Summary
The US mobile data service revenues grew 4% Q/Q and 23% Y/Y to $25.9B in Q1 2014. In 2014, we expect US to become the first country to cross the $100B mark in mobile data services revenue. We have also started to see digital services appear in the revenue maps as more companies rely on mobile to generate their revenues.
With the acquisition of Leap, AT&T has virtually tied Verizon for market share at 34%.
T-Mobile continued to impress with 66% share of the net-adds. Even Verizon felt the heat in Q1 resulting in a subpar performance. Smartphone penetration increased to 68% and roughly 93% of the devices sold now are smartphones.
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Chetan Sharma
We will be keeping a close eye on the trends in the wireless data sector in our blog, twitter feeds, future research reports, articles, and our annual thought-leadership summit – Mobile Future Forward. The next US Wireless Data Market update will be released in Aug 2014. The next Global Wireless Data Market update will be issued in July 2014.
Disclaimer: Some of the companies mentioned in this paper are our clients.
We will be discussing many of the ecosystem and technology issues, opportunities and challenges for the coming years in our annual mobile executive summit Mobile Future Forward on Sept 24th in Seattle. Some of the confirmed speakers are Dan Hesse, CEO, Sprint; Tim Campos, CIO, Facebook; Ben Fried, CIO, Google; JD Howard, GM and VP, Lenovo; Erik Moreno, SVP, Fox Networks; Glenn Lurie, President, AT&T; Steve Mills, CIO, Motorola Mobility; Mark Fernandez, Partner, Sierra Ventures; Dave Webb, CIO, Equifax; John Saw, CNO, Sprint; Hank Skorny, VP/GM, Intel; Hassan Ahmed, CEO, Affirmed, and many more to come. We hope to see you there for the brainstorm.
