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 [...]
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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 ‘regulatory [...]
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 and [...]
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