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Articles tagged with: Mobile Data and Sms
European Parliament Votes to Approve Cuts on Roaming Charges
The European Parliament, in its plenary session in Strasbourg, has voted to approve new rules on SMS and mobile data charges when roaming. The Parliament also voted for further cuts in the price of mobile phone calls while roaming in another EU country. The present cap for a mobile phone call made abroad will progressively drop from EUR0.46 to EUR0.35 per minute by July 2011, and from EUR0.22 today to EUR0.11 for mobile calls received while roaming abroad. more
Related Tags: european-commission, eu, viviane-reding, roaming, , iden, european-union, text-message
UK Consumers Rate Voice and SMS Costs More Important than Mobile Data Services
British consumers view call and text prices as more important than 3G and social networking capabilities, research commissioned by UK based firm, OpenCloud has found. In a survey of 1,000 consumers, over 80 per cent of consumers see call and text prices as the most important factors when looking for a new phone, whereas two-thirds of respondents view social networking applications as luxury additions and non-essential. more
Related Tags: 3g, social-networking, opencloud, sim, , itu, ovi, mobile-internet, UK
Mobile Banking is Emerging as a New Revenue Stream for Mobile Operators
Mobile banking is a budding service in Latin America and is expected to catch on in countries such as Chile, Brazil, and Argentina, where the economic and political condition is relatively stable. Success in the mobile banking market will help mobile operators shore up their average revenue per user (ARPU) even when the mobile voice traffic slows down. more
Related Tags: sim, arpu, itu, ovi, personal, mobile-banking, wap, Chile
Mobile Services to Capture More Advertising Revenue in Emerging Markets
As market penetration rates for mobile services continue to soar in emerging markets, advertisers are expected to dramatically increase their spending on "third-screen" ad campaigns targeted specifically to users of mobile data services, providing a potentially huge new revenue stream for operators of mobile networks, according to the latest report by Pyramid Research. more
Related Tags: 3g, ict, boost-mobile, pyramid-research, mobile-advertising
Acision Increases Capacity by 250% to Cater for Boom in SMS Traffic
Messaging vendor, Acision has announced that Telenor Pakistan has again selected the Acision SMSC to expand its messaging capacity by up to 250%. The growth in the country's subscriber rate has consequently led way to triple digit growth in messaging traffic over the last year. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, acision, telenor, telenor-pakistan, pakistan-mobile, smsc, Pakistan
Third of iPhone Owners Used a Location Based Service in Q4 2008
US based mobile social network site, Limbo and GfK Technology have published a Mobile Advertising Report (MAR), which reveals that iPhone users are more than twice as likely as non-iPhone users to browse the mobile Web and more than three times as likely to use a location-based service (LBS) or a location-based social network. more
Related Tags: iphone, lbs, mobile-advertising, gfk-technology, seven, gfk, USA
Emerging markets and data will drive global mobile growth to 2013
The latest report from telecoms industry analysts Ovum, reveals that, despite the economic gloom, emerging market growth and the development of mobile data services will continue to power the sector to ever greater heights. more
Related Tags: google, arpu, apple, apple, rural, ovum, zain
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
Related Tags: mms, mobile-messaging, mobile-email, mobile-im
GRX Peering Agreement Signed to Boost Asian Roaming Data Services
Sybase 365, a provider of mobile messaging services, and Belgacom International Carrier Services (Belgacom ICS) have announced a formal GRX peering agreement for a data roaming point in Singapore. more
Related Tags: mobile-messaging, roaming, arpu, rsa, belgacom, sybase-365, gprs, Singapore
Growing demand for location-based services in advanced mobile markets
Location-based services (LBS) in Asia-Pacific are expected to see strong growth in the next five years, with wider adoption in the more advanced and saturated mobile and mobile data markets. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan finds that the mobile LBS market covering 13 Asia-Pac countries earned revenues of US$383.6 million in 2007 and expects this to reach US$2.8 billion by end-2013, at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 39.3 percent (2007-2013). more
Related Tags: wimax, roaming, privacy, gps, driving, hspa, mobile-broadband, lbs, mobile-advertising, Japan