Mobile is the lynch pin of the communications sector, driving its growth and accounting for 53 percent of total telecoms revenues, according to the UK regulator Ofcom in their exhaustive…

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A report from Boston Analytics has painted a rosy picture of the Indian mobile content market… “India has 100 million cell phone subscribers plus a growth rate pegged at 50…

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ABI Research has predicted that mobile video messaging will grow at an annual compound growth rate of nearly 60 percent, to hit $10 billion in 2012. Back in August it…

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A new survey from the federal government says that 13.6 percent of American households have abandoned landlines and now only use mobile phones, RCR reports. The stat comes from The…

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Orange UK has released the latest edition of its Digital Media Index, covering June, July and August, with the operator saying its customers are sending 37 percent more picture messages…

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Mobile music will make up almost 30 percent of global retail music value by 2011—around $11 billion, according to UK analysts Understanding & Solutions. The company said that Japan has…

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Nielsen has released some figures on the mobile habits of US tweens (8-12 years), noting that 35 percent of the age group have a mobile phone, 20 percent use SMS…

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Mobile TV, a business that has so far been slow to take off thanks to the chicken-and-egg situation networks and customers find themselves in (most subscribers won’t pay but advertisers…

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Informa Telecoms and Media has estimated that today “worldwide mobile penetration will hit 50 per cent - or around 3.3 billion subscriptions”. Obviously there is no way they can know…

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Mobile adult services will bring in nearly $3.5 billion by 2010 according to Juniper Research. This is a slight increase form a year ago, when Juniper predicted that adult content…

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Analyst company Screen Digest claims there are more than 15 million mobile TV subscribers in Asia but the revenues from the industry are “miserable”, reports RapidTV News. Apparently Japan has…

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The iPhone - it’s sexy but pricey. Seventy-two percent of Brits won’t be buying the gadget - released in the UK on November 9 - according to a Gfk NOP…

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Americans are spending more on mobile phones than they did a year ago: “Americans bought 38 million phones in the third quarter up only 4 percent from the third quarter…

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AFP has an article arguing that advertising will be the key to putting content and services on mobile phones, and backed it up with a swarth of quotes from analysts…

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Seven days after the UK iPhone launch, a survey finds British consumers really don’t want all-singing, all-dancing converged multimedia phones. Just 41 percent of 500 Brits surveyed - in Universal…

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Having put its legal challenge from Nielsen behind it, M:Metrics is moving forward with its mobile advertising monitoring program, M:AdTracker. The Seattle-based mobile data collector has also struck a partnership…

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People emigrating from Latin America to Spain have changed the music scene—at least the digital music scene, according to Billboard charts. The immigrants are not only buying Latin music, they’re…

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Operator Orange has released its mobile music download figures, showing a 70 percent increase in sales in the past six months and an almost doubling of sales between January and…

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Worldwide mobile game revenues declined by 9 percent sequentially in the second quarter of 2007, according to iSuppli, compared to an 11 percent growth sequentially in the first quarter. Although…

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Revenue from sales of mobile video phones will double from 2006 to 2010 according to a report from Infonetics. The report states that mobile video phone sales were $58 billion…

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UK mobile users sent 1.2 billion SMS messages per week during September, according to a Mobile Data Association (MDA) report (via DM Europe). The research shows 4.82 billion texts were…

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I caught up with Blake Krikorian at CTIA, just a few days after the official closing of EchoStar’s acquisition of Sling Media. (No, it won’t be called EchoSling or SlingStar.)…

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Another not-so-positive survey has come out on the mobile TV market, underscoring how far it has to go to reach a critical mass. Only one percent of mobile users have…

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Frost & Sullivan has predicted that growth in off-deck mobile content will result in increased revenues for content aggregators, and estimates that the revenues shares for connection aggregators will be…

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Analyst firm Berg Insight has released a report that there were about 38 million viewers of mobile TV in Japan and South Korea in mid-2007, representing about 78 percent of…

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