Half of U.S. Homes Could be Mobile-Only by 2020

Some 41 percent of U.S. households did not buy or use landline phone service in the second half of 2013, according to the latest study by the National Center for Health Statistics. That represented an increase of 1.6 percentage points since the first half of 2013 and 2.8 percentage points since the second half of 2012. At those rates of abandonment… Read more

EC Mobile Data, Voice Roaming Cuts Take Effect on July 1, 2014

One reason Western European mobile service provider revenue is dropping is that new mandatory price cuts have been adopted, reducing maximum prices for some products, such as mobile data, by up to 70 percent. On July 1, 2014, the European Union will institute the third of three wholesale price cuts for wholesale mobile communications, cutting price… Read more