GLG News by Mobile Phone Handset Experts

Deploying early; means what?  One system? Two systems?  A small commercial trial system in one city?  A small isolated commercial trial system with a handful of key corporate customers? How about deploying LTE is a handful of cities across the nation but the total network capacity...

Radio Shack’s $99 Acer netbook shows that AT&T aggressively seeks 3G mobile broadband customers, but also wants to offload users to WiFi and femtocells as presented at the UBS Conference.

AT&T’s move to buying the iPhone online and activating at home differs from Apple driving unit sales through Best Buy previously and Walmart possibly now.

For awhile I thought Alcatel was going to listen to the pinheads and actually sell off the wireless division for a quick buck.

Hawaiian Telcom will not easily recover from overlooking the three service basics of billing systems, customer contact, and market presence during the 2005 sale to the Carlyle Group.   

A few months ago industry pundits projected slowing handset sales; specifically smart phones.   Nokia’s news should not be a surprise to anyone.

In a word; “devastating”.  This company was supposed to be turned around by the firm of Kroll Zolfo Cooper.  By all accounts when the new CEO was appointed the company should have been stabilized.

The rumored 4 GB iPhone model at $99 in Walmart allows Apple to expand the brand for a mobile product line, but AT&T gets a different user than the projected $95 ARPU of an iPhone buyer.

AT&T’s 4% layoffs could be an indicator of two trends: 1) Weak synergies of bundling mobile, fixed Internet, and landline; 2) Internet access and wireless substitution lack brand loyalty.

The sales of PC's with LED based displayes have surged 63% in the most recent quarter and are expected to reach 2.1 million units in 2008, capturing a 5.4% market share. The trand is expceted to continue.