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$15 mobile phones? It's all about "ARPU"

From Silicon.com, our sister site in the UK, Gemma Simpson reports: Mobile phones costing less than $15 will be available in developing countries by 2008, Motorola Chairman David Brown has predicted. If handsets can be delivered that cheaply, it could lead to another 100 million people a year getting their...

Tags: handset, ARPU, mobile, telephone, mobile marketing

Blog posts 2006-11-02

As Zune looms, Napster UK gives away MP3 players (potential doorstops)

Ever hear of ARPU? Average revenue per unit? Thats one of the metrics that cellular phone carriers ("cellcos" for short) use to gauge their success. Its also one of the reasons that the cost of your cell phone was either partially or entirely subsidized. Or, in my case (which...

Tags: ARPU, Napster Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-12

7% of US wireless ARPU is data services

Data services currently contribute about 7% of average monthly revenue per customer ARPU in the United States, according to Ovum.

Tags: ARPU

Blog posts 2005-09-29

If VIA can't do it (the $100 PC), then nobody can

Over the recent year, there's been a lot of talk about the so-called $100 PC. Last fall, during Gartner's Symposium in Orlando, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked about why "we" need a $100 PC. In certain parts of the world -- parts that Microsoft sees as growth opportunities...

Tags: Jonathan Schwartz, PC

Blog posts 2005-05-10

US consumer wireless ARPU to reach $48 in 2009, business ARPU to grow to $74 in 2009

The US wireless industry opened 2005 with strong forward momentum following a banner year in 2004 that witnessed the addition of new wireless subscribers and the launch of 3G consumer devices. While this trend is expected to continue through 2005, it is inevitable that there will be an eventual slowdown...

Tags: ARPU, wireless

Blog posts 2005-04-14

US consumer wireless ARPU to reach $48 in 2009, business ARPU to grow to $74 in 2009

The US wireless industry opened 2005 with strong forward momentum following a banner year in 2004 that witnessed the addition of new wireless subscribers and the launch of 3G consumer devices. While this trend is expected to continue through 2005, it is inevitable that there will be an eventual slowdown...

Tags: ARPU, wireless

Blog posts 2005-04-14

Forget Ballmer's $100 PC. Introducing Schwartz's free PC

In a blog entry whose date suggests that he finished it well before the IBM/Lenovo concluded (and was just waiting for it to be official before pressing the publish button), Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz talks about how PCs will follow devices like cell phones and cable boxes into the world of...

Tags: ARPU, PC, telephone

Blog posts 2004-12-08

Additional Resources

Netflix may lose $1.8M to $3.6M in revenue per day over outage

Update: Netflix has been facing shipping delays and outages in its distribution centers for the last two days and has been fumbling to find a fix. The company said Thursday that it is hoping to bring its systems online overnight. But the tab for the outage is roughly $1.8 million...

Tags: Revenue, NetFlix Inc., Distribution Center, Outage, DVD, Consumer Electronics, E-mail, Manufacturing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Sprint's inferno: Churn baby churn

Sprint Nextel said Monday that it has lost more than 1 million customers in the last year. Sprint, which has been busy of late with a WiMax joint venture with Clearwire and alleged takeover overtures from Deutsche Telekom, provided a healthy dose of its financial reality with...

Tags: Financial, Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-12

80% of mobile operators likely to become data connectivity providers

80% of mobile operators agreed that becoming a mobile data connectivity provider is either quite likely or highly likely, according to 3-ple Media. Average revenue per user ARPU from traditional services has been in steady decline, but 52% of operators said they are current revenue leaders in the field. 26%...

Tags: Mobile Operator, Mobile, Revenue Leader, Advertising & Promotion, Manufacturing, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, AM

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Latest iPhone hacks shine spotlight on war between oysters and shuckers

In the war between oysters solutions and their vendors that are sealed shut and shuckers those who like to pry the oysters open, Apple would like you to believe that its a shucker. But, its iPhone proves otherwise. If the iPhone were open and Apple was a shucker, you'd...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Network, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Frankston: Who's pirating bandwidth these days? You or AT&T (and peers)

Bob Frankston (co-inventor of the electronic spreadsheet) has been tirelessly spending the last few years trying to shed light on the fact that there's plenty of network capacity out there and that anybody particularly the carriers and ISPs that tell you something different are full of it. They're just reserving...

