US operator data revenue for the first time more than ten years 10 times times

The technological revolution and industrial change that happened in the United States of the Internet have a benchmarking effect and a leading effect on the whole world. A professional agency said last year, the U.S. mobile operator's data business revenue for the first time exceeded the voice revenue, which can be regarded as a milestone in the history of the telecommunications industry.

The growing popularity of smartphones and tablets has led to the growth of data consumption by mobile operators, which has been expected in the industry.

"This is a milestone in the development of the telecoms industry," Chetansharma, a technology market research firm in Seattle, said in Wednesday, when mobile data revenues for the US mobile operator surpassed telephone revenues for the first time in the history of last year's four quarter. ”

The company predicts that in 2014, the United States will be the first country to have more than 100 billion dollars in data revenues from operators worldwide. In contrast, in 2002, U.S. operators ' data revenues were only $1 billion trillion, nearly 10 times-fold in 10 years.

The report notes that mobile phones and tablets have gradually replaced computers as major internet devices, which are active outdoors, stimulating telecoms data services.

The report notes that today more and more mobile phone chat software to provide the call function, the call service gradually evolved into the use of data app business, which means that the data revenue and call income gap will be increasing.

Last month, U.S. network equipment maker Cisco reported that by 2018, every American using the data transmitted by smartphones will reach the 2013-year level of data used for laptops.

Currently, Skype, the world's most popular Internet telephony tool, has launched a smartphone version. Recently, WhatsApp, a mobile chat tool bought by Facebook for $19 billion, also said it would soon launch a call feature that would facilitate its 450 million users.

Even traditional operators are starting to launch data-calling services, such as Verizon and T, which will launch a "Voiceoverlte" service this year.

The bursting of the mobile data market is also causing fierce competition among mobile operators to provide data or lower prices in order to gain a bigger share. Just last month, Verizon and t US companies doubled data traffic at the same price. In addition, the at&t will also be a monthly 2GB data package, the price lowered 15 U.S. dollars.

A spokesman for the T company said the data traffic used by T users grew by half compared with a year ago.

At an industry meeting earlier this month, Verizon's chief financial officer, Fran-shammo, revealed that, while the competition was fierce, revenue from the mobile data business was growing, and he said the data package would be more traffic, but consumers were using more and more, so revenues continued to soar.

In addition, consumer demand for mobile data may soon exceed the mobile operator's network service capabilities, the operators are expected to be in the new round of frequency resources auction, again fierce competition.

However, for mobile internet users, the high cost of data flow is still "embarrassing", many netizens to late every month fell into a package of insufficient flow, the Internet cautious dilemma. Facebook's head, Zuckerberg, has said that current phone data tariffs are still too high and need to be reduced "100 times times".