Financial crisis hit and telecom sector
Manufacturers of mobile phones and telecom operators risked losing billions of dollars due to disturbances caused by the financial crisis.
According to analysts cited by Reuters, RIM - the manufacturer of the Blackberry - is the company whose financial situation is most directly related to Wall Street and therefore the most threatened group sector.
Many lost jobs in the financial world will likely lead to a decline in business segment of mobile devices such as Blackberry, forecast by analyst company Strategy Analytics. According to her than RIM, are exposed to the risk and the results of groups such as Palm, HTC and HP.
Smartphone manufacturers are already involved in competition for market share against a backdrop of slow demand in the U.S. and Europe due to decreased estimates for the prospects of the economy.
Telecommunications operators do react to the situation started to change as a marketing policies in the direction of offering free or cheaper phones in class at the high price bound by contract. So now rely not only on most calls from consumers, but services such as mobile Internet.
From Garner noted that in North America at the preferred target group became consumers using their phones to access various data by type.
According to predictions the global market for mobile phones still should be able to make forecasts for growth this year of around 10 percent, but thanks to the continuing boom in demand for smartphone developing markets like India and China.
As to the more mature markets in 2008 is expected to end with only slight growth. According to Gartner sales of mobile phones in Western Europe recorded a significant drop in Europe for the first six months over the same period of 2007
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