Synchronoss will head to CTIA Wireless in May where Biju Nair, Executive Vice President, Product Management and Chief Strategy Officer, will participate in a panel that will discuss the emergence of connected devices.
CTIA’s recently released Semi-Annual Wireless Industry Survey offers insight into the growing number of connected devices and wireless subscriptions across the country. Looking back to the very first survey of annualized wireless industry survey results in 1985, the estimated total of wireless connections stood at 340, 213, with 913 cell sites and twelve-month total service revenues of $482, 428. In 2011, the estimated total of wireless connections has grown to 331.6 million, with 283,385 cell sites and twelve-month total service revenues of $169.8 billion. It comes as no surprise that these numbers have significantly increased as the number of connected devices continues to rise year to year.
During the last year alone, the number of estimated wireless connections was up more than 20 million in 2011 from December 2010. Additionally, combined minutes and measures are rising more than 6% year-over-year as wireless usage surges. Reported SMS messages over the six month period totaled more than 1.17 trillion, a 9.1% increase from 1.07 trillion during the last half of 2010. As for MMS traffic, the six month period reached 25.6 billion messages, a .3% increase from 24.5 billion during the last half of 2012.
As for active devices, CTIA reported growth in SMS-capable handsets, data-capable devices, smartphones and wireless-enabled PDAs, and wireless-enabled laptops, netbooks, and wireless broadband modems. Significant growth was seen amongst smartphones and wireless-enabled PSAs, which numbered 111.5 million as of December 2011, a rise of 42.7% from 78.2 million in December 2010. Also, the number of wireless-enabled laptops, netbooks, and wireless broadband modems increased to 20.1 million in December 2011, up 48.6% from 13.6 million as of December 2010.
