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Articles tagged with: Text Messages and Ict
CTIA Reports US Mobile Data Revenues Jumped 39% in 2008
The US trade body, the CTIA has published the findings of its semi-annual industry survey, which includes numerous positive metrics on the industry's continued growth and popularity. In particular, wireless revenues showed impressive year-to year gains, as wireless data service revenues for the year 2008 rose to more than $32 billion. This represents a 39% increase over 2007, when data revenues totaled $23.2 billion. Wireless data revenues for 2008 amounted to nearly 22% of all wireless service revenues, and represent what consumers spend on non-voice services. more
Related Tags: mms, text-messaging, ovi, iden, mobile-broadband, ctia, life, connect,
British Lord Jailed over Fatal Road Accident After Sending Text Messages
The British Lord has been jailed for 12 weeks following a conviction for dangerous driving which lead to a fatal crash. Lord Ahmed, a Labour peer in the House of Lords was involved in an accident on Christmas Day 2007 when it hit another motorist who was killed instantly. more
Related Tags: driving, prison, court, UK
Lack of Education Restricts Growth of Mobile Instant Messaging
Research released today by instant messaging vendor, ProcessOne, has revealed that 60% of mobile users would send less text messages if they were better educated about how to use mobile instant messaging (IM) services. Despite many more of today's mobile handsets having IM capability only 35% of the users surveyed currently used mobile IM with text messaging remaining the dominant communications medium. more
Related Tags: text-messaging, instant-messaging, mobile-im, billing, mobile-instant-messaging, connect, texting, UK
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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Pakistan Raises Taxes on Mobile Phone Calls
The state budget for Pakistan in 2008-2009 has increased the taxes paid on mobile phone services from 15 percent to 21 percent - which is also higher than the 16 percent for other industry sectors. It is already being reported that the mobile operators expect the higher taxes will have a negative impact on their sales and subscriber growth. more
Related Tags: sim-card, prepay, termination-rates, tax, gsma, mobile-termination-rates, taxes, pakistan-telecommunication-authority, termination, Pakistan
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