Infonetics Research forecasts that 397 million cellular video phones, creating a market worth tens of billions of dollars, will be sold in 2013 (see below).  At the end of 2008 there were 41 million video phone subscribers, and that number will increase almost ten times by 2013, the company says.

Based on its research report, “Mobile Video Equipment, Phones, Services and Subscribers,” China’s CMMB (Chinese Multimedia Broadcast) will become the dominant mobile television technology “in the long run.”  Currently, one million subscribers in China already utilize CMMB, the report says.

The Asia/Pacific region has the greatest volume of mobile video sales, Infonetics says.  That’s certainly no surprise.