Nigerian Times

Smartphone Sales Will Account for 53% of Global Handset Sell-Through in 2015, Pyramid Finds CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 6, 2011 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Total handsets sold to end users globally will reach 1.46 billion in 2011, while smartphone sales will account for 27 percent of total handset sell-through. Driven by demand for inexpensive Android models, this figure will almost double to 53 percent in 2015, according to Pyramid Research's quarterly smartphone forecast released this week. Offered as a quarterly-updated subscription or as a one-off resource, Pyramid's Smartphone Forecast provides annual sell-through of total mobile handsets and smartphones for a ten-year period, including five historical years and five forecast years. Smartphone sell-through data is also segmented by vendor and by operating system . Granular data is provided for key emerging and developed markets, with ten new countries added to its coverage in its latest ...

• Gray-market handsets are cell phones manufactured in China that are not recognized or licensed by government regulators. Makers of these products generally do not pay China’s value-added taxes and, therefore, profit illegally from their participation in the market. • China’s gray-market cell phone shipments will amount to 255 million units in 2011, up 11.8 percent from 228 million in 2010. This compares to a rise of 43.6 percent in 2009. 13 Apr 2011 18:00 Africa/Lagos Gray-Market Handsets Continue to Plague AME Mobile Markets, Pyramid Finds PR Newswire CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 13, 2011 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The number of gray market handsets sold across AME will remain steady through 2015, however the sharp increase in legitimate handset sales during that period will reduce the percentage of gray market handset units sold in AME to 13 percent, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com). Squashing Gray Markets for Mobile Handsets describe...

22 Mar 2011 19:00 Africa/Lagos Opened Markets, Infrastructure Stoke Competitive Fires in Nigeria, Pyramid Finds PR Newswire CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 22, 2011 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Telecom infrastructure development in Nigeria, such as subsea cables and the Nigerian Communications Commission's (NCC) Internet exchange point, has encouraged competition and facilitated the expansion of data networks to make them more accessible and affordable to the public, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com). Nigeria: Opened Markets and New Infrastructure Stoke Competitive Fires offers a precise profile of the country's telecommunications, media and technology sectors based on proprietary data from Pyramid's research in the market. It provides detailed competitive analysis of both the fixed and mobile sectors, tracks the market shares of technologies and services and monitors the introduction and spread of new technologies. Download an exce...