The Radicati Group Releases Q4 2005 Market Numbers Update
A Quantitative Summary of All Key Market Segments Covered by The Radicati Group including Messaging, Email Clients, Hosted Email, Email Security, Email Archiving, UC, IM, Identity Management, Wireless Email, Corporate Anti-Spyware, Email Traffic, Spam Volumes, and More.
A new study showing year-end market size, market share, and four-year forecasts (2005 – 2009) for all core market segments tracked by the Radicati Group is now available.
According to the study, there are about 668 million email users worldwide, with over 1.2 billion active email accounts. Worldwide email traffic per day totals about 135 billion messages, of which 67% are spam.
Approximately 65% of worldwide email mailboxes are delivered through a webmail service provider or ISP. Mobile phone mailboxes currently account for only 2% of worldwide active mailboxes.
The study forecasts strong growth in email archiving and wireless email markets. The email archiving market is expected to double in size annually over the next four years, and revenue in the wireless e-mail market is expected to increase by over 300% by 2009.
Revenue in the Instant Messaging market will increase at an average annual rate of 27% over the next four years. In the messaging software market, revenue will increase at a steady average annual rate of 9% between 2005 and 2009.
