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Data to boost Eastern European mobile revenues Statistics \| 19 March 2009 Central and Eastern European mobile operators can expect their annual service revenues to jump around 30 per cent in the next five years as the value… Read more
Mobile revenues to top $1tn in 2013 Statistics \| 07 January 2009 Annual revenues from the global mobile market will top $1.03tn by 2013, when the number of subscriptions worldwide will have risen to more than 5.3… Read more
Prepaid outstrips postpaid two to one Statistics \| 20 October 2008 During 2007 and into 2008, the market for prepaid mobile services has continued to grow more than twice as fast as the contract market according to… Read more
40 mil. femtos to be deployed by 2013 Statistics \| 19 August 2008 The number of femtocells deployed by the end of 2013 is estimated to exceed the 40 million mark, with 22 million units added in 2013 alone, according… Read more
Mobile data to hit $200bn this year Statistics \| 29 July 2008 Revenues from mobile data services are set to exceed US$200 billion in 2008 for the first time, according to Informa Telecoms & Media's latest… Read more
9.3% MOU increase at Bharti Statistics \| 14 May 2008 Indian operator Bharti Airtel increased its minutes of use (MOU) in the quarter ending March 2008 by 9.3% compared with the previous… Read more
85% of FTTx subscriptions are in Asia Statistics \| 05 May 2008 At end-1Q08, 85% of the world's FTTx subscriptions were in Asia, according to Informa Telecoms & Media's World Broadband Information Service, with… Read more
103% penetration in Central & Eastern Europe Statistics \| 28 April 2008 At end-1Q08, mobile subscriptions in Central & Eastern European stood at 422 million. This took the region's… Read more
33% of China Mobile's VAS rev is non-SMS Statistics \| 21 April 2008 China Mobile generated CNY91.609 billion (US$12.272 billion) in revenues from value-added services (VAS) in 2007. Of the total, 33%, or… Read more
Eur869m from non-SMS data at TIM in 2007 Statistics \| 02 April 2008 Telecom Italia's data strategy is paying off: in 2007 the mobile division of Telecom Italia generated EUR869 million from non-messaging data services.… Read more