3G Market Slowdown Ahead

19 May 2009 | 12.18 Europe/London

Analysis of the European mobile broadband market by Ronan de Renesse, Senior Analyst at Screen Digest, points to a marked slowdown in growth in the next two years. While the number of users will continue to grow the rate will decline as the market saturates and as existing users come to the end of fixed term contracts and don't renew.

"There has been a significant uptake in the usage of mobile broadband in the past two years, especially in Europe where usage grew ten fold from one million people in 2006 to nine million in 2008. Put another way, the mobile broadband market is currently worth more than mobile TV, mobile games and mobile music combined."

Renesse estimates that the overall European 3G broadband market has grown to a value of Euro 1.8bn in 2008 and accounts for 15% of all mobile data revenues.

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