Tag Archive for ‘Motorola’ at LIRNEasia

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Seven Indians among 100 global influential telecom people

on November 10, 2008

Global Telecoms Business, a journal for communications service providers around the world, has named Tata Communications (formerly VSNL) CEO N Srinath has been as one of the 10 most influential telecom personnel.

Among the top 100 telecom personnel named by the magazine, N Srinath has been positioned at number 8. He has been credited for transforming Tata Communications in an international company and for the acquisition of networks like Teleglobe and Tyco Global Networks.

The list tops with Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs at number two.

Other Indians in the list are Bharti Enterprises Chairman and Group CEO Sunil Bharti Mittal (at number 35), Bharti Airtel CEO and Joint MD Manoj Kohli (number 39) and CEO of Motorola’s mobile services division Sanjay…

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Tags: Bharti Enterprises, Business Standard, communications service providers, Eric Schmidt, Google, Google Inc., Inc., Manoj Kohli, mobility solutions, Motorola, Sanjay Jha, Steve Jobs, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Tata Communications, Tata Communications Limited, Teleglobe, Teleglobe Inc., Tyco Global Networks, Vodafone Arun Sarin.

Mobile Platform Portability: The Next Big Leap in Mobile?

Chanuka Wattegama

on April 23, 2008

Motorola recently announced an investment in VirtualLogix, a company that lets multiple operating systems run on the same piece of hardware. This means you could have a single phone in your pocket that runs Windows Mobile, the BlackBerry OS, and Google’s Android OS.

VirtualLogix is a provider of real-time virtualization. Its technology enables the mobility of applications from the desktop to devices, improves quality of service and security in an open mobile world, and will enable a new generation of dynamic individual user experiences. Motorola and others believe in the technology and decided it was worth investing in.

Currently, programmers have to rewrite every application - be it a game, social networking service, or other feature - for each of the various operating systems, including Symbian, Microsoft…

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Tags: Google, Microsoft, mobile-phone maker, Motorola, operating system, operating systems, social networking service, virtualization software, VirtualLogix, Web-browsing application.

The days of SMS are numbered?

Chanuka Wattegama

on August 9, 2007

The days of SMS are numbered now that mobile email access is becoming a commodity, research firm Gartner says.

Long the preserve of businessmen in power suits, mobile email is about to hit the masses with one in five email users accessing their accounts wirelessly by 2010, according to Gartner.

Monica Blasso, the firm’s research vice-president, said mobile email had moved beyond the BlackBerry and was increasingly a feature of even low-cost mobile phones, driving consumer adoption.

“By 2012, wireless email products will be fully inter-operable, commoditised and have standard features,” she said. “They will be shipping in larger volumes at greatly reduced prices.”

Today there are less than 20 million wireless email users worldwide, but this will grow to 350 million, or 20 per cent of all email…

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Tags: Asher Moses, Australia, cellular telephone, GPS, mobile email devices, mobile phones, Monica Blasso, Motorola, Robin Simpson, Samsung, SMS, wireless email products, wireless email users.

Motorola tops ultra low-cost handset vendor ranking

Abu Saeed Khan

on August 9, 2007

Motorola has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Nokia claimed the second spot, while Samsung and LG were ranked equally in third place in the company’s most recent evaluation of ultra low-cost handset vendors worldwide. ABI defines ultra low-cost handset that sells below US$50 in the retail outlets. Read more.

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Tags: LG, Motorola, retail outlets, Samsung, USD.

Nokia focuses on rural markets

Ayesha Zainudeen

on July 16, 2007

The Business Standard (Nokia focuses on rural markets)

Sapna Agarwal / Pune July 16, 2007The rural markets account for around 5 per cent of the national GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) handset sales. The figure is expected to rise to 25-30 per cent, adding around 100 million new cellular subscribers by 2009, according to a recent study by LIRNEasia and AC Nielson.

