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Article: Data Services to Grab 34% of North American Mobile Business Spending by 2012, According to ABI Research.
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- October 17, 2007
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NEW YORK -- ABI Research survey results have shown that North American business customers spend 23% more on mobile services than consumers do. But until now, mobile productivity application development has lagged behind mobile entertainment services development, limiting the opportunities for serving the business customer. That is now starting to change and by 2012, driven by mobile productivity applications, data services will account for more than one third of North American business's mobile services spending. Such applications increase employee productivity and have demonstrable ROI, and as a result can command high ARPUs.
Principal analyst Dan Shey says, ...