Will low-income buyers reshape the smartphone market?
On August 21st, MetroPCS (PCS) unveiled a notably aggressive $55 unlimited 4G LTE plan. It promises unlimited voice, texting and 4G data for less than …
Tero Kuittinen
After launching mobile game company SpringToys tragically early in 2000, Tero Kuittinen spent eight years doing equity research at firms including Alliance Capital and Opstock. He is currently an analyst and VP of North American sales at mobile diagnostics and expense management Alekstra, and has contributed to TheStreet.com, Forbes and Business 2.0 Magazine in addition to BGR.
Articles by Tero Kuittinen
First, WhatsApp ate the Netherlands…
In late July, top Dutch carrier KPN (KPN) reported another grim quarter and slashed its dividend from €0.50 to €0.35. The carrier once again cited …
$100 apps, bibles and big-budget RPGs: The strange nature of Nigerian mobile app market
With 100 million mobile subscribers, Nigeria stands among leading mobile markets in the world. Its mobile content sector is quite fascinating — this is a …
Nokia’s masquerade
One reason for Nokia’s (NOK) surprisingly strong share price rebound over the past two weeks is the success of its new Asha feature phones in …
HTC in Hell
This HTC warning was different. There has been a stream of them since last November, but the latest one broke the back of Wall Street’s …
Budget operators keep shocking Wall Street
It was another quarter of shocks and surprises for small budget wireless operators offering cheap mobile plans. AT&T (T) and Verizon Wireless (VZ) chugged along …
Zynga, Nokia and the dangers of cliche-based speculation
We all know that the feature phone market is dying and the mobile app market is hot. And that is what makes short-term investment decisions …
Are middle-aged women taking over the iPad?
One of the most interesting topics in the app market right now is the divergence between iPhone and iPad application markets — over the past …
Amazing Alex and the cruelty of the mobile app market
18 days after it debuted in the iOS App Store, “Amazing Alex” has dropped to No.10 on Apple’s (AAPL) paid iOS app chart and to …
Sprint sizzles – is AT&T and Verizon’s greed the reason?
A fallen angel took flight as Sprint (S) soared by 20% on Thursday after an interesting June quarter. The overall net subscriber loss number for …
Apple’s revenue growth slowdown is fast – and global
Yes, spring is a slow period for Apple (AAPL) and its fiscal third-quarter results reflected that. It was that way last year as well because …
A mobile meltdown in Spain
Last Friday, the world’s largest mobile carrier, Vodafone (VOD), reported disappointing second-quarter numbers. While its own share price decline was a moderate 1.7%, Vodafone’s report pushed …
Nokia surprises: Feature phone volumes grow and smartphone ASP bounces
Nokia’s (NOK) share price rebounded sharply after it announced its second-quarter report on Thursday, bouncing as much as 18% in Helsinki on short-covering. The stock …
The mobile data mirage
We’ve all seen the tantalizing curve that represents the mobile data explosion. A good example is that Cisco report from last February projecting 18-fold increase …
Meet Jolla, the startup trying to combat Apple and Google by breathing life back into MeeGo
A new Finnish company called Jolla made a bit of a splash earlier this month by declaring it will become a new smartphone vendor using …
Actually, smartphone growth has been just what was projected in 2006
We all know that consumer electronics industry projections are useless in the three-year time frame, and grotesquely wrong beyond the five-year horizon. Or are they? …
Rovio and the ‘Amazing Alex’ gamble
At 12:00 p.m. EST, “Amazing Alex” hit the No.1 iPhone paid app position in America; eight hours is possibly the fastest move to No.1 ever …
Kantar data shows Apple’s grip slipping as Samsung surges
The big Eastern European mobile operator MTS recently released interesting numbers about the Russian handset market. They showed Samsung’s share of Russian smartphone market revenue …
The surprising impact of the iPhone on AT&T and Verizon’s rivalry
AT&T paid dearly for iPhone exclusivity that started in June 2007 and ran for nearly four years. What did it buy? Back in 2Q07, AT&T Wireless …
Shockers from MTS report: Apple slides in Russia as Samsung revenue share explodes
Russian wireless carrier MTS has let loose a treasure trove of information about the state of the local handset market in the first quarter of …
The Amazon phone: Likely an HTC killer, not an iPhone killer
Much of the buzz around the speculative Amazon phone positions it as a rival to iPhone… which makes no sense. The Kindle Fire did not …
Nokia could be a litigation nightmare for Google’s Asian Android partners
Nokia’s ace in the patent wars is the breadth of its portfolio. Nokia was central in developing GSM, GPRS, EDGE, W-CDMA, HSPA, LTE and Wi-Fi …
How a century of telephone expertise doomed Ericsson
The mobile phone industry is used to vendors flaming out, sometimes just a couple of years after companies peak. Yet few handset companies have self-destructed …
Does RIM shocker imply wider handset market deterioration?
RIM was expected to deliver a nightmarish, -30% year-on-year revenue decline into the May quarter — the company issued its latest profit warning just four …
Game of Phones: Apple keeps app revenue edge even before next-gen iPhone launch
Among professional app developers, App Annie is often cited as one of the most reliable sources of market statistics. App Annie’s most recent info dump …
Beating the odds: How Remedy hit 10M downloads and made a $40 in-game purchase work
Beneath Disney, Zynga and Rovio toil dozens of smaller mobile game developers, developing revenue growth strategies without the benefit of massive media coverage. Remedy’s “Death …
