Mar 29, 2009
The TechCrunchIT post by Vic Gundotra who is the Vice President of Engineering for Google’s mobile and developer products, presents a lot of interesting data:
4 billion global mobile subscribers (ITU, 2009)
In 2009 half of all connections to the internet worldwide will come from a mobile phone. (eMarketer, 2008 and 2009)
This is a bit hard to believe even for me, as I would imagine that most cellphone customers don't have a data plan.
MetroPCS is a prepaid cellphone company which offers fully unlimited ... Read More
Mar 24, 2009
GigaOm has gathered financial results of major U.S. carriers. AT&T and Verizon are the obvious leaders. The iPhone has definitely helped AT&T to retain and gain new customers. Below is a copy and paste. Original data here.
T-Mobile (reported Feb. 27)
• Wireless Revenue: $4.9 billion
• Wireless Net Income: $483 million
• Wireless Data Revenue: $905 million
• Net Prepaid Adds: 355,000
• Net Postpaid Adds: 266,000
• Total Subscribers: 32.8 million
• Blended Churn (contract and prepaid): 3.3 percent
• ARPU: Postpaid $54, prepaid $23
Sprint (reported Feb. 19)
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Feb 27, 2009
The latest Mobile Advertising Report from market research agency GfK (and mobile social network Limbo) finds that users of Apple's iPhone were more likely to recall and respond to ads than other mobile phone users.
Some other interesting findings from the study:
iPhone users are four times as likely to recall LBS (location-based service) ads as non-iPhone users.
Calling a toll free phone number published in the ads is the most common means of response; iPhone users called twice as much as non-iPhone users
One in ... Read More
Feb 18, 2009
According to the Telegraph, the average age for a kid to get his or her first cell phone is eight. Eight! I was lucky enough to get my first cell-phone at the age of 16. At that time this was a shared resource where one in five had one. A brick sized phone was a status symbol. This was still the age of the beepers and pagers.
According to the survey based on“1,435 people including 546 children aged seven to 15, 676 parents ... Read More
