Archive for the 'ABI' Category
Ron Chapman ASiQ’s CEO stated “up until now passengers have only had very expensive options for in flight mobile phone communications however, with the evolution of our SafeCell App, combined with our new Bluetooth Access Point, airlines will now be able to offer their passengers affordable SMS, MMS, voice messaging and text email on the popular device of choice, the mobile phone. Better still SafeCell eliminates GSM roaming charges, as it does not require a GSM Picocell connection to deliver its services.”
Bluetooth access points are more efficient, as they operate as a Personal Area Network (PAN) ...
Posted on 9th March 2010
Under: ABI, Bluetooth, Handset, MMS, SMS, WiFi |
Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse today announced the launch of an expanded wireless buy-back program for wireless devices while testifying at a green telecom hearing on Capitol Hill. Sprint’s expanded Buyback program, intended to boost U.S. wireless recycling rates, now offers an instant point-of-sale credit to current and new Sprint customers who turn in up to three eligible wireless devices, per active line of service. Sprint Buyback now accepts all eligible wireless devices, regardless of manufacturer or carrier, through its expanded program. Customers can take their unwanted phones to one of the more than 1,000 participating ...
Posted on 24th February 2010
Under: ABI, BlackBerry, Handset, LG, Sprint, Wireless |
2009 will see a total of 1.2 billion mobile devices shipped, according to the latest data from ABI Research. That includes all categories of wireless devices including cellular handsets, MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices), netbooks, mobile consumer electronics products, and cellular modems.
Shipments of these devices will have nearly doubled in 2014 to a total of 2.25 billion, according to the firm’s new forecasts.
“The next five years will see a shift in the breakdown between types of mobile devices shipped,” comments industry analyst Michael Morgan. “Today, wireless handsets rule the roost, with other mobile devices accounting for only ...
Posted on 26th December 2009
Under: ABI, Wimax |
ABI Research expects application downloads to reach five billion by 2014. That is an increase from an estimated 2.3 billion applications downloaded in 2009. The growing adoption of smartphones which saw sales rise 20% in 2009, as well as the proliferation of application stores, are the major drivers for this expansive surge.
“The iPhone’s share of the app market will contract from its 2010 level during the latter part of the forecast period, but it will remain the leading platform for applications,” says wireless research associate Bhavya Khanna. “The big beneficiary will be Android, which will see ...
Posted on 18th December 2009
Under: ABI, Google, Smartphone |
Over the last several years, mobile WiMAX has moved through standardization, productization, and interoperability testing and certification. Larger-scale network deployments are finally becoming a reality. Clearwire in the United States has already declared 173,000 subscribers, Yota in Russia has been growing at a decent rate reaching 100,000 subscribers in August and 200,000 in October, and PacketOne in Malaysia has reached 130,000 subscribers.
UQ Communications once expected to reach 300,000 subscribers by the end of 2009, but is behind schedule in its rollout and will fall short of that initial target. South Korea has seen KT’s and SKT's ...
Posted on 8th December 2009
Under: ABI, Wimax |
ABI Research expects the Ultra Mobile Device (UMD) market – that is, the shipments of UMPCs (Ultra Mobile PCs), netbooks, MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) and mobile consumer electronics devices combined – to achieve a 385 million unit size in 2014. The diversity of form factors and device types we see today will likely continue as vendors look to meet each audience’s unique preferences.
“Consumers and business buyers are only recently accustomed to the netbook feature set,” says senior analyst Jeff Orr. “Regardless of vendor, the majority of today’s netbooks ship with Intel processors and Windows XP into ...
Posted on 27th October 2009
Under: ABI, Internet, Linux, Nokia |
Results from a 2009 ABI Research survey of 1000 adult mobile phone users in North America reveal that approximately 7% would be willing to pay a premium for an environmentally-friendly handset. A further 40% would choose a green handset over a conventional one if price, features, and performance were equal.
