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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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 [...]
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 [...]
It says something about the robustness of Nokia that, when the Finnish company unveiled a 90%-plus dip in profits for the first quarter of 2009, shareholders and analysts alike all breathed a collective sigh of relief that the results hadn’t been worse. Plus, with CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo expecting that the next quarter will see a stabilisation [...]
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 [...]
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