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Articles tagged with: Mms and Arpu
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: sms, text-messaging, mobile-broadband, pyramid-research, ussd
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, mobile-messaging, sms, social-networking, mobile-broadband, location-based-services, mobile-internet, play, wap
Messaging Continues to be Cash Cow for Mobile Operators
As mobile operators have seen the average revenue per user (ARPU) decrease, they have sought to boost revenue via new value-added services; however, the most profitable data service is still text messaging, reports In-Stat. Inexpensive, ubiquitous, reliable, and simple for the mobile customer to operate, Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (mms) technologies provide potentially endless revenue streams for forward thinking Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), the high-tech market research firm says. more
Related Tags: mobile-messaging, sms, text-messaging, rural, in-stat, life
Mobile Messaging Revenues to Defy Economic Downturn
2009 will undoubtedly be a tough year for many global economies. However, despite uncertain forecasts, messaging company, Acision believes that the changing economic landscape will present many revenue opportunities for service providers. Based on the 2008/2009 New Year SMS figures alone, Acision predicts messaging and its associated revenues will continue to soar globally despite the economic downturn. more
Related Tags: sim-card, mobile-messaging, sms, social-networking, roaming, twitter, ict, edge, driving, acision, outsourcing, mobile-broadband, personal, dongles, mobile-advertising, text-messages, 3, backhaul, smart, billing, opex, laptop
China's Mobile Services Market Continues Strong Growth
China's CCID Consulting has reported that in Q3 2008, China's mobile value-added services maintained rapid development. The Olympic Games brought about more telecom services, but without benefiting carriers significantly. After years of rapid development, China's mobile value-added services industry needs a breakthrough to support its development in the future. more
Related Tags: microsoft, nokia, china-unicom, apple, apple, driving, china-mobile, china-telecom, cdma, vas, ovi, ict, mobile-internet, mobile-music, ccid-consulting, unicom, China
German 3G Penetration Rate to Reach 60% by 2012
A report from Goldmedia says that 3G penetration rates will reach 60% in Germany by 2012 and revenues from data services on mobile devices, not including those from SMS and mms, are expected to more than triple to Euro 5.7bn by 2012 from Euro 1.6bn in 2007. more
Related Tags: sms, mobile-advertising, mobile-internet, mobile-music, Germany
Operators Should Control - Not Ban - Data Roaming Services
AdaptiveMobile is recommending that mobile operators carefully consider their international mobile broadband strategies. This follows the European Union's threat to impose legal measures to make operators cut the amount they charge their mobile broadband customers for roaming on overseas networks, which has made some operators consider banning all customers from downloading data through their mobile broadband service while abroad to avoid getting involved in a high profile legal wrangle. more
Related Tags: sms, roaming, mobile-broadband, spam, operating-system
Mobile data services – Unlocking revenue streams in Europe
Mobile data services will be the main source of revenue growth in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) over the next five years says a new report from Analysys Research. With rising mobile penetration across the region and voice ARPU levels in gradual decline, operators must turn their attention to non-voice services. Analysys forecasts that non-voice ARPU will grow from EUR1.8 in 2006 to EUR3.3 in 2012 - an annual growth rate in excess of 10%. more
Related Tags: p2p-, mobile-data, compete
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