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The third-quarter earnings season is coming to a close, so now it's time to see how the nation's top wireless carriers stacked up against each other in terms of key metrics. Jackdaw Research analyst Jan Dawson has assembled these slides that provide an in-depth look at how Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile performed in the third quarter. Dawson also covers América Móvil's U.S. MVNO, TracFone Wireless. Dawson's research covers relatively standard metrics including revenue growth and net adds, but also includes deep dives into prepaid vs. postpaid performance, subscriber acquisitions vs. losses, and net additions by device type. Special Report.
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In conjunction with Halloween, Fierce is taking a look at the worries, concerns and fears that could haunt top executives in the wireless and wireline telecom industry. From Mark Zuckerberg's worries that Facebook Messenger will alienate users to Tim Cook's concerns over Apple's position in China, these are the things that could interrupt a good night's sleep. Similarly, on the wireline side of things, Fairpoint's union problems and Verizon's halted FiOS buildout are among the nightmares that are affecting telecom executives on that side of the market. Click here for the nightmares that could affect the wireless market. To be clear, we are not predicting that these scenarios will happen, only that they could happen. Some are certainly more plausible than others. And then click here for the nightmares that are currently affecting some execs in the wireline market, and have others tossing and turning in their sleep.
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Why Samsung and Apple should be worried about Xiaomi and Lenovo 
We are now entering a new phase of competition in the global smartphone market and the likes of Lenovo and Xiaomi are poised to make life a lot more difficult for market leaders Samsung Electronics and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). How Samsung and Apple respond will go a long way to determining whether they can maintain their status as market leaders, though I think Samsung has a lot more to worry about right now than Apple does. As industry analyst Keith Mallinson recently detailed in FierceWireless:Europe, Nokia (NYSE:NOK), Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) once reigned supreme in the handset market, but were slow to catch on to the shift to true multitouch smartphones. Now we are at the precipice of another transformation, one where growth is mainly happening in emerging markets via lower-end phones. Xiaomi and the newly combined Lenovo/Motorola are leading the charge in this area. But how have these companies snuck up on the market leaders? Xiaomi, founded in 2011, has enjoyed spectacular growth--it was the third largest smartphone maker in the world in the third quarter. The company sells its low-cost, relatively high-end phones online and makes the bulk of its revenues from the services--books, app, games and more--it sells to its users. Lenovo, for its part, has enjoyed success with its own relatively inexpensive smartphones boasting relatively high-end specs--and now that its purchase of Motorola is complete, Lenovo is now the world's third-largest smartphone maker by market share. In countries like China and India, where there are huge numbers of mobile users who haven't yet purchased their first smartphone, companies like Xiaomi and Lenovo have grown by delivering quality products at prices below the competition. Creative Strategies analyst Ben Bajarin said their ascendance is "simply indicative of this growth we're seeing of connecting people for the first time with a smartphone, and the role these brands are playing in connecting the unconnected." But Samsung also sells inexpensive smartphones in emerging markets like China and India, so why have Samsung's mobile sales and profits fallen this year?...Continued More Read more about: Xiaomi, samsung
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Today's Top News1. DT CEO: T-Mobile won't need DT's help to purchase extra spectrum Deutsche Telekom CEO Timotheus Hoettges said that T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) can fund purchases of spectrum in upcoming U.S. auctions by itself, taking pressure off the parent to inject funds into T-Mobile as it invests to beef up its network. On DT's third-quarter earnings conference call, Hoettges said he is confident the U.S. business would be able to buy spectrum by issuing new shares or bonds itself. "We consistently follow our strategy of de-risking, self-funding," he said, according to Reuters. "I am convinced that T-Mobile US will continue to be a source of great satisfaction for us." Analysts at credit rating agency Fitch estimate that T-Mobile may have to spend at least $7 billion on spectrum in the coming years. T-Mobile is likely to bid on spectrum during this year's AWS-3 FCC spectrum auction and in the 600 MHz incentive auction of broadcast TV airwaves, scheduled for early 