November 7th, 2010
Goldman Sachs’ investment research arm expects a coming boom in wireless data consumption fueled by 4G wireless services and the rise of mobile tablet computers.
Goldman projects that wireless data traffic will account for the majority of traffic sent over wireless networks as measured by minutes of use equivalents starting next year. From there, Goldman says wireless data usage will surge by more than six-fold by the year 2020 even as wireless voice usage will remain essentially the same. In terms of revenues, Goldman expects wireless data to generate nearly triple over the next two years, shooting up to $205 billion by the end of 2012.
Read more at NetworkWorld here >>
August 25th, 2010
A new survey of hundreds of wireless industry executives from around the world found strong support for a switch from flat-rate mobile data plans to usage-based models.
The survey, conducted for the London law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP by the Economist Intelligence Unit, found that 48 percent of executives surveyed predicted that carriers will focus on developing new mobile data pricing models over the next three years. Additionally, the survey showed that 55 percent of those surveyed agreed usage-based models are coming to mature markets, and 47 percent said flat-rate data plans are crimping their ability to increase revenue.
Read more at FierceWireless
here >>
August 18th, 2010
Mobile ad network Millennial Media
is releasing its monthly mobile mix report today. According to Nielsen, Millennial’s ads reach 63 million of a total of 77 million mobile web users in the U.S., or 81% of the U.S. mobile web. In July, Android OS grew at a faster clip than in June, with requests increasing by 47 percent, compared to a 23 percent growth in the previous month. Since January, Android OS requests have grown 690 percent. Android has also surpassed RIM to became the number two OS on the Millennial network (surpassing RIM).
Apple ad requests increased 24 percent month-over-month, and are up 15 percent since January. However, iPad requests continue to show massive growth, rising 327 percent in July. RIM ad requests increased 18 percent month-over-month, rising 66 percent since January.
July 28th, 2010
A forthcoming study by Validas shows 53 percent of all cellphone subscribers are data users, up from 42 percent last year. The average data usage per subscriber is now 145.8MB a month compared with 96.8MB a month last year. Most of that is simply the result of more data users, though it does suggest those with data capabilities are using slightly more each month.
Read more at MOBILE.BLORGE here >>
July 23rd, 2010
Fortune’s Stephanie Mehta asked Ralph De la Vega, President & CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, if his relationship with Apple has been a net positive or negative experience. Not surprisingly, De la Vega says it was a tremendous net positive…
Read more at TechCrunch here >>
July 15th, 2010
But what’s actually even more interesting is the number of people that go online on a mobile device. At the end of June 2010 there were almost 277 million mobile Internet users in China. That is more than the total number of people that are online in the US. Amazing how this number is growing (44 million new users over the past 6 months), and I think it’s just the beginning. Phones with wifi only now start to appear on the Chinese market (for a long time phones were not allowed to have wifi here) and also 3G is taking off after it was launched in 2009…
Read more at Shangheid Weblog here >>
July 1st, 2010
In characteristically strong terms, 3 chief executive Kevin Russell recanted his company’s earlier policy of using the term ‘unlimited’ when advertising its voice, text messages and mobile data plans, when fair use policies were in place. Anyone going over 3’s 500MB monthly fair use data limit gets charged 10p per megabyte, or £100 per gigabyte, over that cap…
Read more at ZDNet here >>
June 24th, 2010
One outcome of AT&T Mobility’s decision earlier this month to put an end to its unlimited data plans in favor of usage-based plans (new smartphone customers pay $15 per month for 200 MB of data or $25 per month for 2 GB of data), is that it highlights the need for the mobile developer community to design network-efficient applications….
Read more at Fierce Wireless here >>
June 14th, 2010
As unlimited mobile data plans become a thing of the past for many wireless smartphone subscribers, developers will have to think more carefully about how efficiently their apps use network resources. For the past couple of years app developers haven’t had to worry too much about whether their applications consumed a lot of data resources on wireless networks. Cell phone carriers, such as AT&T and others around the world like O2 in the U.K., offered smartphone users, especially iPhone customers, unlimited data plans…
Read more at CNET here >>
