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While China and India are well on their way to dominate the in Voice transmission, when its comes to mobile data, the good ol’ USA carriers are leading the charge, showing strong growth in terms of overall traffic and revenue. A lot of the growth in the US is a result of the availability of 3G services, simpler flate-rate data plans, and of course cheaper and alluring devices like the iPhone. Some interesting facts to come out of the report done by the GigaOm Pro Analyst Network include:

-Mobile data now accounts for 25% of total globa service revenue

-Verizon is the second-largest carrier in terms of mobile data, edging past China Mobile and closing in on NTT DoCoMo, which had revenues of $8B

-U.S. data revenues were $20.6B vs. $16B for Japan and $8.6B in China during the first 6 months of this year.

-The top 10 global wireless carriers now account for 63% of global mobile data revenue.

-Biggest mobile growth was registered by Verizon, AT&T, and Softbank. Two of those three companies sell the iPhone.

-Data revenue for the overall industry was up about 10% from the 2nd half of 2008. Showing that the current crazy for Smartphone is boosting mobile Internet usage.

For more detail about the findings hit up the link.

[gigaom]

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