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Tags: Devender Kishore, General Packet Radio Service, GSM, India, Kerala, LG, media houses, mobile phones, Motorola, Nokia, Rs, rural retail chains, unnecessary travel expenses.

Mobile phone call from the top of Mount Everest

Chanuka Wattegama

on May 22, 2007

A British climber has set a world record by making a mobile phone call from the top of Mount Everest.In the early hours of 21 May, Rod Baber made two calls from the mountain’s north ridge.

In the first call Mr Baber described the view, how cold it was and what he wanted to do when back at base camp; he then rang his wife and children.

The calls were made possible when China set up a mobile base station with a line of sight to the north ridge.

Mr Baber set off from the UK for the Himalayas on 30 March and since mid-April has been getting used to living at high altitude.

Prior to 15 May, when the final ascent began, Mr Baber and the other…

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Tags: cellular telephone, China, Everest, Motorola, Mount Everest, Rod Baber, United Kingdom.

The next billion is from Asia and Africa

Rohan Samarajiva

on February 15, 2007

Another story that reinforces our emphasis on the emerging Asia-Pacific and the Bottom of the Pyramid:

LANKA BUSINESS ONLINE - LBO

Making affordable phones and targeting consumers with smaller budgets have now become priorities for the largest companies in the sector who were all present at this week’s 3GSM trade show in Barcelona.

“There are between 2.5 and 2.8 billion people who have a mobile phone: the next billion will come from the high-growth market,” said David Taylor, strategy director for Motorola.

The areas representing the most opportunity are Asia, Africa and the Middle East, he said.

According to European telecommunications institute Idate, the average spending per user is about 26.50-37.50 euros (34.8-49.2 dollars) per month in industrialised countries, but this figure falls to about 8.20 euros in the…

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Tags: Africa, Asia, Asia-Pacific, Barcelona, cellular telephone, David Taylor, EUR, Middle East, Motorola, telecommunications, USD.

Mobile phones as fashion

Rohan Samarajiva

on February 3, 2007

Now Motorola is said to be doing badly because the Razr ceased to be fashionable after I bought one!

But seriously, if people are upgrading phones in less than 24 months on average, the second-hand market must be huge. Is this the answer to solving the affordability barrier at the Bottom of the Pyramid?

Cellphone Envy Lays Motorola Low - New York Times

Motorola’s fortunes have plunged along with the price of its Razr. Its profits have collapsed, and it announced plans last month to lay off 3,500 workers. Since last October, its stock has dropped 30 percent, attracting the attention of the billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn, who bought 40 million shares last week on a bet that he could push the company to do better.

At…

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Tags: Carl C. Icahn, mobile phones, Motorola, New York Times.

Motorola releases USD46 handsets in Sri Lanka

Ayesha Zainudeen

on January 26, 2007

LBO reports of the release of a low-budget handset for the Sri Lankan market by Motorola, the MotoFone F3. Some of the features include two week stand-by time, high quality speaker, voice prompts, etc. Motorola even hopes to bring localised phones with Sinhalese script into the market soon. It hopes that the MotoFone F3, available for as little as LKR5,000 (approx. USD46) will boost its share in the local handset market with the new low cost handset.

This is good news for the bottom of the pyramid. The Shoestrings:2 findings indicate that at the bottomof the pyramid (BOP), 28% use second hand handsets, purchased for about USD40 on average, about half the price paid by those who are using brand new handsets. LBO also notes the large…

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Tags: Motorola, Sri Lanka, USD.

Universal, Ubiquitous, Equitable and Affordable forum session at ITU World 2006

Divakar Goswami

on December 20, 2006

Rohan Samarajiva chaired the Universal, Ubiquitous, Equitable and Affordable session at the ITU World 2006 that raised some fundamental questions about Universal Service Obligation (USO) programs around the world. Rohan introduced the topic [PDF] drawing from LIRNEasia’s recent Shoestrings II study on telephone use at the “bottom of the pyramid.”

