ABI Research figures show global mobile subscription numbers surpassed 4.35 billion by the end of 2009, with a YoY growth of 10.4%. ABI also predict that a staggering 80% of the world’s population will be using mobile phones by early 2014. Mobile subscriptions slowed perceptibly in the first half of 2009 as emerging markets took…
Day: 26 March 2010
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Data traffic surpasses voice and it’s Facebooks fault
At last it’s happened, the internet on mobile is bigger than the voice on mobile. According to Ericsson mobile data surpassed voice on a global basis during December of 2009. Ericsson’s findings show that data traffic globally grew 280% during each of the last two years, and is forecast to double annually over the next…
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Mobile networks mimic fixed line – no really, they do!!
I was about to file Sandvine’s latest report “Mobile Networks Mimic Fixed Line ” under the stating the obvious section of the site, aka the trash. But I thought better of it as unbelievably there are people out there who think that mobile networks are a law unto themselves, and who for some reason think…