A more powerful SIM card can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it's good for the carriers because it gives them more control, since they control what goes on their SIM. But it also shifts some of the cost from the handset makers to the carriers.

There was no single major issue for Nokia.

This issue needs to be on the companies' radar screen, ... They need to proactively prepare for this.

This issue needs to be on the companies' radar screen. They need to proactively prepare for this.

North America is where their biggest weakness has been over the past few years.

The winners will be a handful of mega-vendors with global economies of scale.

Competition is just so relentless that the long term-trend still points down.

Booming demand in the southern hemisphere, in India and Africa, drove global mobile phone sales.

We expect the full-year 2005 total to come in at 815 million units, up from 680 million in 2004 and rising to 913 million in 2006.

Two thousand and five was the year of the emerging market. Booming demand in the Southern Hemisphere, in regions such as India and Africa, drove global mobile phone sales 19 percent higher year-over-year. Emerging markets accounted for one half of total worldwide sales in 2005.