In its third quarter results for 2008 Telecom Argentina’s Personal unit recorded its fourth successive year-on-year increase in quarterly average ARPU – an impressive result in a market which now has a penetration rate of 104%.

File this under rumors, but it seems that the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of number of subscribers is working on its own AppStore. When you think about it, it makes perfect sense for China Mobile to do this. With that many subscribers, they would certainly want to increase ARPU by offering subscribers additional

In the days of prepaid SIMs and multiple phones many people carry, counting the Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) based on SIM cards has pretty much become irrelevant. I am the best example that this approach doesn't work anymore. Let's make it simple and only take a look at how I use mobile networks in a single country, Germany: The 'currently used prepaid SIM card' in my primary phone which has go...

Reliance Communications has recorded a record quarter, in terms of new connections, adding 5.3m to its base to take the total to 56.0m. Proportionately, it grew by 10.35% over the quarter and 54.3% over the year.

Now that all of the major U.S. carriers have reported their third quarter earnings, FierceWireless has compiled all of the top metrics--ARPU, churn, net additions and total subscribers--for a fuller view at where the operators stand. Metrics charts

As you may have noticed by all the text stories today and projections for great text ARPU for carriers worl wide, Samsung's propel has recruited Ozzy Osborne to help promote their texting phone. No one can understand poor Ozzy.  Not the barista at the coffe house. So Ozzy texts him is order. The taxi driver can't understand Ozzy, so he texts the cabby his destination. Even Ozzy's therapist fi...

Even with the economic downturn, mobile messaging growth will continue. ABI Research says mobile messaging services revenues will grow from $151 billion in 2008 to greater than $212 billion globally by 2013. Mobile messaging ARPUs are 85%+ of all handset data services revenues regardless of region and will remain so for many years. One of the main reasons for messaging growth is that more and more...

The limitations of ARPU as a metric for mobile phones are fairly well-understood - people have multiple accounts, it's skewed by certain things like BlackBerries and business users, and has a hard time dealing with pre-bundled services. Yet observers and investors continue to use it, despite these caveats, because they now have a "feel" for how to interpret it against this complex background ...

Subscriber growth and financial performance go hand in hand for wireless carriers. Regardless of ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) rates or data traffic, a carrier’s subscriber counts and, more importantly, it’s subscriber growth are the yard-sticks with which to gauge the company’s fiscal performance. So, it’s no wonder that wireless carriers with huge net subscriber

T-Mobile USA saw its profit decrease to $442 million in the third quarter of 2008, compared to $452 million in the second quarter...