Plenty of mobile phone users already allow their mobile providers to offer location-based services through their phones.
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Only 12 percent of mobile phone users reported making a mobile payment in the past twelve months.
The division's first product, Smart Steps, will provide retailers and other bodies with location "heat maps" of mobile phone users' movements throughout the day.
It is commonly believed that the big SMS network effect kicked in when about 20% of mobile phone users began texting each other in certain European countries in mid-Nineties.
"There is an increase in the nomophobic population in India because the number of mobile phone users has increased, " said Dr. Sanjay Dixit, one the researchers and the head of the Indian Journal of Community Medicine.
In the WikiCity project in Rome, the lab used data from mobile phones to create visualizations of how mobile phone users moved throughout the city.
Smartphone adoption has reached critical mass: 41 per cent of US mobile phone users had one at the end of 2012, says Forrester Research.
According to mobile research firm M:Metrics, 49% of American mobile phone users actively use text messaging, which explains marketers' interest in text-based campaigns.
Four out of five mobile phone users still own dumb phones.
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And 42% of all mobile phone users say they expressly use their phone for entertainment when they're bored. (Presumably, non-entertainment uses like texting and e-mail would jack that number up even higher).
Nearly two-thirds of Korean mobile phone users have shifted to so-called third-generation handsets that offer speeds up to ten times that of mobiles in the U.S. Here, residential broadband isn't expected to enter 50% of homes until late 2004.
You are correct that wireless penetration rates in the United States are higher than in France or Germany but overlook the point that virtually all mobile telephony in Europe is digital, but in America just over half of mobile-phone users have digital service.
"Less than half of U.S. mobile phone users are highly satisfied with the storage of their mobile phone, and almost 20% are dissatisfied with their mobile storage capacity, " said Brett Sappington, Director of Research at Parks Associates.
Some are even on the verge of a mobile phone upgrade for users.
He realised that, as three-quarters of the 4.6 billion mobile-phone users worldwide live in developing countries, a useful piece of technology is now being placed in the hands of a large number of people who might be keen to use their devices to make some money.
Most mobile phone users of the planet live in countries or served by carriers who do not offer subsidies.
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Building cards into the handsets of Japan's mobile-phone users, who are ever eager to experiment with new tricks, seems a good way to get them to buy more on credit.
Facebook is meanwhile suspending a new and controversial feature that allows developers to access the address and mobile phone numbers of users, something which could have been exploited by rogue app developers.
While the BlackBerry's plastic keyboard and tight integration with corporate e-mail systems makes it an unbeatable e-mail machine, Nielsen Mobile's first-quarter data show that the iPhone is all about multimedia, playing music, video and online games far above the average usage of those services for other mobile phone users.
During their earnings call, the social network reported 618 million daily users accessing Facebook on their mobile phone, out of a total 1.1 billion daily users (I suspect some nice rounding errors there), but how people use Facebook on their mobiles is different to the desk-bound usage, and reduces their value to advertisers.
Case in point is Windows Phone, as Microsoft has just announced that it's adopted traffic information from Nokia into the Maps app of its mobile OS. In addition to providing Windows Phone users in the US with more detailed overviews of traffic flows and congestion, the functionality will soon become available for many cities across the globe.
Most of Netease's business is selling messaging services to mobile phone users in China--a profitable business that does not depend on the vagaries of advertising.
With millions of smart phone users worldwide, many mobile start-ups are coming up to serve them.
Qualcomm recently announced its fiscal year earnings and highlighted that the company will start commercial production of a multimode chipset that will enable mobile phone users to transition from 3G to LTE technology.
Japan is the world's second largest wireless market after the United States, with 58 million mobile phone users by the end of last year.
Two-thirds of mobile banking users say they used their mobile phone to check an account balance or available credit before making a large purchase in the past twelve months.
Nearly half of mobile-banking users and 63% of nonusers said they would be hesitant about using a phone camera to make a check deposit, according to a survey conducted last year by Infosys Ltd.
That's a huge jump from last year, when 25 percent of U.S. cell phone users reported mobile internet use.
Some reports show that 65 percent of users confess to sleeping with their mobile phone and on average we check them a staggering 150 times a day.
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