Providing market intelligence for more than 35 years

E-commerce Times

Social Media Revolution Will Be .Tel-evised

The prediction of 1 billion .tel identities is based on trends in mobile phone adoption around the world. Parks Associates forecasts that by 2013 there will be 4.5 mobile phone users worldwide. This compares to 3 billion in February 2008, when the International Telecommunication Union announced that the total number of global cell phone subscribers had exceeded half the population of the globe.

From the article, "Social Media Revolution Will Be .Tel-evised" by Anthony Mitchell

Previously In The News

Pay TV Could Find a Silver Lining in the Looming OTT Cloud

The video content industry long has relied on pay-TV services as a significant revenue source, but digital technologies -- namely over-the-top, or OTT, services -- are impacting pay-TV rights and r...

The Great and Tragic Lives of OTT Video Service Providers

OTT video service providers must climb the learning curve quickly in order to keep the doors open. Often, content license terms require companies to grow revenues quickly in order to cover minimum...

Who's Who in the Tablet Market Melee

Nearly three years have passed since Apple first introduced its iPad, and the company still enjoys the largest market share in this space. This statement may seem a natural conclusion because Apple...

Coordinated Care Models in Digital Health

PCMH and Medicare ACO share many common attributes, especially on their payment model structures. Both models will also benefit from care providers' investment in EMR technology and general IT inno...