Regional carrier SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. reported mixed metrics for the first quarter of 2007, but cut its losses compared with the year-ago period.The company, which operates in the southeast and Puerto Rico, improved its average revenue per user and cut its churn rate,...
A majority of 12-to-14-year-olds have their own wireless phones, according to a recent study by research company iGR Inc., and a "significant percentage" of children younger than 10 years old also have their own phones.The numbers stem from a survey of tween and teen...
Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility continued to pummel Sprint Nextel Corp. in customer gains during the first quarter, but investors appeared encouraged by Sprint Nextel's performance, which-in a back-handed sort-of compliment-was not as poor as had been expected. Verizon Wireless fastest growingVerizon Wireless again...
The WiMAX integrated circuit market has made a dramatic shift from fixed WiMAX to Mobile WiMAX during the past three quarters, according to In-Stat.The company said the WiMAX IC industry was focused on fixed 802.16d technology for the majority of 2005 and 2006, with...
Google.com topped the list of the most popular mobile Web sites in the both United States and the United Kingdom for the second month in a row, according to M:Metrics. Search, news and social networking sites dominated the list during March. In the...
While 77% of cellphone users are "slightly familiar" with Apple Inc.'s iPhone and 41% have a good impression of the yet-to-be-released device, only 6% said they were likely to purchase the device within the next year, according to a new poll conducted by Markitecture.Markitecture...
Regional carrier Rural Cellular Corp. reported healthy customer metrics despite posting a net loss for the first quarter of 2007; the carrier cut its churn rate, gained subscribers and improved its average revenue per user compared with the year-ago period. The carrier gained nearly...
While 77% of cellphone users are "slightly familiar" with Apple Inc.'s iPhone and 41% have a good impression of the yet-to-be-released device, only 6% said they were likely to purchase the device within the next year, according to a new poll conducted by Markitecture.Markitecture...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Jupiter Research's Julie Ask, Current Analysis'...
Teens and young adults may dominate the console gaming space, but U.S. consumers between 25 and 34 years old represent the largest group of mobile gamers, according to new figures from The NPD Group.The market research firm found that in 2006, 29 percent of...
Financial institutions are rushing to deploy mobile banking services consumers don't appear to want, according to new figures from JupiterResearch.The market research firm found that just 8 percent of online consumers who own a mobile phone are interested in browsing on the device to...
Sony Ericsson continued its strong momentum in the first quarter of the year, posting big gains in revenue and profit. The vendor's growth in those two metrics far outstrips all the other, top-tier players. Unit shipments of its handsets, while way up on the...
The emergence of new mobile applications and advanced networks is creating an increasing need for backhaul, according to a new report from Visant Strategies."Data services, including multimedia downloads, and network upgrades to W-CDMA/HSDPA and EV-DO have led to a surge in backhaul use by...
Wi-Fi-only phones probably won't replace cellular phones anytime soon, according to a new survey from research firm In-Stat.While stand-alone Wi-Fi phones theoretically could replace cellphones for some users, most respondents were lukewarm on the idea, with the majority of those responding expressing at least...
User-generated content is the largest threat-and, perhaps, the biggest potential opportunity-to media and entertainment companies, according to a survey of executives released by Accenture.The poll of front-office personnel found that more than half the respondents identified amateur digital videos, podcasts, wikis and blogs as...
Near Field Communication technology is expected to be available on more than 20 percent of handsets shipped by 2012, according to ABI Research.The firm predicts about 292 million phones will ship with the technology in five years."NFC in mobile phones promises a quicker and...
The market for mobile marketing and advertising is expected to be worth $3 billion by the end of the year and top $19 billion by 2011, surpassing text messaging as a source of mobile marketing spending, according to a report from ABI Research. The...
A tier-one North American carrier saved $18 million in three markets using transport network optimization services from Tellabs, the company announced.While the wireless carrier would not allow Tellabs to use its name for competitive reasons, the carrier did allow Tellabs to publish some metrics...
Telecom operators in North America spent $68.6 billion on their networks last year, an increase of 8 percent from 2005, according to a new report from Infonetics Research.The firm predicts carrier spending will increase 12 percent to $76.7 billion by 2010.Infonetics said carrier spending...
Businesses in the United States are wasting in excess of $2 billion each year by not paying their mobile employees' wireless bills, according to new research from In-Stat.These findings should lead carriers to convince their business customers to apply more enlightened wireless policies, increase...
The number of mobile TV subscribers worldwide will increase steadily over the next few years, reaching 125 million in 2011, according to new figures from In-Stat.The market research firm predicted four new mobile TV broadcast networks will come online, increasing the global tally to...
The U.S. ringtone market will dip 8 percent this year as the novelty fades and users learn to create their own mobile music clips, according to Broadcast Music Inc.BMI predicted that ringtones will generate $550 million in retail sales in 2007, down $50 million...
Verizon Wireless rang up the most mobile data revenue in the fourth quarter of 2006, but Sprint Nextel Corp. regained its lead in data ARPU, according to new figures from IDC.The market research firm found that Verizon ended 2006 with 56.8 million direct retail...
In the United States, Motorola Inc. gained four points of market share to claim 33 percent of the handset market last year, as arch-rival Nokia Corp. lost ground to rank fourth among vendors here, according to year-end figures from NPD Group. U.S. residents bought...
