“IDC research found that total revenues from paid downloads by U.S. wireless subscribers approached $250 million in the fourth quarter of 2004, on volume of almost 100 million units.” Verizon scored top position in terms of total content downloads and application revenues, which led IDC to infer that the BREW platform and ecosystem is performing well relative to “other carrier approaches”.
Sprint PCS received the highest average spend per customer, and Nextel performed well in the business applications category.
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