Cingular, IDC, GigaOM et al ..

Cingular, IDC, GigaOM et al ..

Cingular made a rebound in 4Q with some good numbers. We will have more coverage on the overall industry and 2006 year as whole next month. Some of our comments were picked up at GigaOM.

Earlier this week, IDC reported

There are more than 229 million U.S. wireless subscribers who are spending an average of $6.00 per month on data services according to the latest IDC research. Customer spending on data services contributed a total of $4.1 billion in revenue for 3Q06. IDC says messaging contributed nearly half the data revenue, while business- and consumer-oriented services and content constituted about 40%, and content and simple application downloads came to about 12%. Of the top ten wireless carriers, IDC research indicates that Verizon prevails as the new leader on data spending-per-customer basis.

We reported this back last year – one quarter ahead before mainstream analysts/media pick it up.