Entertainment Will Be Most Lucrative Content Stream By 2005, says Datamonitor
According to recent research by Datamonitor, entertainment via the mobile phone will overtake information and communication to become the most lucrative mContent revenue stream globally by 2005
The report, Global mContent markets: Paving the way for mobile commerce, predicts that revenues earned from mContent globally will exceed $31.7 billion by 2005 compared to $2.4 billion in 2001 and $11 billion (36%) will come from entertainment. Revenues from wireless games – playing internet games via mobile phone – for example are predicted to reach $6 billion for the US and Western Europe by 2005.
