Nokia UMTS Phones and Phone Accessories
Nokia Snatching the UMTS Deal
As UMTS has pushed the limits for technological developments in the mobile telecom sector it has also brought a healthy competition for the big mobile players to capture this new market. Although fixed-line Internet services are already familiar, introducing them to mobile consumers creates new opportunities for businesses and application developers. Nokia is all geared up to face this challenge .Realizing the market potential in UMTS based services Nokia has planned in time and has already signed more than 32 public deals with leading mobile operators worldwide before 2002 claiming up to 30% of 3G market share. The long list of accomplishments include,- More than 32 public deals with mobile operators’ world wide.
- 26 roll outs in 14 countries.
- 42 trials in 42 countries.
In addition to these agreements has also announced frame agreements with Orange/France Telecom, T-Mobile International, and Telia Nordic.
Nokia Partners
Nokia partners include; Hutchison 3G Austria, BT Cellnet, Digifone, E-Plus Mobilfunk, Proximus Belgacom Mobile, 3G frastructure Services, Hong Kong CSL, Europolitan Vodafone, Omnitel Vodafone, VIAG Interkom, Radiolinja, Orange, OrangeFrance (Itineris), MobilCom, Hutchison 3G, Cable & Wireless Optus, Telia Mobile, One, NetCom, Cegetel, Telenor, One-2-One, T-Mobil, Sonera, AT&T Wireless, Mobile One, WIND, J-Phone, StarHub, Viag EuroPlattform AG, Suomen 2G and 3G.New Deals
Mobile operator M1 of Singapore has awarded Nokia a contract to supply equipment and services for the second phase of its WCDMA 3G network rollout. In addition, the deal includes GSM/GPRS equipment to enhance GSM coverage and GPRS capacity.Nokia has signed an agreement with leading Indonesian operator Telkomsel to expand its packet core network in Indonesia. With this deal Telkomsel will be able to address the strong demand for mobile voice and data services from its rapidly increasing subscriber base, which currently stands at more than 17.5 million
Market Trend
The start of 2004 has seen a sudden increase in the mobile hand set sales but Nokia has failed to capitalize this trend and instead suffered a decrease in its expected profits. Several other companies have cut into Nokia’s market share and showed some profits. But Nokia is not threatened by this development and is sure to stage a recovery.Analysis of this situation reveals that the reluctance of Nokia to produce low priced camera hand sets is solely responsible for the trend. According to a survey the consumer choice of a mobile phone is based on three factors brand name, handset performance and network performance and less on the price of the hand ser or service charges of a network operator. So, despite the fact that Nokia handsets are expensive than the rest still its market economics are not in danger. Further more Nokia has announced the most waited lowering of prices for most of handsets and on some handsets up to as much as 25%.But some analysts have dubbed these measures as short term and stressed the need for more bold and effective measures.