SN, which is jointly owned by Finland’s Nokia and Germany’s Siemens, announced that it would strengthen its position in the US by buying most of Motorola’s network infrastructure unit for $1.2bn.Harbinger’s $7bn contract award to NSN underlines the h
Serving 45 of the top 50 global telecom operators,
f you look at Alcatel Lucent or Nokia Siemens Networks, their growth rate is flat or shrinking, and even market leader Ericsson has a slow growth
world's leading telecom infrastructure vendor,
ricsson is in a better position than its European- American and Japanese rivals to resist the Chinese led onslaught, as its economies of scale give it higher sales and better profit margins.
hey must compete on technology, product quality and innovation.
ly three players- Ericsson, Huawei and ZTE- will be the only dominant telecom
iggest blow to Huawei (IMHO) is that they didn't win the Sprint infrastructure upgrade contract.
U.S. concerns about Huawei go back several years, and focus on the opacity of its books (finances are not transparent) and ownership structure (Chinese government?)
Huawei also competes with Ericsson, Nokia (NOK) and Siemens
Huawei is currently the second largest telecom equipment supplier globally with a share of 20% as of Q3 2009, an increase from the 11% share in Q4 2008
global core router market share from nearly 11% in 2008 to about 12% in 2009
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What is User Experience?
What are the most suitable Open Source licensing models for mobile handset software?
How to succeed in an Open Source world
How to make money with Open Source
The challenges and risks of Open Source
What are the major trends in mobile handset OS?
Which OS platforms will be the most popular in 2009 and in 2013?
What strategies are being adopted by the leading handset vendors? What does this mean?
What is the future for proprietary OS?
What mobile OS strategies are operators adopting?
n 2008, there were almost 162 million Smartphones sold, surpassing notebook sales for the first time. Just over 49% of Smartphones sold in 2008 were based on Symbian OS, a significant drop from a near 65% share it enjoyed one year earlier. While this is in large part due to the relatively poor performance of Nokias Smartphone range, it is also an indication of the popularity enjoyed by competing platforms including Linux, BlackBerry OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, OS X iPhone and new entrant Android.
Openness is a key criterion, says Informa, while all in the mobile telecoms space now see the revenue potential of applications and services.
Informa notes also that as more and more value moves from device hardware to software, and also to content, developers are becoming increasingly central to the mobile handset value chain
which application stores have the highest percentage of free apps
Android Market was the winner here. In
Google attracts the sort of developers that enjoy giving away their works and the open nature of the application- approval process (that is, no review board middleman exists between app creation and public release)
' dissatisfaction with Google Checkout - paid Android apps are required to implement this payment method for purchase
U.S. market only
okia has the most paid (85% paid)
prices for the paid applications
RIM and Microsoft were more than twice as high
didn't necessarily have to do with the different types of applications
Android is now the second-largest application store
Windows has 693.
Apple is also the fastest growing store with a shocking 13,865 new applications added per mont
popularity of applications by category
over 1245" Windows Mobile
surprising was the popularity of games on Blackberry, the platform often used more by enterprise
9% popularity to only 18% for utilities.
absence of any form of review process has led to new forms of store flooding and other variety of spams in the form of applications that are just gateways to websites