2016. T-Mobile US accounts for about a third of Deutsche Telekom's total revenues and a fifth of its core profits. The company was for years a drag on DT's cash flow, but has added nearly 10 million net new customers in the last six quarters. In the third quarter, T-Mobile posted a net loss of $94 million, wider than the $36 million net loss in the year-ago period, in part because of higher costs of integrating the MetroPCS network. DT expects T-Mobile's earnings to improve over the next several quarters. "In the same way as revenue increases when the number of customers grows, so earnings will improve in the next few quarters as revenue rises," CFO Thomas Dannenfeldt told reporters on a conference call, according to Reuters. Hoettges called the U.S. unit "a great thing what we are experiencing here" and praised the performance of CEO John Legere and CMO Mike Sievert in particular. Hoettges called T-Mobile's "uncarrier" branding "one of the most impressive marketing stories I have ever seen," at least in telecommunications. "I am very lucky that I am part of this success here," he said. This summer T-Mobile abandoned plans to merge with Sprint (NYSE: S) after a lengthy courtship, yet Hoettges said he thinks that the continued dominance of AT&T Mobility (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) is not a good thing for the industry. "I think this bifurcation of Verizon and AT&T in the long term is not healthy," he said. However, he said he does not think U.S. regulators would do much about the market structure. Long-term, he said, consolidation makes sense. For more:
- see this DT presentation (PDF)
- see these two separate Reuters articles Special Report: How Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and TracFone stacked up in Q3 Related Articles:
T-Mobile soars to 2.34M subscriber additions in Q3, hits LTE coverage target early
América Móvil says it's not in talks with T-Mobile for a deal
Analysts: With Iliad M&A off the table, T-Mobile can focus on its own business
Iliad drops bid for T-Mobile
Analysts: T-Mobile likely to continue strong subscriber growth into Q4
T-Mobile's Legere dismisses flood of M&A rumors as 'craziness' Read more about: Sprint, Mergers and Acquisitions
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2. Lenovo warns of end of 'hypergrowth' in Chinese smartphone market as Q3 mobile sales dip Lenovo, which recently assumed the mantle of No. 3 global smartphone maker with the closing of its $2.91 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, nevertheless saw its mobile revenue slip in the third quarter. Further, CEO Yang Yuanqing warned of the end of "hypergrowth" in the Chinese smartphone market. Still, the company was upbeat about its sales outside of China, and now that Motorola is a wholly-owned subsidiary Lenovo, the company will have a greater foothold in the U.S., Western Europe and Latin America. On a companywide basis, the PC, smartphone and tablet maker said net profit in the third quarter increased to $262 million from $220 million in the year-ago period, largely in line with analysts' expectations, the Wall Street Journal reported. However, total revenue came in below analysts' estimates, rising 7 percent to $10.48 billion from $9.77 billion. Analysts had been expecting $11.35 billion, according to an estimate of 13 analysts measured by Thomson Reuters SmartEstimate. Lenovo's total smartphone shipments jumped 38 percent year-over-year to 16.9 million in the third quarter, good for the No. 4 position worldwide, according to research firm IDC. However, if Motorola's sales had been included, Lenovo would have been No. 3, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. Nonetheless, Lenovo's total mobile device revenues (smartphones and tablets) fell 6 percent year-over-year to $1.4 billion. Yang told the Journal that despite shipment growth, sales fell in part because many of the company's phones shipped near the end of the third quarter hadn't yet been recognized as revenue. "Smartphone revenue was not that exciting, it was a little bit of a problem," Yang told Reuters. Lenovo has enjoyed a great deal of success in large part due to its strength in China, where it has packed higher-end features and specs into phones that are undercutting market leaders Samsung Electronics and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) on price. Yet Yang warned that Lenovo could not rely on China alone to be a growth engine. "The industry is changing from in the past, when China grew much faster than the rest of the world," he told Bloomberg. "China will not see further hypergrowth." Lenovo noted in its earnings presentation that it needs to be a global smartphone player to drive sustainable growth and that with the Motorola brand it can compete around the world in all key markets. Nonetheless, Lenovo continues to record notable increases in sales--for example, the company said its sales in Russia skyrocketed 400 percent from a year ago. For more:
- see this release
- see this presentation (PDF)
- see this Bloomberg article
- see this Reuters article
- see this WSJ article (sub. req.)
