Study suggests 100% mobile phone penetration in the US by 2013

[ssassy01d]

Study suggests 100% mobile phone penetration in the US by 2013

Posted Aug 26th 2007 9:59AM by Darren Murph (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/bloggers/darren-murph)
Filed under: Culture (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/category/culture/), Studies (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/category/studies/)
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We know, that "100-percent" figure may be a bit tough to wrap your mind around, but let's give it a try, shall we? Current estimates reportedly suggest that "nearly 84-percent of the US population will have mobile phones (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/06/12/survey-sez-just-11-percent-of-americans-rely-solely-on-cellphone/) by the end of 2007," and according to SNL Kagen, that figure should shoot to 100-percent in just six years. Notably, 100-percent penetration does not mean that every single American will own a phone, as it's estimated that some 18 to 20-percent of us will be using multiple mobiles. Additionally, it was noted that data usage / revenue could become increasingly important (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/08/15/sprint-sees-54m-customers-40-percent-spike-in-data-revenue/) as newcomers to the wireless world grow fewer, but that tidbit (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/09/01/nokia-re-ups-n80-with-internet-edition/) certainly isn't taking anyone (http://motorola.engadgetmobile.com/2007/05/31/15-percent-of-brits-polled-admit-using-mobile-internet-in-toilet/) by surprise (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/07/26/sprint-google-team-up-on-wimax-mobile-internet-services/), now is it?

Source: EngadgetMobile

[kinjutsu11]

You know...i'm surprised its gonna take that long. I figure within 3-4 years, not 5-6. Either way, its amazing how we're far behind other countries in Europe and definitely Asia. Let's giddy up American wireless providers!!

[PortPowerKS]

I still wish we could also work on vending machine purchases via SMS. You'd think the American carriers would love to jump on the "Wireless Service - The Next Credit Card" wagon like a lot of overseas carriers.. :)

[Nwahs]

Ha....thats why I invested in wireless years ago...I've done nothing but make $$ with it too :)

[kinjutsu11]

Ha....thats why I invested in wireless years ago...I've done nothing but make $$ with it too :)

Ditto :adance2:

[SJSMR2]

I wonder what age group is the hold out on that last 16%? I am thinking seniors. Everyone I know in the under 30 age group has a cell for sure.

[christyxcore]

I'm a part of the 'multiple mobiles' group :)

[CSI_Nut]

I had naughty thoughts when I saw the title to this thread. Regardless, the numbers are skewed. Even though *my* young children have their own cell phones, there are two large markets in the US that have nowhere close to 100% penetration: Children and Seniors. I really don't see either of those 2 groups achieving 100%. Third under-served market is the really poor people. So the only explanation for numbers that appear to show 100% penetration would be multiple phone users. <cough cough> "Are you lookin' at me? <cough cough> LOL!

[Railroader]

I'm a part of the 'multiple mobiles' group :)

Me too :apc:

[Railroader]

I wonder what age group is the hold out on that last 16%? I am thinking seniors. Everyone I know in the under 30 age group has a cell for sure.


I disagree with that, I see a lot of seniors with mobiles, my parents are both 74 and have cell phones, as do most of their friends.

[CSI_Nut]

Yeah, we need to start signing up babies in the delivery rooms with contracts... The "under 30" group is only well-penetrated in the "over 12" subgroup...

[~Evil~|~Steg~]

I wonder what age group is the hold out on that last 16%? I am thinking seniors. Everyone I know in the under 30 age group has a cell for sure.

i been seeing alot of jitterbug commercials on tv rescently, them are geared towards the elderly, and the boosmobile fones are geared towards the teens-25 age group, and i been noticing that ppl have been buying disney fones for the 10 and under group, so i can kinda see where that artical is getting their numbers from ya know...

[~Evil~|~Steg~]

Hey everyone, been gone awhile now, but I'm bak now :)
I dumped my sk3, popped the sim bak in my old 5030 nokia, and got me an android fone, mytouch 3g ;) decided on flexpay with unlimited plan, anyways I wanted to touch this topic because of the seriousness of it, a lot of ppl are not security savy, and with technology and smartfones becoming so cheap and readily available, ppl use their fones as their lifelines ya know, and fones really are becomming a huge target for hackers/crackers and botnets etc... you basically have a miniature computer in the palm of yoyre hands. Atm it seems its not a big issue, but it definitely is something we should keep in mind and be prepared for ya know. Lol for any non believers out there, try at you're own risk, going to any of the hacker cons and leave yet fone turned on,and see how long it takes before a malicious cracker, hijacks and steals/wipes your data and personal info from yer fone ya know. Just gotta use common sense, and be somewhat paranoid these days ya know...

[Guaner]

It's true that more security vulnerabilities are being found on phones - my advice? don't lose you phone!