Wireless Data Revenues on the rise

Wireless Data Revenues on the rise

All top 10 operators registered over $1B in data revenues for the first half of 2006. The carriers in order are NTT DoCoMo, China Mobile, KDDI, Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless, Sprint Nextel, O2 UK, Vodafone Japan, SK Telecom, and China Unicom. Some did with execution (like KDDI and DoCoMo), while others by sheer size of their customer base (Chinese carriers). For the first half, the top 10 carriers accounted for almost $24B in data revenues.