By Editor on December 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: According to the latest consumer study by the Parks Associates’, 40% of the more than 70 million U.S. broadband households with a mobile phone service have adopted non-text mobile data services.
ARPU drivers like mobile TV and music have been eclipsed by mobile Internet and e-mail services indicating need for the carriers to offer practical” services first to the mobile service users. Carriers can also deploy popular web activities as revenue-generating data services due to 10 percent increase in mobile social networking and navigation services.
According to Director of Health and Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates, Harry Wang, the strong growth rate during the past two years in the usage of mobile Internet, social networking, e-mail, and navigation indicates eagerness in consumers for mobile applications offering convenience and loaded features.
Wang added that Smartphone will penetrate more than 30% of broadband households in US in 2009. Carriers will target these 20 million households to market their mobile data services.
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By Editor on May 31, 2007 · Leave a Comment
NEC has received orders for its mobile internet platform (NEMIP) from Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) (HTHK). HTHK will commence i-mode services in Hong Kong on 30 May. NEC’s NEMIP enables the provision of the i-mode service, a mobile internet service. This platform is an integrated solution composed of subsystems such as gateways, mail server systems and portal systems which incorporate multi-operator functions. The mail server system facilitates ease of use of i-mode mail services on the user’s mobile phone with video, audio and picture file attachments, filtering function, as well as full interoperability with other email or MMS enabled phones. The multi-operator function, an enhanced feature of NEMIP, will allow mobile operators to share a common i-mode platform and service with their affiliated companies, thus enabling Hutchison Telephone (Macau) Company, a subsidiary of HTHK, to introduce i-mode service in Macau in the near future.
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