BROWSING: The Yankee Group

BOSTON-Home networking may become yet another battleground for service providers attempting to acquire and retain customers, according to recent results of the Yankee Group's 2003 Canadian Technologically Advanced Family Survey.The survey showed 37 percent of Canadian broadband subscribers are interested in home networks. Moreover,...

Wireless customers are often viewed as the most valuable asset a carrier has, though they are often the hardest to quantify. While having more customers usually translates into higher revenues, analysts note the cost of acquiring and servicing those subscribers has to be weighed...

Canadians are often referred to as more polite, humble and reserved versions of their southern counterparts with whom they share a relatively open border stretching for thousands of miles. That demure demeanor, which seems to lapse during certain hockey events, has translated to the...

LONDON-Multinational corporations could represent a key battleground for mobile operators, according to a new report from the Yankee Group that shows that such organizations are making decisions regarding mobile data and voice part of their corporate strategies.For the report, Yankee Group surveyed members of...

Telecommunications bundling has made a strong comeback over the past year, with nearly all of the country's regional providers offering some form of packaged deal to customers. Those bundles usually include a wireless link either through a direct subsidiary as is the case with...

NEW YORK-Following a downward trend, average revenue per user in major European markets is rebounding and will continue to rise, according to newly released research from the Yankee Group. The research firm expects ARPU in European markets to hit $33.72 in 2007, up from...

HACKENSACK, N.J.-Wireless enterprise company GoAmerica Inc. reported another dim quarter, with declining revenues of $3.1 million and a net loss of $1 million. The company said it has $842,000 in cash and cash equivalents, which will fund the company only until January."The company believes...

HACKENSACK, N.J.-Wireless enterprise company GoAmerica Inc. reported another dim quarter, with declining revenues of $3.1 million and a net loss of $1 million. The company said it has $842,000 in cash and cash equivalents, which will fund the company only until January."The company believes...

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Wireless enterprise company Aether Systems Inc. reported declining revenues and losses, and said that although its earnings were lower than expected, the company's financial restructuring efforts continue to show positive signs. Interestingly, Aether said it will explore "strategic alternatives" to more quickly...

Sprint Corp. Chief Executive Officer Gary Forsee said the company's wireless division is on track to launch its highly anticipated Ready Link walkie-talkie service this quarter ahead of the holiday shopping season and presumably prior to the implementation of wireless local number portability Nov....

Wireless carriers looking to increase market share and generate interest in advanced services should continue to focus on the youth market, which according to a consumer survey released by the Yankee Group last week, has proven to be fertile ground for the adoption of...

BOSTON-New research shows the market for multimedia messaging services in the United States will grow from just $8 million last year to $900 million by 2007, and the number of active MMS users will increase from several hundred thousand in 2002 to more than...

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Although the Latin American unified messaging market has developed more slowly than expected, potential still exists, especially in enterprise solutions, according to new research from Frost & Sullivan.The research group believes uptake of unified messaging in the region is slow due to...

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Although the Latin American unified messaging market has developed more slowly than expected, potential still exists, especially in enterprise solutions, according to new research from Frost & Sullivan.The research group believes uptake of unified messaging in the region is slow due to...

In an industry drowning in acronyms and meaningless catch phrases, few labels are as hard to pin down as the European-derived mobile virtual network operator. Separately the words are familiar and seem to have meaning, but when put together to describe a business model...

Opponents of wireless local number portability lost a substantial ally last week as Verizon Wireless threw in the towel on fighting the proposed Federal Communications Commission mandate and announced plans for how the nation's largest wireless carrier would handle customers looking to change carriers...

DENVER, United States-Major European carriers are conducting Enhanced Data Networks for Global Evolution (EDGE) trials, highlighting a major triumph for a technology once proclaimed dead.Burdened by the cost of third-generation (3G) licenses and technical hiccups with launching Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) networks and...

Record industry giant Sony Music Entertainment bought wireless entertainment company Run Tones, and will use the acquisition to create a new Mobile Products Group within Sony's Music Digital Services division.Meanwhile, wireless application publisher Moviso L.L.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Net USA,...

BOSTON, United States-A new report from the Yankee Group reveals 50 percent of large U.S. enterprises have plans to implement a wireless solution by next year and offers guidance to companies on doing so.The Yankee Group suggests companies planning to go wireless should start...

SAN DIEGO-More than 26 percent of Leap Wireless International Inc. Cricket customers reported they do not have a traditional wireline phone at home, according to a company survey, well ahead of the low single-digit percentage for all wireless customers as reported by the Yankee...

GENEVA—General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) roaming exchanges (GRX) are rapidly emerging as a profitable new service niche in Europe and around the world, as mobile operators get serious about GPRS and struggle to come to grips with the complex roaming and billing issues surrounding...

NEW DELHI, India—Handset manufacturers worried about the disturbing trend of low sales in European and U.S. markets can take comfort from emerging trends in the Asia-Pacific region. All research findings and market conditions in the region point to robust growth in handset shipments during...

TORONTO—Canadians are not getting too excited about the possibilities for short message service (SMS), according to a report released by the Yankee Group in Canada. Its research claims only 5 percent of Canadian cellular users are very interested in SMS, while 42 percent have...

GENEVA—Europe’s mobile users will likely wait much longer than expected for next-generation cellular, as the daunting implications of full-scale third-generation (3G) deployment are finally brought home to the region’s 60-plus operators.With many players already having committed hundreds of millions of euros to securing national...