Two interesting data points on how wireless consumers seem willing to pay more for style, especially when it’s wedded with substance: 1) A survey conducted by J.D. Power and Associates of roughly 20,000 mobile phone owners in the US showed the average price paid for a handset has increased by $9 over the past six […]
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Location, Communication & Opportunity
I’ll be on a panel on this subject this Thursday at the VON Conference in San Jose.
Kansai CDMA guys get together
Sanyo Electric announced Monday that it would sell off its cellphone unit to Kyocera Corp, for $375M, netted of outstanding debts. Sanyo had taken a $2.6 billion cash infusion from Goldman Sachs, Daiwa Securities and Sumitomo Mitsui Bank in 2006 to stave off record losses and a sale of its cellphone unit had long been […]