Telecompetitor

Shipments of 802.11n products propelled a 4.8% year-to-year gain in the global WLAN (Wireless Local Area network) marketplace in Q1 2010, though they fell 9.4% on a quarterly basis, according to the latest research from InStat. In contrast, shipments of wireless 802.11g devices fell 18% quarter-to-quarter ...

Data does indeed represent growth for wireless telcompetitors, cost optimization analysis firm Validas notes, but voice remains their main source of revenue. Wireless voice revenue continues to surpass data revenue by a ratio of 3.6:1, more than 4:1 if pay-per-use, overage ...

Despite current economic conditions, 25% more Americans are using mobile phones for Internet access, email or instant messaging than a year ago, according to a new report released yesterday from the ...

Mobile VoIP minutes will increase significantly by 2015, increasing from 15 billion this year to 470.6 billion, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Growth is expected across all regions, but in developed markets particularly given the "increasing ...

Global deployments of 4G wireless networks will peak between 2012 and 2014, according to a new report from Infonetics Research. This is a “realistic timeframe when an equipment and device ecosystem based upon an IMT-Advanced definition of 4G ...

Actual broadband speeds have taken on increasing importance recently – so much so the FCC included it as a part of the national broadband plan process and launched some tools of its own to measure it. They even hired...

Viewers spent more than 3.1 billion hours watching video-on-demand content last year and 'active users' are ordering an average of 16.4 free programs, 8.7 subscription programs and 2.0 movies on demand, according to the Rentrak State of VOD: Trend Report 2009. Rentrak's OnDemand ...

One of every four U.S. homes--24.5%--did not have a landline but did have at least one wireless telephone during the second half of 2009 according to preliminary results of the National Health Interview Survey, July-December, a 1.8% increase over 2009's ...

The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) published their annual NTCA Wireless Survey, revealing stepped up activity for rural carriers in the wireless space. NTCA represents the interests of 580 small rural ILECs, both cooperative and commercial. Nearly 50% of their members ...

Regional bells and other telcos continued to lose ground to cable companies on the residential wireline and broadband fronts in 2009, with wireless substitution accounting for 60% of the loss in the former. Meanwhile, the relatively small number of 'TV cord cutters' in the US continues to grow--800 thousand now, ...