Last week, three of Japan’s largest consumer electronics companies agreed to combine their mobile handset businesses in a stand-alone joint venture. The stated aim is to help the three companies - Casio, NEC and Hitachi - to make significant savings in production and marketing costs and to improve their positions in the cut-throat domestic market.
The venture, a [...]
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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 next [...]
Over the last fortnight number of announcements have been made that I think are worth examining in the context of Juniper’s recently-published report on low-cost handsets and how we expect operators and vendors to concentrate on this potentially massive market.
Pakistan has just reduced the mandatory SIM Activation Tax from Rs500 per connection to Rs250, while ‘regulatory [...]
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