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Lenovo completes $2.9B deal for Motorola, will pursue dual-brand strategy in emerging markets
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Gartner, CCS Insight: Smartphone growth in 2014 will be fueled by low-cost models
Motorola unveils new Moto X, Moto G smartphones, prices Moto 360 smart watch at $250 Read more about: Smartphones, quarterly earnings
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3. Ericsson: 50% of all mobile traffic will be video by 2020 STOCKHOLM--Ericsson's (NASDAQ: ERIC) top executives painted a picture of the world in 2020 in which there will be 9 billion people on the planet, 9.1 billion mobile subscriptions and video traffic will dominate, accounting for at least 50 percent of all traffic on the network. Speaking today at the Ericsson Business and Innovation Forum here, Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg talked about how he believes the world is in the midst of a major technology revolution and that one of the challenges he faces is how to position his company so it will be relevant today as well as in the next 25 years. "We are at an inflection point between the first phase and the second phase" of this revolution, he said, adding that the winners in the first phase are not necessarily winners in the second phase. "But we will transform and be relevant in both phases." One way he is helping to position Ericsson and the telecom industry for the future is by making sure that organizations such as the United Nations understand the role Information, Communications and Technology, or ICT, will play in moving many different types of industries, such as healthcare, transportation and more. Vestberg also talked about the importance of research and development in this time of transformation. That's why Ericsson has committed to investing $5 billion in R&D. Some of that is going toward the development of "5G" networks. Sara Mazur, vice president and head of Ericsson Research, noted that in July of this year Ericsson conducted a test in its lab and was able to reach speeds of 5-gigabits per second. The company is working with several partners to delve further into 5G technology and help develop a standard--and she emphasized the need for one 5G standard in order to avoid fragmentation and leave some without access to 5G. Interestingly, Vestberg also showed a correlation between broadband penetration and a country's gross domestic product. Specifically, he said that doubling the broadband speeds can result in a 0.3 percent growth in GDP. Mobile broadband traffic continues to escalate on the network and there appears to be no end in sight. According to Ericsson CTO Ulf Ewaldsson, mobile broadband traffic is expected to grow 10-fold by 2020 from 2 petabytes today to 20 exabytes in 2020. Because of this growth, Ewaldsson emphasized the need for more spectrum and more efficient use of existing. "Spectrum will become more valuable than oil," Ewaldsson predicted. Related Articles:
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Ericsson's profit surges in Q2, as vendor points to stronger second half Read more about: 5G, Sara Mazur, mobile data
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4. Qualcomm warns of dings to sales and profit in 2015 from China probe Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) warned that its 2015 sales and profit could be hurt by the outcome of an anti-monopoly investigation into the company's licensing practices in China, the world's largest smartphone market. The chipset giant also disclosed that it is facing probes from the Federal Trade Commission and European Commission. For nearly a year the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission has been looking into Qualcomm's licensing fees from companies that use its patented technologies, mainly CDMA. Qualcomm derives most of its profit from licensing fees and most of its revenue from sales of chipsets and modems. Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf said the company's fiscal 2015 outlook takes into account its leadership position in the chipset market but "is tempered by the issues we are facing in China related to our licensing business." For fiscal 2015, which ends next September, Qualcomm predicted net income of $4.33 to $4.63 a share on sales of $26.8 billion to $28.8 billion. According to Bloomberg, those figures are below average analyst projections of $4.89 a share in earnings with revenue of $29.1 billion. "In 2015 a lot of it is about the uncertainty in China, and that's affected our guidance range," Mollenkopf told Bloomberg. Qualcomm could be hit with a fine as high as $1 billion related to the Chinese probe, and could also be forced to make concessions that would negatively impact its licensing business. Qualcomm has been struggling to secure licensing revenue from some China device makers, including locally-based OEMs and ODMs, according to Reuters. That's particularly troubling for Qualcomm at a time when Chinese carriers are rolling out LTE networks and more device makers are selling LTE devices. Qualcomm estimates globally it isn't receiving licensing revenue on more than 200 million handsets as a result of delays in licensing negotiations and unreported sales out of about 1.3 billion total phones it thinks will be shipped in 2014. Investors fear any concessions Qualcomm gives could spread to other device makers in other markets. "What people are most worried about is the ability to fence in this issue to Chinese vendors if there's a reduced royalty rate, or does it spread to other geographies," Standard Life portfolio manager Brian Fox told Reuters. Qualcomm said it is continuing to cooperate with the Chinese authorities. "We're continuing to cooperate with the NDRC. We've continued to meet with them regularly, exchange some ideas for potential ways to resolve it," Qualcomm President Derek Aberle told Reuters. "But we don't have an ability to update in terms of expectations and timing." For its most recent quarter, its fiscal fourth quarter, Qualcomm said its net income jumped to $1.89 billion, up 26 percent year-over-year but down 15 percent sequentially. Total revenues grew to $6.69 billion, up 3 percent year-over-year but down 2 percent sequentially. Meanwhile, in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Qualcomm said that the FTC started in September to look into its licensing business, including potential breaches in commitments to license standards-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms. Qualcomm said that if the FTC finds Qualcomm violated the law it could impose fines or require changes to the firm's licensing practices. "Given that this investigation is in its early stages, it is difficult to predict the outcome of this matter or what remedies, if any, may be imposed by the FTC," the company said. "We continue to cooperate with the FTC as it conducts its investigation." Additionally, the European Commission is probing the sale or marketing of Qualcomm's baseband chipsets, "including alleged conditions relating to the provision by us of rebates and/or other financial incentives." The company said that in all the investigations "with the exception of the NDRC matter, losses, while possible, are not probable." For more:
- see this release
- see this SEC filing
- see this Reuters article
- see this Bloomberg article
- see this WSJ article (sub. req.)
