Just how many SMS text messages do US wireless users go through each month, day, or hour? According to VeriSign, a veritable boatload – a technical term, to be sure. The Mountain View, CA.-based company has announced that it ferried about 95.4 billion SMS text messages between wireless carriers in the 1H 2008. The volume…
Wired’s iPhone 3G data speed survey shows wireless networks as weak point
Hardware, software, firmware, or networks. No one really knows what’s going on with the iPhone 3G that’s causing all these network problems, but new data points to the problems being rooted in the wireless network itself. At this point, we can rule out the iPhone’s antenna as causing the network issues. And, Apple has announced…
Informa: Femtocells could deliver over $5 billion in savings
Informa Telecoms & Media expects the number of femtocells deployed by the end of 2013 to exceed the 40 million mark, with 22 million net additions in 2013 alone. This installed base could help operators to make significant savings by offloading up to 8% of total mobile traffic to fixed networks via the end-user subscriber…
AdMob: Africa’s mobile web traffic increased 21% from Q1 to Q2 2008
Mobile advertising marketplace, AdMob, recently released July Mobile Metrics Report, which focuses on increasing usage of the Mobile Web in Africa and worldwide mobile browser marketshare. According to AdMob, mobile Internet usage is growing across Africa, with particularly strong growth in Nigeria and Egypt. The company has seen traffic increase 21% since they began tracking…
iPhone 3G radio antenna is just fine – look elsewhere
This isn’t going to be any consolation for those iPhone 3G owners out there going through the trials and tribulations associated with unreliable iPhone 3G performance. From sluggish 3G data connectivity to signal strength issues, the iPhone 3G has been plagued with problems. Apple even released their iPhone 2.0.2 OS to help solve some of…
EMEA market for Smartphones grows 28%
The EMEA market for smartphone is up 28%, according to Canalys, that is. The monitoring and stats company has said that shipments have broken the 10mn barrier now, with Nokia accounting for about 80% of all smartphones sales. RIM was also mentioned as a player here, and HTC are fast-approaching as being the vendor of…
Top Ten US Wireless Carriers
RCRWireless has compiled a list of the Top Ten US Wireless Carriers for 2Q 2008. There’s no big surprise here, with AT&T still leading Verizon as the top two US wireless carriers. But, the data is still interesting to look at. We see that AT&T is still No. 1 in the rankings, but only just.…
The solar-powered mobile phone case/necktie is here!
Now this is just the kind of convergence we’ve been waiting for! The solar-powered necktie might not exactly be the idea in mobile convergence, but with photo-voltaic cells woven in to the necktie’s fabric and a pouch to hold your mobile phone, the solar-powered necktie is the epitome of “geek-chic.” Or maybe just “geek.” The…
Juniper Research: Mobile money transfer revenues to exceed $5 billion by 2013
A new Juniper Research’s analysis, “Mobile Payment Markets: Money Transfers and Remittances 2008-2013,” forecasts that Service Provider revenues, derived from mobile money transfer services and remittances, will exceed $5 billion globally by 2013 – based on the commissions and charges that they will acquire from the gross value of money transactions made. According to the…
JupiterResearch: Wireless subscriber growth will slow between 2008 and 2013
JupiterResearch has found that wireless subscriber growth is slowing due to market saturation. The research company predicts U.S. carriers will add only 26 million new subscribers in the next five years to reach 266 million in 2013. Adoption by teens and young adults will become nearly ubiquitous as the majority of the demographic already have…