Ad-funded social networks will provide the bulk of revenues in the mobile user-generated content (UGC) space by 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The report says that the total value of the UGC market - comprising social networking, dating and personal content delivery (PCD) services - will rise from nearly $1.1 billion [...]

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Intelecon Research projects in a recent release that mobile networks will begin to provide coverage to 90% of the world’s population by 2010 - compared with 80% today.
This optimistic projection is being made despite the misplaced policies of many local governments who continue to subsidize the rollout of fixed-networks.
The World Bank has already [...]

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 Despite the language hurdle and low levels of literacy, would you believe it that nearly one-quarter of Asia-Pacific’s mobile revenues still comes from data?
This may one-tenth of the revenue garnered in Middle East and Africa, according to an e-Marketer survey, but, apparently, messaging-oriented services such as SMS and MMS still dominate the mobile data revenue [...]

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