According to the Chinese Ministry of Information, world # 1 and #2 wireless handset makers are not doing that well in China. From January to September 2003, Chinese makers produced 129 million handsets. Ningbo held the top spot at 15%. Motorola slips to #2 at 14%, followed closely by TCL at 12%. Rounding out the top four, Nokia held a 10% share. Wanna bet that next year one of these two chinese handset makers will be selling phones in US for $50 a pop - and they will include camera, some bluetooth and good knows what. Continue »
Archive for November, 2003
Wi-Fi and Cellular Marriage: work in progress
Getting 802.11b and cellular networks to play nice together is not a trivial problem, discovers eWEEK.com Wireless Center Editor Jim Louderback. Intel’s System Technology Lab is working the problem, though, as part of its Universal Communicator project. Jim pointed that out earlier today after I linked to his other very interesting column. Continue »
Keeping tabs on Qwest?
Why isn’t the Qwest case moving fast enough? Light Reading makes a strong argument about this in a recent piece which addmitedly is as skimpy on details as the Business Week article, but still it quite a nice precis of the whole thing. Perhaps time to point to new links on the latest developments in the case of Qwest. Continue »
Deadline November 24th
Yet another Number portability story, this time in The New York Times’ Circuits section. (link via Gizmodo) Continue »
The Great VoIP bubble
Conference, Cudlow & Kramer, Marketwatch, TheStreet.com, New York Times and a sharp increase in the VoIP stocks, hell it seems like we are in a bubble. Redialing the Internet Frenzy in today’s Wall Street Journal sums up the madness nicely. Amongst the stocks that have rocketed include Sonus Networks, Vocaltec and Avaya. Continue »
Traditional fixed-line telcos don’t have a future
Jim Louderback, a columnist at eWeek, pipes in with his take on why the phone companies are dead. He makes his argument by pointing to the emergence of communication chips that combine GSM, and Wi-Fi functions. Continue »
VoIP eyes on California
The state’s public utility regulators will meet in a much-anticipated showdown with Internet phone providers, reports CNET News.com. Continue »
India is the next China?
Our friends at Packetology have sent us a report which points at super growth of CDMA technologies in India. Indian mobile user base has grown from 8 to 18 million in one year, and according to Packetology adds that “All signs suggest growth in India will be far slower than China, but CDMA’s prospects may be brighter in India.” Continue »
Broadband Reality Check
* Total # of Broadband Subscribers: 22 million (C/Net) Continue »
Why the PhoneCos are completely screwed!
And I am surprised I missed this one Continue »
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