by Pivot
Category: Mobility
Spectrum Crisis Looms
To keep up with demand, U.S. wireless networks have traditionally doubled their capacity every 30 months, but this trend may not keep up with future demand, argues Michael Kleeman of the Global Information Industry Center…
Republic Wireless Readies $20/Month Unlimited Voice, Text, Data Wireless Service
Republic Wireless is a new mobile phone service from Bandwidth.com that will be launching on November 8, with some features some users will find compelling. Republic Wireless teaserAmong those features is the price, said to…
Evolution of Mobile Data Revenue
Most mobile service providers in developed markets have moved past the point where text messaging revenue is the primary “data service” augmenting declining voice revenues. That was not the case in the late 1990s or…
Mobile Data “Family Plans” are Coming
Service providers have been slow to roll out new “family plans” for broadband access spanning fixed and mobile domains, or including a range of mobile devices. But that doesn’t mean they won’t do so. The…
Indonesian Mobile Op Promotes Skype to Gain Mobile Broadband Subs
The notion that a telco’s business will in the future be anchored by broadband services seems increasingly true for mobile service providers as well. A new initiative by PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel) , which has…
Mobile Broadband Faster than Fixed?
There is an interesting bit of data in the latest report from Akamai on global Internet usage. The global average fixed-line connection speed was 2.6 Mbps, and the global average peak connection speed was 11.4…
640 Million Mobile VoIP Users by 2016
There might be as many as 640 million mobile VoIP clients in use by 2016, but most will be voice apps used in conjunction with other social media, gaming or applications, according to Juniper Research.…
Mobile Commerce at Inflection Point?
One might infer from this data developed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Mary Meeker, KPCB partner, that mobile commerce and mobile payments have hit an inflection point. There have been a couple other mobile…
Mobile Service Providers Becoming “Irrelevant,” CEO of Telefónica’s Digital Division Says
Matthew Key, CEO of Telefonica’s Digital division, says mobile operators must invest in innovation, because they are becoming “commoditized” and their relevance to customers is “decreasing.” That is unusually frank talk from a mobile service…
The Never-Ending Work Day
Some 91 percent of mobile workers admitted in iPass surveys that they checked their smart phones during their otherwise unoccupied moments of the day. The latest iPass survey found that some 38 percent of mobile…