A new study of 2,000 UK adults, commissioned by T-Mobile UK and compiled by YouGov, examined how consumer habits were affected by lack of Internet access in Britain. The results were somewhat interesting — apparently some Brits (15% of respondents) use mobile phones in toilets to bypass office Internet restrictions. Over 25% of UK’s workforce,…
117 million 3G users use UMTS/HSDPA
According to Informa’s World Cellular Information Service quarterly subscriber reports, with 117 million subscribers UMTS/HSDPA is commercially available through twice as many operators as other 3G technologies -– 167 operators in 69 countries, compared to 71 operators in 44 countries offering CDMA EV-DO. In other words – of the 172 million mobile broadband 3G subscribers…
NPD report: U.S. handset market grows 12%; Motorola tops again
Recent report from NPD Group indicates that U.S. handset market grew 12% from a year earlier to 39 million units. The biggest winner is Motorola, which despite struggling on the global market, succeeded to grow in the States, reaching 35% of the market share — up from the last year’s 30%. On the other hand,…
No Apple iPhone Pre-Orders? Not if you goto an AT&T store!
A Channel Checkers survey reveals that the official AT&T policy on prohibiting Apple iPhone pre-orders is not being upheld by AT&T (Cingular) stores. Out of 36 stores surveyed, approximately 64% of store representatives are quietly taking down a waiting list for the upcoming Apple iPhone. It should be noted that 36% of stores reported that…
Survey: Brand’s Country of Origin Not Important
A new study by marketing-research firm, Anderson Analytics, shows that a mobile phone manufacturer’s country of origin has little affect on college students’ perception of the brands’ phones. Among polled college students, 47% thought Motorola was a Japanese brand (come on people, doesn’t anyone remember the US Army radios made by Motorola?), but ranked Motorola…
China phone industry in numbers; 487 million mobile phone users in the country
Talking about numbers. There are 487 million mobile phone and 371 million landline phone users in China, according to the country’s Ministry of Information Industry. Impressed? Wait to see the rate of growth. Since the start of 2006, the number of mobile phone users increased by 6 million, and the number of landline phone users…
Nokia Handsets to Become Lightning Detectors
What else are they going to come up with? Nokia must really be running out of ideas for features to pack into mobile phones. In what must be more marketing than practicality, the n handset manufacturer has started development on software that will allow their handsets to warn the user of incoming lightning. We can’t…
Mobile content discovery on U.S. carriers a disaster
Recently, Strategy Analytics Wireless Media Lab evaluated the mobile portal experience of leading U.S. carriers (T-Mobile was not on the list?) and concluded that Sprint has the best in class US operator portal, marginally ahead of Verizon Wireless. Still, carriers have much to learn, as users still have a hard time browsing around the carriers’…
Generation Y to drive the mobile banking growth in the U.S.
A recent Celent’s report on mobile banking indicates that 35% of U.S. households will access their banking accounts using mobile phones by 2010. Benefits such as quick direct (seamless) payments with a cell phone will drive the growth of the mobile banking services. According to Celent, the so called “mobile contactless payments” will make up…
Young adults prefer mobiles over landlines
A recently conducted federal survey indicates that more than a quarter of young adults have only cell phones, making them the leading edge of a strengthening move away from traditional landline telephones. The data from the survey were based on interviews with people in 13,056 households from June through December last year. Here are some…