This is not my direct turf per se, but thought perhaps it’s about time to make a few points with respect to the on-going spectrum soap opera back home (disclaimer: I AM Canadian too). Simply put; a major amount of chatter related to their upcoming auction of 700MHz and continued efforts by the Fed. to attract foreign investment in order to disrupt the current cozy strangle-hold by three well-established domestic players.
Several sources rumor that Panasonic will follow NEC in shuttering their smartphone divisions: http://bit.ly/12itjzY
DoCoMo and Samsung to offer new electronic signage platform, w/App to control by smartphones, from Aug. 30th: http://bit.ly/19tbiRx
Digital Garage and Dentsu announce ScienceJam project. Congrats Yasue Mitsukura, appointed CTO, from Keio! http://bit.ly/17DLVdn
Panasonic ships Digital Cordless Android based Home Phone! Usual bundle of features including video calls: http://bit.ly/19tb2ly
DoCoMo announces 15M subscribers are on LTE, up from 10M in February, for 25% of their contract base: http://bit.ly/14tYN3C
Sony sold 9.6 million smartphones in Q1 2013, reports revenue up by 13% YoY to $17 billion: http://bit.ly/12isxD1
Sharp results for Q1 shows $6 Billion revenues, gaining 32% YoY, Thx to Yen and IGZO displays: http://bit.ly/1bMfH2S
All 3 telcos tout full NFC support for Sumitomo Mitsui Card Visa payWave, 31 handsets (A/B type) enabled: http://bit.ly/14P4VTf
While rumours of this news were circulating a few weeks ago, so we’re not that surprised, maybe folks missed these other hints with regards to forecasting this ever evolving market. As usual overseas press, who could barely contain their delight, didn’t bother to pay much attention in an effort to provide a balanced opinion.
