(Average Revenue Per User) A calculation often used to determine the overall value of an application. It is also used to rate particular customers, especially in the wireless space, by comparing someone's account to the overall average.
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- Will new Motorola Google phone Cliq?
- For carriers, the key question remains the data load this phone delivers, and the money they might make from that data. It's called ARPU -- average revenue per user. But these days it should called ABPU -- average bandwidth per user. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- iPhone users strangling the AT&T network
- Network BandwidthIn all fairness, I doubt that any carrier in the US would have been ready to handle the massive amount of data streaming across it's 3G network that iPhone users have generated. If a carrier like Verizon were to offer the iPhone, a lot of people would jump...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Verizon keeps wireless churn lead in second quarter; Palm Pre coming 2010
- Verizon delivered second quarter results Monday that were a bit better than expectations, but the company added fewer net wireless customers than some analysts expected. Â Verizon's wireless churn rate continues to lead the industry. In addition, Verizon also confirmed that it will add the Palm Pre to its lineup early...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivity
- Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivityGimme? No, its socialism in actionWhy do you figure the government has any right to dictate what phones are available through what carriers? I don't happen to like the iPhone - but I know a lot of people...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Sprint still drops customers, but offsets with Kindle, Boost subs
- Sprint is still losing too many post paid retail customers to AT&T and Verizon but offsetting losses with wholesale additions due to the popularity of devices like the Kindle and its prepaid Boost plans. The company on Monday reported a first quarter net loss of $594 million,...
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- Verizon's first quarter better than expected; Alltel makes it largest U.S. wireless player
- Verizon delivered a solid quarter as the company added wireless customers at a rapid clip and continued to land FiOS Internet and TV customers. Like rival AT&T, Verizon is proving to be recession resistant. Verizon on Monday reported first quarter net income of $3.2 billion, or 58...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- European mobile services penetration to reach 135% by 2012
- Europe as a region has the highest adoption of mobile services at 121% penetration and this is expected to rise to 135% by 2012. At these high penetrations, overall service revenue growth through the handset is expected to decline. However, ARPU is expected to continue growing among business users. In...
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Boom in Mobile Data Creates Backhaul Urgency
- In their bid to improve their profitability and maintain their competitiveness, many mobile operators are rolling out new services meant to generate revenue and increase usage. Unfortunately, the average revenue per user ARPU from new services does not offset the rising capital and operating expense (CAPEX/OPEX) of meeting increased capacity...
- White papers 2009-02-12
- Tianjin Unicom Increases Telesales Fivefold With SAS
- One company affected by the increased scrutiny was Tianjin Unicom, a branch of the China Unicom group. The challenge was to gain insight into customer behavior in order to enhance decision making and gain higher ARPU Average Revenue Per User. Tianjin deployed SAS Customer Retention for Telecommunications, SAS Customer Segmentation...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Sprint: Subscribers continue to bolt
- Sprint continues to lose customers to other carriers as the company reported a third quarter subscriber tally of 50.5 million, down from 54 million a year ago. The company lost 1.3 million wireless customers on a net basis in the third quarter including 1.1 million post-paid. Wall...
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Netflix may lose $1.8M to $3.6M in revenue per day over outage
- Update: Netflix has been facing shipping delays and outages in its distribution centers for the last two days and has been fumbling to find a fix. The company said Thursday that it is hoping to bring its systems online overnight. But the tab for the outage is roughly $1.8 million...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Sprint's inferno: Churn baby churn
- Sprint Nextel said Monday that it has lost more than 1 million customers in the last year. Sprint, which has been busy of late with a WiMax joint venture with Clearwire and alleged takeover overtures from Deutsche Telekom, provided a healthy dose of its financial reality with...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Enabling IPTV: What's Needed in the Access Network
- Service providers around the globe have begun commercializing triple play services to better compete with cable and satellite operators. While this is helping boost Average Revenue Per User ARPU, it is placing unprecedented stress on the traditional high-speed Internet infrastructure. This paper examines the issues of deploying triple play services...
- White papers 2008-04-14
- 80% of mobile operators likely to become data connectivity providers
- 80% of mobile operators agreed that becoming a mobile data connectivity provider is either quite likely or highly likely, according to 3-ple Media. Average revenue per user ARPU from traditional services has been in steady decline, but 52% of operators said they are current revenue leaders in the field. 26%...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Driving Mobile Messaging ARPU With Advanced Haptics
- MNOs are increasingly turning to messaging services as a means of offsetting voice ARPU declines. Premium mobile messaging services such as MMS Funny, pings!, My Veepers Messaging, Animated Messaging, and MMS News Alerts are examples of next-generation content and messaging services that have attracted a loyal and growing user base...
- White papers 2008-03-01
- IronPort Helps a Nationwide Carrier Stop Wireless Threats
- Wireless communications continues to grow and evolve in a dynamic fashion. One particular area of emerging technology is wireless messaging. With large numbers of subscribers, wireless operators continue to look for ways to increase Average Revenue Per User ARPU with advanced features such as Short Message Service SMS and Multi...
- Case studies 2007-09-18
- Overcoming the Challenges of WiMAX Deployment in 700MHz Band
- The economics of the wireless systems is the major consideration when choosing the technology, the deployment strategy and the modes of operation. It determines the investment required to deploy a network, the expense required to operate it and the operator's profit margin. In the context of WiMAX technology, a careful...
- White papers 2007-09-16
- Using XSIC Technology in Fixed WiMAX Networks for Improved Network Economics and User Experience
- Many WiMAX networks are deployed to serve mainly fixed subscribers, such as small and medium size enterprise buildings as well as residential CPE's. Fixed WiMAX networks are usually deployed as an alternative to ADSL, fiber or high speed cellular technologies. Therefore, in order to justify the initial deployment cost, and...
- White papers 2007-09-16
- Latest iPhone hacks shine spotlight on war between oysters and shuckers
- In the war between oysters solutions and their vendors that are sealed shut and shuckers those who like to pry the oysters open, Apple would like you to believe that its a shucker. But, its iPhone proves otherwise. If the iPhone were open and Apple was a shucker, you'd...
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Frankston: Who's pirating bandwidth these days? You or AT&T (and peers)
- Bob Frankston (co-inventor of the electronic spreadsheet) has been tirelessly spending the last few years trying to shed light on the fact that there's plenty of network capacity out there and that anybody particularly the carriers and ISPs that tell you something different are full of it. They're just reserving...
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
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