Tags: Bandwidth, AT&T Corp., Piracy, Bob Frankston, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-09-07

UMTS Femtocell as Wireless Residential Gateway

Mobile operators today are trying hard to overcome the challenges posed by intense competition in the wireless communication space. There is an ever-increasing demand from operators to increase ARPU while decreasing cost. New competitors entering the market are posing a big threat to existing players apart from the alternative technologies...

Tags: UMTS, Gateway Inc., Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2007-06-01

Segmenting Mobile Data: The Myth of the Smartphone Market

Quantitative research on mobile phone users reveals that there is currently no such thing as a smartphone market. Most mobile phone users have no interest in paying for any sort of data services, and those who are willing to pay are split into at least three extremely different segments with...

Tags: Data Service, Mobile, Cell Phone, Smartphone, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing

White papers 2007-05-11

Zimbra's Scott Dietzen Unplugged: Comcast deal puts Zimbra in the big leagues now

Today, Zimbra announced that it will be forging a strategic relationship with Americas second largest ISP: Comcast. Although the companies arent yet releasing many details about the fruit the partnership should one day bear, its clear that based on the services Zimbra has to offer in the area of browser-based...

Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Open Source, Office 2.0, General

Blog posts 2007-05-06

Google's $19 billion 'scary' mobile advertising problem

Nineteen billion dollars worth of global mobile marketing and advertising is to be had by 2011 ABI Research and, in good Googley form, CEO Eric Schmidt is gunning for the lions share. And, despite Google’s inability to show any successful diversification offline, many are gunning for Google in the...

Tags: Television, ROI, Business Models, Advertising, Wireless, TV, Search Advertising, Search, Radio, Print, Marketing, Google Software Applications, Google, Cell Phones

Blog posts 2007-04-12

Increasing ARPU and Customer Retention With Hosted Business Application Services

WebCentral employs 200 people and has offices in Brisbane, Queensland and Sydney, New South Wales. A brand within the Melbourne IT Group, WebCentral offers a broad range of services and hosts more than 80,000 Web sites and domains. In the face of mounting competition, WebCentral wanted to find ways to...

Tags: Business Application, Customer Retention, WebCentral, Smb/Sme, Microsoft Windows, Web Site Development, Branding, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Marketing

Case studies 2007-03-01

High Quality Mobile TV: The Challenge for Operators to Deliver High-Quality TV to Mobiles

As with "Triple Play" and "Quad Play" offerings from operators using multiple distribution methods, the ideal is to simplify choice. Consumers should be able to access content from a single supplier and pay a single bill whether they are at home, work, or on the road. Mobile TV promises to...

Tags: Video Service, Mobile, Mobile TV, Spirent Communications, TV, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2007-02-01

Vodaphone: The greatest thing about standards is there are so many of them!

Some big news came out of the Vodafone camp today. The wireless carrier has apparently selected Microsofts Windows Mobile operating system for strategic deployment on its handsets. Or so I thought at first. According to the first line of email in my inbox:Today Vodafone announced a strategic collaboration with...

Tags: mobile marketing, General, Personal Technology, Wired & Wireless, Mobile, Motorola Q Review, Vodafone Group Plc.

Blog posts 2006-11-06

3G Brings TV to Mobile Phones Today

Mobile TV is a promising new service that looks poised to become hugely important for the mobile industry. Mobile TV is instantly understandable to consumers and therefore provides a way of attracting even the most technologically conservative users to access mobile data services. Market research indicates that many consumers show...

Tags: Phone, Market Research, Mobile, Mobile TV, 3G, Cell Phone, TV, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2006-10-01