Data Services Grow While Smartphone Prices Fall, says ABI Research.OYSTER BAY Oyster Bay, uninc. area (1990 pop. 6,687) of the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau co., SE N.Y., on N Long Island, on Long Island Sound; settled 1653. It is chiefly residential. , N.Y. -- Mobile telephone users in the developed world are adopting wireless data services in large and growing numbers, leading to a rise in sales of smartphones that support these advanced functions. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. Research analyst Shailendra Pandey, "Some of these data services are popular everywhere: think of music and ringtone The audible sound made by a telephone to announce that a call is coming in. The traditional ringtone was in the 440-480 Hz range, but as cellphone usage grew, it became obvious that ringtone differentiation would become important. downloads, or games. Others are commercially available only in certain world regions: mobile TV, for instance, is popular in Western Europe and parts of Asia, but is virtually unseen elsewhere." The operators are doing all they can to promote such services. Both Vodafone and NTT DoCoMo, in Europe and Japan respectively, intend to launch HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) See HSPA. services during 2006. Operators are adopting varied strategies to push next-generation services, says Pandey, depending partly on the orientation of their customer bases. In 3Q 2005, NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform DoCoMo's recently announced data services were predominantly business-focused, encompassing applications such as fleet management and workforce automation. Vodafone, on the other hand, has been building out more consumer-centric 3G services, including agreements for providing music downloads, games, and location-based services for consumers such as child-tracking. Hutchison 3G has announced that it will be rolling out 39 new UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) The GSM implementation of the 3G wireless phone system. Part of IMT-2000, UMTS provides service in the 2 GHz band and offers global roaming and personalized features. applications for location services, video surveillance, and the mobile office. "It's too early to gauge the success of the new data services," notes Pandey, "but if smartphone sales are any guide, the signs are good: in the 3Q 2005 they were up 134% compared to the same quarter last year." One reason is that mobile operators are heavily subsidizing the prices of the handsets, which now cost about 25-30% less than they did a year ago. The latest edition of ABI Research's "Mobile Network Operators Service" summarizes, in qualitative and quantitative form, the operational and financial performance of key global mobile operators during this period, as well as examining their current overall strategies. Among its many components, it presents the latest findings on the data-driven push to smartphones. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , ABI Research maintains global operations supporting annual research programs, intelligence services and market reports in automotive, wireless, semiconductors, broadband, and energy. For information visit www.abiresearch.com, or call +1.516.624.2500. |
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