(1888PressRelease)
March 21, 2006 -
Data from Wireless World Forum’s “Spain Mobile Market 2006” statistical handbook shows that the mobile market in is in a strong position with revenues and subscriber numbers on the rise.
ARPU will increase to $43 pcm by 2007. Although voice ARPU will remain relatively stable for the next two years, data ARPU will increase by $1.50 to $7.30. Revenues from messaging services will also increase, but there will be greater growth in mobile content markets, causing the percentage of data ARPU from messaging to fall from 91.5% to 88.1%.
2005 saw little change in Spanish operators’ market shares. Market leader Movistar had the highest ARPU in 2005, but Vodafone customers spent the most on data services at $6.19 pcm.
As voice ARPU begins to plateau, the future focus for operators will shift to promoting their range of data services in order to boost revenues and market share.
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