Digital Planet / Mobile Survey Allen Miller, Executive Director, WITSA

Digital Planet 2002 Comprehensive Report of Global ICT Spending Top 55 countries Primary source data from International Data Corporation Actual ICT spending from Spending data plus social and economic indicators A revenue generator for WITSA

Digital Planet 2002 Some key findings –Global ICT spending grew from $2.3 trillion to $2.4 trillion –Developing world outpaced the developed in ICT growth –China is the fastest growing ICT nation, 27% in 2001 –Internet had 522 million users worldwide in 2001, up 123 million from 2000

Digital Planet 2002 More key findings –B2B and B2C E-commerce grew 79% between 2000 and 2001 Let’s review some charts …

Digital Planet 2002

Global Wireless IT Benchmark Report Survey of 336 IT companies on wireless needs and budgets Conducted by WITSA and Wireless IT Research Group Detailed 100-page report WITSA members discounted price

Global Wireless IT Benchmark Report Wireless Report Key Findings –IT industry wireless budgets will increase 94% in 2002 –Budgets rise from US$360,000 to $680,000 in 2002 –Wireless is the most common application, used by 36% of firms –Wireless customer relationship management (CRM) is popular advanced application

Global Wireless IT Benchmark Report Other Key Findings –Security and bandwidth are important in enterprise wireless decisions (see next chart) –80% of companies are not committed to a particular operating system. 8% use Microsoft’s Pocket PC 7% use Palm OS –Only 1% of respondents said that they would not re-invest in their current wireless applications.

Global Wireless IT Benchmark Report Wireless Bandwidth Requirements

Thank You! Allen Miller, Executive Director, WITSA