Archive for the ‘Devices & Services’ Category
CTIA Announces “Wireless Consumer Checklist” Initiative
With a variety of options for voice, data and text messages, CTIA announced this morning our two different guides that offer consumers standardized questions to ask customer representatives when choosing their wireless service and plans. We developed these guides with many of our members and some of them have already posted their responses to the [...]
The Mobile Cloud: Good for the Environment
The blog this month is focused on mobile cloud computing and the benefits of having your mobile life accessible anytime and anywhere. While we explained what it is and how it relates to spectrum, today we’re focused on another mobile cloud advantage — energy efficiency. Mobile cloud computing is reducing energy consumption in two different [...]
The Mobile Cloud: Spectrum and Mobile Broadband
Earlier this week we blogged about how the mobile cloud is transforming the way we access and use our data so no matter where you are, your information is accessible from almost any device with a broadband Internet connection. But when you make it wireless, the benefits of cloud computing get even better. With mobile [...]
The Mobile Cloud: What It is and Why It’s Important
With more than 50 billion devices that will connect to a mobile cloud by 2020, what exactly does “cloud computing” mean? Simply put, the “cloud” is a metaphor for apps and data storage which allows users to access this content from almost any device via the Internet. It’s as if you have the app and/or [...]
Happy One Year Anniversary text4baby!
It was only one year ago when text4baby was launched. In this short period of time, more than 134,337 pregnant or new moms have enrolled to receive health information via text message in English and Spanish. That’s almost 2 percent growth per week! Text4baby had a phenomenal first year and is doing great work by [...]
CTIA Staff: More App Picks
This month we’ve shared some of our employees’ favorite apps—apps that connect you to social networks, check sports scores, read the news and even let you pay for your morning coffee. When we asked our employees which apps they enjoyed the most, we received a huge variety of apps in response—but given the 500,000 apps [...]
CTIA Staff: App Favorites
As our loyal readers know, the focus of our blog and WOW webcast this month has been all about apps. We’ve been sharing our staff’s favorite apps, and we continue today with another list from a CTIA employee: Starbucks MobileCard Audible ACC Sports Fruit Ninja Netflix Share your app favorites in the comments section below.
CTIA Staff: Frequently Used Apps
Apps are what make our devices unique and are extremely personal. As we’ve been focusing on apps in January, we thought we’d poll some CTIA staff to tell us what their favorite apps are – and it gives you a little insight to our great team. Here’s another listing: Meebo Facebook Bank of America Yelp [...]
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