According to a new report from Juniper Research, the combined revenues from services such as streamed mobile music and full-track downloads is expected to increase to $5.5bn in 2013. Some of the supporting factors for this increase would be a greater variety of applications and content, all-inclusive data packages, consumer friendly UIs and an increase in handset storage capacity.
It also states that though there’s a decline in revenues from traditional music services like polyphonic ringtones and realtones, there’s an increase in usage of more sophisticated offerings. However, music services depending on an ad-funded model might see a decline in revenue due to a reduction in advertising budgets. It further mentions that ringback tone revenues will be higher than those of ringtones by 2010 and content aggregators will have to look beyond ringtones to remain competitive. Juniper Research also forecasts that Far East & China region will account for the largest share of mobile music revenues throughout the 2009-2013 forecast period, followed by Western Europe.
Source: FierceMobileContent
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who knw whnen it will be 2013..but its a good guess.