Articles tagged with: Mobile Im and Mobile Email

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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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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Business Use of Wireless IM to Exceed $2 Billion

A new report from Strategy Analytics finds that a number of supply and demand side catalysts are aligning to accelerate business use of mobile Instant Messaging (IM) into a US$2 billion-plus opportunity in Western Europe and North America by 2010. From wireless access, to secure and fully auditable enterprise IM platforms, to public mobile IM services such as MSN Messenger, AIM and Yahoo! - both IT-sanctioned and rogue use of mobile IM is set to grow significantly. more

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