About Metrico Wireless
In response to consumer demand, devices are coming to market at a record pace, and mobile device manufacturers and carriers are faced with a myriad of challenges, including shortened product lifecycles and technical complexities. By partnering with Metrico, customers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, Metro PCS, Motorola, Nokia, and RIM, can have greater confidence that their devices will meet or exceed customers’ performance expectations.
Metrico is pioneering the evaluation of wireless device performance through analysis of user experience metrics such as audio, data, streaming video and location based information. Metrico’s patent-pending technologies help ensure that devices not only get to market quickly and cost-effectively but also deliver the optimal end user experience when turned on for the first time and throughout the device’s lifetime. Metrico’s services are used by carriers and manufacturers worldwide to evaluate everything from smartphones, location-centric devices and traditional-feature phones, to Netbooks, data cards and Bluetooth headsets.
Metrico is a privately held company that has been profitable since 2003, the year it was founded. Metrico operates internationally with headquarters in Frederick, Md.
Some fun facts:
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Metrico has relationships with more than 90 percent of the world’s handset makers.
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Metrico is responsible for evaluating all UMTS/GSM handsets and a significant share of CDMA handsets sold in the U.S., as well as a large number of handsets sold globally. In total, Metrico tests around 200 devices each year.
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An estimated $1.5 billion is spent globally in activities associated with “device compliance and handset approval.”
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By spending typically less than five cents per device with Metrico, carriers can save more than a dollar per device on the costs associated with customer returns, churn and customer care.
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Each Top-5 handset OEM is spending between $4 million and $7 million annually to support carrier and regulatory approvals.
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More than 40 percent of devices evaluated by Metrico require improvement by OEMs in order to pass carrier performance requirements.
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Metrico is expanding internationally with a business presence in the UK and Taiwan
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Recently Metrico outgrew its premises and relocated to a facility twice the size.