“These survey results mean that almost half of those surveyed were at least committed in principle to use of a green handset,” comments industry analyst Michael Morgan. “However the public is largely uninformed about their availability: only 4% said they were ‘very familiar’ with green handsets.”
Is that ...
Posted on 16th October 2009
Under: ABI, Handset, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson |
In 2014, the volume of mobile data sent and received every month by users around the world will exceed by a significant amount the total data traffic for all of 2008, according to a new study from ABI Research.
“When people think of mobile data they think of BlackBerry and iPhone handsets,” says senior analyst Jeff Orr. “But the bulk of today’s traffic is generated by laptops with PC Card and USB modems.” While add-on cellular modems represented two-thirds of traffic in 2008, computers with embedded 3G/4G modems will lead in 2014 with more than 50% of ...
Posted on 5th August 2009
Under: 3G, ABI, Apple, BlackBerry, Handset, Music, Video, VoIP |
The world’s largest underserved markets for mobile communications are in developing nations and regions. Asia, Africa, Latin America all have vast potential, but formidable barriers stand in the way. Among the most immediate: the low disposable income of most of the population. Low cost and ultra-low cost (ULCH) handsets are seen as part of the solution to that problem, and according to a new study from ABI Research the two categories together will see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24% over the next ...
Posted on 23rd July 2009
Under: ABI |
The tally of wireless operators committed to deploying LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks and offering LTE-based services to their subscribers in 2010 has climbed to at least 12, according to a major new study from ABI Research. By the following year nearly 34 million users worldwide are forecast to subscribe to the new ultra-fast data services, which promise speeds rivaling those available via cable or DSL.
“Spectrum availability is the primary factor impacting deployment plans,” comments senior analyst Nadine Manjaro. “In countries where telecommunications regulators are making appropriate spectrum available, many operators have announced plans to launch ...
Posted on 16th June 2009
Under: ABI, Alcatel, Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo, Verizon, Wireless |
Tier 2 mobile handset vendors shipped 80.5 million units last year, a small fraction of the global total. But they face significant challenges when seeking greater market share. They are competing against the Tier 1 giants of the industry, which together control about 70% of the global market. They are also trying to differentiate themselves and create recognizable brands. According to a new study from ABI Research, the most obvious strategies open to them may not be the best.
Industry analyst Michael Morgan says, “Most Tier 2 handset vendors are Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Many have tried ...
Posted on 30th April 2009
Under: ABI, China, Handset |
The global recession may have drastically slowed many forms of economic activity, but not the efforts of mobile device manufacturers to drive growth by design innovation.
“It is quite remarkable to see mobile handset trends in play,” says ABI Research vice president Jake Saunders. “Despite the recession, there are some really exciting developments taking place right now. Mobile handset innovation is not going to wait for the recession to abate.”
In the last quarter, 35% of new handsets registered with ABI Research’s Global Mobile Device Tracking Database (OD-DBHA) were smartphones, up from 6% just a year ago. While ...
Posted on 1st April 2009
Under: 3G, ABI, Handset, Music, Sony Ericsson |
No matter who you ask, the assessment is the same: 2009 will be a bad year for cellular handset sales worldwide. However ABI Research’s current forecasts for 2010 are cautiously optimistic – if by optimism you mean that we may see shipment numbers stabilize and maintain an essentially flat growth rate rather than falling further.
“ABI Research estimates that worldwide handset shipments will fall by at least 8% in 2009,” says practice director Kevin Burden, “and we believe that flat growth in 2010 is the best the market will deliver. We will see neither significant growth nor ...
Posted on 28th March 2009
Under: ABI, Handset, Wireless |
The global recession is one of the factors that has put a brake on expected large-scale femtocell deployments by major mobile operators. However, according to a new study from ABI Research, the slowdown will only be temporary.
According to senior analyst Aditya Kaul, revised 2009 estimates project shipments at slightly less than a million. “Femtocell rollouts to date have been limited, controlled ones,” he says. “But ABI Research expects that 2010 will see shipments climbing well above a million units.”
