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Articles tagged with: Social Networking and Sms
3 UK to Scrap Top-Up Fee Requirement for Skype Users
Hutchison 3G UK (3 UK) has announced that it will offer unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls and instant messages at no charge to anyone with a 3 SIM card. Starting from next month, there will be no data charges or top-up fees for either contract or pay-as-you-go customers who use Skype on 3's UK network. Anyone with a 3 UK branded Skype-enabled handset will be able to buy a 3 SIM and talk as much as they want to other Skype users without ever having to pay another penny. more
Related Tags: skype, 3-uk, hutchison-3g-uk, voip, sim, 3g, , hutchison-3g, 3, UK
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, mobile-messaging, juniper-research, mobile-email, p2p-, smartphone, intel, , eu, voip, ovi, vas, billing
UK Consumers Rate Voice and SMS Costs More Important than Mobile Data Services
British consumers view call and text prices as more important than 3G and social networking capabilities, research commissioned by UK based firm, OpenCloud has found. In a survey of 1,000 consumers, over 80 per cent of consumers see call and text prices as the most important factors when looking for a new phone, whereas two-thirds of respondents view social networking applications as luxury additions and non-essential. more
Related Tags: 3g, mobile-data, opencloud, sim, , itu, ovi, mobile-internet, UK
Mobile Internet Becoming A Daily Activity For Many
Analytics firm, comScore has reported that the number of people in the USA using their mobile device to access news and information on the Internet more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009. more
Related Tags: iphone, analytics, smartphone, samsung, smartphones, comscore, lg, mobile-internet
UK Mobile Web Slowly Trudges Forward
The fact that mobile Web users in the UK visit so few sites is evidence that the mobile Web still offers a very limited range of useful content - says a report from eMarketer. There are not many worthwhile mobile Websites to visit, and the user experience is not yet compelling enough to support long sessions browsing via mobile. more
Related Tags: mobile-content, UK
Twitter Support for 2-Way SMS Returns to Canada
Bell Canada has announced that Bell Mobility will be the first wireless carrier to resume Canadians full SMS support for interacting with the micro-blogging site, Twitter. Last November, Twitter stopped supporting 2-way SMS traffic, citing the high costs of sending the replies back to the handsets. more
Related Tags: twitter, facebook, andrew, bell-mobility, bell, Canada
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, mobile-messaging, arpu, mobile-broadband, location-based-services, mobile-internet, play, wap
Ericsson Launches Pixl8r and Social Media Portal
Ericsson has announced the launch of an social networking portfolio for mobile network operators, the Pixl8r initiative and the Social Media Portal. The technologies together offer simplified sharing of user-generated content between friends across diverse networks. more
Related Tags: sim, mms, xl, ericsson, personal
Smartphones Provide Extra Mana for Mobile Games Industry
comScore reports that the number of people downloading a mobile game grew 17 percent from November 2007 to November 2008, when 8.5 million people, or 3.8 percent of mobile subscribers, downloaded a game to their mobile device. more
Related Tags: iphone, smartphone, smartphones, comscore, blackberry, ringtone, mobile-content
Mobile Social Networking Driving Growth of the Mobile Internet in Europe
comScore reports that social networking is drawing new users into the mobile Web. In November, 34 percent of mobile phone owners in Western Europe who visited social networking sites accessed social media exclusive of all other mobile Web content. more
Related Tags: comscore, mobile-internet, Germany