Market Stats & Industry Commentary - Volume 4 Issue 1
Copyright © March 2007 The Radicati Group, Inc.

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Instant Messaging

RIM's BlackBerry is a must-have solution for most wireless carriers. Over 160 carriers worldwide offer the BlackBerry, giving RIM a powerful presence in the wireless e-mail market.

We expect to see continued growth in IM use with the number of IM accounts growing from 995 million in 2006, to over 1.6 billion in 2010.

The number of IM users is also expected to grow from 432 million in 2006, to 650 million in 2010.

Public IM continues to dominate IM traffic through 2010. Yet, as the EIM market grows, IM traffic on enterprise networks will represent an increasingly larger portion of total IM messages sent.

We forecast EIM traffic to grow from 2.1 billion messages per day in 2006, to 10.7 billion messages per day in 2010, while Public IM traffic will grow from 15.7 billion messages per day in 2006, to 55.7 billion messages per day in 2010.

ISP

In 2007, Service Provider Microsoft Exchange Server Revenue will total $27 million. This segment will grow quickly over the next four years, totaling nearly $100 million in 2011. This represents an average annual growth rate of 38%.

Wireless Email

The Hosted Wireless E-mail market will grow quickly over the next four years. The installed base of this segment will increase at an average annual rate of 121% over the next four years, rising from 3.8 million seats in 2006, to over 89 million seats in 2010.

We expect that Consumer Hosted E-mail services will help to drive growth in this market, particularly in China, Japan and South Korea. Wireless carriers in these countries have started to invest more heavily in wireless e-mail technology and projected growth from 2% in 2006 to 9.8% in 2010.

Email Security

In 2007, from a geographical standpoint, deployment of Identity Management suites is stronger in North America (75%). Europe accounts for about 19%, and Asia/Pacific has about 4% of all installations.

Email

The number of mailboxes worldwide will increase from about 1.6 billion in 2007 to over 2.9 billion in 2011. This represents an average annual growth rate of 16% over the next four years.