Posted: 02/03/12 by Mobile Future Team
Mashable recently highlighted a survey by Harris Interactive outlining smartphone users expected mobile activities during Super Bowl XLVI. Almost half of Super Bowl viewers are expected to look at their mobile devices up to ten times during the game and a third of viewers will have their device-in-hand as they watch the game.
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Posted: 01/31/12 by Jonathan Spalter
On Capitol Hill today lawmakers discussed the urgent need to address spectrum capacity to meet exploding consumer demand for wireless connectivity. And not a moment too soon. In today’s wireless market, data-intensive mobile devices are gobbling bandwidth at an astounding rate, literally sucking the oxygen out of the wireless ecosystem. In fact, the FCC’s own data shows the U.S. exhausting its current supply of mobile spectrum by 2013.
It’s critical that policymakers move immediately to sustain the pace of mobile innovation and investment in the United States. And one of the more immediate ways they can do is to move ahead now with voluntary spectrum auctions. Implementing a spectrum auction process that is open to all stakeholders will continue to fuel economic recovery and help ensure that consumers will have enough spectrum to meet exponentially growing demand in today’s competitive wireless market.
It is well documented that the expansion of licensed wireless broadband networks and services is driving economic growth, creating jobs, and enhancing productivity. In fact, a study released last week by economists Robert Shapiro and Kevin Hassett indicated the transition from 2G to 3G created almost 1.6 million jobs between April 2007 and June 2011, and the build out of 4G should add over 230,000 new U.S. jobs by the end of this year.
Now is the time for leadership. Policymakers on Capitol Hill, at the FCC and in the Administration must work together to chart a clear path to address the nation's immediate spectrum deficit. More than 300 million wireless consumers are waiting. And the clock is ticking.
Posted: 01/31/12 by Mobile Future Team
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that several major auto makers are working to integrate smartphone and tablet apps into vehicles. In the near future, music streaming apps such as Pandora and radio streaming apps such as Stitcher and TuneIn could allow users to customize stations for the road.
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Posted: 01/27/12 by Mobile Future Team
As The Washington Post recently reported, a new study by mobile network firm Arieso looks at the increased data usage by iPhone 4S users and found that the latest iPhone uses twice as much data as the iPhone 4 and almost three times as much data as the iPhone 3G.
Paul Farhi writes in the article:
“In all, Arieso says that the Siri-equipped iPhone 4S “appears to unleash data consumption behaviors that have no precedent.”
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Posted: 01/26/12 by Mobile Future Team
This report examines how the next wave of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and other connected devices will further accelerate mobile opportunity and exacerbate the looming spectrum crunch. The report authored by Jim Kohlenberger, former White House policy advisor and Mobile Future advisory board member, points to a nation on the verge of a wireless-driven technological revolution fueled by a vast sea of breakthrough connected devices offering astonishing new digital opportunities.
Click here to read The Internet’s Third Act: The Connected Device Decade.
Posted: 01/23/12 by Mobile Future Team
A recent study by NDN examines the economic and employment gains associated with investing in more advanced wireless infrastructure. According to the study, 1,585,000 new jobs were created with the transition from 2G to 3G wireless networks and NDN forecasts that transitioning from 3G to 4G mobile broadband networks could create 231,000 or more additional jobs.
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Posted: 01/23/12 by Mobile Future Team
Check out Mobile Future Chairman Jonathan Spalter’s latest op-ed in The Hill on the immediate need to free-up more mobile spectrum to meet exponentially growing demand here.
Posted: 01/20/12 by Mobile Future Team
2011 truly was a banner year for wireless and as CNET recently reported, new data released by traffic site Pingdom points to the frenetic growth in the mobile sector. According to the report, there are now 5.9 billion mobile subscriptions globally, 350 million users log into Facebook from their mobile phone and of all handsets shipped in 2011, 85% were equipped with mobile Internet.
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Posted: 01/18/12 by Mobile Future Team
Today, the NYTimes reported that Visa is enabling several smartphones with technology to make wireless payments. This near field technology would allow users to make a payment by simply waving their smartphone in front of a merchant’s terminal.
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Posted: 01/13/12 by Mobile Future Team
In the wake of CES and the debut of numerous new and innovative gadgets, consumers might have the urge to upgrade their current mobile devices. But before users toss discarded phones into a nearby trash bin they would be wise to note the importance of recycling their old devices. As reported in Good Technology, there is heightened attention on responsibly disposing of old electronics and recycling these devices has grown into a five billion dollar industry in the United States alone.
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