Articles tagged with: Telecommunications Industry Association

TIA Makes Call: Telecom Revenue Will Fall

Telecommunications industry revenue will fall this year for the first time in decades as the global recession takes a toll on consumer and business spending, according to a new industry survey. more

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

Drivers on Cell Phones = Drunk Driving

Three years after the preliminary results first were presented at a scientific meeting and drew wide attention, University of Utah psychologists have published a study showing that motorists who talk on handheld or hands-free cellular phones are as impaired as drunken drivers. more

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Embedding Security into Handsets Would Boost Data Usage - report

Bluefire Security Technologies has released findings from a survey of wireless device and network users suggesting that concerns about the security of mobile devices and data are common. Bluefire's Mobile Device and Network Security Survey confirmed that subscribers are using a wide variety of applications on their devices:

65% of respondents use their wireless devices for surfing the Web
60% use text and picture messaging
54% access corporate email accounts
40% access personal web-based accounts

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Non-US telecommunications market to continue double digit growth rates

The telecommunications market outside the United States is expected to continue its double-digit growth from 2004 to reach over $2 trillion by 2008, according to TIA's 2005 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast, an annual publication produced by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). Overall spending on telecommunications in the five regions covered in the report -- Canada, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia/Pacific -- will grow at an estimated 10.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). The principal drivers for this growth are improving economic conditions throughout the world, a growth in infrastructure equipment investment, demand for mobile devices and wireless services. more

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CDMA group joins with more industry bodies

The CDMA Development Group (CDG) has signed joint membership agreements with Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), Latin American Wireless Industry Association (Alacel), and an MoU with Association of Telecommunications Enterprises of the Andean Community (ASETA). The CDG has been a long-standing member of Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2), Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL), International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). more

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CDMA2000 1xEV-DV forwarded for 3G approval

The CDMA Development Group (CDG) has reported that CDMA2000 1xEV-DV (data and voice) has been approved by both the Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) and Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) for publication, and has been submitted to the ITU for formal approval as a formal 3G standard. There were more than 8.7 million CDMA2000 subscribers worldwide at the end of April. more

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Phone Radiation levels to be published in the USA

The American Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) has announced that from August all new mobile phones submitted for approval must declare their radiation emission levels. Cellular phones will start being packaged with the new information in three to six months, CTIA said. The actual radiation level (SAR) will not be printed on the box, but instructions on how to retrieve it from the FCC will be made available" more

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USA to study mobile phone health risks

The USA Food and Drugs Administration is to launch a three to five year study into the health related effects of mobile phones. The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association will fund the research to the tune of around US$1 million. All the results must undergo standard scientific review for publication in medical journals, so doctors and consumers can be confident in the findings and confident that if studies uncover any problem, it won't be hidden by the cellular industry." more

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Phone Usage Jumps 24% In The USA

According to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA), mobile subscriber numbers jumped to 86 million, up 24.3% over the past year. Wireless subscribers used their telephones an average of 180 minutes each month last year, compared with 130 minutes for local calls a year ago. At the same time, the average monthly bill increased just 4.6% to $41.24 from $39.43." more

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