Sprint is launching a new “call by name” service called “StarStar Me,” that lets customers use a name they choose in place of their mobile telephone number. StarStar Me allows consumers to choose a name, nickname or unique word in…
Mobility
Clearwire LTE Construction Plans a Bit Less Clear
Clearwire says it is evaluating its Long Term Evolution 4G network plans, to align spending with expected revenue, and “may elect to delay a portion of our deployment schedule accordingly.”In one sense, that is not helpful to Clearwire at a…
Mobile Now has the Volume of Users, Both for Voice and Internet Access
It isn’t hard to argue that mobile is the preferred way most people around the globe want to use voice services. Globally, there were 87 mobile phone subscriptions for every 100 people in 2011. There were in 2011 about 18…
38% of U.S. Households are Wireless-Only
Just over 38 percent of U.S. consumers surveyed by iGR indicate they do not have a landline phone, with service from any telco, ISP or cable company (they are mobile only households). Of those respondents who do buy fixed network…
How Much More Can Communications Spending Grow?
How much can consumer spending on communications, including mobility services, broadband and other services continue to grow, as a percentage of total household spending? The answer to that question could well determine the health of the global telecom business. And…
Big New Markets Aren’t Always Easy to Seize
Big new markets do not automatically translate into big profits for ecosystem participants in those new markets. That’s just one of the problems application and service providers face in new businesses such as mobile advertising, which just about any observer…
Big New Revenue Opportunities Take Time to Develop
Machine-to-machine service revenues represent 0.5 percent of total mobile operator service revenues at the moment, according to Informa Telecoms & Media. And some observers might say even that estimate could be too high, considering that some service providers actually consider…
“Unlimited” or Shared Data Plans Mostly are Marketing Platforms, at the Moment
The overwhelming majority of customers on AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon networks studied by NPD Connected Intelligence don’t even use 2 GBytes worth of mobile data per month, which suggests most consumers do not need “unlimited” service plans. For that…
We’ve Made Lots of Progress in Global Voice, Broadband, Internet
Sometimes we forget how fast the communications, Internet and device industries have solved problems that seemed intractable just several decades ago. Between 1995 and 2000, the world’s population rose by about eight percent. Meanwhile, the number of fixed network phone…
Dumb Pipe, Yes; Smart Pipe, Sometimes; Telco 2.0, Almost Never
Access service providers do not much like the notion that they primarily are “pipe providers,” much less “dumb pipe” providers. That has lead to much consideration of how access providers can compete with the application providers (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon,…
Users Now are “Untethered” More than ‘Mobile”
The typical employed person, in a wide range of countries, is connected to the Internet nearly 10 hours a day, often by Wi-Fi, with mobile devices used inside the home about 2.5 hours a day, as well, two studies suggest….
How Much Money Do Smart Phone Owners Actually Spend on International Calls?
It’s always tough to extrapolate from a sample to an entire population. If the sample is significantly non-representative of the wider population, it can be quite misleading to generalize sample results to the wider population. Extraplating from the results of…
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