OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. are at the short end of wireless infrastructure contracts owing to their late start in the UMTS market, according to a report from Allied Business Intelligence.Lucent has an 11-percent market share, a drop from 17 percent...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-New research shows Vodafone's Live! wireless data service and NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service are both poised for growth outside of Japan.According to research and consulting firm Analysys Research, data services beyond text messaging will gradually take hold, but operators will have to...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The Wi-Fi industry will continue to grow, driven by new equipment and innovative applications, according to a new report by Allied Business Intelligence.The firm predicted 95 million Wi-Fi networking equipment devices will be shipped in 2009. ABI also predicted 802.11g will surpass...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-New location-enabled wireless handsets will help wireless carriers find a place in the commercial telematics value chain, according to ABI. The research firm expects the telematics market to be valued at up to $7 billion by 2010, but said the current high...
PARIS-European mobile operators are set to enjoy a revenue increase of 7.5 percent this year and annual growth of 6.6 percent until 2006, according to a new report from consulting firm Arthur D. Little and independent brokerage firm Exane. The majority of the growth...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Mobile carriers worldwide will increase their spending to $763 million by 2008, well up from the $262 million expected to be spent in 2004, according to research from Probe Group.Carriers are garnering revenues from their 2.5G networks and behind-the-scenes activity on 3G...
STAMFORD, Conn.-The number of hot-spot users worldwide will total 30 million in 2004, up from 9.3 million users in 2003, according to research from Gartner Inc. As users increase, enterprises must implement strategies for secure access to hot spots, as well as control over...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic-The Saudi Arabian mobile market is set to experience tremendous growth this year, according to a recently published study by IDC. The growth will be fueled by strong pent-up demand from a large underpenetrated market as well as a new mobile carrier...
BOSTON-New research shows the mobile-phone market shattered all records by selling more than half a billion units last year. Numbers from research firms Strategy Analytics, Gartner Inc. and IDC all confirm massive gains in the industry, and all predict continuing advances this year.Such numbers...
DALLAS-Machine-to-machine (M2M) business applications-distinguished from wireless data services in their ability to automatically and autonomously communicate, control and affect the operation of remote machines or systems in real time-will create significant new revenue opportunities for wireless equipment manufacturers, service providers and application developers, according...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Wireless operators are expected to battle fixed-line operators for a chunk of the broadband home market, which could be worth more than $100 billion by 2008, according to a report from Analysys."While the major share of the market will go to consumer...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-The wireless LAN market will grow 23 percent in 2004 to $2.2 billion, with strong growth continuing through 2006, but its decline will begin in 2007, according to the Dell'Oro Group.The Dell'Oro Group expects the decline in the market to occur as...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Short-range wireless technology ZigBee will be a key player in the home automation market, according to market research firm West Technology Research Solutions L.L.C. (WTRS). Annual shipments of ZigBee chipsets could exceed 339 million units by 2008 in the home automation segment...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The market for in-building wireless networks will exceed $1 billion by the end of this decade, according to a new study from research firm ABI. The analyst firm expects the market to be driven by tough competition and "the battle for network...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-The short-range technology dubbed ZigBee may be one of the major protocol stars of the year, said Cambridge Consultants Ltd., a consultancy firm.ZigBee will do well particularly in the home and industrial automation applications, said Cambridge. It also expects the technology to follow...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-The cell phone is the invention Americans hate most but cannot live without, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's annual Lemelson-MIT Invention Index study released today.Nearly 30 percent of adults chose the cell phone as the most hated invention they cannot live...
WHEATON, Md.-UMTS technology increases data profitability, according to new analysis from the Shosteck Group. According to Shosteck, UMTS is among the most profitable of services because it maximizes AMPU (average margin per user) rather than ARPU (average revenue per user)."UMTS increases the sweet spot...
WASHINGTON-Total spending in the U.S. telecom sector rose 4.7 percent in 2003 to an estimated $720.5 billion, according to a new figures released today by the Telecommunications Industry Association.TIA's 2004 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast said double-digit increases in wireless services, services in support...
LONDON-The average price for one-hour connectivity to public access wireless local area networks in Europe is $8.24, according to a new report by London-based consultancy BroadGroup. In addition, the difference between average pricing for one-hour use and 24-hour-use pricing is 57 percent in Europe,...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-This will be a busy year for RFID technology, according to ABI Research. As manufacturers ready for the 2005 deployments of RFID by Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense, ABI expects news around developing standards, large company entrants, startup software developers...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Symbian will come out the winner in the battle for mobile-phone operating systems, followed closely by Microsoft Corp. and the Linux open source OS, according to research and consulting firm Allied Business Intelligence. However, there will be plenty of market to share,...
DALLAS-New research shows the worldwide market for wireless "infotainment" services will grow from $1.5 billion in 2005 to $7.2 billion in 2008, but such massive success will be contingent on efficient billing models, effective content and improved security and privacy measures.According to a new...
NEW YORK-The market for personal digital assistants should level off to only 20 million in the United States by 2008, with population penetration around 7 percent, according to a new report. "Basic PDAs with excellent PIM functionality will continue to make up the majority...
Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications Inc. again led the wireless industry in N. Moore Capital Ltd.'s ranking of wireless carriers during the third quarter of this year, with the carriers garnering a first-place tie in the ranking of five select operational metrics with 31...
