Friday, November 21, 2003
9
Some
Interesting Numbers
•6,330,662,787 people, world population, 2003, Nov
18
•~90 million households, US
•By 2007, there will be ~2.7 billion handsets in use in
the world (Source: Turner
Broadcasting)
•~30 million Bluetooth ™ chipsets shipped to date
(Source: Cambridge Silicon)
•~80% GSM % of cellular wireless market, worldwide
•In 2000, Television sets per 1000 people: China – 298, Finland – 692, United States –
830 (ITU)
•In 2003, worldwide market for telecom equipment, $300B;
telecom services, $1,070B (ITU)
•In 2003, 650 million personal computers in use, 650
million internet users (ITU)
•In 2002, consumers paid $1+B for ringtone downloads
•In 2003, Nokia owns ~38% of handset market share,
worldwide
•Microsoft Corp. is enabling 35+ Handset manufacturers,
worldwide
•~35% - percentage of worldwide handsets mfgr’d in China,
2003
•~120,000 base stations installed in the US
•Handset market -- ~$30 billion/year (bill of materials
costs)
•Infrastructure market -- ~$2 billion/year (bill of
materials costs)
•Fast internet represents ~3% of the bandwidth and 15% of
the revenues and HDTV represents ~15%
of the bandwidth and <3% of the revenue (Source: Brian Roberts, CEO,
Comcast)
•HDTV data rate - ~19 MBPS uncompressed
•Voice data rate - ~ 28 KBPS
•3G data rate:
2MBPS shared – typically, 150-350 kbps
•Broadband data rates:
from 128 kbps (UK) to 100 mbps (Korea)
•Starting 2006, all returned handsets, are the
responsibility of the handset manufacturer
•377 – characteristic impedance of air