Articles tagged with: Mobile Im and Mms

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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SMS Revenues to Decline in Western Europe until 2011

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan finds that SMS still represents the lionÃ's share of mobile data services revenues in Western Europe in 2007, and while MMS has failed to replicate SMSÃ' success, many operators are looking on MMS as a medium for delivering user-created content, advertisements and news, which is likely to spur usage and adoption. Value-added features will be key to driving the uptake of mobile IM services.  more

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Industry Seeks Successor to SMS

Wireless messaging is the most successful mainstream mobile data service to have emerged during the 30-year history of the cellular telecom industry. New research from Gartner shows that an estimated 936 billion messages were sent worldwide in 2005 via SMS. Gartner predicts this will reach 2.3 trillion by 2010. more

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