Link: Most 10-year-olds now packing mobiles | The Register . Richard hit this survey up as worth a look — it’s got a population size of 16,500 people and was conducted b y Carphone Warehouse. With 51 per cent of 10-year-olds now in possession of a mobile phone, a figure which rises to 91 per [...]

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Link: Teens Rate Music, Games and Video Functionality Less Important on Cell Phones, LetsTalk Survey Finds: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance. ‘Tis the season for surveys and research… Online wireless retailer LetsTalk today announced the results of a survey of U.S. teenagers on their use of cell phones. The respondents, aged 10-18, overwhelmingly chose text [...]

Link: webitpr – online press release distribution and monitoring. Three percent of UK subscribers report listening to mobile music and 10.4 percent of Americans downloaded a ringtone The UK’s leading the way in mobile music usage according to this latest M:Metrics data.

If you’re on the hunt for research around the African mobile sector, now might be a good time to give John White at Portio Research a call as they’re doing a 20% special until the end of August.

Link: Portio Research – Pricing Trends. This report discusses the various trends in the pricing of mobile services, such as declining prices, changing pricing structure and flat pricing schemes, in different regions and the factors that have brought about these trends. Portio are back with the latest research thought piece — this time on pricing [...]

Link: Mobile Local Search Index Shows Biggest Brands on the Mobile. Although restricted to benchmarking results on m-spatial’s own local search sites, this nevertheless gives an interesting overview as to what people are searching on via their mobiles. The Mobile Local Search Index is a new quarterly report from m-spatial that tracks consumer usage of [...]

I’m meeting my friend Jo tomorrow night for a meal. I’m not sure if Natalie’s coming — I think she might be busy. Either way, if you recall, Jo and Natalie are my mobile bellweather users. I was quite astounded at the change in their mobile habits last time we met (documented here). I’m going [...]

Link: Mobile web access on the up | The Register. More and more people are using their mobile phones to access the wibbly wobbly web, according to research from Ipsos. Its latest Face of the Web report, an annual snapshot of the latest internet trends, found that 28 per cent of mobile phone owners around [...]

DUBLIN, Ireland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 25, 2006–Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c31507) has announced the addition of Wireless World Forum’s USA Mobile Market 2006 – Your Statistical Guide To Understanding the Mobile Opportunities in the USA 2006-2007 to their offering.   Data from Wireless World Forum’s "USA Mobile Market 2006" statistical handbook reveals US Operator revenues will grow by another [...]

Across the board, digital media retail brands and content providers are unhappy with the commercial models used to deliver mobile content directly to consumers. The frustrations are the same everywhere: PSMS outpayments from mobile operators are too low and standard data charges make the delivery of heavyweight music and video files too expensive for the [...]