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Mobile Data Services Trends

Hong Kong, North America & UAE World’s Most Connected Countries, says GFK

Hong Kong and North America (USA, Canada and Mexico) hold steady as having the world’s top two most highly connected…

Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp & Other Chat Apps Consume Significant RAN Resources in Idle Mode

Communications apps such as Facebook, Skype, or WhatsApp are unnecessarily communicating with their network server when in idle state, wasting…

Virgin Mobile MEA Aims to Sign Up 10 million Customers in Next 5 Years

Virgin Mobile Middle East & Africa (MEA) recently announced that 2.5 million customers now use its mobile telecom services, bolstering…

Mobile Ticketing to Grow More Than Double to 23 billion Annually by 2020, says Juniper Research

Nearly 23 billion transport and events tickets will be purchased globally using mobile handsets by 2020, according to a new…

Global Demand for In-flight Connectivity Continues to Soar, Gogo Says

Gogo, the global leader in providing broadband connectivity solutions and wireless entertainment to the aviation industry, recently conducted a global…

App Advertising Optimized by Location Context to Reach $44B by 2020

App advertising, using context and location targeting, will exceed $44 billion by 2020, up from an estimated $13 billion last…

Apple & Samsung Make Up 70% of New NFC Payments Customers; Total Users to Reach 148 Million in 2016

A new study from Juniper Research expects the number of consumers making contactless payments via their mobile handsets to reach…

73% of Data Usage on Facebook and Gmail Happens in the Background, Finds Opera

A new app-usage finding by Opera shows that on average over 30% of all data is used by apps running…

Mobile Makes Up 100% of Facebook Visits in Nigeria

Facebook reports that 16 million Nigerians visit the social media platform every month with 100% of them coming from mobile.…