Industries

The following insight provides an update on Android smartphones available in the global market. The research identifies Android smartphone availability amongst operators in each of 23 pre-designated countries. Shelf presence, as covered in this insight, includes all smartphones offered by operators via their website or in operator stores.  It is ....

In its simple form, Direct Carrier Billing - or DCB - allows consumers to pay for purchased items along with their phone bill. Mobile subscribers authenticate an online or a mobile transaction at the time of purchase, and a charge - equivalent to the item being purchased - is placed on their phone bills. Consumers pay their bills at the end of the ...

This Frost & Sullivan research service on the machine-to-machine (M2M) communications markets presents an analysis of the key trends and opportunities in the field of connected machines in the United States. The term 'M2M' is quite broadM2M connections can be used across wireless as well as wireline domains and connectivity for deployed endpoints ...

BYOD refers to the practice of allowing employees to use personally-owned mobile devices for accessing enterprise IT resources and data. The proliferation of BYOD points to a future in which enterprise information technology (IT) departments will have to manage a mix of corporate-owned and employee-owned mobile devices. This Frost & Sullivan insigh...

Currently in North America, BlackBerry still has the largest market share amongst smartphone manufacturers and operating systems.  However, Apple and Android have narrowed the gap drastically over the past year with Apple’s continued success of the iPhone, and Android’s successful open source strategy with its OEM partners.  Furthermore, Micr...