Why the optimism amid so much gloom? “The signs are there that vendors are gearing up for a ...
Posted on 23rd March 2009
Under: ABI, Femtocells |
Radio Access Network equipment expenditure is expected to contract by 6% as wireless infrastructure vendors brace for a stormy year. The latest market data from ABI Research pegs infrastructure spending at about $49 billion in 2009.
“2009 will be a tough year for wireless infrastructure vendors,” says vice president of forecasting Jake Saunders. He identifies two underlying trends determining the course of this market.
First, deployment cycles for 2G and 3G coverage are rapidly approaching maturity in the industrialized world. There is the lure of 3.5G and 4G infrastructure spending, but 3.5G infrastructure upgrades (HSUPA, HSPA+) are more ...
Posted on 18th March 2009
Under: 3G, ABI, China, Wimax, Wireless |
A survey of 235 US smartphone users who installed applications on their devices in 2008, conducted by ABI Research in November, reveals that a surprising 16.5% spent between $100 and $499. That level of spending is especially significant given the low cost of most mobile applications, ranging from as little as a dollar or two at Apple’s iPhone App Store, to at most about $25.
Those low App Store prices are one of the contentious issues discussed in a new global ABI Research study of mobile application storefronts.
“Apple is seen by some as hurting the market with ...
Posted on 25th February 2009
Under: ABI, Apple, Nokia, Palm, RIM, Samsung, Smartphone |
2008 proved to be a Year of Two Halves. In the first half, mobile handset shipments happily chugged along at ~14% YoY. In the second half, 3Q handset shipments slowed to 8% before crashing into the Red in 4Q with -10%. The underlying root cause? “Sheer fear sapped the confidence of consumers, enterprises and corporate users across the board,” says Jake Saunders, Asia-Pacific Vice-President of ABI Research. “As a result, 2008 signed out the year with 1.21 billion handsets shipped for an annual growth of 5.4%. Just a year ago we had +16%”.
*Nokia 38.6%
*Samsung 16.2%
*LG 8.3%
*Sony ...
Posted on 30th January 2009
Under: ABI, Apple, BlackBerry, HTC, Handset, LG, Motorola, Nokia, RIM, Smartphone, T-Mobile |
The time is right for the netbook. According to analysts at ABI Research, a confluence of social and technological factors has created a kind of “perfect storm” that will lead to a market explosion for netbooks over the next few years. The firm forecasts worldwide shipments of nearly 35 million this year, rising to an estimated 139 million in 2013.
Practice director Kevin Burden describes this evolution: “PDA’s began our reliance on instant accessible data while traveling. When PDA functionality converged with cellular voice, smartphones became the new darling of mobile professional technology that many expected ...
Posted on 29th January 2009
Under: ABI, Smartphone |
The global mobile handset market went into a tailspin in October and November, which will result in a nearly 5% YoY decline in unit shipments in Q4. While 2009 is likely to see more stormy economic weather, there are a few rays of sunshine.
“The number of WCDMA and CDMA2000 mobile handsets sold (currently 39% of the total) is expected to exceed 50% in 2009,” says ABI Research Asia-Pacific vice president Jake Saunders. “Much of the brunt of the economic downturn will be experienced in the 2G categories. WCDMA handset shipments are projected to grow from 258 ...
Posted on 12th January 2009
Under: 3G, ABI, Handset |
In the land of mobile phone displays LCD is still king. However a number of new and not-so-new display technologies are vying for small slices of this vast realm. A new Research Brief from ABI Research examines the strengths and weaknesses of the leading contenders.
Because LCD is a mature technology, it has a cost advantage that ensures its future as the primary display technology for some time to come. But while LCD displays have improved greatly over the years, their performance still falls short in a number of key areas such as power consumption and ...
Posted on 6th January 2009
Under: ABI, Handset, Qualcomm |
