October 6, 2006 at 1:03 pm · Authored by Ewan · Filed under Mobile, Research

Link: Mobile Marketing Magazine: Handset Boom is Over, says Informa

2006 will be the last year of massive overall worldwide growth in mobile handset sales according to Informa Telecoms & Media  Informa says that global handset sales will rise from 814.4 million at the end of 2005 to 1.26 billion by 2011, but that handset growth will slow dramatically from 2007.The prediction comes in the latest edition of Informa’s flagship report, ‘Future Mobile Handsets (8th edition).’ The report reveals that saturation in developed markets will start to balance out the booming growth in emerging regions.

Interesting, interesting.