The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4 per cent year over year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time. According to the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker published by IDC, vendors shipped a total of 418.6 million mobile phones in the first quarter, compared with [...]
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Report: Smartphones outship feature phones for the first time in Q1
Posted by Mobile-ized on April 26th, 2013
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No Comments »Nokia teases new Qwerty phone announcement
Posted by Mobile-ized on April 23rd, 2013
Nokia (NYSE:NOK) appears to be planning to announce a new phone with a Qwerty keyboard on Wednesday, though it is not clear whether it will be a Lumia Windows Phone or some other class of device. A Nokia post appears to hint at a yellow Qwerty phone. Nokia said on its official Nokia Conversations blog [...]
Small operators oppose unlocked devices
Posted by Mobile-ized on April 21st, 2013
NEW ORLEANS–Many Tier 3 operators dislike the notion of selling customers unlocked handsets because they believe unlocked handsets can result in a degraded customer experience. Speaking on a roundtable discussion at the Competitive Carriers Association conference here Thursday, Ron Smith, president and CEO of Bluegrass Cellular, said that if a customer brings an unlocked handset [...]
Spanish mobile operators dogged by churn as fixed telcos benefit
Posted by Mobile-ized on April 19th, 2013
Mobile operators in recession-hit Spain are continuing to lose subscribers to rivals despite efforts to stem the flow, as a near-record number of people switched to a different operator in February. Reuters cited figures from telecoms watchdog CMT, which said 575,138 people opted for a different mobile plan over the course of February. That was [...]
Posted in Mobile Phones Tags: benefit, churn, dogged, fixed, mobile, Operators, Spanish, telcos No Comments »AT&T crows of unlocking policy; new legislation would protect unlocking
Posted by Mobile-ized on March 11th, 2013
AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) said it supports unlocking customers' devices if they have met the terms of their service contract and it has the unlock code for a device. The clarification from the nation's No. 2 carrier came as senators introduced legislation to protect unlocking. The hubbub over unlocking intensified this week after the Obama administration [...]
Posted in Mobile Phones Tags: AT&T, crows, legislation, policy, protect, unlocking, would No Comments »Report: Nokia to compete in low-cost market with new models
Posted by Mobile-ized on February 23rd, 2013
Nokia is set to unveil a range of low-cost handsets this week in an effort to counter growing competition from Chinese rivals, a company source told Reuters. The models, scheduled to be launched at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, indicates that Nokia is now willing to expand its portfolio after investing heavily in new [...]
Orange Switzerland, Vodafone Spain cull corporate jobs
Posted by Mobile-ized on February 17th, 2013
Switzerland's No. 3 operator, Orange Communications, has announced it will cut 140 corporate jobs this year. The company was sold by France Telecom late last year to the private equity firm Apex Partners for €1.6 billion, although has the right to continue using the Orange brand for several years. Orange confirmed that its "on-going transformation [...]
Posted in Mobile Phones Tags: corporate, cull, jobs, Orange, Spain, Switzerland, Vodafone No Comments »Analysts: Apple grabs top U.S. handset spot in Q4
Posted by Mobile-ized on February 3rd, 2013
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) climbed atop the U.S. handset heap in the fourth quarter of 2012, becoming the largest U.S. handset maker for the first time in a quarter, according to new data from Strategy Analytics. Apple passed Samsung Electronics to become No. 1 for the first time in the period by selling an estimated 17.7 iPhones [...]
Analysts: Samsung maintains handset lead in Q4, but slowdown may be coming
Posted by Mobile-ized on January 25th, 2013
Samsung Electronics maintained its status as the world's largest handset and smartphone maker in the fourth quarter, according to analysts' estimates, en route to another record quarter in terms of sales and profits. However, financial analysts and even the company itself warned that Samsung's meteoric smartphone growth is likely to slow in the months ahead. [...]
Posted in Mobile Phones Tags: Analysts, Coming, handset, lead, maintains, Samsung, slowdown No Comments »Mallinson: The future for multinational wireless operators
Posted by Mobile-ized on January 20th, 2013
Keith Mallinson It is quite common for companies, in various industry sectors, to expand abroad when economic conditions are buoyant, business performance at home is strong, apparent bargains are to be had elsewhere and spare cash burns holes in corporate pockets. On the other hand, as witnessed in grocery retailing by the recent withdrawal of [...]