The first Keynote speaker, Zhengmao Li, VP China Unicom, described the efforts of the Chinese govt and his company in building a harmonious digital society. Thanks to the govt’s policy to provide access to ICTs on an equitable and affordable basis, more than 97 percent of administrative villages in China have a phone.
The second Keynote speaker, Tom Philips, Chief Regulatory Officer at the GSM Association forcefully argued that USO programs in most parts of the world have not…

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Tags: Broadband, broadband wireless, cellular telephone, China, communication services, GSM, GSM Association, incumbent carrier, Martin Hilbert, mobile technology, mobile telephony, Motorola, Penn State University, Rob Frieden, Roger Marks, Rohan Samarajiva, technology neutral, telephone use, Tom Philip, Tom Philips, ubiquitous telephone service, United States, USD, voice services, years wireless service, Zhengmao Li.

The Wi-Fi threat to mobile

Rohan Samarajiva

on July 29, 2006

Later this year, T-Mobile plans to test a service that will allow its subscribers to switch seamlessly between connections to cellular towers and Wi-Fi hotspots, including those in homes and the more than 7,000 it controls in Starbucks outlets, airports and other locations, according to analysts with knowledge of the plans. The company hopes that moving mobile phone traffic off its network will allow it to offer cheaper service and steal customers from cell competitors and landline phone companies like AT&T.

“T-Mobile is interested in the replacement or displacement of landline minutes,” said Mark Bolger, director of marketing for T-Mobile. Wi-Fi calling “is one of the technologies that will help us deliver on that promise.”

Major phone manufacturers including Nokia, Samsung and Motorola are offering or plan…

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Tags: AT&T, cellular telephone, Italy, Mark Bolger, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Starbucks, Wi-Fi.

12 million Ultra Low Cost Handsets Purchased

saeed

on May 3, 2006

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17101_print.php

The GSM Association recently announced that its Emerging Markets Handset program is exceeding expectations: mobile operators in Bangladesh, China, India, and Russia have already purchased 12 million of its Ultra Low Cost Handsets (ULCH). But will the initiative reach the rest of the three billion unconnected peoples in emerging markets? Under current cost models that is unlikely.

The problem is that even at US$30 the ULCH’s price is too high for at least a billion of this population.

The annual gross per capita income in sub-Saharan Africa is just US$371. It is unrealistic to expect people there to spend 10% of their annual income on a mobile phone. So semiconductor vendors, such as Texas Instruments, Freescale, Philips, and Infineon are continuing to reduce the Bill-of-Materials for ULCH…

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Tags: Alan Varghese, Bangladesh, cellular telephone, China, Ericsson, Freescale, GSM, GSM Association, India, Infineon, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Philips, Russia, Samsung, semiconductor, Sharedphone, software, Sony, South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Texas Instruments, Ultra Low Cost Handsets, USD.

Motorola for sub$30 handset for “unconnected”

Divakar Goswami

on September 28, 2005

Link to full story

Motorola selected to supply affordable and robust handsets for second phase of programme to ‘connect the unconnected’

Singapore 27^th September 2005: The mobile industry has driven the wholesale cost of mobile phones to below US$30 as part of the GSM Association (GSMA) programme to make mobile telephony affordable for people in developing countries.
“To get below US$30 per handset is a milestone achievement,” said Craig Ehrlich, Chairman of the GSMA, the global trade association for the world’s GSM mobile operators. “Today’s news cements the formation of a whole new market segment for the mobile industry and will bring the benefits of mobile communications to a huge swathe of people in developing countries.”
At the 3GSM World Congress in Singapore, Rob Conway, Chief Executive and…

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Tags: Bangladesh, Craig Ehrlich, Erik Aas, Globe Telecom, GrameenPhone Ltd., GSM, GSM Association, mobile communications, mobile phones, mobile telephony, Motorola, Orascom Telecom, Rob Conway, Singapore, USD, World Congress.

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