Fixed and mobile data traffic continues to grow by leaps and bounds across the U.S., North America and worldwide, according to Sandvine’s “Global Internet Phenomena Report: 1H 2013.” Mean monthly fixed access network usage amounted to 44.7 gigabytes (GB) through the first six months of...
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Apple continued to top the ranks of the world’s smartphone manufacturers and Google’s Android continued as the #1 smartphone platform during the three month period ending March, according to the latest from the comScore MobiLens market research service. Apple smartphones accounted for 39% of OEM...
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More and more Americans are turning to TV set alternatives to watch video, according to a new report from Leichtman Research Group (LRG). Twenty-seven percent of U.S. adults watch video daily on devices other than TV sets and 53% do so on a weekly basis....
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Opportunities to provide tech support are growing in the U.S. as home network routers are installed in more homes, according to a new whitepaper by Parks Associates and Support.com. Seventy-eight percent of U.S. broadband households have a home network router and that’s driving demand for...
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Fifty-six percent of all U.S. broadband households have at least one TV connected to the Internet – be it a direct connection to a smart TV or indirectly via ancillary devices, such as game consoles and Blu-ray players, according to a new report from The...
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For the first time, more smartphones than feature phones were shipped worldwide in 1Q 2013 as the global market for mobile phones grew 4% year over year, according to the latest data from IDC. Vendors shipped a total of 418.6 million mobile phones in 1Q13...
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If an ISP’s highest-margin product is projected to have demand growth of an order of magnitude growth, or more, while other products with lower profit margins are declining, should we not expect more bandwidth to allocated to the fast-growing, highest-margin service? Internet bandwidth, despite all...
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Usage of single-purpose consumer electronics (CE) devices is declining as users increase use of multi-purpose and mobile smartphones and tablets, according to a study from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). U.S. consumers continue to use standalone CE devices, such as digital cameras and laptop PCs,...
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Nothing like a little gigabit fiber to stir up the competition in any given market. Austin, Texas is becoming somewhat of a broadband competitive hotbed ever since Google announced their intention to bring Google Fiber there. In a phrase, the natives are restless. First AT&T...
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Smartphone and tablet gaming is growing fast, so fast, in fact, that IDC forecasts the number of paying smartphone and tablet gamers will surpass that of gaming-optimized handsets (GOH), such as Nintendo’s 3DS and Sony’s PlayStation Vita, this year and continue growing rapidly through 2017....
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Nearly one-fifth (19%) of U.S. Internet users had download speeds of 10 Mbps or higher as of the fourth quarter of 2012, according to new research released today from Akamai Technologies. This is a 5.5% increase from the previous quarter and nearly double (90%) what...
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Though still strong, wireless subscriber growth is slowing in the U.S., according to wireless operators surveyed by consulting firm PwC. According to the survey, wireless is nearing saturation, with the U.S. market having “reached a level where most of the addressable market has a mobile...
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