Tag: Ericsson

Marks & Spencer’s mobile grabs the EMMAs

Retailer Marks & Spencer walked away with two awards at the Effective Mobile Marketing Awards (EMMAs) ceremony in London, making it the most awarded business of the night. The high-Street retailer, took the award for Most Effective Mobile Site, created by Mobile Interactive Group (MIG), and for Most Effective Mobile CRM/Enterprise Messaging Campaign, where it…

Mobile internet users to hit 3.5 billion by 2015

Global mobile broadband users will grow from 500 million today to 3.5 billion by 2015, according to Ericsson’s broadband chief Magnus Ewerbring Magnus Ewerbring said at the Mobile Broadband World 2010 event in London that the rise in mobile broadband had “only just started”, and that the services being used will change radically in the…

Mobile data use triples in the past year

Mobile data use has tripled in the past year and global mobile data traffic has now hit over 225,000 terabytes per month, with 50 billion mobile devices predicted by 2020. Figures released by Ericsson show that mobile data use has almost tripled in the past 12 months. Global data traffic had reached nearly 225,000 terabytes…

Ericsson predict mobile broadband to hit 3.4bn by 2015

According to phone manufacturer Ericsson’s estimates mobile broadband subscriptions are set to hit 3.4 billion subscriptions by 2015 with a colossal 50 billion connected devices by 2020. Ericsson predicts mobile broadband subscriptions to increase at a faster rate than mobile subscriptions with more than 3.4 billion subscribers predicted by 2015 from 360 million in 2009,…

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…