- see this ZDNet article Special Report: Wireless in the third quarter of 2014
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Apple, Qualcomm and Microsoft learn the new cost of doing business in China
Qualcomm: Chinese antitrust probe likely will result in 'some loss' Read more about: antitrust, Steve Mollenkopf
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5. Mozilla to bring Firefox OS to Africa, partners with GSMA to help emerging markets develop web content Mozilla said phones running its web-based Firefox OS will soon launch in Africa, expanding into a major smartphone growth region at a time when competing smartphone platforms are targeting the entry-level market. Airtel, MTN South Africa and Tigo, operated by Millicom, will be the first carriers to bring Firefox OS devices to market in Africa, according to Mozilla. In Firefox OS, all of the phone's features are developed as HTML5 applications. Mozilla has targeted Firefox phones to sell for around $25 to $35, especially in market like India. Currently Firefox OS has launched with carrier partners in 25 markets across Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia. "The continued growth of Firefox OS holds great promise for enabling millions more people to access the mobile Web at an affordable cost, while helping to remove control points in today's closed mobile ecosystems," Rick Fant, Mozilla's vice president of planning and ecosystem, said in a statement. The expansion into Africa comes a few months after Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) unveiled the first phones as part of its Android One program in India. Via Android One, Google is teaming up with local device makers Micromax, Karbonn and Spice in India to produce smartphones that cost around $105 without subsidies. Android One devices will receive the latest versions of Android software directly from Google, keeping them as up to date as high-end phones. Meanwhile, Mozilla said it is partnering with the GSMA to help consumers in emerging markets develop locally relevant, non-English Web content. According to a whitepaper the organizations produced and which GigaOM highlighted, around 56 percent of existing Web content is in English, even though just 5 percent of the world's population speaks English as a first language. However, only 0.8 percent of Web content is in Arabic and less than 0.1 percent in Hindi, even though those languages are spoken by far more people. "As a global community of technologists, thinkers and builders, Mozilla is working to keep the Web open and accessible," Mozilla wrote in a company log post. "Both Mozilla and the GSMA--who represent 800 operators in 220 countries--recognize how the mobile Web can shape the industry's future. Collectively, we recognize the role that locally relevant content has to play in improving social and economic outcomes around the world." Mozilla said that over the next six to 12 months it will be exploring projects focused on low-cost smartphones, digital literacy training and local content, and that initial pilot projects in Bangladesh, Kenya, Brazil and India are currently underway. "We are looking to build a coalition of mobile operators, device manufacturers, educators, international development donors, and NGOs who are interested in positively shaping the future of the mobile Web," Mozilla said. For more:
- see this Mozilla blog post
- see this separate Mozilla blog post
- see this ZDNet article
- see this GigaOM article
- see this TheNextWeb article Related Articles:
Gartner, CCS Insight: Smartphone growth in 2014 will be fueled by low-cost models
Google unveils $105 Android One phones in India, promises to expand to more partners and countries
Mozilla partners with Intex to bring $33 Firefox OS smartphone to India
Mozilla sets sights on $25 smartphone with Firefox OS Read more about: Smartphones, Mozilla
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Also Noted SPOTLIGHT ON... Microsoft to let users create and edit Office documents for free on iOS, Android Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is going to let users create and edit Office content on iPhones, iPads, and soon Android tablets using Office apps without an Office 365 subscription. It's another example of Microsoft choosing to forgo some revenue in order to get its software on more devices. Until now, as the Wall Street Journal notes, if customers wanted to edit Word, PowerPoint and other Office documents on their iPhones and Android devices, they needed an Office 365 subscription, which starts at $70 a year for non-business users. However, Microsoft is not eliminating the yearly Office 365 fee for laptop or desktop users, and it still requires a paid subscription for access to some features in its mobile apps. The company will also continue to charge business users as well. Office 365 subscribers will continue to get advanced editing and collaboration capabilities, unlimited OneDrive cloud storage, Dropbox integration and other benefits. Additionally, Microsoft said it will bring its popular Office applications to tablets running Google's Android software, starting with its "Office for Android tablet Preview." The announcement comes a little more than seven months after Microsoft unveiled Office for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad. John Case, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Office, wrote in a company blog post that iPad customers have downloaded Office more than 40 million times. Post Quick news from around the Web. 
