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Articles tagged with: Ovum and 2g
Smartphones: the silver lining of the declining handset market
Opinion by ovum's Adam Leach, Devices principal analyst
Smartphone shipments will reach 406.7 million by 2014
During 2008, in a first for the mobile industry, consumer demand for third-party
applications started driving both handset sales and revenues for developers and
OEMs. Apple’s success with the App Store has prompted other players to focus
on devices that can enable third-party developers to easily bring applications
and services to mobile phones.
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Related Tags: app-store, smartphone, symbian, nokia, google, microsoft, sony, windows, google-android, nokia,, os, cagr
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
Related Tags: 3g-phones, lte-phones, 1xev-do, modems, cagr
The case for network sharing gets stronger
Opinion piece by Emeka Obiodu, senior analyst at ovum
With a mature market, declining voice revenues and now the economic
downturn, the argument for European mobile network operators (MNOs) to share
their networks has never been stronger. Although there have been several
network-sharing initiatives, what is needed is a more coherent commercial and
regulatory framework across the EU to make network sharing the norm rather than
the exception.
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Related Tags: orange, t-mobile, roaming, 3-uk, vodafone, teliasonera, capex, t-mobile-uk, tim, eu, ran, yoigo, 3, tele2, opex, network-sharing, passive-network, 3g-coverage
Will LTE be to mobile operators what NGNs are to fixed?
Opinion by Steven Hartley, senior analyst at ovum
With all the excitement surrounding LTE, it is easy to overlook how the
practicalities of migration will impact mobile operators. Migration to LTE will
need to be approached in the same way that fixed telcos have viewed
next-generation network (NGN) deployments - long term and holistically.
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Related Tags: intel, lte, crm, backhaul, billing, managed-services, option, true, 3g-coverage, seamless
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