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Mobile payment users to increase 70% in 2009 – report
Research published by Gartner predicts the mobile payment industry will experience steady growth, as the number of mobile payment users worldwide will total 73.4 million in 2009, up 70.4 percent from 2008 when there were 43.1 million users.
Smartphones buck trend as mobile phone sales plummet
Sales of mobile handsets worldwide dropped 9.4% last quarter to 269.1 million units, but sales of smartphones bucked the trend with a 12.7% increase to over 36.4 million units.
More than 50% of mobile voice traffic will be VoIP by 2019
Research company Gartner has released a report predicting over half of mobile calls will be carried end-to-end using VoIP technology within the next 10 years – a statement which should strike fear into traditional mobile operators trying to save their existing share of the $692bn/year market for mobile voice calls.