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The perception that broadband services are too expensive to inspire mass adoption is supported by a new study from Reed Electronics Research. Following analysis of fourteen European countries, it was found that the ‘trigger’ price necessary to encourage widespread take-up of broadband was E39 or £25 per month. As a point of reference, BT’s standard… Continue reading Broadband Prices Must Come Down, Says Study

Mobile internet services attracted an average of 12 million page impression per day during November, according to the latest collective WAP figures released by the Mobile Data Association (MDA) and the UK’s four GSM operators. This brings the total figure for November to 366 million page impressions, which represents a 5% growth per month in… Continue reading UK WAP Services Continue To Show Growth

Service availability is no longer a major impediment to the growth of broadband in the US but the majority of internet users are yet to be convinced of the merits of switching to high-speed services. A new survey from InStat/MDR has revealed that less than one in ten dial-up internet subscribers are unable to access… Continue reading Broadband Providers Must Change Strategy To Woo Subscribers, Says InStat/MDR

A price war could see the value of the voice services market in Western Europe fall from E185 billion to E170 billion in the next five years, warns telecoms consultancy Analysys. In a new report, The Future for Fixed-Mobile Substitution: options for fixed and mobile operators, Analysys claims that a price war would result in… Continue reading Voice Price War Would Cost €15 Billion, Says Analysys

NTL has announced that it now has half a million residential broadband internet customers. The cable company launched the new 1-Megabit service earlier this year, claiming that a combination of a powerful cable modem and NTL’s fibre optic network make the service twenty times faster than a normal dial-up internet connection. Commenting on the success… Continue reading NTL Reaches Half A Million Broadband Users

The worldwide mobile phone handset market is set to rebound from what was its worst ever year in 2001, to show growth of 1.8% in 2002, according to Attack of the Phones: Worldwide Handset Market Forecast and Analysis, 2002-2006, a new report from IDC. According to the report, there is reason for optimism as shipments… Continue reading Global Mobile Phone Handset Market To Rebound From Worst Year, Says IDC

With the proliferation of next generation networks and the wider availability of faster and smarter devices, it is estimated that the North American mobile internet access market will be worth $2.7 billion this year. Technology researchers at Frost and Sullivan believe that the mobile data industry will undergo rapid growth in the next few years… Continue reading Mobile Internet Revenues Set To Surge

The number of digital subscriber lines (DSL) worldwide increased by almost 20% to 30 million in the third quarter of 2002, according to a new report from Point Topic. Research carried out in the first half of the year found that there were 25 million DSL lines across the globe (see Global DSL Growth Hits… Continue reading Global DSL Lines Top 30 Million

An official report from the telecoms regulator, Oftel has revealed that UK consumers are taking up broadband services at a faster rate than users in key markets such as France, Germany, Sweden and the United States. According to the International Benchmarking Study Of Internet Access, UK broadband connections have now reached 28,000 a week as… Continue reading UK Gaining Ground In Broadband Arena

Downloadable games will replace ringtones as the most profitable mobile content and entertainment service in Western Europe, according to Analysys. In a new report, the telecoms consultancy suggests that mobile games have the best short term growth prospects with revenues expected to surge from E255 million in 2002 to more than E3 billion in 2005.… Continue reading Mobile Games Revenues To Increase Tenfold