Wireless Facts and Figures

As the market digests news of Nortel’s financial failings, a new report forecasts the rest of the global telecom equipment vendor market also will have to gird for a rough …

More Americans are pulling the plug on their landline telephone service and opting to live in households with only wireless devices, according to a recent federal report.In a survey conducted …

Global mobile revenues are expected to exceed $1.03 trillion by 2013, generated by more than 5.3 billion subscribers, according to a new study from Informa Telecoms & Media.At the end …

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Forty percent of new network digital display platform installations will make use of SMS technology for interactivity by 2012, up from just 5% last year, according to a new report …

Resurrection of the spectrum cap could prove tricky for the Federal Communications Commission next year when Democrats seize control of the agency, given President-elect Barack Obama’s call for expanded broadband …

U.S. carriers may say they’re swimming through the current rough economic waters un-affected, but one factor keeping them afloat is the continued support from investors. While they might not be …

Sprint Nextel Corp. maintained its position at the top of Pali Research’s customer care survey during the third quarter. Sprint Nextel is not a common recipient of such news (aside …

Memory cards are proving to be the largest revenue generator of all mobile handset accessories, despite shipping fewer units than other accessories like chargers and batteries, according to a new …

Best Buy Co. Inc. has recently taken a deeper step into the wireless industry. The retailer sells 90 different handsets from nine different carriers in its stores and recently began …

Shipments of home wireless audio and video connectivity products – including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UWB and 60 GHz – are expected to reach nearly 700 million worldwide by 2013, up from …

Various metrics for how the handset market is faring at this juncture are swirling like the snow in a paperweight designed to be shaken for pleasant effect. But this swirl …

A recent report from Visant Strategies found wireless backhaul needs in the United States are extending beyond base stations and into middle-of-the-network elements.“As carriers deploy HSPA, WIMAX and EV-DO Rev …

Mobile coupons are expected to reach 200 million redemptions worldwide by 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research.The mobile coupon market is most mature in Japan and Korea …

The willingness of business customers to adopt mobile instant messaging has more to do with familiarity with PC-based IM services than with mobility, according to a recent study from ABI …

Consumers have embraced Bluetooth-enabled mono headsets for mobile phones, but getting them to accept stereo Bluetooth headsets is another story.A new study from IMS Research predicts sales of mono Bluetooth …

The first responder terminal market is expected to reach $3.6 billion by 2013 from about $1 billion last year, according to a new forecast from ABI Research.Market growth is being …

The difficult global economy is not hampering growth of mobile messaging services, according to a new report from ABI Research.The firm said mobile messaging service revenues are expected to grow …

Amid the macro-economic slowdown that threatens typically brisk sales in the crucial fourth quarter, there’s at least one silver lining. Smartphone sales are up (you knew that) and that has …

Shipments of ultra-mobile devices, which encompass ultra-mobile PCs, netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices, are expected to exceed 200 million units in 2013, according to a recent study from ABI Research.Netbooks …

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. claimed more than 22% market share in the United States last quarter, edging out the American icon, Motorola Inc., according to data released today by Strategy …

The strongest growth in Apple Inc. 3G iPhone sales is occurring among consumers who earn below the median household income, according to comScore/M:Metrics. While nearly half of iPhone owners earn …

Well-informed consumers looking for a new handset typically turn to online research first, using search capabilities and often searching for a specific handset, according to a new study of online …