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Articles tagged with: Arpu and Mobile Broadband
Cost of Supporting Mobile Broadband is Eroding Subscriber Profitability
Mobile broadband services are more expensive to support than any other wireless service and are endangering subscriber profitability for many mobile network operators concludes a new study from WDSGlobal. The study found that the cost to support mobile broadband products and services is up to 200% greater than the cost to support traditional wireless products such as mobile phones. This means that despite revenue uplift from increased data usage, actual subscriber profitability often remains unchanged and sometimes even worsens. more
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Study Finds Large Cost Savings for Migrating Heavy Data Users to Femtocells
Signals Research Group has completed a whitepaper on the business case for femtocells as part of its ongoing femtocell business modeling initiative with the trade group, the Femto Forum. The study found, across a wide variety of scenarios considering different regions of the world, the business case for femtocells is strong---often doubling the customer lifetime value---and does not depend on any one critical factor or assumption in order to generate a favorable outcome. Further to this, the research demonstrated that femtocells can dramatically reduce the growing financial costs made by heavy mobile broadband data users on the mobile network. more
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Top 22 Operators Account for 50% of Total WiMAX Subscribers
The top 22 WiMAX operators worldwide will contribute nearly 2.5 million subscribers by the end of 2009 - up from 1.24 million today - and close to 4 million by the end of 2010 according to the latest research report from Maravedis. more
Related Tags: wimax, ict, itu, clearwire, tim, lte, maravedis, ovi, iden, far-eastone, compete, dongles, microwave, bsnl, uq-communications, femtocells, partner, bandwidth
Mobile broadband to be worth $137 billion by 2014
Users of mobile broadband services (3G and 3G+ technologies) will grow from 181 million in 2008 to over 2 billion in 2014, growth of 1024%, according to Ovum's latest research. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, 3g, sim, eu, driving, lte, ovi, ovum, iden, usb-modem, vas, opex, laptop
SMS to Drive Uptake of Mobile Data in Africa and the Middle East
Basic SMS text messaging will be a key revenue driver for mobile network operators in Africa and the Middle East over the next five years, helping to offset continuing declines in arpu for mobile voice services in the regions, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. more
Related Tags: mms, sms, text-messaging, pyramid-research, ussd
European telecoms operators in strong position to ride out recession
European telecoms operators in strong position to ride out recession according to Arthur D. Little - Exane BNP Paribas joint study "reviving the fixed line" predicts increase in incumbents' valuations of up to 27% over the period 2008-15 more
Related Tags: eu, ict, itu, wind, lte, arthur-d.-little, comcast, satellite, sfr, tele2, billing
Research predicts partnering explosion as carriers look to third parties
IP telephony firm, Jajah has published a report, which found that traditional carriers are struggling to successfully drive new and innovative services to their customer bases and, concerned about the threat from Internet based competition, are more receptive to partnering to get access to the innovative services they need to remain competitive. The global shift from wireline to wireless is the fuel behind the drive for new services that will help retain revenue. more
Related Tags: google, iphone, eu, skype, itu, edge, driving, landline, app-store
Telstra Launches 21Mbps Download Service
Australian network, Telstra has commercially launched the world's fastest mobile broadband service. The service will offer a 21Mbps peak download rate and the peak network speeds will increase to 42Mbps later this year. more
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Time to invest in mobile messaging, say operators worldwide
Airwide Solutions, has published the results of a study - which was conducted by the independent analyst house, Direct2Mobile - which found that mobile operators believe SMS will become the enabler that underpins next generation advanced services with all the operators surveyed claiming that they are seeking to use the investment they have made in developing their mobile messaging infrastructure in order to introduce new value-added services. more
Related Tags: sim, mms, mobile-messaging, sms, social-networking, location-based-services, mobile-internet, play, wap
WiMAX Deployments Hit by Economic Downturn
BWA/WiMAX subscribers worldwide reached 2.68 million in Q3 2008 - a more modest 13% growth over the first quarter and a 91% increase over Q3 2007, according to the 6th issue of the WiMAXCounts Quarterly Report from Maravedis. more
Related Tags: base-station, wimax, mobile-wimax, ict, clearwire, lte, maravedis, compete, 4g