
Top activities among UK wireless subscribers: text messages, photo messages
Top activities among US wireless subscribers: text messages, photo messages, browsing news, buying ringtones
Top countries for .eu registrations: Germany, UK, Netherlands, Italy, Cyprus
Top news sites from Nielsen/NetRatings
Top unwired cities: San Francisco, NYC, Chicago
Top Wi-Fi countries: US, UK, Germany, France
UltraWideBand nodes and chipsets to grow at 400% between 2005 and 2008
US mobile data services and applications generated $1.6 bln in Q4 2004
US PC users are split between home Ethernet and home Wi-Fi
US VOIP sales
USA to earn $25 bln from wireless licenses in 2007-2009
Users name $8.00 as the price to pay for hotspot access
UWB market to enjoy 400% CAGR till 2008
UWB to grow at 400% a year
VoIP: Big in Europe
WCDMA grew 33% in Q4 2003
Western European WLAN market generated $1.2 bln in January-June 2006
Wi-Fi equipment revenues up 15% for 2004, but down 21% in Q4 2004
Wi-Fi unit shipments to increase 20% in 2004
Wibree to generate $513 mln by 2011
WiFi hardware revenue up 9% in Q3 2004
WiFi hotspots will cost $12 bln in missed revenues to US cellular companies
WiFi revenues up 55% for 2003, consumer market up 66%
WiFi unit shipments up 214% in 2003
WiMax base stations to generate $2.6 bln in 2009
WiMAX chipsets to generate $950 mln by 2009
WiMAX equipment revenues to reach $124.5 mln in 2005
WiMAX to generate $5.4 bln by 2010
Wireless adoption among life and health insurers is at 5% in 2004
Wireless data services generated $8.58 bln in 2005
Wireless e-mail productivity
Wireless e-mail pushes worker productivity
Wireless infrastructure and application services to reach $56.7 bln by 2010
Wireless LAN integrated circuits to generate $2.1 bln in 2008
Wireless mesh access points to generate $974.3 mln by 2009
Wireless mesh nodes to generate $90 mln in 2006
Wireless music market to reach $1.2 bln in the US by 2009
Wireless networking chipsets to grow at 23% a year
Wireless notebooks: 95% by 2006
Wireless PC card modem market to grow 10 times by 2010
Wireless PC data cards to grow 47.8% a year in Western Europe
Wireless security market $8.4 bln by 2008
Wireless shipments increased 214% in 2003
Wireless tech in manufacturing to grow at 26% a year
Wireless will only take up 3.6% of broadband, WiMax the most popular standard
WLAN enterprise market up 6% in Q1 2006
WLAN equipment revenue up 20% in Q1 2005
WLAN equipment revenues to grow 13% in 2005
WLAN equipment sales up 17% in Q2 2005
WLAN equipment spending to grow at 20% a year
WLAN equipment unit shipments to grow 200% by 2009
WLAN IC market to generate $2.1 bln in 2008
WLAN market to reach $5 bln by 2006
WLAN market to reach $5 bln by 2006
WLAN revenue up 18% in Q2 2005
WLAN sales in Europe, Middle East and Africa increased 9.2% in Q3 2004
WLAN semiconductor revenue to reach $3.2 bln by 2010
WLAN semiconductors to generate $3 bln by 2009
WLAN switch sales up 52% in Q2 2005, Cisco and Linksys lead
WLAN switches up 45% in Q2 2005
Women more likely to use mobile picture messaging, men more likely to listen to mobile music

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