WASHINGTON—Total wireless revenues increased more than 22 percent during the last half of last year to $34.1 billion compared with $27.8 billion during the last half of 2000, according to the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Semi-Annual Wireless Industry Survey.The jump in revenues was...
NEW YORK—By 2005, 130 million wireless devices, weighing in at a total of 65,000 tons, will be discarded annually in the United States, according to "Waste in the Wireless World: The Challenge of Cell Phones," a new study from Inform, a national environmental research...
LOS ANGELES—Driscoll-Wolf Marketing & Research's latest survey on consumer interest in location-based services found, among other things, that 53 percent of those surveyed who use a cellular phone at least once a week would pay $10 or more for location capability on their phone.Approximately...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The United Telecom Council's recently released report "What Utilities Buy: Evaluating the Market for Telecom Equipment and Services Sold to Utilities" covers the results of a survey of utility telecom managers and engineers throughout the United States."This report is a breath of fresh...
WASHINGTON—A new report claims the costs of arbitration—billed as a low-cost alternative to lawsuits and required in service contracts for mobile phones and other electronic contracts—are so expensive that consumers drop complaints. Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, said arbitrators tend to favor...
WARREN, Mich.—General Motors Corp. and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced they plan to conduct a multi-year driver distraction study.GM Research & Development will spend more than $1.6 million during the next three years....
VIENNA, Va.—There are opportunities for newspapers across the country to sell news and information to wireless users, but the service must be tailored, personal and unobtrusive, according to a new study from the Newspaper Association of America.The study, "Info to Go, Key Findings and...
LA JOLLA, Calif.—Consumer cell phone service rates have fallen to about 10 cents per anytime minute over the past six months, according to a recent study by ARS Inc.The study showed that overall per-minute fees for all plans decreased 13 percent from about 11.68...
LONDON—Mobile commerce is poised for a take-off within the next few years, according to a new Frost & Sullivan study.The consulting firm expects trade worth $25 billion to be generated through mobile payments in 2006, which equates to about 15 percent of online e-commerce...
SAN FRANCISCO—A majority of Americans would prefer to buy a cellular phone from a local independent retailer in their neighborhood, according to a recent study commissioned by LetsTalk.com.The study, which interviewed 1,004 Americans, showed: 37 percent would choose a local independent retailer; 19 percent...
ORLANDO, Fla.—The Yankee Group and Sentori Inc. announced an emerging niche within the MVNO wireless market space during a press conference at CTIA Wireless 2002 earlier this week.The new niche players, mainly affinity and specialty channel MVNOs, offer billing and customer care options to...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.—To be successful, pay-per-use applications need to meet three criteria: an accurate bill, happy customers and happy developers, according to a new report from Probe Research Inc.The company's research director, David Chamberlain, said "happy developers" are those being adequately compensated for their...
ARLINGTON, Va.—International corporate IT industry spending on wireless applications will reach $680,000, a 94-percent increase from 2001 spending, according to a new report from the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) and the Wireless IT Research Group (WIRG).According to the study, 51 percent...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.—InterDigital Communications Corp. said it is collaborating with Virginia Tech.'s Center for Wireless Telecommunications to sponsor and help guide research on cognitive radio models for wireless systems.The research will examine "existing models across a number of disciplines to drive radio architecture,...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.—There is a clearly defined need to adopt fleet management systems for tracking and remotely controlling vehicles in an emergency, as well as provide added value, according to a new report from Allied Business Intelligence Inc. titled, "Fleet Management Systems: A Global...
LONDON—The UMTS Forum, an association that promotes global UMTS adoption, released a study stating that revenue from third-generation networks will reach $320 billion in 2010 alone and around $1 trillion over the decade. The group, which released the study to gauge 3G services demand...
LOS ANGELES—The latest Econ One survey showed that costs of cell phone service in the United States dropped greatly during 2001, especially in those cities that traditionally offer the highest prices and in calling plans that offer the most airtime.The average cost of monthly...
BOSTON—2002 will probably offer up the same struggles the wireless industry saw in 2001, according to a recent Yankee Group study.The Yankee Group highlighted next-generation networks, including the deployment of CDMA2000 and wideband CDMA in Asia as well as deployment of GPRS in Europe...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.—Long-term growth in the wireless handset component market will be "impressive," according to a recently released Allied Business Intelligence Inc. report. ABI predicts that increased demand for mobile handsets will fuel growth in the component sector, causing the cellular integrated circuit market's...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Lack of content will spell the demise of GPRS offerings across Europe, according to a new report from Strand Consult, an independent consultancy based in Denmark. The lack of content is due to a lack of revenue sharing models and roaming agreements, which...
DALLAS—Most consumers feel safe just owning a cellular phone, according to a recent WebViews survey conducted by Cellular One.In fact, when asked "Does having a cell phone make you feel safer?" 92 percent of the 1,199 respondents answered yes. Those who answered yes elaborated...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Use of wireless devices is skyrocketing, according to the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's recently released mid-year 2001 data survey results.According to the survey, total billable minutes of use hit almost 200 billion, up 77 percent from June of 2000. In addition, overall...
WHEATON, Md.—Sales in the telecommunications industry will begin to rise in the first quarter of 2002, a new Shosteck Group study optimistically predicts. "However, this does not mean that things will go back to the way they were prior to the slowdown," warns Jane...
BOSTON—A recent Yankee Group Report, "High-Frequency Fixed Wireless: More than Just LMDS," finds that despite the disillusionment caused by slow growth in 2001, there is a market for high frequency, point-to-multipoint products. However, the market for these solutions is still emerging, and there are...
