Nokia Product Design Analysis

Vodafone is one of the most important players on the European telecommunications market. However, this does not mean that the company has an easy job at retaining its customers and at increasing its market share. The most important competitors of Vodafone are represented by Orange and Cosmote. The regulations in the business field determine these companies to provide similar products and services, at similar prices. Therefore, it is important that Vodafone focuses on its communications strategy in order to strengthen its position on the market.

The telecommunication industry that AT&T essentially created has undergone radical advancements, particularly within the last decade. According to the IBM Institute for Business Value, approximately 15% of the world’s population had access to a telephone in 1999 but by 2009, 70% of the world’s population had mobile phone subscriptions (Nelson & van den Dam, 2010). Given the extraordinary explosion of mobile computing and wireless communications, continued advancements within the global telecommunication industry are certain. A number of trends drive this evolution including the advancement of devices and network access technology, changes

Telecoms Business Unit comprises of fixed line and broadband services (AOL, TalkTalk, Opal) as well as mobile business, which includes virtual networks (MVNO) such as Fresh and others and the German service provision, The Phone House. The common factor for the numerous subsidiaries is the ‘service provision’ in mobile, fixed-line and broadband markets.

However that in 2007 the market of Nokia Company started to decrease and the reasons for that is the new competitions like IPhone from Apple that introduced smartphones, along with Android by Google, and Samsung. Even though Nokia Company results for 2012 were pre much good by having 101982 workers across 120 countries along with sales in more than 150 countries, and the reports for revenue were around 30€ billion. Nokia was announced to be the second largest world for mobiles phone makers in terms of unit sales after Samsung, with having world wide market share 18.0%. However that Nokia Company for current days has 3.2% in smartphones and they lost 40% of their revenue in mobile phone in Q2 for 2013. Nokia was listed in fortune global 500 to be world’s 274 largest companies for 2013 from revenue sides. So Nokia Company has good products, services, and reputations. Knowing that their products are good and have nice services, yet comparing to others like Samsung and Apple they are weak because those provide an outstanding products and services which consist of smartphones. So Nokia want instead of providing a good services and products to become like their competition and provide an outstanding products and

Nokia Company is a telecommunications company and Information Technology. They produce mobile phone. Nokia is very old company or we can say it a one of the best company in past. In this integrated research project, I will provide a lot of details of chosen industry, organization, a SWOT analysis highlighting issues or challenges that lead to proposed research objective. Also, I will identify three relevant CLOs from semesters 7 and 8. Then I will identify of the chosen issue or challenge with a clear objective or problem statement. Moreover, I will write details of research activities including the proposed methodology. (wikipedia, 2016)

This paper aims to examine the financial state of the AT&T Company. Through the analysis of comprehensive and consolidated financial statements, it appears that AT&T is in a ___ financial position. This is also supported through investigating the trends and variations in the financial statements and looking at a competitive and economic analysis. A SWOT analysis was also conducted to focus on the internal and external characteristics of AT&T and an industry analysis was conducted to assess the market share and how AT&T is performing relative to its competition.

Nokia’s aggressive strategy to dominate mobile communication cluster would be the main reason how Nokia could become a world leader in the sector among other reasons. Nokia’s passion for mobile communication industry was great enough to give up more than 40% of its revenue in is pre-owned communication industry to concentrate only in mobile communications. Nokia was also lucky enough to see the possibility of mobile communication early enough to predominate the industry and prevent any competition from

In this paper, we will be looking at the Microsoft and Nokia negotiation that had taken place in in 2013. The United States company Microsoft, announced that it had finally reached a deal with Finnish company Nokia, where Microsoft would acquire Nokia’s handset business and their patent license for $7.2 billion dollars (Alden, 2013). This move by Microsoft was done in order to try and increase their market share in the handheld device market, which Microsoft had missed out on during the initial phases of the market 's development. This would also benefit Nokia as they did struggle for many years in the smartphone industry and Microsoft would be able to help them during this problem if they were to reach a consensus in their negotiations.

However, nowadays Ericsson is faced with a plethora of internal and external problems, hindering its growth and limiting its market footprint and this is what this report aims to

The main strength Nokia has is the brand itself. Nokia has been one of the most respected and well-known mobile brand in the market. Their products are recognized for its fine designs, accountability, and sturdiness. The brand is associated with the best products in the industry and has developed brand awareness. Although Nokia is having a hard time matching up to the mobile market, they still have a loyal customer base to regain market trust. Nokia’s weakness is its difficulty accommodating to the constant changes of consumer trends. The company is lagging behind with innovative products; indicating Nokia’s incompetent with the market

“Connecting People. Our goal is to build great mobile products that enable billions of people worldwide to enjoy more of what life has to offer. Our challenge is to achieve this in an increasingly dynamic and competitive environment” (Nokia, 2014)

The following report details cell phone industry analysis, which deals with cell phone manufacturers as well as cell phone

Let’s compare the figures in chart 1.6 and 1.7; in 2007, Nokia’s had a market share of 35.1% in the China mobile phone market (2G) which dominated the market. But in 2009, its market share dropped by 7% to 28.4%. Although Nokia’s sales in China have increased, but the rate of increase of its sales is slower than the market itself, hence the decrease on market shares. Like the CEO of Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in 2010, “the global market has continued to grow at a healthy pace; the only problem for Kallasvuo is that while the market might be growing at a healthy pace, Nokia’s sales aren’t.

As illustrated, failing to capitalize on the growing demand for smartphones, Nokia’s smartphone market share has been on a steady decline for the past 4 years in the smartphone-hungry North American market (Strategy Analytics, 2012).

The Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson, one of the “Big Three” mobile handset manufacturers in the 1990s, started to reach difficulty as it entered the new millennium. In 2001, Ericsson’s sales dropped by 52%, recording a $1.39 billion loss which preceded an announcement that would lay off 20% of their workforce. Ericsson found itself losing market share to “Big Three” rivals Nokia and Motorola and eventually even to Siemens. Analysts attributed this downfall to Ericsson’s stagnant phone designs, slow time to market and their inability