“There are still definitely opportunities to be exploited in the mobile cellular market-place but there are also a number of new and old uncertainties.”
Jake Saunders
“Low-end, ultra-low-cost mobile phones are being pushed into emerging markets in large numbers. Meanwhile, at the high-end, wireless communications service providers are continuing to demand lower-cost 3G mobile phones in order to spur greater consumer adoption of 3G services. These two factors are driving down the overall ASP in 2005 and 2006.”
Scott Smyser
“While mobile handsets now being marketed directly to young kids do limit the numbers that can be called, you won't catch a teenager carrying a Mickey Mouse phone, ... Nor can these phones restrict the time of day when the phone is used. Parent Patrol(TM) can be used with regular phones and the limits are easy to modify so parents can loosen the rules during summer holidays, for example, and tighten them during exam times.”
Chris Couch
“The market continues to show good development with growth in mobile voice and data, broadband and in emerging markets in general. We continue to outpace the market.”
Carl-Henric Svanberg
“As carriers bring to market more sophisticated mobile services, such as multimedia messaging, video streaming and multimedia gaming, they must make them easy to set up and use to improve overall customer satisfaction and loyalty. Mobile device management plays a key role in achieving these aims while lowering costs of managing those services.”
Tony Cripps
“Sentiment in the market is still quite good thanks to a bounce in China Mobile and China Unicom.”
Alex Tang
“It's definitely not out of the woods yet in terms of mobile infrastructure, ... However, we are relatively optimistic overall for 2002. We are expecting an overall 7 percent growth in the infrastructure market, which means that perhaps sometime in quarter 1 or 2 that Ericsson will be in a position to outperform forecasts simply because it has the greatest exposure and is the world leader in its field.”
Richard Windsor
