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Articles tagged with: Mms and Mobile Broadband
CTIA Reports US Mobile Data Revenues Jumped 39% in 2008
The US trade body, the CTIA has published the findings of its semi-annual industry survey, which includes numerous positive metrics on the industry's continued growth and popularity. In particular, wireless revenues showed impressive year-to year gains, as wireless data service revenues for the year 2008 rose to more than $32 billion. This represents a 39% increase over 2007, when data revenues totaled $23.2 billion. Wireless data revenues for 2008 amounted to nearly 22% of all wireless service revenues, and represent what consumers spend on non-voice services. more
Related Tags: text-messaging, ict, ovi, iden, text-messages, ctia, life, USA
Samsung Shows Off Touch Screen WiMAX Phone for the US Market
Samsung Mobile has announced the upcoming availability of its WiMAX enabled mobile phone, the Samsung Mondi. The touch screen Mondi, which takes its name from the Latin word for "world," is designed for use with the Clearwire WiMAX network. more
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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, arpu, text-messaging, 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, arpu, location-based-services, mobile-internet, play, wap
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
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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, arpu, spam, operating-system
India to be the largest market for Mobile WiMAX by 2013
..rformance-wise - cannot provide a shortcut to the 4th generation of mobile telecomms as some of its promoters have claimed. Given all the facts, Mobile WiMAX performance is comparable to 3.5G cellular systems at best, and in some areas it lag more
Related Tags: mobile-wimax, bric, India