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Mobile Payment Users Worldwide to Increase 70 Percent in 2009

..try will experience steady growth, as the number of mobile payment users worldwide will total 73.4 million in 2009, up 70.4 percent from 2008 when there were 43.1 million users, reports Gartner. The research firm predicts that the number of mob more

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Africa, Middle East to Lead Mobile Broadband Subscriber Growth by 2012

..Middle East generated 10 percent of global mobile revenue in 2008, the region contributed only 3 percent of global mobile data revenue, notes Dearbhla McHenry, analyst at Pyramid Research and author of the report. However, the region will doubl more

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Nokia 1st-Quarter Profit Plunges by 90 Percent

Nokia has posted an expected 27% drop in net sales for the first quarter to EUR 9.3 billion (US$12.2 billion) and a slightly worse than anticipated 90% drop in profits to EUR122 million (US$161 million).  more

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Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Down by 5% in Q4 '08

..mpact on the mobile phone industry as worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, a 4.6 per cent decline from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Manufacturers contin more

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Zain Customer Base Jumped by 50% in 2008

..ctuations. Net profit was up 6% to US$1.2 billion, while the customer base increased 50% to 63.5 million. Chief Executive Officer of Zain, Dr Saad Al Barrak commented: "I am delighted that these 2008 financial results release, for the first ti more

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Mobile Messaging Revenues to Defy Economic Downturn

..ding to Acision's figures, global SMS traffic increased by 30 percent over the New Year period compared to the same period last year. Revellers sent a mind blowing number of more than 55 billion text messages with 31 billion of these being proc more

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Carriers name Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, Alvarion, Huawei top mobile WiMAX vendors

..ed vendors are front-runners in announcing mobile WiMAX customer numbers, and the first 3 lead in worldwide revenue share. Interestingly, not all service provider respondents named their own mobile WiMAX vendor as a top vendor. "Most WiMA more

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