Articles tagged with: Rural and Sony Ericsson

Worldwide Mobile Phone Shipments Down by 15.8% in First Quarter

.. quarter, while China's rural subsidies have helped to prop up handset demand. Still, with growth coming increasingly from lower-end segments in the region, phone makers will find their average selling prices and profit margins challenged. Top more

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Ericsson Q2 Profits Plunge 70%

.. out of 2G network coverage in rural areas combined with increasing deployments of 3G in urban areas. In addition, there is a growing interest in managed services. Asia Pacific sales were down 5% year-over-year. Excluding Australia and Japan,  more

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Samsung India Seeking Alternative Handset Sales Opportunities

.. partnerships with regional organisations to push sales into the rural areas. Samsung recently overtook Motorola in India's handset market, according to figures from a local market research firm. The latest ORG figures reports that Samsung's m more

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Mobile telephony to reach 400,000 people in remote African villages

..positive business impacts and opening new markets in remote parts of rural Africa. " Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and Director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, says: "Mobile communication is p more

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