The mobile phone segment is very competitive with every quarter bringing some sort of a surprise. Back in May this year, I had written about an IDC report that had listed the world’s five largest mobile phone manufacturers. Nokia, quite unsurprisingly, had the top slot while Research In Motion and Sony Ericsson had their spots [...]

Mobile phones, and I am speaking not just about smartphones, are increasingly being used to serve non-voice applications. Today, it is pretty commonplace to substitute your camera, alarm clock, watch and MP3 player with your cell phone. According to a study by Pew Internet, the number of people using a mobile phone to take pictures [...]

The auctions for 3G licensing just got completed in India and several carriers are expected to begin roll-out of the services from later this year. According to the latest report from Wireless Intelligence, what this will mean is close to 150 million 3G subscribers in India by the end of 2014. While that can be [...]

eMarketer notes that the mobile phone penetration in Canada is close to 5 percentage points lesser than the penetration numbers in USA. That means, there are close to 25 million mobile users in Canada at this point. This number is however on the rise and is expected to get close to the 30 million mark [...]

According to a recent study by Informa Telecoms & Media, India is all set to overtake China with respect to mobile phone subscriptions by 2013. While the growth has been terrific in volume terms, the ARPU are still expected to lower which will mean that network operators will still be able to gain better margins [...]

Ever since the smartphone revolution took off with the launch of iPhone in 2007, the network carriers have had a torrid time in keeping their networks free from congestion. Quite evidently, the operator to have been affected the most is AT&T thanks to its exclusive partnership with Apple for the sale of iPhones in USA. [...]

ComScore has published its latest metrics on the US mobile phone market. There has not been too many changes in rankings since we wrote about them for December of last year. There has only been a minor change in the market share as well. Only AT&T and Tracfone have gained any market share at all [...]

AT&T reported revenues of $2.5 billion and sales worth $30.6 billion for the quarter ending March 2010. So where has this money come from? According to the announcement, close to half of the revenues have come from Ma Bell’s wireless business with another quarter of the sales having been with the wired offerings. Here is [...]

Bharti Airtel, one of India’s largest telecom operators who already operate in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well have now acquired the African assets of the Zain group. One the acquisition, which is presently under regulatory review, goes through, Airtel will become the fifth largest telecom operator in the world. Here is how the numbers [...]

The growth in the global telecom market can be looked at from two angles : in terms of subscribers and in terms of revenues. Whereas the number of subscribers are massive in emerging economies like India and China, the revenues do not translate commensurately. This is because most of these subscribers use their mobile phones [...]