Mobile video services – including video telephony, video messaging, video sharing, video-on-demand and VoD downloads – will only generate around $121 million this year... but the market will be worth $2 billion worldwide in 2013, according to the latest report from ABI Research.
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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project has just published Mobile Access 2010; a report that looks at wireless internet use in the USA.
It says as of May 2010, 59% of all adult Americans use their laptops or mobile phones to go online wirelessly – either via WiFi or a mobile broadband card.
The percentage of people using their phones to browse the mobile web is up from 25% last year to 38% this year. 34% have used their mobiles for email – also up from 25% last year – with gaming, instant messaging and texting all showing increases as well.
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Tokyo-based Renesas Electronics is buying Nokia's wireless modem business for around $200 million. It's the latest development in an ongoing partnership between the two companies. In addition, Nokia and Renesas say they'll work together on developing modem technologies for HSPA+/LTE technology.
The deal is expected to be concluded towards the end of this year.
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Research carried out for mobile data company Acision has revealed that most UK consumers have experienced Quality of Service issues. 84% of respondents – people who either use mobile broadband on a portable computer or via their phone – said they'd had problems. Slow speeds had affected 67% of consumers, while 49% had suffered from poor network coverage. In addition, 45% hadn't been able to connect and 40% had lost connection at some point.
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Three UK is introducing a new tariff that's intended to "challenge and change mobile phone pricing in the UK", according to the network. It's called The One Plan and includes a monthly allowance of two thousand 'any network' minutes, five thousand Three-to-Three minutes, five thousand text messages and 1GB of data for £25 a month as a SIM-only price plan.
Kevin Russell, Three's Chief Executive, said "For individual consumers this plan is about peace of mind. For the industry it's a game changer. The One Plan is for everyone that wants to get the most from their smartphone and yet keep within their monthly allowance."
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