Add another strike to AT&T’s list of 3G-related complaints. A new study from Gartner attacks US wireless carriers for failing to make good on their promises of delivering “high-speed” wireless data through their respective 3G networks. The Big Four (AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and T-Mobile) all failed to meet their advertised mobile “broadband” speeds. The…
Juniper Research: BRIC countries to reach 1.64 mobile phone users by 2013
BRIC economies — Brazil, Russia, India and China — are set to experience tremendous growth in terms of mobile phone users – from 1.21 billion in 2008 to 1.64 billion by 2013. According to Juniper Research, this growth in mobile services uptake will be able to defy the global economic slowdown and recession, due such…
New report says Mobile Industry shouldn’t panic
Informa has done it’s part to quell unrest within the Mobile Industry, that is being driven by global financial turmoil – Informa Telecoms & Media’s latest Global Mobile Market Outlook report suggests there is no reason to panic. Moreover, it also suggests that there opportunities for “investors, operators, and vendors”. It apparently goes on to…
UK: Social networking traffic overtakes traffic to adult sites
Apparently… in the UK last year, traffic to social networking sites was higher than it was to porn providers! That’s something I didn’t see coming (no pun intended), that’s for sure! Fascinatingly, 55% of the visitors to the SN sites are women – I wonder what the balance is for visitors to the porn sites?…
The wider effects of texting…
BBC News has got a great story on it’s website regarding the fact that texting signals much wider trends today…. So for starters. there’s the fact that apparently, over-25s use their index finger to ring a doorbell – whereas under-25s use their thumb – something due to the usage of the thumb for mobile device…
ABI Research: GPS-enabled mobile phones to bypass the economic downturn
Shipments of GPS-enabled handsets will hit a speed-bump in 2009, but will still manage to post year-to-year unit growth through the current economic downturn. According to a new market study by ABI Research, while global mobile phone shipments are expected to drop by 4-5% in 2009, GPS-enabled phones will climb to 240 million units, an…
Survey shows 85% of mobile phone users stumped by badly-designed mobile phones
As mobile phone manufacturers, smartphones especially, pack more features and power into their handsets, it’s inevitable that some users will fall victim to the problem of having too many ill-defined options. It can be a headache trying to navigate through your mobile phone’s menus in your quest to setup email, get a new ringtone, tether…
LG edges into No. 3 spot among mobile phone manufacturers
The global mobile phone industry sees smaller manufacturers constantly jostling for the distinction of being the third-largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world. It’s something of a battle between industry heavy-weights. The latest handset maker to earn that No. 3 badge is South Korea’s LG. Despite rocky economic conditions, LG managed to sell a solid…
Juniper Research: Mobile dating revenues to approach $1.4 billion by 2013
A new Juniper Research report titled “Mobile User-Generated Content: Social Networking, Dating and Personal Content Delivery” has found that new revenue streams from event-based charging and advertising will help to push the value of the mobile dating and chatroom market to nearly $1.4 billion by 2013. This comes as a result of a burgeoning user-generated…
ABI Research: Nearly half a billion mobile financial services customers in 2013
Today we’re presenting you with another mobile financial services report. This one’s coming from ABI Research, which argues that mobile financial services are very likely to become the “next big thing” that will attract many millions of consumers. According to the research company’s senior analyst Mark Beccue, mobile financial services have the potential to be…