"Nokia needs device revamp to regain U.S. ground: analysts"

On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:19:55 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in <45497ffe$0$88681$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>Diamond Dave wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:25:34 GMT, John Navas
>> <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>>
>>> <http://www.theregister.com/2006/10/19/nokia_results/>
>>>
>>> Nokia has consolidated its position as the world's leading mobile
>>> phone maker and announced a 20 per cent rise in net sales during its
>>> fiscal third quarter.
>>
>> I guess you'd care if you had a GSM phone on a GSM carrier. Nokia is
>> leaving the CDMA market, which is fine by me because I don't care for
>> their phones anyhow - GSM or CDMA.
>
>Nokia is far behind Motorola in the U.S. market,

Yes.

>due to their almost
>total lack of CDMA phones.

No. The real factor, as confirmed by authoritative sources, is the
RAZR, which has been phenomenally successful in the USA.

>Since CDMA is the leading technology in the
>U.S., with more subscribers than GSM, it really makes Nokia's goal of
>being number one in the U.S. a fantasy.

Nokia is actually abandoning CDMA2000 (not "CMDA") because it's a
"shrinking" market, focusing instead on the growing market, W-CDMA
(UMTS/HSDPA), a major blow to Qualcomm. Sprint's decision to move to
WiMAX is another major blow to Qualcomm and CDMA2000.

>They really are going to have to
>re-enter the CDMA market at some point, as CDMA continues to expand in
>growing markets like China.

Wishful thinking.

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On 2006-11-02, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
> Diamond Dave wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:25:34 GMT, John Navas
>> <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>>
>>> <http://www.theregister.com/2006/10/19/nokia_results/>
>>>
>>> Nokia has consolidated its position as the world's leading mobile
>>> phone maker and announced a 20 per cent rise in net sales during its
>>> fiscal third quarter.
>>
>> I guess you'd care if you had a GSM phone on a GSM carrier. Nokia is
>> leaving the CDMA market, which is fine by me because I don't care for
>> their phones anyhow - GSM or CDMA.
>
> Nokia is far behind Motorola in the U.S. market, due to their almost
> total lack of CDMA phones. Since CDMA is the leading technology in the
> U.S., with more subscribers than GSM, it really makes Nokia's goal of
> being number one in the U.S. a fantasy. They really are going to have to
> re-enter the CDMA market at some point, as CDMA continues to expand in
> growing markets like China.

Bad example "growing market", maybe:

http://www.mwjournal.com/News/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_3476

"[In China] Market reports show revenue from CDMA service fell 1.3 percent
during the first half of 2006 and that profit margin was down 3.3 percent"

Poor China Unicom got stuck with their CDMA network, in addition to
GSM, as part of negotiations (with guess who?) for China's entry into
the WTO. Unicom's CDMA subscriber base is growing at less than half
the rate for Unicom's GSM, and (according to the Hong Kong newspaper)
Unicom is losing overall market share to China Mobile at a fair clip.

I like CDMA just fine, but it is worth keeping the respective sizes
of the worldwide markets in perspective. China alone has 20% more GSM
subscribers than CDG estimates of CDMA2000 subscribers in the
entire world.

Dennis Ferguson