On May 9, 2008 Best Buy, the U.S. based giant retailer formed a joint venture with Carphone Warehouse, Europe's largest cellphone retailer. The investment is valued at approximately $2.15 billion.The venture expects to open its first new stores in the UK in 2009 before it expands elsewhere throughout Europe.Larger stores will ... ...
SonyEricsson's recent financial earnings report is yet another proof that the mobile handset industry is already deep into a new era driven by emerging markets. SonyEricsson, only a few quarters ago, was fighting Samsung for #3 in market share. Now it has fallen behind LG into fifth place. It isn't ... ...
In our last Shosteck Group Insights, we promised to comment on this year's CTIA's Wireless 2008 in Las Vegas.
The Shosteck Group team has now returned and is struggling with what commentary might be most useful. Yes, companies provided briefings for us. This included the "big companies" as well ... ...
In early April 2007, Shosteck Group Insights focused on key themes which emerged from the CTIA Convention. At that time, convergence was the dominant take-away message from the event. In fact, we analyzed that the term convergence was misleading - that divergence was more appropriate - and that future ... ...
Nextel, once the poster child for high ARPU in the United States is now a large part of the reason that Sprint Nextel's financials are in a mess. Earlier this month, when Sprint Nextel reported its earnings, the company recorded a non-cash goodwill impairment charge of $29.7 billion. ... ...