Total royalty payments for GSM, WCDMA and LTE technology on mobile phones are approaching $20 billion per year, according to a new report from ABI Research.
It says the amount paid in licensing fees by manufacturers will continue to grow for the next few years but is starting to flatten out.
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For the first time, more than 50% of handsets shipped worldwide in the next 12 months will be 3G or 4G mobile phones.
That’s the prediction in a new report from ABI Research.
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With less than two weeks until Christmas, the mobile phone industry still keeps delivering major news stories.
As usual, you can listen to this week’s edition of The Fonecast on our website’s audio player, via iTunes, by subscribing to our RSS feed or by downloading the MP3.
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Iain, James and Mark discuss the week's mobile industry headlines... starting with HP and webOS, then mentioning Samsung, Panasonic, Ofcom, Jawbone, Everything Everywhere, RIM and Google, before ending with a new retail scheme from O2.
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UK regulator Ofcom has published the draft version of its Annual Plan, which covers the twelve months from 1st April 2012 until 31st March 2013.
It’s now asking for feedback by mid-February before it prepares the final version of the statement.
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