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Wireless Data Usage Will Surge in North America
27 June 2008Frost & Sullivan has put out a new report forecasting that wireless data usage in the North American market would go up although the mobile communications market in the region is close to saturation.
While mobile data revenues are projected to increase as more consumers own 3G-capable devices, voice will continue to be the main source […]
30% of Chinese Mobile Users to Read Newspapers on Mobile Phones in 2013
28 March 2008In five years, more than 30% of mobile phone subscribers in China will be reading books and newspapers through their phones, says a new industry report.
China’s Cultural Industry 2008 report was released last week by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Shanghai Jiaotong University. The report also forecast that 90% of Chinese newspapers would […]
US Mobile Media Biz On a High
28 March 2008The US mobile media and entertainment market is poised for solid growth.
In a new report “Mobile Media and Entertainment in the US: Forecasts 2007-2012″ from Research and Markets, the study’s principal analyst Katrina Bond predicts that the market will more than double in size from $3.1 billion in 2007 to $6.8 billion in 2012.
Bond sees […]
Mobile Phones Get More Thumb Play Than Ear Time
14 March 2008People are using their thumbs more than their ears as mobile phones are changing from voice-centric devices into community portals, according to Gemini Mobile. It cites Pew Internet and American Life Project as reporting that consumers are attached to their cell phones because they are the “go to” device and have become a part of […]
Mobile Entertainment to Pull in $47.5 Billion by 2010
14 March 2008The combination of greater 3G adoption and a marked increase in made-for-mobile content will drive mobile entertainment revenues to $47.5 billion by 2010, says a new report from Juniper Research.
The report also cautions that entertainment service adoption will slow down unless improvements are made in areas such as user interface, network coverage and excessive cost […]
Report: Ringback Tones to Bring in Major Revenue by 2010
5 March 2008The number of worldwide wireless subscribers and customers will grow by a little more than a billion over the next four years, generating $800 billion in global wireless service revenue by 2011, says a report by IDC.
IDC expects mobile entertainment will account for 5.1% of this total revenue and 23% of all mobile data revenue. […]
Rogers Reports Higher Broadband, Wireless Revenues
29 February 2008Rogers Communications reported last week a 44% rise in its fourth-quarter profit last week as additional wireless subscribers helped results.
Rogers, Canada’s biggest wireless carrier and cable-TV company, said it earned C$254 million ($251 million) in the three months ending on December 31, up from a profit of C$176 million in the same period a year […]
Sprint’s $29.5b Quarterly Loss Threatens Its Xohm WiMAX
29 February 2008Sprint Nextel’s fourth quarter 2007 loss of $29.5 billion is not going to help the company’s Xohm branded WiMAX efforts.
However, a quick examination of the quarterly results shows that WiMAX may be Sprint’s best hope for the future.
The question is whether it might be forced to spin off Xohm or bring in outside investors in […]
South Korea to Have 95% Mobile Penetration by 2010
29 February 2008Research and Markets predicts in its “1Q08 Mobile Forecast: South Korea, 2007 - 2010″ report that the level of wireless phone penetration in South Korea will increase from 88.5% in 2007 to 94.7% in 2010. The number of total subscribers will increase from a projected 43.3 million in 2007 to 46.9 million in 2010, below […]
WiMAX Subscribers to Hit 100m by 2014
8 February 2008WiMAX subscribers are forecast to exceed 100 million and the market size for equipment is expected to reach $42 billion by 2014, according to a new report by Maravedis, a telecommunications market research and analysis firm that specializes in broadband wireless access (BWA) technologies.
“WiMAX chipsets will start to be embedded in laptops in the second […]