Category: WAVE

Juniper Research: Mobile Messaging Revenues to Decline as Traffic Increases

New data from Juniper Research, which provides research and analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector, has shown that the messaging market will decline from $113.5bn in 2014 to…

TRAI Won’t be Charging Messaging and Calling Apps Fees to Operate in India

In today’s world, which is a time when customers and their communications are evolving from cellular to IP, it can be difficult for carriers and communications applications to play nice…

Messaging and Calling Apps in the 21st Century: Where Are We Going From Here?

Imagine a world where you turn on your PC and you wait a few minutes while your computer boots up. While you wait, you decide that it’s the perfect time…

AdaptiveMobile Finds “Growth Hacking” Being Used by Messaging Apps to Boost User Counts

We’re all intimately familiar with some message applications boosting their user counts by counting both active and inactive users (often referencing them as “registered users”) rather than simply the active…

Past Is Present: Texting Apps Are Striking Back At Social Networks, And Developers Are Set To Reap The Rewards

They say everything old is new again. Yet, it’s still somewhat surprising that after a decade of social network dominance, text messaging is more popular than ever. When I speak…

Instant Messaging to Account for 75% of Mobile Messaging Traffic by 2018, Will Generate Only 2% of Revenues

A new report from Juniper Research highlights the growing disparity between traffic volumes and revenues in the mobile messaging market. It states that despite accounting for 75% of the traffic…

Ovum: “Social Messaging” Apps Not Just a Fad, Will Reach Two Billion User Mark by End of 2014

While mobile VoIP was expected by some to reach 1 billion users by 2017, that number seems incredibly small with many messaging apps integration VoIP capabilities into their platforms. In…