There’s a major paradox in the wireless industry today. On the one hand it’s never been more difficult to compete. With subscribers heavily concentrated in the hands of the two largest carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless – a situation compounded by the advent of exclusive...
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The 97% of U.S. smartphone owners who make use of mobile apps are saving lots of time, and that translates into saving lots of money, according to an online survey conducted by Harris Interactive for ClickSoftware. U.S. smartphone owners who use mobile apps save up...
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The FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau is seeking further input on the band plan for spectrum to be freed up through the planned voluntary incentive auction of TV broadcast spectrum. That auction will give TV broadcasters the option of relinquishing spectrum in the 600 MHz UHF...
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U.S. consumers are less satisfied with their Internet service providers than they are with any of the other 43 of 44 industries studied in the American Customer Satisfaction Index. ACSI measures customer satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 100 – and in the latest...
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Broadband service operators globally are increasingly making use of residential gateways to provide wireless delivery of multiscreen (mobile phones, PCs and tablets) video to viewers in the home. The percentage of operators offering such services through residential gateways will grow fast, reaching 50% by 2014...
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Worldwide LTE connections will surpass the 100-million milestone this week, with the U.S. and Canada accounting for 57 million of the global total, according to data from Informa Telecoms & Media. There are 172 operators in 70 countries with LTE networks up and running, according...
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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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