After Boom Years, Wireless Industry Faces Slowing Growth

Vikingod · Feb 13, 2007, 03:21 AM

Source: InformationWeek
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The vendors and participants at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, this week may be unveiling a wide range of new mobile phone-based products and services, but their biggest challenge isn't the competition -- it's the fact that wireless growth is poised to slow dramatically.

Market research firm iSuppli said that even the latest smartphones aimed at developed markets and ultrainexpensive phones aimed at the Third World and developing nations won't halt the decline in subscriber growth and the growth of phone sales.

Feb 13, 2007, 03:21 AM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	After Boom Years, Wireless Industry Faces Slowing Growth Source: InformationWeek ____________ The vendors and participants at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, this week may be unveiling a wide range of new mobile phone-based products and services, but their biggest challenge isn't the competition -- it's the fact that wireless growth is poised to slow dramatically. Market research firm iSuppli said that even the latest smartphones aimed at developed markets and ultrainexpensive phones aimed at the Third World and developing nations won't halt the decline in subscriber growth and the growth of phone sales.