The Kids Are Alright - Internet Innovation Alliance

March 26, 2013

The app ecosystem, powered by widespread mobile broadband, is an undeniable success story. Case in point, courtesy of Kara Swisher from All Things Digital:

Earlier today, Yahoo said it had acquired the trendy and decidedly stylish news reading app Summly, along with its telegenic and very young entrepreneur Nick D’Aloisio.

Yahoo said it plans to close down the actual app and use the algorithmic summation technology that the 17-year-old D’Aloisio built with a small team of five, along with a major assist from Silicon Valley research institute SRI International, throughout its products.

You read that right. A 17-year-old whiz kid and a small team have just sold an app to one of the biggest online players. The kicker? Yahoo! paid $30 million for the app. Wow.

Research Peek of the Week: 5G Users Consume Almost Twice as much Data as 4G Users in the U.S.

A new report from Opensignal found that in September 2020, 5G users in the U.S. consumed almost twice as much data as 4G users – 16.5GB compared to 8.7GB respectively.

October 28, 2020

Research Peek of the Week: Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Helps Consumers During COVID-19 Pandemic

A recent survey of smartphone users in 11 countries shows that during the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers are finding information and communications technology (ICT) vital for coping with everyday life.

June 24, 2020

Research Peek of the Week: Most Popular Mobile Apps in the U.S.

Mobile apps are proving to be among the most popular features on smartphones, with a recent survey of smartphone users in the United States showing that social and communications apps are the most popular.

January 8, 2020

Research Peek of the Week: Internet Users Can Now Choose from Millions of Apps

As of the third quarter of 2018, there were 2.1 million apps available to Android users and 2 million apps available to Apple users.

January 8, 2019

FCC Should Follow Signposts for Change With Mobile Broadband

Op-eds

A new survey shows just how fast the market for broadband is changing. Consumers no longer see mobile and fixed internet access alternatives as fundamentally different but use different types of broadband access in similar ways. In other words, mobile and fixed broadband are now functional substitutes.

July 31, 2018

Research Peek of the Week: Consumer Preferences for Broadband are Changing

An increasing number of Americans are relying primarily on their smartphones or web-enabled mobile devices to access a broader number and type of activities, services, and overall information.

July 18, 2018

IIA Releases White Paper and Survey on Consumers’ Use of Internet: Mobile and Fixed Broadband Are Now “Functional Substitutes” for Each Other

Press Releases

Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) released a survey showing that consumers’ preferences for how they access the internet and how they use the internet have changed dramatically – and that these changes have accelerated over the past two years.

July 17, 2018

Consumer Preferences Tilting Towards Mobile Broadband

Special Reports

IIA believes that now is the right time for the FCC to update and modernize its approach to reporting to Congress on the deployment of advanced telecommunications capability. Because consumers perceive and use mobile and fixed broadband services in essentially the same way, the FCC should now consider mobile and fixed broadband services “functional substitutes” and report to Congress accordingly.

July 17, 2018

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