A new report from IDC highlights four trends that it says are shaping the mobile industry. Among these are the growth of smartphones and new mobile operating systems, such as Android, as well as the growth of mobile broadband networks.
– Research firm IDC estimates that the mobile sector is currently an
$850 billion global market, making up 57 percent of the global telecom
market. In a new report,
“Worldwide Mobile Trends,” the firm predicts that this fastest-growing
sector will see 1.3 billion new mobile subscribers by 2013 and…