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Articles tagged with: Mobile Messaging and Mms
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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Time to invest in mobile messaging, say operators worldwide
Airwide Solutions, has published the results of a study - which was conducted by the independent analyst house, Direct2Mobile - which found that mobile operators believe SMS will become the enabler that underpins next generation advanced services with all the operators surveyed claiming that they are seeking to use the investment they have made in developing their mobile messaging infrastructure in order to introduce new value-added services. more
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VeriSign Sells Part of European Mobile Messaging Unit
A part of VeriSign's mobile messaging business in Europe, which was formerly derived in 2006 from the acquisition of Austrian company 3united, is once again, in the ownership of Austrian hands. The new owner is Sinon Invest Holding, and the new name of the company, which specialises in mobile messaging and focuses primarily on the development and delivery of interactive mobile applications, will be mobile messaging solutions (mms). more
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Messaging Continues to be Cash Cow for Mobile Operators
As mobile operators have seen the average revenue per user (ARPU) decrease, they have sought to boost revenue via new value-added services; however, the most profitable data service is still text messaging, reports In-Stat. Inexpensive, ubiquitous, reliable, and simple for the mobile customer to operate, Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS) technologies provide potentially endless revenue streams for forward thinking Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), the high-tech market research firm says. 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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SMS and MMS Set the Cash Registers Ringing in the Nth American Mobile Market
Mobile carriers profit heavily from short message services (SMS) and multimedia messaging services (MMS), with volumes more than doubling annually. The North American mobile messaging market is in a state of rapid adoption and high revenue growth, with billions of dollars generated in SMS revenue from a user base that covers half of the mobile user population in the region. 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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Messaging Hub Provided Interoperability Between MMS, SMS and IM
Syniverse Technologies and Colibria have announced a messaging hub solution which will deliver seamless interworking between operators for IM, SMS, MMS and presence applications. Syniverse is a provider of technology and business solutions and Colibria is a provider of instant messaging and presence solutions. 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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