Spending on mobile advertising could reach $14.4 billion by 2011, accounting for one-fifth of global spending on Internet advertising, according to a report from Strategy Analytics Inc."The outlook for mobile advertising spend has significantly advanced in the past 12 months," said Phil Taylor, director...
AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. see opportunities ahead for their international operations, according to remarks by company executives at last week's Lehman Brothers Worldwide Wireless and Wireline conference. Meanwhile, Sprint Nextel Corp. is doing its darnedest to convince Wall Street that the company...
Motorola Inc. said it would cut 4,000 more jobs in the coming year, on top of 3,500 job cuts to be completed by next month. The reduced headcount at the world's No. 2 handset vendor is part of a $1 billion restructuring the...
Business users in Western Europe and other regions will help drive surging sales of smartphones and other converged devices over the next few years, according to new figures from IDC. The market research firm predicted converged mobile devices (CMD) will see a compound annual...
Enterprise applications are poised for impressive growth in the United States while the U.K. mobile content market is approaching a "tipping point," according to two new reports. Compass Intelligence L.L.C. said U.S. businesses will spend $9 billion on mobile applications by 2011, more than...
U.S. mobile users rang up $215 million in off-deck premium SMS downloads in the first quarter, according to new figures from Telephia.The San Francisco-based market research firm found that premium SMS activity accounted for more than $273 million in revenues, or about 32% of...
Longer contracts are pushing American consumers to keep their handsets longer, according to a new study by J.D. Power and Associates. The average length of ownership of a particular handset has increased for the first time in five years, to 17.5 months from the...
Business users in Western Europe and other regions will help drive surging sales of smartphones and other converged devices over the next few years, according to new figures from IDC.The market research firm predicted converged mobile devices will see a compound annual growth rate...
You've heard that smartphones are the growth area in mobile handsets, with actual numbers to support this development-long-sought by vendors seeking higher average selling prices and carriers seeking improved data revenue.On a dollar-for-dollar basis, however, handset accessories will generate more revenue this year than...
Third-generation networks are expected to capture only 30 percent of the machine-to-machine communications market by 2012, predicts a new report from ABI Research."Municipal Wi-Fi and WiMAX will both challenge 3G cellular technology as the most suitable methods to achieve high-speed M2M communications for many...
The U.S. cellular industry added 18 million connections during 2006, bringing the total number of U.S. wireless connections to 232 million, according to Wireless Intelligence, a joint venture of Ovum and the GSM Association.Connections include subscribers, but also potentially machine-to-machine applications.Wireless Intelligence said the...
Young consumers tend to know little about the brands behind the products they use, including wireless brands, according to a study from market-research firm Anderson Analytics.Cellphones topped the list of products for which students misidentified the manufacturers' country of origin, said the company.More than...
A new report from ABI Research predicts nearly 300,000 Long Term Evolution base stations will be deployed by 2014."LTE faces competition from other broadband wireless technologies and it will need to demonstrate clear technical and economic advantages to convince network operators," says ABI Research...
The handset market in the United States in the first quarter grew 12% over the year-ago quarter, with the sale of about 39 million units valued at nearly $3 billion, according to The NPD Group. That growth is roughly similar to the year-ago quarter's...
The U.S. cellular industry added 18 million connections during 2006, bringing the total number of U.S. wireless connections to 232 million, according to Wireless Intelligence, a joint venture of Ovum and the GSM Association.Connections include subscribers, but also potentially machine-to-machine applications.Wireless Intelligence said the...
European consumers are more interested in location-based services than they are in watching mobile TV, according to new figures from Canalys.The U.K.-based market research firm said 51% of users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom expressed some interest in watching video...
Young adults are leading the trend of cutting the wireline cord, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.More than 25 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 24 and 29 percent of those aged 25 to 29...
Sprint Nextel Corp. has extended its unlimited voice and data trials to Minneapolis-St. Paul, Tampa, Fla., and Philadelphia, branching out from its initial market in San Francisco.The carrier has two unlimited plans available: a $120 per month plan with unlimited voice, text and data...
Sprint Nextel Corp. has extended its unlimited voice and data trials to Minneapolis-St. Paul, Tampa, Fla. and Philadelphia, branching out from its initial market in San Francisco.The carrier has two unlimited plans available: a $120 per month plan with unlimited voice, text and data...
European consumers are more interested in location-based services than they are in watching mobile TV, according to new figures from Canalys.The U.K.-based market research firm said 51% of users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom expressed some interest in watching video...
Infrastructure spending by North America's mobile operators increased slightly during the first quarter, while wireline capital spending decreased 9%, according to a report from Ovum-RHK.Mobile carriers spent $5.1 billion during the quarter, up 2% from last year's first quarter. Mobile revenues were up 11%...
More than four months after announcing its acquisition of BellSouth Corp., AT&T Inc. continues a determined push to rebrand Cingular as "the new AT&T." Though that phrase has gotten its share of promotion by AT&T itself, let's get it straight: "The brand is 'AT&T,'"...
USB Cellular modem shipments could grow to more than 22 million units by 2012, according to a study from ABI Research."Proliferation of 3G networks is the primary driver of growth of cellular modems regardless of form factor," said Dan Shey, principal analyst at ABI....
First impressions really do count in wireless, and retail store staff had better be quick on their feet, according to the most recent customer satisfaction survey by J.D. Power and Associates. The firm found that wireless customers want to be greeted within their first...
