by Pivot
Category: Market Trends
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Report: Wireless Data Revenue Will Overtake Voice in 2013
Among large tier one carriers, revenue from wireline data/broadband services surpassed voice revenues some time ago. Verizon says FiOS revenues (which include video) now account for 65% of their consumer wireline revenues. That trend is…
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J.D. Power: Tiered Wireless Data Plan Subscribers Less Satisfied with Customer Care
Wireless customers who’ve signed up for new tiered service offerings are considerably less satisfied with their carrier’s customer care than those with unlimited plans, according to a new J.D. Power and Associates report. Overall satisfaction…
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Report: Packet Based Microwave Links a Growing Option to Replace Leased Lines for Wireless Backhaul
Mobile network operator upgrades and transitions to more cost-effective packet microwave systems will drive a 4.3% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in capital expenditures (Capex) for microwave backhaul equipment, according to a new forecast from…
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World Bank Report: 75% of World Population Now Has Access to a Mobile Phone
Some 3/4 of the world’s human inhabitants now have access to a mobile phone, as the evolution of the wireless market is no longer “so much about the phone, but how it is used,” according…
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ABI: Outdoor Small Cell Growth to See Significant Momentum
The global market for outdoor “small cells”– femtocells, picocells, microcells and carrier Wi-Fi access points– will be worth $14.3 billion by 2017, according to a new ABI report. For 2012, sales of outdoor small cells…
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Calix: 60% of Rural Subscribers Receive 3 Mbps or Less
Broadband access supplier Calix released its latest U.S. Rural Broadband Report, the second in its ongoing series that reveals the broadband usage of rural consumers served by their broadband service provider customers. The report now…
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IHS: Tablets, Game Systems, PCs to Supplant the Set-Top-Box by 2016
The traditional set-top box (STB) is living on borrowed time, at least for one pay-TV market segment–multiscreen service providers–according to a new report from IHS. Multiscreen service providers are defined by IHS as video service…
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Report: Focus on Enterprise for Hosted IP, SMBs for Unified Communications
U.S. spending on IP telephony (IPT) and Unified Communications (UC) will grow an average 10% per year between 2011 and 2016, with spending on Hosted IPT services almost tripling, according to the latest InfoTrack five-year…
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ABI: One Fourth of U.S. Consumers Plan Smartphone Purchase in 2012
US consumers continue to show “healthy interest” in consumer electronic (CE) devices, smartphones and media tablets in particular, indicating healthy CE demand for 2012, according to ABI Research’s latest “Technology Barometer: Connected Home and Computing…
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Report: Internet Video Viewing, Including Video Ads, on the Rise
Americans continue to watch growing amounts of Internet video, with some 181 million US viewers watching nearly 37 billion online videos in March, according to the latest comScore Video Metrix service report. Video ads exceeded…
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Report: Multi-mode LTE Devices Will Dominate by 2016
LTE will come to dominate the global 4G and wireless market during the next five years, with more than 458 million dual-mode TD-LTE and FDD-LTE devices activated by 2016, according to Maravedis-Rethink’s “Global 4G Device…
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Pew Report: U.S. Internet Adoption Stabilizes, But Activities Expand
Internet adoption may have plateaued somewhat in recent years in the U.S., but there has been significant growth in the Internet activities that users engage in, and that’s driving the Internet knowledge gap between online…
