What’s News?: Handsets - a race to the bottom: Industry Report

What’s News?: Handsets - a race to the bottom

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Compass Intelligence
Published: April 2006
Product Code: R705-263

Description

This Announcement-based Data Rich Deliverable (DRD) includes market intelligence on wireless equipment services and is part of the Business Wireless voice subscription. This announcements discusses wireless handsets in terms of costs, features,penetration and analyzes overall handset use in the wireless marketplace by size of business. Wireless Voice services include expenditures on dial tone related services, where voice calls are delivered over a wireless network. This category includes per-minute charges, base charges in flat-rate plans and for-fee, value-added services related to wireless voice transport, i.e., voice-activated dialing, voicemail, call forwarding, call waiting, and caller ID. Compass Intelligence defines wireless equipment as wireless devices, including handsets, smartphones, Blackberry devices and connection cards. Size of business includes SOHO (1-4 employees), Small Business (5-99 employees), Mid-Sized Business (100-999 employees), and Enterprise Business (Over 1000 employees). The Expert Guide for this DRD is Stephanie Atkinson. Forecasts are from 2005 through 2010 and include annual growth rate, as well as percentage of total market.

Sources: Compass Intelligence’s segment and market forecasts, which include business expenditures, market demographics, and usage and adoption statistics are built using multiple sources, including proprietary Compass Intelligence research. These sources include, but are not limited to, secondary research, government data and statistics (e.g. Department of Commerce, Federal Communication Commission, Bureau of Labor Statistics and US Census Bureau), primary research, vendor-based research and in-depth interviews with key decision-makers, where relevant. Compass Intelligence selects data sources to provide greatest degree of perspective on each market or segment, in addition to the highest level of data accuracy, stability, and consistency over time.

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The News: In Summary
Putting it into Perspective: Guiding Thoughts; The Full Releases

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