By Laura Walker Hudson, Guest Columnist FrontlineSMS grew out of a conviction that mobile could be a more powerful tool if it was made completely accessible to smaller teams and projects as a professional tool. Also known as text messaging, SMS is the most widespread digital communications platform to date and is still growing. The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Service Adoption Forecast predicts that 90% of global mobile subscribers will b…

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…allenged (or just prefer shortcuts), here are just a few figures and findings to help you expeditiously grasp some key takeaways from this year’s report. Multip lying Devices and Connections By 2017, there will be more than 10 billion mobile-ready devices and M2M connections, up from 7 billion total mobile-ready devices and M2M connections in 2012. Bottom-line: Mobile devices and connections are growing 3.5 times faster than the people that use…

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…, and business services growth rates from 2011 — 2016. Here are just a few of the top-level findings: Global Devices/Connections The total number of fixed and mobile devices and connections on global networks will grow from 10.3 billion in 2011 to 18.9 billion by 2016 – nearly doubling in only 5 years. Global IP Traffic Global IP traffic will nearly quadruple from 2011 to 2016. By 2016, the sum of all forms of video will exceed 86% of global…

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…there regional differences in the rate at which end users are adopting these services? Is it due to culture, economics, education, or regulatory influences? What is it about the Asia-Pacific region that result in it having a 10% higher adoption rate of online gaming than Latin America? Who are the local businesses, communities, or individuals that are driving this adoption, and how do they benefit from these services? It is these questions that…

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…pulations? According to the VNI Service Adoption Forecast (VNI-SA) , consumer SMS usage will continue to be the  most highly penetrated mobile service in Middle East and Africa. The compound average growth (CAGR) will exceed 12% by 2016 with over 630 million users. That’s over 81% of consumer mobile users. Exploring the Full Potential of SMS Applications One of the people I met recently was Rachel Zedek of Backback Farm. Rachel has an amazing ba…

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