HTC's Desire Eye is a killer mid-range smartphone http://t.co/XBRdF4vND0 pic.twitter.com/SE5w3TmHTq (@verge) November 6, 2014 > Palo Alto Networks said it discovered malware called WireLurker that targets Apple mobile and desktop users. Article > Microsoft's low-cost Lumia 735 appears bound for Verizon Wireless. Article > Google redesigned its Maps app for Android and iOS users to reflect its new Material Design style. Article > AT&T Mobility said its new FiLIP 2, a smart watch for kids that supports cellular calls, will go on sale tomorrow. Article > Opera said its Mini 9 browser for iOS users can now optimize video streaming to reduce users' data needs. Article Wireless Tech News > Volvo is planning to unleash 100 autonomous driven cars on the streets of Gothenburg, Sweden in 2017. Article > Ruckus Wireless CEO Selina Lo said during the company's third-quarter conference call that support for Wi-Fi calling is helping fuel Ruckus' "Wi-Fi first" movement as more and more mobile devices automatically sign onto Wi-Fi first, and fall back to 3G or LTE only if Wi-Fi connectivity is not available or usable. Article > The global service provider software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) market is projected to reach $11 billion in 2018, according to Infonetics Research. Article Telecom News > Vonage has reached a deal to acquire communications-as-a-service provider Telesphere Networks for $114 million, another move in its ongoing mission to take a larger piece of the growing small to medium business (SMB) sector. Article Cable News > Signaling a concerning trend for pay-TV operators in the North American market, DirecTV reported subscriber losses of 28,000 for the third quarter. Article > Cablevision reported significant losses of 56,000 TV subscribers but saw overall revenue increase 3.7 percent to $1.63 billion, driven by higher customer fees. Article And finally… Amazon's same-day delivery service is now available in Canada. Article > Time to brush up. Digital advertising is changing fast. - Tuesday, November 11, 2014 | 2pm ET / 11am PT Think you know digital advertising? Think again. Catch up on what's new in this must-attend webinar led by Equifax digital analytics expert, Paul Bell. Register Today! > Leveraging LTE Networks for Internet of Things (IoT) - Tuesday, November 11, 2014 | 2pm ET / 11am PT Internet of Things will set new paradigms in the way information and connectivity is leveraged to create a super-connected ecosystem — where everything is connected with everything else. This kind of ecosystem will need and consume very high bandwidth. LTE as a high-bandwidth and all-IP technology is highly suited to provide the backbone for implementing IOT. Register today! > Using Customer Data and Advanced Retention Strategies to Increase Profitability - Wednesday, November 12, 2014 | 11am ET / 8am PT Learn how many of the world's leading CSPs are dramatically increasing their profitability through the use of advanced customer retention techniques. Register today! > Network Modernization and RF Conditioning - Thursday, November 6, 2014 | 2pm ET/ 11am PT At the current state of mobile networks, operators need to aggressively pursue multiple avenues to respond to rising demand for speed and throughput. This webinar will discuss how to update and add capacity to existing sites using tower mounted amplifiers, multi-band and same band combiners, interference mitigation filters, and ultra wideband antennas. Register today! > Next-Generation Program Guides and User Interfaces - Thursday, December 11, 2014 | 2pm ET / 11am PT This webinar will look at how pay-TV operators are responding to this challenge, with innovative program guides and interfaces that maximize the viewing experience for their subscribers. Register today! |
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