Byline: PHIL CARSON
The fourth quarter typically is the most robust for device sales and, as the final quarter to the calendar year, prognostication for 2006 is in its end game. Will the industry sell a billion handsets this year? "Billion'' certainly has a nice ring to it.
Perhaps more importantly, what's driving sales in this holiday season?
In the United States market-a mature market that, nonetheless, remains only a little over two-thirds saturated-replacement handsets are likely to increasingly drive sales, while prepaid also has surged in popularity and respectability.
Based on its most recent data, Telephia Inc. found that the drivers of handset ...