AUSTIN, Texas – Mobile advertisements. They’re in our favorite free applications and games, and an everyday part of life for every mobile consumer. Yet, do we really pay much attention to their form or function? Industry experts from Havas Media, Starcom MediaVest and Renegade...
In today’s “socially connected” world, social media giants like Twitter and Google have become top targets for hackers and mobile devices are adding fuel to the fire. Today, hacks over social media
It’s always exciting to think about what the future holds for the hyperdynamic world of mobile. From my vantage point in the middle of the mobile universe, helping the world’s mobile service providers and brands connect,
A recent report from the GSMA predicts an increasingly tough few years ahead for mobile carriers, with global revenues dropping 16% by 2017. With subscriber penetration
Three of the nation’s four largest wireless operators have agreed to stop charging customers for text messages sent by un-authorized third-parties, also known as “cramming.” The operators include AT&T Mobility, Sprint and T-Mobile US.
The agreement covers 45 states that have been engaged in conversations...
There are eight minutes left in the second quarter and the excitement in the stadium is palpable. The roar of the crowd barely drowns out the growls from your stomach. The game is too exciting
Latin American telecom operators have seen a slowdown in the growth of messaging services, but they haven't been cannibalized yet by over-the-top players, as has happened in Europe. A recent Acision Monitor of Mobile Value Added Services report showed that total mobile service revenue...
Dialogic said that its SS7 signaling server has been deployed by Spanish operator Lleida.net to enhance its SMS connectivity with other operators, and that the carrier seeking to connect with a broader range of other carriers for SMS service closed on nearly 200 operator...
This won't be the year that near field communication (NFC) takes off in Latin America, since short message service (SMS) solutions are likely to see increased adoption. Although Frost & Sullivan chose mobile payments as one of the region's telecom trends for 2013, Renato...
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the first SMS text message, and while the mobile industry has been commemorating this game-changing technology, it’s just as important to note the significant role
Though mobile users have embraced traditional messaging services, today’s converging communication environment offers a wide range of alternatives. In many ways, subscriber loyalty is shifting from the mobile network operator
A new free app allows users to receive and answer texts from the comfort of their own computer keyboard — no matter what type of computer, operating system or mobile phone they have. Using a cloud-based account, the app dubbed Mysms can synchronize texts...
Mobile broadband demand will push mobile service revenue to U.S $976 billion by 2016, according to the market research firm Infonetics Research. Telecom operators in Latin America are expected to take in close to $150 billion from mobile voice, broadband and messaging services or...
Text messaging has long been a cash cow for mobile operators, currently generating about 20% of their revenue. But over-the-top services such as Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp, Twitter and Apple’s iMessage are rapidly siphoning off SMS revenue.
A new, potentially disruptive phenomenon called network unaffiliated virtual operators, or NUVOs, has emerged in the North American e-commerce marketplace.
Mexico has the largest short message service market in Latin America and is the second largest mobile market in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the third edition of the Acision Mobile Value Added Service Monitor. It reports value added services sales in...
Personal identity is an intriguing issue philosophy – I spent countless hours in university debating whether or not you are still yourself if you forget everything about your past, or your brain is moved to another body, or somebody else’s brain is transplanted to your body.
At this year’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, one wondered sometimes if large sections of our industry have equally lost touch with what consumers want.
Looking to the corporate market, global mobile messaging provider Acision unveiled a stand-alone messaging network, the Acision enterprise network (AEN) at Mobile World Congress 2012. The solution will provide a single point of entry to connect operators, businesses and consumers. The company says it...
Although more and more mobile phone users in Brazil are adopting short message service (SMS) as a means of communication, the Brazilian SMS market remains smaller than other countries in the region. In Brazil, text messaging represents 37.1% of total value-added service (VAS) revenues...
The increasing use of IP-based social messaging services by consumers on their smartphones cost telecom operators $8.7 billion lost SMS revenues in 2010 and $13.9 billion in 2011, according to a new report by Ovum.
2011 was another year of diversity for the mobile industry. With a raft of new smart devices, tablets, applications, services and new pricing plans, consumers and enterprises alike have had more choice than ever when making use of the mobile device.
Natural and manmade disasters are always going to overload wireless networks as frantic people try to contact loved ones, find out what the hell is happening and in today's society, update their status, comment and upload video to social-media networks.Yesterday's earthquake along the East...
Natural and manmade disasters are always going to overload wireless networks as frantic people try to contact loved ones, find out what the hell is happening and in today’s society, update their status, comment and upload video to social-media networks.
Yesterday’s earthquake along the East...
