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October 6, 2005
Nextel and Motorola today announced availability of the first Windows Mobile-based Smartphone with Nextel digital walkie-talkie, the Motorola i930, designed for global road warriors who need voice, data and walkie-talkie capabilities wherever business takes them.
The compact, clamshell Smartphone comes equipped with the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system, and offers full personal information management and e-mail functionality through wireless synchronization with Microsoft Outlook e-mail, Calendar, and Contacts or personal Internet e-mail. Users on the go can send and receive e-mail and text messages, manage contacts, schedule appointments and organize tasks quickly and conveniently. Customers who frequently need to review e-mail attachments will find benefit from the free, pre-loaded Windows Mobile ClearVue Suite for opening and viewing PowerPoint presentations, Excel graphs, worksheets and charts, Word documents, PDFs, and other popular image files. The i930 also features a built-in camera and camcorder to help document business events and capture visual moments.
"This is a very powerful, small communication device, perfect for mobile professionals who need accessibility to their entire desktop, which is now available conveniently at their fingertips," said Nextel Partners’ Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Jim Ryder. "The i930 is built for international travel. Customers can stay in touch with voice calls in more than 100 countries and still use the same number that people know back home."
Operating on the 800 / 900 iDEN and 900 / 1800 GSM frequencies, the Motorola i930 gives international travelers the added convenience of voice and voicemail services with the same phone number when traveling to more than 100 countries. With iDEN and GPRS data roaming in select countries, customers traveling in parts of North America, South America, Europe, and Asia can utilize e-mail, Web browsing and text and Multimedia Messaging.
"The i930 is one of Motorola’s most advanced handsets available on the market today," said Rey More, senior vice president and general manager, Motorola’s iDEN Mobile Devices. "The Smartphone features, coupled with international voice and data capabilities, provide communication power for today’s mobile professional."
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As wireless penetration among new users begins to slow and the competition to keep existing customers continues to accelerate, the likelihood of switching providers among those most dissatisfied with their recent retail purchasing experience has increased 46 percent from 2004, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2005 Wireless Retail Sales Satisfaction Study(SM) released today.
The study finds that 20 percent of subscribers who are not satisfied with the overall retail purchase experience say they will "definitely" or "probably" switch current carriers within next 12-month period - up from 13 percent in 2004. In addition, dissatisfied customers are 25 percent less likely to visit the same carrier store again to purchase wireless services and 35 percent less likely to recommend the carrier service to family and friends in the future.
"With fewer new customers entering the market, the wireless industry is becoming fiercely competitive for retailers," said Kirk Parsons, senior director of wireless services at J.D. Power and Associates. "The retail stores of wireless carriers face strong competition in the areas of price and promotions from national electronic retail outlets such as Best Buy and Radio Shack, which offer wireless service. It’s imperative that wireless service providers concentrate on retention strategies, as the ability to expand the customer base becomes more difficult."
The study, now in its second year, provides a detailed assessment of customers who had a wireless retail sales buying experience within the past six months. The study measures overall customer satisfaction performance of the major wireless carrier-branded stores based on four factors (listed in order of importance): sales staff (44%); price/promotion (28%); store display (14%); and store facility (14%).
T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless rank highest in a tie and are the only carriers to perform significantly above the industry average overall. Both receive particularly high ratings relative to the competition in the price/promotional dimension.
The study finds the following key retail wireless sales transaction patterns:
- The reported average wireless retail sales transaction takes approximately 70 minutes to complete from the time the customer enters the store to the time final paperwork is completed and the cell phone is received. This is an increase of more than 8 minutes from 2004.
- Retail satisfaction suffers among those customers who feel they were pressured during the sales process. The average overall satisfaction rating among those customers who report feeling no pressure is 98 index points, compared to 66 among those who felt pressured in some way - a 48 percent difference.
The 2005 Wireless Retail Sales Satisfaction Study is based on experiences reported by 6,144 wireless users who completed a retail sales transaction within the past six months.
The wireless telecommunications industry provides millions of jobs for Americans, contributes billions of dollars to the United States’ economy and is expected to become a larger part of the U.S. economy than the agriculture and automobile sectors within five years, according to a report released today by Ovum, an international telecom analyst and consulting firm.
The independent report, commissioned by CTIA-The Wireless Association, says 3.6 million jobs were directly and indirectly dependent on the U.S. wireless telecommunications industry in 2004.
In that same year, the wireless industry generated $118 billion in revenues and contributed $92 billion to the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP). If the wireless telecommunications industry were a country, its economy would be bigger than that of Egypt, and would rank as the 46th largest in the world, as measured by GDP.
"As wireless becomes the consumer’s primary means of staying in-touch and connected, it has also emerged as a significant economic engine that employs millions of Americans," said CTIA-The Wireless Association President and CEO Steve Largent.
"This study is strong evidence that lightly regulated, competitive markets are the most efficient and cost effective way to deliver consumers the innovative products they want and need, and in doing so, the industry is able to create enormous economic benefits in the form of job creation and tax revenue," continued Largent.
According to one of the study’s authors, Roger Entner of Ovum, U.S. wireless consumers enjoy far lower rates than users in other parts of the world. "The use of wireless telecommunications services in the United States generated a consumer surplus of $157 billion per annum in 2004," said Entner. "Were U.S. carriers to charge at European Union levels, we estimate that the U.S. consumer surplus from wireless services would be halved, demonstrating that U.S. consumers and businesses enjoy substantially greater economical welfare from wireless services than their EU counterparts do," continued Entner.
Entner provided greater insight into the value of the U.S. consumer surplus by stating that if the average wireless consumer in America spends $54 per month on wireless voice and data services, that same consumer would pay approximately $125 US for the same services in the European Union.
Based on the conservative assumption that no services are added beyond what are available today, Ovum predicts that over the next 10 years, the wireless telecom industry will create an additional 2-3 million new jobs, adding a cumulative additional $450 billion in GDP.
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