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Aug 11, 2005
Telecommunications
Cellular Revenues $570B in '05: TMC Net, 8/10
Strategy Analytics, the global research and consulting company, today released its Wireless Network Strategies updated global cellular market report, "Worldwide Cellular User Forecast 2005-2010," forecasting that the worldwide cellular user base will increase from 1.7 billion at the end of 2005 to 2.5 billion by the end of 2010, a 38 percent penetration rate. With average revenues falling 7 percent to $30 per user per month in 2005, Strategy Analytics expects further weakness in global ARPUs as increasingly prepaid-centric and low-ARPU China, India and other emerging markets remain the engine for user growth. Phil Kendall, report author and director of wireless operator research at Strategy Analytics, commented, "Voice usage will increase from 5.6 trillion minutes in 2005 to 12.6 trillion in 2010. GSM-based systems will continue to dominate the cellular landscape, accounting for 81 percent of subscribers and 76 percent of service revenues in 2010, though CDMA's more rapid evolution to 3G will see it dominate 3G subscriber volumes in the medium term. "
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/aug/1172125.htm
Cingular Wireless Investing in $144M in LA Network This Year: WSJ, 8/10
Boost Offers Private Label Mobile Community: Wireless Week, 8/11
Boost Mobile wants to hook its customers up with people and places they might find interesting. To do so, the youth-branded prepaid service is launching Boost Hookt. Boost Hookt is a private label mobile community that allows users to connect with other wireless subscribers, regardless of their carrier or location. Boost Hookt, according to Boost Mobile, is an interactive, geographically localized and interest mobile community that is categorized for users.
http://www.wirelessweek.com/article/CA633893.html
New Nextel-Sprint will Focus on 3rd Screen: Usa Today, 8/11
Sprint and Nextel have a game plan for the future, and it's not what you might think. The playbook goes like this: Merge the two companies to create a wireless giant, then transform the combined company — yet again — into a broadband Bigfoot that can compete head-on with Verizon and SBC Communications. "It's all about the third screen," says Sprint CEO Gary Forsee, referring to the pint-sized video screens on wireless phones that are fast becoming ubiquitous. The first two screens, of course, would be the TV and the PC. Forsee thinks the wireless screen, which is rapidly evolving into a mobile media center for millions of users, is the next great broadband opportunity. Looking back, the two CEOs say their decision to merge was driven not so much by the need to get more wireless customers — Sprint was already the No. 3 wireless carrier, and Nextel was No. 5. Rather, they say, the merger was aimed at transforming the two carriers into another type of animal entirely. That animal, so it seems, will be part Hollywood, part wireless carrier, part broadband powerhouse. The driver of that change: the oodles of 2.5-gigahertz spectrum that Sprint and Nextel jointly own.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/2005-08-09-sprint-nextel_x.htm
Mint takes VoIP on the Go: Extreme Tech, 8/11
Mint Telecom has developed a termination service that allows VOIP calls to be transferred to any number you choose, including a cell phone. Mint's new service consists of two different aspects: outgoing callers can dial a local access number, similar to a calling card, and have the call automatically routed to any specific number around the world. Likewise, customers, clients or friends living in another country can receive their own local number, which can route calls to the Mint number designated by the user. The kicker, according to Mint chief executive Jason Jepson, is that by setting a local number, callers can call locally and then be routed internationally, for a small fee. Callers receiving calls can also choose to have terminate on their cell phones, which, in the U.S., costs the same as termination on a landline.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1846761,00.asp
Posted at 10:11 am by LPossiel
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