In Juniper’s recent report examining the trends and opportunities facing operators and handset vendors alike in the fast-growing low-cost handsets field, we found that one of the key hurdles in getting phones into the hands of those on very low or subsistence-level incomes was the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the phones themselves. Over the [...]
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In recent months, I’ve been looking at the flipside of the smartphone phenomenon. Smartphones accounted for 13% of all mobile device shipments in 2008 and, by 2015, such devices will likely represent around one-third of all annual new mobile phone sales, we believe. Giddying numbers. Especially for pressurised device vendors keen to stabilise their balance sheets [...]
Canada-based smartphone-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has unveiled its fourth quarter and year-end results for fiscal 2008 (year ending February 28, 2009), wherein it has achieved a much better than expected performance in terms of revenue and customer growth. The earlier news from semiconductor maker Texas Instruments that demand for components is beginning to recover has prompted a [...]
Verizon Wireless is leading the charge in what may now prove to be a deciding battle in establishing which standard will become the technology of choice for delivering 4G mobile communications services. In announcing that it will launch a commercial service based on LTE technology it has effectively bloodied the nose of the US’ sole [...]
Samsung Electronics sold almost 200 million mobile handsets in 2008, a 24% improvement on the previous year. Thus, the company has become the only handset vendor, so far, to have reported y-o-y improvements in handset shipment volumes in each consecutive quarter of 2008. Indeed, this achievement is vastly superior to the overall 5-6% growth recorded by the [...]
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