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- ARPU
- Average Revenue Per User A calculation often used to determine the overall value of an application. It is also used to rate particular customers, especially in the wireless...
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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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2004-12-08
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- Will new Motorola Google phone Cliq?
- For carriers, the key question remains the data load this phone delivers, and the money they might make from that data. It's called ARPU -- average revenue per user. But these days it should called ABPU -- average bandwidth per user. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- iPhone users strangling the AT&T network
- Network BandwidthIn all fairness, I doubt that any carrier in the US would have been ready to handle the massive amount of data streaming across it's 3G network that iPhone users have generated. If a carrier like Verizon were to offer the iPhone, a lot of people would jump...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Verizon keeps wireless churn lead in second quarter; Palm Pre coming 2010
- Verizon delivered second quarter results Monday that were a bit better than expectations, but the company added fewer net wireless customers than some analysts expected. Â Verizon's wireless churn rate continues to lead the industry. In addition, Verizon also confirmed that it will add the Palm Pre to its lineup early...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivity
- Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivityGimme? No, its socialism in actionWhy do you figure the government has any right to dictate what phones are available through what carriers? I don't happen to like the iPhone - but I know a lot of people...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Sprint still drops customers, but offsets with Kindle, Boost subs
- Sprint is still losing too many post paid retail customers to AT&T and Verizon but offsetting losses with wholesale additions due to the popularity of devices like the Kindle and its prepaid Boost plans. The company on Monday reported a first quarter net loss of $594 million,...
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- Verizon's first quarter better than expected; Alltel makes it largest U.S. wireless player
- Verizon delivered a solid quarter as the company added wireless customers at a rapid clip and continued to land FiOS Internet and TV customers. Like rival AT&T, Verizon is proving to be recession resistant. Verizon on Monday reported first quarter net income of $3.2 billion, or 58...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- European mobile services penetration to reach 135% by 2012
- Europe as a region has the highest adoption of mobile services at 121% penetration and this is expected to rise to 135% by 2012. At these high penetrations, overall service revenue growth through the handset is expected to decline. However, ARPU is expected to continue growing among business users. In...
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Boom in Mobile Data Creates Backhaul Urgency
- In their bid to improve their profitability and maintain their competitiveness, many mobile operators are rolling out new services meant to generate revenue and increase usage. Unfortunately, the average revenue per user ARPU from new services does not offset the rising capital and operating expense (CAPEX/OPEX) of meeting increased capacity...
- White papers 2009-02-12
- Tianjin Unicom Increases Telesales Fivefold With SAS
- One company affected by the increased scrutiny was Tianjin Unicom, a branch of the China Unicom group. The challenge was to gain insight into customer behavior in order to enhance decision making and gain higher ARPU Average Revenue Per User. Tianjin deployed SAS Customer Retention for Telecommunications, SAS Customer Segmentation...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Sprint: Subscribers continue to bolt
- Sprint continues to lose customers to other carriers as the company reported a third quarter subscriber tally of 50.5 million, down from 54 million a year ago. The company lost 1.3 million wireless customers on a net basis in the third quarter including 1.1 million post-paid. Wall...
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Enabling IPTV: What's Needed in the Access Network
- Service providers around the globe have begun commercializing triple play services to better compete with cable and satellite operators. While this is helping boost Average Revenue Per User ARPU, it is placing unprecedented stress on the traditional high-speed Internet infrastructure. This paper examines the issues of deploying triple play services...
- White papers 2008-04-14
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