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Acision: 43 billion text messages sent for the New Year; 23 billion through our systems

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2008-01-20 13:43:28 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...billion text messages to wish their loved ones a happy New Year - of which more than 23 billion were successfully processed through Acisions systems To put numbers in a perspective, Acision said that global SMS traffic over the 2007/2008 New Year period increased by 30% compared to the same period last year As expected, the growth was...
 
 
 
 
 
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Breaking: Verizon Wireless acquires Alltel for $28.1 billion!

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2008-06-05 15:31:04 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...billion. Based on Alltel's projected net debt at closing of $22.2 billion, the aggregate value of the transaction is $28.1 billion Both mobile operators use a common network technology, and Verizon Wireless expects to realize synergies with a net present value, after integration costs, of more than $9 billion driven by reduced capital and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Mobile Entertainment to Increase to $64 Billion by 2012

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2008-01-23 15:27:47 by Patrick Birmingham in Cell Phone Digest
...billion in 2007 to more than $64 billion by 2012. Other mobile entertainment sectors include User-generated Content, Gambling, Adult and Infotainment The report says that mobile music will remain the largest single sector of the mobile entertainment industry over the next five years. Revenues from music will rise from nearly $9 billion in...
 
 
 
 
 
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Informa: Femtocells could deliver over $5 billion in savings

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2008-08-26 20:43:13 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...billion investment in macrocell capacity thats in case operators have no spare capacity in their existing networks and they have to build this capacity from scratch. In practice, however, when operators invest in widening the coverage of their networks they systematically create capacity redundancies. Assuming that 33% of the required...
 
 
 
 
 
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Juniper Research: Mobile music revenues to approach $18 billion by 2012

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2008-01-11 18:40:51 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...billion by 2012 Report author Dr Windsor Holden suggests that once consumers have taken the time and effort to build up an extensive playlist, they will be increasingly reluctant to unsubscribe from that service and from the operator, thereby providing a significant boost to the ARPU levels However, the report also states that as 3G services...
 
 
 
 
 
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Mobile Phones: It took 26 years to reach 3.3 billion sold

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2008-02-24 17:48:16 by Stefan Constantinescu in IntoMobile
...billion active cellphones on a planet of some 6.6 billion humans in about 26 years. This is the fastest global diffusion of any technology in human history faster even than the polio vaccine I've ran into this scenario several times, I'm sure the other Into Mobile writers have as well, where people ask me why I'm so interested in these damn...
 
 
 
 
 
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Verizon customers sent nearly 20 billion messages in February 2008!

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2008-04-01 15:27:39 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...billion text messages. That's almost 305 SMS sent per user on average. Last year in June, somewhat smaller Verizon's customer base (they did grow in the meantime) sent more than 10 billion text messages Commenting on the release, Verizon Wireless' CMO said Mike Lanman: "The volume of text messages being sent and received by Verizon Wireless...
 
 
 
 
 
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ABI Research: Mobile location based services revenue to reach $13.3 billion worldwide by 2013

2008-04-09 15:58:22 by dusanb in IntoMobile
 
...billion by 2013, up from an estimated $515 million during 2007 Even though personal navigation is expected to remain the most popular consumer application over the next several years, other services like friend-finder, local information searches, family tracker applications, and enterprise applications - will all find niches under the LBS...
 
 
 
 
 
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Juniper Research: Retailers to send almost 3 billion mobile coupons by 2011

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2008-04-28 08:22:33 by dusanb in IntoMobile