Research in Motion Ltd designs, manufactures, and markets wireless solutions for the mobile communications market worldwide.
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Thankfully, our mobile communications market is relatively competitive, with four to six major carriers (depending on how you count).
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But as you go down, take the mobile communications market -- you have digital cellular phones, cordless, pagers, all sorts of PDAs.
But if SoftBank has a clear vision for how to change Sprint and, in the process, hep reshape the mobile communications market in the U.S. That is a tall order.
Last year, for the first time in years, the Federal Communications Commission refused to state whether the mobile communications market was competitive in its annual report to Congress on the state of the cellular market.
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The GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) standard is used throughout Europe, making it a much less fragmented market for mobile communications than the U.S., and mobile phone penetration is particularly high in Northern Europe.
"Verizon's timing was clearly intended to take wind out of Google's plans, " says Scott Ellison, vice president of mobile and wireless communications at market research firm IDC.
Brian Ascher originally passed on mobile communications company Vocera, but the company later shifted to the hospital market and he invested.
The communications arm alone claims a 20% market share of the mobile-telephone market, which is expected to grow to 500m users in the next decade.
Deng says that the days of entrepreneurs being able to get into a market and command a leading position in the Mainland are over at least for Internet and mobile communications areas if not for some of the new booming areas such as cleantech and biotech.
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