ICT Market Research Report

Android is an operating system created by Google, available for use publicly. Android-based devices have become a trend in the smartphone industry on account of its affordable and low-cost operating system. These phones let the vendors create its own applications and present the consumer with a myriad of choices. Android applications are power-consuming, and have their operations suspended when not in use. It manages to start the applications stored in memory almost immediately, while closing inactive processes. It also lets applications run in the background using minimum resources of the phone. Android updates are released periodically with themes based on sweets and other popular confectionaries. Updates are released for phones running stock Android or phones manufactured by Google. Other branded phones receive updates at a later date, in order for the manufacturers to customize the operating system (OS) according to their needs. Smartphones, other than the branded phones, use...

The U.S. telecom market is quite complicated and has multiple sectors. These sectors experienced robust expansion in the last decade. Recent history has led to considerable transformation, with novel technologies and various mergers coming to the fore. These technologies enable wider coverage, quicker speeds, and deeper market penetration. The decade ahead would introduce many obstacles and transformations in the market. Repetition of trends similar to that of the past ten years could be a hindrance. This could result from mergers indulging in greater concentration & consolidation. Nonetheless, surging technological developments and transformations create bright prospects for the U.S. telecom market.  Currently, revenues generated from all sectors of this market amount to around USD 750 billion. They are predicted to rise at nearly 4 percent and be USD 1.3 trillion by 2020. Several telecom segments should achieve market penetration by over ninety percent in the forthcoming...

LTE stands for long term evolution. It is a mobile network technology being deployed by mobile vendors on both CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access) and GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) technology paths. Live LTE networks are able to deliver extremely fast data speeds- up to 100 Mbps in downlink and 50Mbps in uplink. LTE offers high level of spectral efficiency, high network capacity and low latency. Verizon Wireless is the largest LTE operator at present. It launched commercial LTE service in late 2010. The company has been making huge investments in the LTE space. Its investments are projected to reach USD 22 billion in 2021. Experts project that providers of 2G/3G services could reap profits within 5 to 7 years of the launch of LTE services. These predictions are for the period between 2011 and 2021. Analysis of costs, subscriber growth, revenue types, and ARPU (Average Revenue per User) indicate that Verizon Wireless would be able to recover its CAPEX (Capital Expendi...