Mobile Phone Music to Surpass $32 billion by 2010: Gartner
Mobile
phone users spending worldwide on music received on mobile handsets will
reach $32.2 billion by 2010, up from $13.7 billion in 2007, according
Gartner Inc.
|
Worldwide Total
End-user Spending on Mobile Music |
||||||
|
|
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
|
Full Tracks, Realtones and Ringback tones |
1,736.9 |
3,007.0 |
6,588.2 |
12,288.1 |
19,582.1 |
26,092.1 |
|
Mono and Polyphonic Ringtones |
4,380.0 |
6,044.4 |
7,132.4 |
6,918.4 |
6,572.5 |
6,112.4 |
| Source: Gartner Dataquest | ||||||
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