Table of Contents
1. Synopsis
2. Market summary
3. Market insights
3.1 FaceTime – the final video comms breakthrough
3.2 Mobile's need for fibre
3.3 Spectrum issue – more to it than meets the eye
3.4 Mobile operators and the broadband boom
3.5 Apps market outwits the mobile carriers portal market
4. Brief case studies of selected handset innovations
4.1 Apple: iPhone
4.2 Google: Android and Nexus One
4.3 RIM: BlackBerry
5. Recent regional and country news
5.1 Morocco – A booming 3G mobile broadband market
5.2 UAE and Saudi Arabia take a stand against Blackberry
5.3 Europe's mobile data pricing squeeze
6. Examples of leading countries
6.1 Japan
6.2 South Korea
7. Related reports
Table 1 – Apple versus Nokia – handset division operating profit – 2008 - 2009
Table 2 – Global BlackBerry shipments – 2007 - 2010
Table 3 – Annualised European voice and data market annual growth – 2006 - 2011
Table 4 – Japan – key mobile statistics – December 2008
Table 5 – Japan – mobile wireless Internet subscribers – 2000 - 2009
Table 6 – Japan – mobile wireless Internet subscribers by providers – April 2009
Table 7 – South Korea - Wireless Internet subscribers by service provider – June 2008
Table 8 – SK Telecom wireless Internet ARPU by service type – 2005 - 2009
Exhibit 1 – Approximate data rates for selected services on mobile devices
Exhibit 2 – Digital Dividend
Exhibit 3 – South Korea - Wireless Internet operators and services