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Articles tagged with: Mobile Messaging and Text Messaging
Lower Wireless Costs by 30% Without Compromising Enterprise Mobility
Aberdeen Group has released a report on enterprise use of wireless expense management (WEM) that outlines how businesses can use technology solutions to save money and understand their wireless bills. more
Related Tags: sim, mobile-data, smartphone, roaming, smartphones, location-based-services
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
Related Tags: mms, sms, arpu, rural, in-stat, life
Mobile Operators Brace for Global Surge in Mobile Messaging Abuse
Messaging security firm, Cloudmark has published the results of its research into mobile messaging abuse trends in Asia, North America and Europe which point to a precipitous rise in mobile spam, phishing and virus attacks in 2008. more
Related Tags: google, sim-card, mms, walled-garden, chief-technology-officer, mobile-advertising, spam, virus, sms-spam, cloudmark, smsc, storm
Nine of 10 Americans Would Support New Laws to Ban Driving While Texting
Nine out of ten (89 percent) American adults believe that sending text messages or emails while driving is distracting, dangerous, and should be outlawed, according to a new survey commissioned by mobile messaging service Pinger and conducted by Harris Interactive. Similar numbers (91 percent) of adults thought that drivers distracted by sending text messages or mobile email were as dangerous as drivers who had a couple of drinks. more
Related Tags: mobile-email, text-messages, florida, harris, california
The mobile phone industry is today celebrating the 15th birthday of the Short Message Service Centre (SMSC), the principal application behind text messaging first brought to market by Acision in 1992. The first ever SMSC was introduced as a product designed primarily to deal with the demands and improve reliability of a developing mobile industry, and in that year the first of many deals was signed with Telenor. more
Related Tags: acision, telenor, smsc
Anon SMS for Sending Crime Tips to the Police
In collaboration with the City of Boston and the Boston Police Department, Hill Holliday has announced the unveiling of an anonymous text message tip line for law enforcement in Boston. more
Related Tags: boston, text-messages, police, text-message
Adults Catching up with Kids in SMS/MMS Usage Stakes
Research shows that interest in new mobile data services is growing, but so are concerns about price and performance. more
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LogicaCMG Expects North American Messaging Surge
LogicaCMG says that expects formidable messaging growth in North America and points to a number of indications that the region is on the verge of a surge in text messaging volumes. Based on both analyst and its own research, LogicaCMG is predicting that North American text messaging volumes will grow as much as 50 per cent in 2007 - a significant increase over previous years. more
Related Tags: starbucks, acision, instant-messaging
Regulatory Cuts Hurt SFR's Full Year Results
The French mobile operator, SFR has reported that it's full year revenues slightly decreased by 0.1% to ?8,678 million compared to the same period in 2005. Network revenues were up 0.4% on a comparable basis at ?8,254 million. SFR is a subsidiary of France's Vivendi, and 43% owned by Vodafone. more
Related Tags: mms, termination-rates, sfr
Mobile Messaging for UK Business to Top GBP1 Billion
The 2005 market of non person-to-person text-messaging was worth between GBP450 (US$838) and GBP600 million (US$1.1 billion), and is set to accelerate, according to a white paper released by leading mobile messaging company, Dynmark International. According to the review of the non-voice mobile sector, business use of SMS text-messaging will emerge as a billion pound market sector in the UK. more
Related Tags: text-messages, telecommunications-industry-association, us-cellular, ctia
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