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Summary Mobile data revenue is expected to jump 23% in 2011, as the number of users crossed 5 billion.
Mobile data services revenue will total $314.7 billion this year, a 22.5 per cent increase from 2010, research firm Gartner said on Thursday. It added that, in four years, mobile data sales will reach $552 billion.Worldwide mobile connections will reach 5.6 billion in 2011, up 11 percent from 5 billion in 2010, Gartner said, rising to 7.4 billion by 2015.Telecom operators have pinned high hopes on surging mobile data usage but have been slow to turn high demand into high revenue.Operators are struggling to manage capacity and pricing so that a few heavy users do not clog up networks and deny average down loaders reliable speeds, access and predictable bills.
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