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The level of consumer acceptance for mobile gaming could determine the success or failure of 2.5G and 3G wireless, according to a new report from Alexander Resources. The research firm claims that wireless carriers and handset manufacturers will need to tap into the lucrative youth market if they are to succeed in convincing the public… Continue reading Mobile Gaming Key To 3G Uptake, Says Report

Mobile data services are still in their infancy in the US but a new report from The Yankee Group predicts that there will be more than 23 million subscribers by the end of the year. The research company estimates that wireless data revenue growth will increase at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 89%… Continue reading US Mobile Data Sector Set To Boom

Seven in ten mobile phone users find text message advertising too intrusive, according to a new survey from BMRB. The research showed that 36% of mobile phone users remembered receiving an SMS ad from their mobile phone operator in the preceding four weeks. Of these, around 13% claimed to have received text message ads that… Continue reading Most Mobile Phone Users Find SMS Ads Intrusive, Says Report

At a time when investor confidence in the high-tech sector would appear to be at an all time low, the wireless LAN (WLAN) industry is bucking the trend and worldwide shipments are set to increase by 73% this year, according to a new report from Gartner Dataquest. The technology research group calculates that revenue from… Continue reading Gartner Predicts Bright Future for WLAN Dealers

Nearly 6% of Europeans now have access to broadband services, up from 4% six months ago, according to a new survey from Forrester Research. This increase is partly due to the proliferation of high-speed services in the UK (see More Brits Switching To Broadband) where more than two million customers have now signed up. However,… Continue reading Broadband Catching On In Europe, Says Forrester

The US broadband subscriber market will grow 361% by the end of 2007, according to a new study from The Yankee Group. The research firm found that cable modem is the leading broadband technology among American customers and businesses with 58% of the market. DSL comes in second with one-third of all lines while satellite… Continue reading US Broadband Subscriptions Set To Multiply, Says Yankee Group

The number of mobile phone subscribers in the US will increase by 50% to 200 million by the end of 2006, according to a new report from The Yankee Group. The technology research group forecasts that mobile phones are set to dominate personal calling and supersede landlines in the public conciousness. “Wireline replacement is a… Continue reading Mobile Phones To Reshape US Telecoms Landscape, Says Report

The UK came eighth in the Mobile/Internet Index rankings released in a study by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) this week. The index forms part of a report entitled Internet for a Mobile Generation and measures the performance of over 200 economies, ranking them by 26 different criteria related to infrastructure (50% of the total… Continue reading ITU Maps Out The Future Of The Mobile Internet

New research conducted by the Mobile Data Association (MDA) has found that more and more businesses are using SMS to communicate with their customers. The report, due to be published this month, also highlights the importance of using SMS as a marketing tool and predicts that the trend will be accelerated by the growth of… Continue reading MDA Predicts Growth In Text Marketing

A new survey from In-Stat/MDR indicates that business broadband usage is likely to grow in the next few years. However, these findings are tempered by claims that the technology will largely be confined to non-essential applications in small remote branch offices or for home workers. The research found that over a fifth of large US… Continue reading US Firms Reluctant To Commit To Broadband