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Mobile phone shipments in 2009 will be down by 9.1%

The economic downturn will have a significant impact on mobile phone shipments in 2009; the volumes will be down globally by 9.1%. This is according to the latest forecasts from consulting firm, ovum. All regions, even those in emerging markets, will be hit to some extent by the downturn. Shipments will start to recover from 2010 onwards, although it will take until 2012 before global volumes are back to the level seen in 2008.  more

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Verizon Wireless Plans IMS Future

Verizon, together with key telecom industry suppliers, has announced a vision for the advancement of next-generation network architecture for wireless mobile telecommunications networks. Dick Lynch, Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer at Verizon Wireless, said the company has been working for nearly a year with a task force of the industry's "best and brightest" network engineers and strategists from Cisco, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nortel and Qualcomm. Their goal has been to develop enhancements to a well known, emerging architecture, known as IMS (IP Multi-media Subsystem). more

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