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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the mobile sector in the Middle East, led by the launch of a new operator in Kuwait and the licensing of a third player in Iran. These announcements bode well for the continued growth prospects in the region, led by activities in the Persian Gulf region. The [...]
Some of the world’s largest and most influential mobile handset vendors have been saying that they expect overall sales and shipments of mobile devices in 2008 and 2009 will fall short of their earlier predictions. Recovery, it is whispered, may not come until 2010 at the earliest. Today, market leader Nokia has again revised downwards [...]
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