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Book February 2004
EMC World Cellular Review 2004
The EMC World Cellular Review 2004 report evaluates the strategies, developments and outcomes for the wireless industry in 2003. It offers analysis and insight into 2004. This unique strategic report covers: the state of the industry in 2003, regional focus and investor, licence, technology and infrastructure overviews and analysis.
EMC World Cellular Review 2004 report evaluates the strategies, developments and outcomes for the wireless industry in 2003. It offers analysis and insight into 2004. This unique strategic report covers:
- The state of the industry in 2003
- Regional focus (Africa & Middle East, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe)
- Investors: global operators' strategies, key mergers and equity changes
- Licences: new awards and auction analysis
- Technology: migration strategies and 3G update
- Infrastructure contracts and vendor analysis
NEW for 2004 edition
- Overview of W-CDMA covering the deployments so far, uptake and strategies employed
- Latest developments in the roll-out of Push To Talk
- Coverage of CDMA-450 - synopsis of the emergence of this new technology
- Roll-out of EDGE - exploring operator's strategies and progress towards the deployment and launch of EDGE-enabled services.
EMC World Cellular Review 2004 will enable you to:
- Benchmark industry successes and failures
- Evaluate data subscriptions uptake to date
- Understand investors' strategies
- Conduct infrastructure and handset vendor analysis
- Monitor licence awards
- Analyse 3G uptake and roll out
Why should you buy EMC World Cellular Review 2004?
- Unique source of cellular industry statistics
- Essential information from an accurate, authoritative and independent source
- Data collated from EMC's primary research programme including contact with 1,200 operators in over 210 countries
- Foundation for assessing the real status of the wireless market
PLUS... PowerPoint slides for use in presentations and reports.
Contents Pages
Introduction and outlook 3
The state of the industry 5
Operators continue to push mobile data 6
SMS still dominates operator data revenues 7
Games and ringtones stimulate resurgence in WAP 8
Western Europe finally leads the gradual take-up of GPRS 8
i-mode gains further foothold in Europe 9
Tentative take-up of MMS during 2003 10
Data services over CDMA2000 1xEV-DO 11
More operators launch BREW 12
Nextel loses its monopoly of the PTT market in the USA 13
Vendors look to push PTT outside the USA 13
Overview of W-CDMA 15
Western Europe 15
W-CDMA in Central and Eastern Europe 19
W-CDMA outside Europe in 2003 20
Services over W-CDMA 21
Technology 22
Update on TDMA to GSM migration/CDMA to GSM migration 22
GPRS – Current status in developed/developing markets 23
EDGE – current status of deployments 24
GSM1x 26
Key CDMA developments in 2003 27
TD-SCDMA 29
Infrastructure contracts and vendor analysis 30
Nokia 32
Ericsson 34
Siemens 35
Motorola 36
Lucent 38
Nortel 39
Alcatel 40
Huawei 41
NEC 42
Samsung 43
LG 43
MMSC vendor market overview 44
Handset developments and vendor analysis 46
Handset Developments in 2003 46
Significant developments in CDMA, GSM, TDMA, TD-SCDMA, EDGE and W-CDMA in 2003 47
Handset market developments 50
Handset vendor profiles 53
Market expectations for handset developments in 2004 67
Licence awards during 2003 68
2G licence awards during 2003 68
3G licence awards during 2003 72
World Cellular Investors 76
Major investment activity during 2003 77
Regional and Country Reports 86
Africa and the Middle East 86
Americas and USA/Canada 91
Asia-Pacific 100
Europe 107
Appendix: TDMA and CDMA to GSM migrations 115
Appendix: CDMA2000 1X launches in 2003 116
Appendix: Selected handset details 117
Appendix: Cellular subscriber data 122
Index of charts and tables 126
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