Asian Youth Driving Region's Mobile Data Market Reports In-Stat.SCOTTSDALE Scottsdale, city (1990 pop. 130,069), Maricopa co., central Ariz.; settled in 1895 by Winfield Scott, inc. 1951. It is a resort and retirement center in the Phoenix metropolitan area. , Ariz. -- The youth market in the Asia-Pacific region is becoming a significant driver for growth in the region's mobile phone market, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). Around 10-15% of all youth disposable income disposable income Portion of an individual's income over which the recipient has complete discretion. To assess disposable income, it is necessary to determine total income, including not only wages and salaries, interest and dividend payments, and business profits, but also is spent on mobile products in developed countries, displacing spending on traditional youth products like clothing, toys, and comic books comic book Bound collection of comic strips, usually in chronological sequence, typically telling a single story or a series of different stories. The first true comic books were marketed in 1933 as giveaway advertising premiums. , etc., the high-tech market research firm says. In the Asia-Pacific region, spending by youth on mobile data services reached $15.2 billion in 2004, and the forecast growth rate for revenues is estimated at 15.3% annually from 2004 to 2010. A recent report by In-Stat also found the following: --Key applications for Asia-Pacific mobile youth include messaging, ring-tones, wallpapers, logos, games, music and videos. --Messaging accounted for 40.3% of Asian Mobile Youth data expenditures in 2004. --Ringtones, screensavers and wallpaper wallpaper was used in Europe in the 16th and 17th cent. as an inexpensive substitute for costly hangings. The French developed marbled papers, introduced from the East via Italy and used at first for box coverings, into larger sheets for wall coverings and also made accounted for another 29.7% of the youth market followed by games at 9.7% and video, still nascent nascent /nas·cent/ (nas´ent) (na´sent) 1. being born; just coming into existence. 2. just liberated from a chemical combination, and hence more reactive because uncombined. , at 6.5%. The report, "Asian Youth Mobile Trends: Devices, Data, and Multimedia": (#IN0502372AW), covers the Asia-Pacific mobile communications market with an emphasis on the impact of the region's youth market segment. For more information on this report, please visit: http://www.instat.com/catalog/Wcatalogue.asp?id=236 or contact Tina Sheltra at 480-609-4531 or tina.sheltra@reedbusiness.com. The report price is $2,995.00 (US). About In-Stat In-Stat (www.in-stat.com) is the leading provider of actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action. An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. research, assessments and market forecasts of semiconductors and advanced communications equipment and services. Our forecasts, analysis, and insights are derived from both a deep technology understanding and a unique research methodology, which examines each segment of the value chain for each market. Technology vendors, service providers, technology professionals and market specialists, worldwide, rely on In-Stat's tenured ten·ured adj. Having tenure: tenured civil servants; tenured faculty. Adj. 1. tenured , experienced staff and in-depth research to support critical technology, product and success decisions. |
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