PTT has been getting the mobile operators slavering - IMS Research believes it'll be a $50bn industry by 2008 for services alone - but the handset makers may well be about to throw a spanner in the works.
IDC's perspective is 'down but not out' for the handset vendor. The mobile market is in rude health, with beleaguered handset behemoth Nokia to come out fighting while the other vendors scrap it out for second place, according to new research...
This has helped to offset the effects of an almost saturated handset market and falling subsidies from mobile phone operators. Shares in Carphone Warehouse shot up five per cent this morning as the company cheered shareholders with news of a...
Accustomed to being top dog, the handset maker has seen its market share slide to just under 30 per cent in the second quarter of this year. Nokia has missed out on a number of the most successful developments in mobile phones in recent years and...
He has previously talked about "volume" 3G handset shipments by the autumn of this year. We are watching developments as they occur," was his only comment on the subject. Vodafone has taken the wraps off its latest set of key performance indicators...
A company spokesman confirmed that disposal of the handset operation was an option. Mat Hanrahan, senior analyst at Bloor Research, said: "It is the tail end of an over-ambitious expansion. Gerard Kleisterlee, who takes over at the start of May, is...