Among large tier one carriers, revenue from wireline data/broadband services surpassed voice revenues some time ago. Verizon says FiOS revenues (which include video) now account for 65% of their consumer wireline revenues. That trend is now impacting wireless services too,…
Wireless customers who’ve signed up for new tiered service offerings are considerably less satisfied with their carrier’s customer care than those with unlimited plans, according to a new J.D. Power and Associates report. Overall satisfaction totaled 748 on a 1,000-point…
Mobile network operator upgrades and transitions to more cost-effective packet microwave systems will drive a 4.3% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in capital expenditures (Capex) for microwave backhaul equipment, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. Mobile operators will…
Some 3/4 of the world’s human inhabitants now have access to a mobile phone, as the evolution of the wireless market is no longer “so much about the phone, but how it is used,” according to a World Bank-infoDev report…
The global market for outdoor “small cells”– femtocells, picocells, microcells and carrier Wi-Fi access points– will be worth $14.3 billion by 2017, according to a new ABI report. For 2012, sales of outdoor small cells will surpass 1 million units,…
Broadband access supplier Calix released its latest U.S. Rural Broadband Report, the second in its ongoing series that reveals the broadband usage of rural consumers served by their broadband service provider customers. The report now summarizes data captured from 50…
The traditional set-top box (STB) is living on borrowed time, at least for one pay-TV market segment–multiscreen service providers–according to a new report from IHS. Multiscreen service providers are defined by IHS as video service providers who offer pay-TV services…
U.S. spending on IP telephony (IPT) and Unified Communications (UC) will grow an average 10% per year between 2011 and 2016, with spending on Hosted IPT services almost tripling, according to the latest InfoTrack five-year forecast. Hosted IPT spending by…
US consumers continue to show “healthy interest” in consumer electronic (CE) devices, smartphones and media tablets in particular, indicating healthy CE demand for 2012, according to ABI Research’s latest “Technology Barometer: Connected Home and Computing Research Service” update. Twenty-five percent…
Americans continue to watch growing amounts of Internet video, with some 181 million US viewers watching nearly 37 billion online videos in March, according to the latest comScore Video Metrix service report. Video ads exceeded 8 billion for the first…
LTE will come to dominate the global 4G and wireless market during the next five years, with more than 458 million dual-mode TD-LTE and FDD-LTE devices activated by 2016, according to Maravedis-Rethink’s “Global 4G Device Forecast 2012-2016.” Come 2016, LTE…
Internet adoption may have plateaued somewhat in recent years in the U.S., but there has been significant growth in the Internet activities that users engage in, and that’s driving the Internet knowledge gap between online and offline adults wider, according…
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