At present VoIP technology has become one of the cheapest means of making international telephone calls. Before this technology, telephone service providers did have a firm hold on profitable phone services, and almost 99 percent of market share for higher rate long distance calls. Due to the introduction of VoIP technology, the market for making [...]
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 [...]
About Voice Voice has actually been one of the main services of the cellular industry and it was for this service that the initial digital and analog cellular handsets and networks were being built and developed. Even though there have been several evolutions towards many complicated cellular services, Voice has still been one of the [...]
Overview In recent times VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) has popped up as one of the most useful and convenient technologies available worldwide. VoIP takes analog voice signals and converts them into digital voice signals and then transmits them the Internet. This method in fact enables users to make Internet phone calls without using traditional [...]
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 [...]
Wireless broadband services will create significant opportunities for revenue growth, and cellular technologies will take the largest share, according to the latest report from Analysys Mason. Globally, 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers will generate US$784 billion in service revenue by 2015. This revenue increase of about 2400% will be underpinned by continued developments in wireless [...]
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 [...]
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