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2008

September IS THE iPHONE 3G BROADENING ITS APPEAL?
August OEM SITES PLAYING A GROWING ROLE IN HANDSET RESEARCH
May CONSUMERS WANT THE QUAD-PLAY
March BUNDLE INTEREST, COMPETITION UP
February Consumers (still) Want Location-Based Services
January Could Open Networks be too Much of a Good Thing?

2007

December Best of 2007: Compete's Hottest Blog Topics of the Year
November Online Media Planning 2.0: segmenting & targeting consumers
October Telecom Purchase Preferences: consumers are online, but where’s the money?
September Verizon's FiOS v. DSL: Battle of the Brands
August Identifying 'At-Risk' Customers, Early
July Mobile TV Market Begins to Take Shape
June After 6 months of iPhone Hype, are consumers ready to pay?
May Why Market Share Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
April The (re)Birth of Mobile Banking
March Telecom Bundles Take The Field
January The Market May Be Ripe, But Will Shoppers Pay the iPHone Premium

2006

December T-Mobile's My Favs Attracts Few Alltel Shoppers; Most Popular Holiday Phones Are Offered At Multiple Carriers This Year
November Family services - would parents rather spend less or know more? ; Pearl, Q, E62 launches show growing consumer interest in smartphones
September Disney Calls Mobile ESPN’s Game Off Before the 4th Quarter
September Mobile video demand is small but growing fast; Consumers are asking for productivity tools in addition to entertainment
August Virgin and Helio Most Effectively Uses the Internet To Capture Shoppers; Consumer Interest in Wireless Content Levels Off Despite Sales Growth
July The Motorola Q gets an "A+" in attracting shoppers interest
June Free Deals and Fashion Are Most Important to Summer Mobile Phone Shoppers; Free phones, style and color top mobile shopping across major carriers
May Latino shoppers are 23% more likely to consider an explicitly music-oriented phone than shoppers overall.
April Operating Systems Matter: How do they impact handset choice?; 'Smart-phone' shoppers value choice in operating systems
February Nokia shoppers are least likely to also consider a Sanyo device. Only nine percent of Nokia shoppers consider Nokia and Sanyo handsets together when making their wireless purchase.
January Unlocking the market for kid-friendly phones is about convincing parents that the benefits of a reliable line of parent/child communication outweighs any discomfort parents have with giving young children a phone.
January If the start of the 2005 online holiday shopping season compared to last year is any indication, it should be a lucrative one for the wireless industry.

2005

December What is the most popular cellphone this holiday season? According to new research from Compete, cellular phone shoppers are coveting "cool" phones and popular features this holiday season, even if they don't come free.
May With the introduction of new high-end wireless devices into an already saturated marketplace, carriers should consider segment-specific messaging to get the most out of marketing spend, as well as viral marketing campaigns.
April Rural carriers are losing roaming revenues as tier-1 carriers build nationwide networks. But, companies like the super-rural carrier formed from Alltel’s purchase of Western Wireless, will be well positioned to take advantage of new growth opportunit
March Cingular has successfully created interest in Motorola's Razr V3, but may have difficulty maximizing conversion due to the Razr's steep price. "On the fence" shoppers express interest in a tiered model approach that allows them to sacrifice certain
January Since the completion of Cingular's acquisition of AT&T Wireless (ATTWS) last October, ATTWS.com has been referring leads to Cingular.com with two exceptions: GoPhone and OGO (text-based) pre-paid products.

2004

November Cingular completed its acquisition of AT&T Wireless on October 26 – creating the nation's largest service provider with nearly 50 million customers. Now the really hard work begins...
October Like almost everything under the sun, wireless handsets have found their way onto eBay. On any given day, U.S. shoppers can find approximately 20,000 handsets available for auction. Handsets attracted over...
September How do wireless consumers react to overage charges? New research from Compete shows that overage is a significant problem for many wireless consumers, but most are apprehensive about paying extra for...


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