✦ LIBER ✦
Q2/2001 saw 1st ever fall in handset sales, but GPRS to boost market in Q3-Q4?
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 93 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0961-1290
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✦ Synopsis
Nokia down on networks;
Latest developments but up on handsets in handset alliances
To compete with global leaders Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson, Matsusl-dta and NEC (the two leading cell-phone nlakers in Japan, with 30% and 23% of the Japanese market respectively hut only %' ?4, and 3% of the gh)bal market) are allying to develop software and applications for 3(;, says NEC president Kouji Nishigaki. Since N'FI" I)oCoMo launched a trial 3(; service in May, soiiware problems have led to recalls of all NEC-made phones, while a video phone made by Matsushita ('ommunication