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Low Cost Handsets: Markets, Opportunities & Forecasts, 2009-2014
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This report investigates the opportunity for operators to ‘connect the unconnected’, focusing on the market for low cost handsets
for users in emerging markets and consumers in developed markets who have a very limited budget for a handset.
It provides six-year forecasts, across eight regions of the world projecting general mobile subscriber growth by technology (2G,
3G, 3.5G, 3.9G), total mobile device shipment volumes per annum, low-cost device shipment volumes per annum, and overall
subscriber penetration and prepaid subscriber rates, up until 2014.
A number of key low cost handset manufacturers are profiled along with operators, chip manufacturers, OS providers and
access companies. The report also covers the main initiatives over the last four years to deliver low cost handsets to consumers in
emerging markets, referencing the GSMA’s emerging market handset program as well as the GSM association’s ‘3G for all’
initiative and Nokia lifetool’s trials in India.
Key Questions Addressed by this Report:
- Why are operators and vendors focusing on low-income consumers for
growth?
- How are operators and vendors accessing the low-income segment?
- What tools or mechanisms will help low-income users to access mobile devices and services?
- How many low-cost handsets have been sold/shipped in recent years?
- How many low-cost handsets are forecast to be sold (globally and by region) over the next six years?
- What proportion of mobile devices sold each year will be low-cost handsets in the 2009-2014 period?
Key Benefits:
- A unique source of combined research
and analysis for the low cost handsets
market including technologies, market
characteristics and forecasts.
- Practical analysis of the emerging
opportunities for vendors and operators.
- Unique insights: includes interviews of
leading players with significant experience
of the low cost handsets market.
- Benefit from fresh thinking and intelligent
market assessment.
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