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Articles tagged with: Mms and Mobile Email
P2P mobile messaging to reach $106bn by 2014 - but revenues to decline in some sectors
Mobile messaging revenues are set for measured growth over the next five years, as market forces take effect. SMS, mms, mobile email and IM traffic volumes will continue their inexorable rise, but the IP evolution is resulting in disruptive business models, increased competition from the Web and commoditisation of established services. more
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Mobile Internet, multimedia and mapping capture 40% of smartphone face time
Hannu Verkasalo, who has the public examination of his doctoral dissertation at Helsinki University of Technology on April 17th, says that "the usage of new smartphone applications, including the mobile Internet, games, multimedia and map applications, has been increasing among smartphone users and reaches already 40% of total face time". However, most of the usage is still based on voice and text messaging. more
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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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Worldwide Messaging Revenues set to exceed US$224 billion by 2013
A new report from Portio Research focused on mobile messaging has suggested that SMS will continue to be the cash cow of mobile data revenues for some time to come. Traffic volumes and revenues continue to confound predictions and are expected to keep growing throughout the global economic downturn. Indeed the whole mobile messaging industry worth US$130 billion in 2008 is predicted to be worth US$224 billion by 2013, 60 percent of non-voice service revenues. more
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Mobile Email Supplier Synchronica buys AxisMobile
Mobile e-mail vendor, Synchronica is acquiring consumer mobile email specialist AxisMobile for US$4.9 million in an all shares transaction. Synchronica also stated that it has raised additional funds of US$10million, from new and existing institutional investors, which brings the total funding secured in 2008 to US$18 million. The additional funds will be used to accelerate product integration and fuel the growth of the combined business in emerging markets such as China, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Latin America. more
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Global Consumer Mobile Messaging To Exceed $88 Billion By 2012
Total spending on mobile messaging services by consumers will rise 15% from $65 billion in 2007 to over $88 billion by 2012, according to a new Strategy Analytics report. Although SMS will continue to contribute to the vast share of consumer messaging spend, the availability of low-cost flat-rate data plans will enable rapid growth in usage of traditional PC based messaging services, such as email and instant messaging via mobile. more
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Majority of UK Businesses Can't Control International Mobile Calling Costs
..uarter of small businesses havenÃ't reviewed their mobile comms plan in over a year, with 17 per cent completely unaware of when it was last checked." Chivers added: "Mobile communications has moved on from bundles of minutes and texts - now i more
Related Tags: t-mobile-uk, yougov, UK
Australian Mobile Data Services to Grow by Over 50% in 2008
New mobile data services will grow at a rate of more than 50% in 2008, according to an IDC review of the performance of Australian Telecom Service Providers in the third quarter of 2007. End user take up of mobile data services in both the business and consumer markets is experiencing significant growth. more
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Russia is One of the Worlds Top-5 WiMAX Opportunities
According to a new report from the market research and industry analysis firm Maravedis, the Russian Federation remains among the world's top five Wireless Broadband opportunities. The Russian economy is flourishing. GDP per capita has risen from $4000 in 1999 to $12,000 in 2006 . The demand in telecom services is rapidly outpacing the capacity of legacy infrastructure. Even now, investment in telecom is mostly coming into large cities, still leaving many places without coverage. more
Related Tags: mobile-wimax, maravedis, alfa, sistema, moscow, bwa, enforta, Russia
SMS Continues as Biggest Messaging Revenue Earner for Operators
SMS revenues have continued to grow year-on-year and are providing mobile network operators with their most significant messaging revenue earnings. The result is that analysts have had to admit that their predictions on the demise of SMS have been premature. more
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