Archive for June, 2008

Market Share by Cellular Carrier

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

As per CTIA, the total wireless subscribers in the USA is now 260.7 million.
Here is the breakdown of the USA cellular market by carrier.
1. AT&T Mobility — 71.3 million
2. Verizon — 67.2
3. Sprint/Nextel — 52.8
4. T-Mobile USA — 30.8
5. ALLTEL — 13.2
6. Tracfone — 10.0 (prepaid)
7. US Cellular — 6.2
8. Virgin Mobile — 5.1
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Monthly Text Message Traffic

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Text message traffic continues to grow rapidly.
Text messages sent worldwide per year.
2004 — 4.66 billion
2005 — 9.76 billion
2006 — 10.70 billion
2007 — 40.14 billion
The Text Message Blog
www.textmessageblog.mobi

Wireless Data as Percentage of Carrier Revenue

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Data is becoming an increasingly important part of carrier revenue. Listed below is the percentage of revenue obtained by carriers from data (ie…text messages, ringtones, etc…).
2000 — 0.4%
2001 — 0.9%
2002 — 1.2%
2003 — 2.5%
2004 — 4.0%
2005 — 8.9%
2006 — 13.5%
2007 — 17.9%
The Text Message Blog
www.textmessageblog.mobi

MacPoker is the MacDaddy

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Who doesn’t like playing poker online? Everybody does. Poker has become a national phenomenom thanks to television which has actually made stars out of guys who sit around and play cards.
If you aren’t a Mac user, however, you may not know that playing poker from a MacIntosh is not easy; in fact its nearly impossible. [...]