Overall satisfaction among US prepaid wireless customers who subscribe to flat-rate plans with unlimited minutes is considerably higher than that of customers who subscribe to per-minute price plans, primarily due to cost advantages associated with flat-rate plans, according to a J.D. Power and Associates report. Now in its third year, the study measures customer satisfaction [...]
Growth in the global telecommunications market has shifted decisively to emerging economies in Asia and the rest of the developing world, according to data from research firm Ovum. Revenue from customers connected to voice services, whether mobile or landline, has peaked in developed economies, with competition likely to drive average earnings in those markets down [...]
India added 6.42 million mobile users in July in its GSM-based telecom networks, an industry body said. A Reuters report also quoted Cellular Operators’ Association of India saying that the country had 218.9 million GSM users at the end of July. In June, 6.32 million users had signed up, the industry body said. The data [...]
Revenues from mobile data services are set to exceed US$200 billion this year for the first time, according to data sourced from Informa Telecoms & Media. Total mobile data revenues were approximately US$157 billion in 2007. Research from the first quarter of 2008 reveals that mobile data service revenues exceeded US$49 billion, accounting for a [...]
The UK based Mobile Data Association (MDA) has published its latest quarterly data report on mobile phone usage across the UK. The report covers activity from January – May 2008 for Text Messaging (SMS), Mobile Internet (MI) and Picture and Video Messaging (MMS) and identifies new trends in the way people are increasingly relying on [...]
Communications market research firm Infonetics Research reports there were 3 times more mobile subscribers than access line subscribers worldwide in 2007 (3.3 billion vs. 1.1 billion), and expects continued strong growth in mobile subscribers, mainly driven by basic voice service needs in BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Infonetics’ report shows that the number [...]
A patent holding firm, WiAV Solutions has launched a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia against Apple, Research in Motion and Palm alleging the companies are infringing on several of its GSM patents. The patents – two held by WiAV Solutions and eight exclusively licensed from another company, Mindspeed – all appear to relate [...]
Mobile Operators Should Plan for a Future Where Messaging Services are Fully Commoditized and Margins Greatly Reduced As the popularity of mobile messaging services continue to grow, Gartner, Inc. forecasts 2.3 trillion messages will be sent across major markets worldwide in 2008, a 19.6 percent increase from the 2007 total of 1.9 trillion messages. Mobile [...]
Nearly a quarter of the world’s population – roughly 1.4 billion people – will use the Internet on a regular basis in 2008. This number is expected to surpass 1.9 billion unique users, or 30% of the world’s population, in 2012, according to IDC’s Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast. “The Internet will have added its [...]
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No fewer than 16 companies added more than 5 million customers over the course of the twelve months ended June 07. China Mobile heads the list with a massive 58.6 million customers – as many as the next three operators put together, and then some. As we have suggested before, it would take a genuinely [...]
Of the 47.8 million mobile handsets sold in Japan in 2006, 43.5 million units – or more than 92 percent – are 3G phones, reports In-Stat. In its “3G Handset Trends in Japan” report, the market analyst reveals that the mobile phone market has been very active in producing mobile phones with brilliant displays, rich [...]
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