“3G subscribers will pass 50 million at the end of 2005. More importantly, European 3G markets are now outpacing Japan. The outlook for 3G is healthy provided that operators and their handset partners can expand beyond postpaid only users into the larger, but more price elastic, prepaid user segments.”
David Kerr
“The deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important"”
John Dewey
“Japan has become a saturated market. Nissan brought out a lot of new models over a year ago and so now their sales are weakening.”
Koji Endo
“The easy times are over and most markets including Japan, Europe, and the U.S. are going sideways at best so it is difficult to do all that well. Popular new models will help and so will the yen but this is a tough business.”
Edwin Merner
“They've really got a crisis that they've never seen before on their hands. Emerging markets are collapsing; Japan, which is an enormous proportion of their earnings, is very weak; and the strange thing is that U.S. volume growth has actually slowed in the last couple of months. Not dramatically, but just on the margin, and North America is about 30 percent of Coke's global volumes. That will definitely impact growth if it slows [more]. Everything seems to be turning down at the same time.”
Caroline Levy
“Nokia has proven that there is a sizeable market of consumers in Europe, North America and Japan who are looking to replace their phones with a more powerful device that can do instant messaging, photography, music.”
Carolina Milanesi
“We reinforced our market position, as we gained 12 new customers in 2005, including our sixth customer in Japan. With 13 immersion systems delivered to date, 13 immersion orders already in our backlog, and 8 pending orders, we are increasing our technology lead in the race to meet customer needs for new generation semiconductor products.”
Eric Meurice
