Mobile Music, Gaming, Video To Reach $40 Billion By 2010 [InformationWeek]

Mobile phone content is forecast to reach $43 billion worldwide by 2010, up from $5.2 billion in 2004. Led by ringtones and ringtunes, ‘mobile music’ represents the largest and fastest-growing wireless content segment — with last year’s transition from polyphonic ringtones to ringtunes pushing global music content revenues for the year to $3.8 billion. The emerging wireless video category is expected to offer the most significant long-term opportunity in the mobile-content market. 400 million installed phones currently offer music codecs capable of playing music. TV-capable phones are expected to represent 12% of the global market in 2010.