24 Jul 09 History of Mobiles, Sales Statistics And Latest Mobile Phones
Mobile Communication
From the first real ‘mobile phone call’ placed by Dr Martin Cooper an employee of Motorola in 1973 using the Motorola DynaTAC prototype communication device the ‘mobile phone’ phenomenon has taken over the world!
AT&T’s Mobile Communication Technology Invention
AT&T’s labs who had developed the first real technology that enabled telephony without a wire wanted to acquire an understanding of the market size such an invention would have in sales terms commissioned McKinsey & Co, (a trusted advisor and consulting firm for large corporations), to conduct a survey that would forecast mobile communication device sales over the next 20 years.
One of The Worlds Worst Surveys
Unfortunately the study/survey McKinsey & Co performed was based purely on the ‘then’ technologies and business operation models. McKinsey & Co’s survey’s failure to predict fairly accurately the market over the next 20 years was largely based around not calculating into the survey/study advancements in actual communication devices, advancements in mobile bandwidths and advancements with infrastructure business models. Once they had completed their survey/study they presented the results to AT&T which was that McKinsey & Co estimated a total market size of fewer than 1 million subscribers to/with mobile devices by the year 2000!
AT&T’s Fatal Error
Based on this survey AT&T made the fatal corporate decision not to get involved in the mobile communication market! By the time AT&T had realized their mistake it was too late for them as a company as their competitors were already leaps and bounds ahead of them.
Mobile Phone Communication Market – Sales Statistics 1997 -2009
1997 Handset Sales = 107,840,000
1998 Handset Sales = 175,650,000
1999 Handset Sales = 295,150,000
2000 Handset Sales = 414,990,000
2001 Handset Sales = 413,310,000
2002 Handset Sales = 427,370,000
2003 Handset Sales = 519,990,000
2004 Handset Sales = 674,000,000
2005 Handset Sales = 778,750,000
2006 Handset Sales = 847,240,000
2007 Handset Sales = 914,020,000
2008 Handset Sales = 980,290,000
2009 Handset Sales = 1,041,520,000 (Estimated over 1 billion!!)
GSM Networks
The first Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) was first invented by a Finnish firm called Radiolinja and is now promoted by the GSM Association, ‘GSM’ nicknamed 2G (second generation) as it allowed both signaling and speech in digital. We are now currently on ‘3G’ (third generation), International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000), the benefits of 3G is that it allows simultaneous use of speech and data services and higher data rates, essentially 3G helps with better applications and data transfers such as internet downloads and so on.
Mobile Device Operating Systems
With various main mobile device operating systems on the market today such as Symbian OS, Windows Mobile, Android, iPhone OS the benefits are increasing at a mind boggling rate for end users, as the healthy competition between providers heats up with each one desperately trying to out-do the other offering the end user more and more features and functions. This in turn keeps the mobile phone device continuously evolving from a simple mobile communication device to a mobile internet device, a mobile office, a high end digital camera and video recorder plus lots more.
The Latest Mobile Phone Devices
The latest versions of mobile phones for sale are called ‘Smart Phones’. These Smart Phones are a combination of a mobile communication device, personal computer with similar computer like applications and modern features such as ‘touch screen’, e-mail, video call capability and lots more. The ‘Smart Phone’ is the next generation mobile phone for 2009.
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