Articles tagged with: Infonetics Research and CDMA

Smartphone sales buck the recession

A report by Infonetics Research is forecasting an 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide (down from 1.2 billion in 2008), in line with predictions from Nokia, among others. Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the only segment to show unit and revenue growth in the second half of the year as the world economy entered recession.  more

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Recession isn't holding back mobile broadband subscribers

Market research firm Infonetics Research released the fourth quarter (4Q08) edition of its Mobile Broadband Cards, Routers, Services, and Subscribers report last week. The report found that worldwide, the number of mobile broadband subscribers (including W- CDMA/HSPA and CDMA2000/EV-DO) jumped 125% in 2008 over 2007, hitting 210.5 million, and are expected to top 1 billion by 2013.  more

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Ericsson, Nokia Siemens widen RAN market lead

Communications market research firm Infonetics Research reports that worldwide sales of radio access network (RAN) equipment inched up a percent to $10.2 billion in 2Q08, after market leaders Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks each increased their worldwide revenue by 5%, reinforcing their strong #1 and #2 leadership positions (respectively).  more

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