A Detailed Study Of It And Telecom Industry And Market Trends

Trends in the market include the growing number of people within the 15-29 age range. Also, phones are being used for much more than just calling, other functions like texting and music playing capabilities have dominated much of a user’s data usage. As for market characteristics, the mobile industry has reached almost 50% penetration with about 130 million subscribers, and reaching its maturity. The cost structure has been very confusing for consumers, with hidden fees, overcharges, and lacks to reward users who do not use their plans to the max. And finally, channels include all service provider stores and retail consumer stores, for example, Target, Walmart, and Best Buy.

CTIA – The Wireless Association reports that the number of text messages sent in the US rose from 362.5 billion in 2007 to an astonishing 2.19 trillion in 2012. In light of

Instant gratification has become the social norm in this generation but is diminishing the quality of communication. Cell phones have changed massively in the past few years, making communication weaken each time cell phones are updated. At first, cell phones were just used for calling. Calling was the only operation that they were capable of and most of the time calling was not even convenient on a cell phone. Although the concept of texting has been out for decades, actual texting became available to all society in 1994 (Turrettini). Texting instantly

Texting is our number one form of communication. In 2012, Americans sent over 69,000 text messages a second. Since then, the number of monthly text send increased by more than 7,700% over the last decade, making

In addition to telephony, modern mobile phones also support a wide variety of other services such as text messaging, MMS, email, Internet access, short-range wireless communications (infrared, Bluetooth), business applications, gaming and photography. Mobile

Technology is constantly changing and adapting in today’s world, and just in the last thirty years alone, there has been a total overhaul in how people communicate with one another. Email was invented by a fourteen year old boy from New Jersey, and it was officially copyrighted in 1982 (Time). A way to talk exponentially quicker than by letter was finally introduced and is still used today. As cell phones became more and more prevalent a need for an

Perhaps the reason for such growth in wireless service is the nonstop development of smart phones (Apple’s iphone, Samsung’s Galaxy, RIM’s Black Berry, etc.). The attractiveness of high technology devices helps complimenting the service. The negative growth for voice can be explained by the stable growth for data as it is can be seen as a substitute.

Texting has changed a bunch through all the years. We have gone through many forms of texting. There were all sorts of social media sites where we could text back and forth. As phones grew more and more popular, social media texting has gone down. Now we can just pull out our phones and text just about anyone in the world.

Many people could talk to others that lived very far. It was more convenient, and everyone enjoyed having one at home. Later on, in 1992, SMS or text messaging was developed by Neil Papworth. Before, the mobile phone didn’t have a keyboard but Papworth made it possible. Now, people could send messages to their loved ones, and they didn’t have to call. It was a faster way of reaching others through messaging. In 2007, Steve Jobs announced the Iphone at the Macworld convention, and caught many people’s attention. The Iphone was more advanced than any other cell phone. It allowed access to sending emails, the internet, and social media. It has many apps such as, a Safari engine, weather, news, banking, reminders, and other helpful tips. These are some of the reasons why cell phones have affected many lives of today.

From the time of its invention to 1880, there were 50000 subscribers of the telephone. However, it took nearly a hundred years for the system to improve dramatically. The operators were eliminated because the users could now make their own connection without calling the operators first. By the 1960’s - U.S. Telephones total 80,969,000; world's total reaches 159,200,000; telephone companies were forming everywhere and by 1964, some 2,535 companies were in existence. The more the telephones improve, the more the people wanted more from it. In the twentieth century, the telephone is the main medium to reach just about anyone. It is also the favored medium of communication in the business world. Nowadays, the telephone system can be configured to suit a business' needs. At my job for example, the telephone has multiple functions. One is the paging system to reach someone; it can be used to make conference calls to multiple companies at the same time. With the invention of cellular phones, one can be reached anywhere in the world and be connected to the internet; as long as you have a signal of course.

Since this sudden commonplace use of technology in the early 2000’s, things have continued to progress. The use of technology has still continued to grow around the world. In the UK alone over 3 billion texts are sent a week (Thomas). This amount does not include the rest of the world, but it does prove to be an interesting observation of the growth in text messaging over time. With these numbers, it has also been observed that the average person sends over 50 texts a week (Thomas). Studies are showing that most people are going out into public and sitting on their phones more than socializing with those around them (Wygant). These observations clearly show how dramatically things have changed since the time of the first text message, to now.

Recently a growing form of communication for organisations. It is time efficient way of sending information to a large number of reciepntants. It is cost effective and more likely to reach the receipatnt as they are likely to check their mobile telephone several times throughout the day. Unfortanaley text messages can be open for interpretation of tone or mood. It can also be inappropriate for some organistation communication.

Technology has essentially erupted in the past ten years. Cell phones began as a way to hear a voice. A way to be able to speak without being in a face to face setting, but as time has progressed cell phones have turned into much more. One can now have conversation without the movement of their lips. Thus, meaning the creation of the text messaging was born. “Age relates to big differences in how many text messages

As shown in Table 2, Maxis was the winner in 2013 and 2014 as Maxis had the highest mobile service revenue and market share compared to Celcom and Digi. In our study, the reason why Maxis had the greatest mobile service revenue is Maxis offers different service plans to serve different customers in order to meet their needs. For instance, the service plans provided by Maxis include postpaid plans, prepaid plans, broadband plans. In addition, Maxis offers mobile services such as call forwarding, call waiting, voicemail, home call forwarding, caller line identification presentation (CLIP), caller line identification restrictor (CLIR), Call-Me-Back *126* and itemized billing (“Phone & Number Services,”

The country’s major telecommunications companies have reported a resurgence in the volume of text messages sent over their networks in the year 2011,