Metric: Mobile sports revenues to top $1.3B in 2005

"According to a new study from Juniper Research, global revenue from mobile sports services -- including text-based sports updates and bulletin boards, video clips of highlights, and streaming mobile content -- will double to $1.3 billion by the end of 2005. Europe will account for the bulk of revenues from these services, accounting for 69 percent of the total. Asia and the US will both experience a dramatic increase in usage, with the US mobile sports market projected to generate more than $1 billion by 2009. The report predicts there will be more than 210 million mobile sports services users worldwide by 2009, including 120 million in Asia. North American share of the global mobile sports market will grow from 1 percent in 2004 to 26 percent in 2009."

[Fierce Wireless]