Mobile applications will generate $66B in revenue

And you thought online games were on fire. Mobile applications will generate $66B in carrier revenue over the next five years.

From Daily Wireless:

"Mobile enterprise applications will generate more than $66 billion in carrier revenue over the next five years, according to the latest report of Insight Research Group titled “The Mobile Workforce and Enterprise Applications 2007-2012“.

By the end of 2007, service revenues generated by mobile applications traversing wired and wireless networks in the US will reach just over $9 billion; by 2012, the value of services revenue supporting those applications is forecast to grow to nearly $13 billion, according to the study."