Global Mobile Messaging Forecast 2001 - 2017

In 2011 consumer expenditure on operator messaging increased by just 2.5%. Strategy Analytics forecasts operator revenue from traditional mobile messaging to peak this year at over $105 B and decline at a 2.5% CAGR until 2017. Despite our prediction of falling messaging revenue SMS will remain the popular mobile messaging platform over the next 5 years and will account for just over 50% of total messages sent by mobile phones. While RCS/ RCS-e enables mobile operators both to evolve mobile messaging beyond SMS and MMS and keep operators relevant in mobile messaging, it will not mitigate the current decline in messaging revenue. Strategy Analytics’ latest mobile messaging forecast indicates that by 2017 293 million users of RCS/ RCS-e based services will generate $370 million revenue for mobile operators.

1. Global Contents
2. Geographic Coverage
3. Methodology
4. Definitions
5. Conclusions
6. Regional Summary
7. Global
8. Western Europe
9. France
10. Germany
11. Spain
12. Italy
13. UK
14. Denmark
15. Finland
16. Sweden
17. Norway
18. Other WE
19. Central & Eastern Europe
20. Czech Republic
21. Poland
22. Russia
23. Other CEE
24. North America
25. Canada
26. USA
27. Asia Pacific
28. Australia
29. China
30. India
31. Japan
32. South Korea
33. Other APAC
34. Central and Latin America
35. Argentina
36. Brazil
37. Mexico
38. Other CALA
39. Middle East & Africa
40. South Africa
41. Other MEA
42. P2P SMS
43. P2B SMS
44. Photo Messaging
45. Video Messaging
46. Mobile Email
47. Mobile IM
48. RCS-RCSe