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Articles tagged with: Mms and Text Messages
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
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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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Mobile Messaging Revenues to Defy Economic Downturn
Mobile messaging vendor, Airwide Solutions has published the results of an independent study on the use of mobile messaging across the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The results prove that despite warnings of turmoil throughout the global economy, growth in mobile messaging shows no signs of slowing. more
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Confusion Over Charges Holding Back International Roaming Usage
Millions of UK mobile users donĂ't understand international roaming charges - and go so far as to avoid making calls as a result. A new study, by market research firm, TNS indicates that it is confusion over service charges, in addition to the price of calls, which is preventing international roaming from really taking off. more
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6.5 Billion SMS's Sent Every Month in the UK
The UK's Mobile Data Association (MDA) has reported that new devices and an ever growing variety of mobile applications have driven overall mobile data growth figures in 2008. SMS growth continues to astound while mms shows an increasing level of growth. Consumer awareness, the fact that nearly all phones now come ready configured to work with mms and attractive tariff bundles from the Mobile Network Operators helps fuel this growth. more
Related Tags: intel, sms, mobile-data, text-messaging, gps, mobile-internet, mobile-data-association, UK
Brands set to treble spend on mobile marketing by 2013
Major brands are looking to invest heavily in mobile marketing over the next five years according to an independent survey of large brands in the financial services, retail and manufacturing sectors commissioned by UK based mobile operator, Telefonica O2. more
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UK Sees 25% Jump in Mobile Internet Use Over Past 12 Months
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 their mobile phones. more
Related Tags: sms, mobile-data, roaming, text-messaging, driving, mobile-internet, mobile-data-association, UK
Fun Text Goes Live On 3 UK Handsets
Graphical messaging firm, Fun Text says that it has secured a deal with Hutchison 3G UK (3) for its handset-based messaging application to be installed on a range of 3's mobile phones. Under the deal, 3UK customers will be able to access Fun Text's rich media messaging capabilities direct from the messaging menu of their phone, alongside traditional alternatives such as SMS and mms. more
Related Tags: mobile-messaging, hutchison-3g-uk, hutchison-3g, driving, UK
SMS traffic surges 20% to 8.4bn messages in 2006
The volume of short message service (SMS) traffic in Brazil surged 20% to 8.4bn messages in 2006 compared to 7.0bn in 2005, newspaper Gazeta Mercantil reported, citing estimates from mobile messaging solution supplier Okto. more
Related Tags: mobile-messaging, wap
SMSs in Canada Top 4 Billion in 2006
The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association says that mobile phone customers sent more than 4.3 billion person-to-person text messages in 2006, almost triple the 1.5 billion messages sent in 2005. Text message volumes peaked in December 2006 at more than 560 million in that month alone, which represents more than 18 million per day. more
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