Cellular Gains As Sole Home Phone By Joseph Palenchar - 05/05/2008
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Cellphones are gaining on analog landline and VoIP phones as the only phones in the house, a Harris Interactive survey found. The poll also found that the age of adults using only a cellular phone is creeping up. In a series of online surveys of 9,132 adults from October 2007 to January 2008, Harris found that 14 percent of adults ages 18 and older use only a cellphone a...
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CEA Survey: Room For Further Growth Among Builders Who Market Technology By Joseph Palenchar - 05/05/2008
ARLINGTON, VA. — Home builders are getting more proactive in marketing home technologies, but they have a long way to go, the Consumer Electronics Association's (CEA) sixth annual builder survey found. In the late-2007 survey, only a small minority of builders offering home technologies said they were proactively marketing technology (see table 1), but that's up from 2006, when none of th...
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Wireless Market Still Active Despite Maturity: CTIA Stats By Joseph Palenchar - 04/21/2008
WASHINGTON — The number of net new wireless-phone subscribers slipped 11.1 percent in 2007 to 22.4 million, but the annual gain was the fourth-highest in the industry's history, and it boosted the subscriber base to 255.4 million, or 84 percent of the total U.S. population, according to statistics released by CTIA-The Wireless Association.
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Study Shows Price Still Tops In Buying TVs By Steve Smith - 04/07/2008
EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. — It is no surprise price is still the leading factor for U.S. consumers when buying TVs at retail, but product selection and store location are also important. Those are two of the conclusions of an iSuppli study based on its ConsumerTrak service, which surveyed 15,000 U.S. households during the fourth quarter.
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Females Lead In Use Of Certain Tech: Survey By Staff - 04/07/2008
TORONTO — American women are taking the lead over men in their use of certain technologies including watching streaming TV shows, DVR use, visiting of social media sites and even casual gaming, according to a new Women and Digital Lifestyles report recently released by Solutions Research Group.
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Consumers Want Cellular Data Service: CEA By Joseph Palenchar - 03/24/2008
ARLINGTON, VA. — Awareness of non-voice cellphone features and services is high among cellular owners and non-owners, and consumers who plan to buy a new cellphone in the next few years expressed a high degree of interest in subscribing to such services as email, Internet access, GPS navigation, and music and video services, a Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) consumer survey found.
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FCC: Carrier Choices Contract, Mobile Broadband Expands By Joseph Palenchar - 03/10/2008
WASHINGTON — U.S. consumers on average had more choices of wireless carriers in mid-2007 than they did during the year-ago period, but since 2000, their choices have declined, the latest Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report on wireless competition shows. In its 12th annual report on wireless competition, the FCC found that counties with 59.
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Cellular Gains As Sole Home Phone
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Cellphones are gaining on analog landline and VoIP phones as the only phones in the house, a Harris I...
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