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Articles tagged with: Tns
..ughout the whole of Germany."A current representative survey carried out by tns Infratest also confirmed the top ranking of the T-Mobile network from a customer perspective. The study revealed that T-Mobile customers were the most satisfied of all cu more
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Danes ready to drop fixed line phones
A new poll from tns Gallup shows that 56% of all Danes are now ready to completely drop their fixed line phones in favor of mobiles - a rise of almost 25% on last year. Seventy six percent also expect for everyone to have switched to mobile and broadband telephony within the next 5-10 years. more
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Wireless Trails Wired in Importance Survey
Despite recent trends noting the decline of wired line phone usage and spending, new research from tns Telecoms indicates that more than a third (37%) of Americans say the wired line phone is the most important communications product in their household, followed by wireless phones and high-speed Internet, tied for second-most important at 27 percent. more
TELECOM REPORT: Alcatel-Lucent: What's In A Name?
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones) -- France's Alcatel and USA-based Lucent Technologies have lots of reasons to stick with their old names after they complete their $13.5 billion merger. Several hundred million reasons, perhaps. more
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USA Trailing Rest of World in Embracing Music on Cell Phones
Almost one in five (19%) of all mobile phone owners worldwide now listen to music on their phones, according to a new study by tns. Amongst this global group, some 16% of all music they listen to daily is on their phones, compared with 15% on a stereo system at home and just 10% on a personal digital music player, such as an iPod. However, in the USA, only four percent of cell phone users listened to MP3s or digital music on their cell phone on a regular basis. more
Related Tags: ipod, mobile-music
Battery Life Still a Concern for Mobile Phone Users
Two-thirds of mobile phone and PDA users rate 'two-days of battery life during active use' as the most important feature of an ideal converged device of the future, according to a new study by tns. The study, conducted among 15 global countries during July and August 2005, was undertaken to uncover what would drive consumer demand for mobile devices in the future, as well as benchmarking brand performance and use of existing mobile phone, PDA and laptop applications. more
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Consumers want more local content from wireless service providers
As consumers are presented with a host of next generation wireless services, interest in those services remains tepid - unless they're going to help consumers dodge raindrops and traffic jams. The latest quarterly survey from tns Telecoms indicates that 20% of households are interested in a service that provides local weather and traffic alerts via text messaging. In contrast, only 6% of households indicated they would be interested in sports programming and 7% indicated interest in watching clips of television shows. more
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Mobile content market set to triple within a year
Consumer demand for mobile downloads is set to triple in the next 12 months, creating a US$9 billion global market for mobile content by this time next year, according to international research announced by LogicaCMG at its Content Management event in London. more
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Danish operator offers free calls from a "home zone"
Denmark's Sonofon is launching a new tariff that offers free calls to landlines when the user is at home - effectively targeting the domestic landline market. 'Fri Zone' is an extension of the mobile subscription in which mobiles automatically register when they are at a home address and calls to Danish fixed line numbers are charged at DKK 0. As soon as the customer is on the move, the mobile phone switches to standard call rates. more
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Wireless number directory not popular - study
A recent national survey in the USA, conducted by tns and sponsored by TRUSTe revealed that more than half of American mobile phone users (53%) are against the establishment of a nationwide directory of wireless numbers. The survey, which polled 1,068 consumers, also indicated that 56% would opt-out of publishing their numbers. more
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