Articles tagged with: Sms and Mobile Messaging

Mobile VAS achieves 35% growth in Mexico, resulting in US$1 billion in revenue

­Mexico's Mobile VAS market in Mexico generated revenues of US$1 billion for mobile operators during the first quarter of 2011, indicating that Mexico represents 21% of VAS sales in Latin America. Mexico is now the second most important market in Latin America, before Brazil (18%) and after Argentina (36%) according to Acision.  more

Related Tags: acision, value-added-services, vas, mms, mobile-vas, Mexico


Facebook Buys Mobile Messaging Platform - May Undercut SMS Services

­Social networking website, Facebook has brought the mobile messaging software vendor, Beluga for an undisclosed amount, in a move which could suggest that Facebook is looking for cheaper alternatives to plain text messaging for some of its mobile services.  more

Related Tags: facebook, beluga, mobile-web, j2me


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

Related Tags: mms, juniper-research, mobile-email, p2p-, social-networking, smartphone, intel, , eu, voip, ovi, vas, billing, mda, email, africa, mobile-web


TynTec Working on Mobile Phone Based Airline Boarding Passes

Mobile messaging operator TynTec has announced a partnership with airline industry body IATA, which will see TynTec working with IATA on the Bar Coded Boarding Passes (BCBP) initiative. This will be aimed at working with airlines and their IT providers to expand the availability of mobile boarding passes as well as improving airline operations through real-time ticket status.  more

Related Tags: sim, tim, ovi, partner, airlines, airline


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

Related Tags: sim, mms, social-networking, arpu, mobile-broadband, location-based-services, mobile-internet, play, wap, airwide-solutions


Acision Syncs SMS with Instant Messaging

Acision has announced that Russian mobile operator, MTS is using its Instant Messaging solution to offer an enhanced messaging experience to its subscribers. Combining the Acision Person to Person Gateway with core elements from Colibria's product portfolio - including the Instant Messaging and Presence Service (IMPS) - Acision's Instant Messaging solution provided integration between mobile instant messaging and sms.  more

Related Tags: rsa, ict, acision, mts, instant-messaging, mobile-instant-messaging, presence, Russia


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, arpu, text-messaging, rural, in-stat, life


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

Related Tags: mms, comscore, eu, spam, text-messages, africa, airwide-solutions, UK


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

Related Tags: mms, instant-messaging,


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