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Article: iGR, Cequint: Wireless Caller ID Poised to Earn Millions for Carriers.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- January 23, 2008
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SEATTLE -- A new iGR Inc. report made public today estimates that cellular carriers will increase the revenue they earn per subscriber by 4 percent if just 20 percent of their customers purchase enhanced Caller ID for wireless at $1.99/month.
iGR, an Austin, TX-based consultancy and research firm contracted by Cequint, reports in its study "Mobile Caller ID: A Balance of Privacy and Profitability" that landline telecom service providers continue to earn hundreds of millions of dollars each year by charging $5 to $10 per month for Caller ID. In some metropolitan markets, as many as 80 percent of consumers with a landline telephone pay for Caller ID service that ...