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Mobile Technology shorts:


1) Premium mobile content market generated $16.4 bln in 2006
Global premium mobile content market revenue rose to $16.4 bln in 2006, up 22% from $13.4 bln in 2005, according to iSuppli. By 2011, global mobile music revenue will reach $17.6 bln, maintaining a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 19.8% from $7.1 bln in 2006, according to iSuppli. Of this, full-track downloads delivered both wirelessly and via broadband, but billed through mobile operators, will grow to the largest segment of the mobile-music market at $5.7 bln in 2011.


2) Scary but true 50-70% of teens 12 to 14 have a cell phone
50 to 70% of 12- to 14-year olds have their own cell phones. Penetration among those aged 15 to 17 years is even higher; the vast majority have used a cell phone for more than two years. Moreover, a significant share of 5 to 9 year olds now have their own cell phones, iGR says .


3) 13 mobile TV broadcast networks in 2007
The worldwide mobile TV broadcast market is expanding, as the number of commercially launched mobile TV broadcast networks will grow from 9 in 2006 to 13 in 2007, reports In-Stat. Mobile TV broadcast subscribers will reach 125 mln worldwide in 2011. Asia continued to have the greatest number of mobile TV broadcast subscribers through 2006.

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