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100m mobile youth in USA by 2010

by Graham Brown on January 14, 2009

By 2010, American mobile owning youth under 30 will number 100 million. The USA is the most valuable mobile youth market in the world currently producing 17% of the world’s total telecoms youth revenue, or $48 billion per year. Here is mobileYouth’s latest reportage from Tampa, Florida More mobile youth videos on youtube There are [...]

Teenagers want substance over style from their phones

by Josh Dhaliwal on November 21, 2007

A new U.S. online survey titled Teen Topix has released the results of their study on young consumers aged 13-17 years and their mobile phone preferences and behaviour. When question on the key benefits of their mobile phones it was not surprising that ‘convenience’ comes out top with 77% claiming that the ‘convenience of being [...]

Disney targets 1million Japanese families with new MVNO

November 12, 2007

Having failed miserably in the U.S. Disney plans to launch a mobile phone service in Japan next year offering customers animated content. Disney will use mobile phone carrier Softbank Corp’s network and the two would jointly develop handsets, according to Nikkei business daily. Disney’s entray into Japan as a mobile virtual network operator is likely to trigger further competition in [...]

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