Mobile data services struggle against competing standards, while the traditional paging industry brace for PCS, 2-way battle ... 20 years ago this week
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the...
Verizon reported revenue growth in an earnings call this week, but CFO Fran Shammo did make clear the carrier doesn't plan on offering an unlimited data plan despite market pressures.
According to reports, Shammo said in an interview following the earnings call, "At this point,...
The number of traditional “pure-play” mobile operators is in decline as global consolidation continues at pace. Despite declining operator numbers, competition has never been so fierce – it’s just coming from non-traditional players in the market. The battle between operators and over-the-top players is...
By selectively optimizing data, mobile network operators can increase revenue. Although it seems like a paradox, the conventional wisdom that subscribers will pay for extra bytes beyond their data plan has proven generally false.
As subscribers become accustomed to doing more online activities with smartphones, it...
In a new promotion, mobile virtual network operator and Sprint subsidiary Boost Mobile is rewarding customers who pay their bill on time with access to more mobile data for free.
Subscribers can get up to 3 gigabytes of additional mobile data when monthly payments arrive...
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On last week’s episode of Coder’s features special guest, Haseeb Qureshi, CEO and Co-Founder of Audiohand. Audiohand is a mobile app...
Wireless unlimited: Can it survive? How?
One of the great debates over the past several months has been the sustainability of unlimited data. While both Sprint and T-Mobile US offer unlimited plans (although Sprint just eliminated their $50 iPhone offer in favor of “All-In,” described...
Sprint touts data rollover advantages, launches Boost TV service
Sprint has jumped on the rollover data bandwagon by kicking off the ability for prepaid customers to keep up to 30 gigabytes of unused data for an unlimited amount of time.
Sprint said that beginning this week, customers signing...
Verizon Wireless scored most victories in RootMetrics’ latest airport rankings
The nation’s airports have become a significant testbed for evaluating the strength of mobile networks due to the high concentration of people using their wireless devices while traversing such locations. And, according to the latest...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to 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.
Let’s cut to the chase and give you the answer: Yes. Now to the explanation.
I have discussed in...
Mobile operators in Africa are using the power of their medium to combat the spread of Ebola. Their efforts include launching continentwide text-messaging donation campaigns, expanding help lines and analyzing mobile data to better target aid to affected areas.
Many major operators in Africa are participating in...
A new survey from Vasona Networks shows that mobile users' expectations for good mobile data performance are rising, and that operators are most likely to be blamed if they have issues — even with applications, where the carrier's control is limited.
The annual survey showed...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
When mobile services were launched, voice was the primary service offered. Per-user metrics, such as average revenue per user, churn...
Facebook says that 88 million users generated 280 million likes, posts and comments related to the final match of the FIFA World Cup. Meanwhile Twitter says its users were tweeting at the rate of 618,725 tweets per minute.
Allot Communications has been monitoring mobile application traffic...
When T-Mobile US made its announcement, the immediate question was “how much data are they giving away?” Obviously, music streaming services can use a lot of data in a day, depending on how many hours they are streaming.
--Mobile data information company Mobidia says that LTE subscribers are using "dramatically larger amounts of data than 3G subscribers." The company has an LTE user panel that includes millions of subscribers on which it bases its data.
In Hong Kong, for example, the company said that...
A new report from wireless trade association CTIA shows that the amount of wireless data traffic handled by domestic carriers continues its steep growth, up 120% from 2012.
CTIA's annual survey of U.S. wireless operators showed that they handled 3.2 trillion megabytes of data in 2013....
Many Latin American operators have recently started offering free access or access without using data allowance for selected applications, generally to
Amdocs has released its latest State of the Radio Access Network survey, and the numbers show that data absolutely dominates mobile networks, accounting for 98% of traffic -- and that stress on networks from the data tsunami is leading to compromised quality of experience.
The...
Several years ago, when smartphones were beginning to gain popularity, major carriers like AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless and Sprint were actively promoting unlimited data plans to
While Brazil's information and communications technology (ICT) market consolidates becoming the world's 4th largest―behind the U.S., China and Japan―total spending by ICT businesses in the country is expected to reach U.S.$175 billion this year, according to the IDC. This is a predicted growth of...
A new report from JDSU examines data use across more than 150 devices as well as generational technologies, and has found that "use of mobile data and consumer behavior is becoming more extreme."
“For the past three years we’ve seen explosive growth in mobile data...
With mobile data use once again continuing on an upswing, averaging more than 60% annual growth, I predict that we are going to see mobile network operators worldwide looking even deeper
With mobile data usage surging, wireless industry trade association CTIA released a tool that lets consumers see how much bandwidth many popular apps use before they download them.
The site KnowMyApp.org measures 50 of the most popular free and paid apps, showing how many megabytes...
