Overview: Global TWS sales in Q1 2021 were around 63.5 million units and valued at $6.4 billion, up 44% and 20% YoY, respectively. The market declined 12% QoQ due to off-season effects. China showed the highest growth YoY, but North America continued t...

Overview: As per the latest research from Counterpoint’s IoT Service, India True Wireless stereo (TWS) Segment grew a 156% YoY growth in Q1 2021. boAt maintained its lead in India TWS Market in Q1 2021 as well with 28% market share. Multiple laun...

Overview: Nokia posted better-than-expected 1Q 2021 financials, including improved margins in the critical Mobile Networks division, suggesting that the vendor is closing its 5G portfolio competitiveness gap with rivals. Meanwhile Ericsson continues to incr...

Overview: Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is emerging as one of the leading use cases for 5G New Radio (NR) architecture. FWA subscribers will need a new Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), which can either be indoor or outdoor. According to our l...

Overview: Radio availability is one of the main Achilles heels of the open RAN story. This PPT presentation provides an overview of a study recently undertaken recently by Counterpoint Research to determine the availability of open RAN radios today. Th...

Overview: The size of the global hearables (TWS) market is expected to grow by 33% and 20% YoY in terms of sales volume and revenue, respectively, in 2021. As the COVID-19 will unlikely ease in a short time despite the spread of vaccination, the pent-u...

Overview: ‘5G smartphones are driving growth and shipments are expected to double by 2022 i.e. close to 560+ Mn in 2021. This forecast highlights the frequency supports for these handsets and 5G volumes split into the Sub 6GHz (<6GHz frequency) &nb...

Overview: The global TWS market grew 13% QoQ in Q4 2020 in terms of sales unit. Asia Pacific excluding China accounted for 29% of the Q4 2020 global TWS market and became the largest market. After seeing a sharp increase in share in Q3 2020, the sub-10...

Overview: As per the latest research from Counterpoint’s IoT Service, India True Wireless stereo (TWS) Segment grew a 641% YoY growth in Q4 2020.Many new launches in affordable segment from players like Xiaomi, OnePlus and strong demand during fe...

Overview: January 2021 marked the launch of Nokia’s new strategy with a major focus on improving the competitiveness of the all-important Market Access division. In contrast, Ericsson continues to reap the benefits of its business revamp instigated by...

Overview: The global TWS hearables market has seen good growth over the past few years. With the trends of work-from-home, learn-from-home and rising content consumption, the demand is set to rise further. In 2020, we saw TWS devices becoming more affordabl...

Overview: A telecoms vendor since 1876, Ericsson and has gone through many transformations during its lifetime with the latest starting three years ago in 2017 when newly arrived CEO Börje Ekholm sold off some of the company’s non-core business a...

Overview: More than 6 billion eSIM (eUICC- and iUICC-based) capable devices will be shipped cumulatively over the next five years, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s ETO (Emerging Technology Opportunities) Service. The uptake of eSIM...

Overview: More than 6 billion eSIM (eUICC- and iUICC-based) capable devices will be shipped cumulatively over the next five years, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s ETO (Emerging Technology Opportunities) Service. The uptake of eSIM...

Overview: More than 6 billion eSIM (eUICC- and iUICC-based) capable devices will be shipped cumulatively over the next five years, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s ETO (Emerging Technology Opportunities) Service. The uptake of eSIM...

Overview: Japan TWS sales grew 19% QoQ in Q3 2020 in terms of sales unit. Increase in mobile infotainment devices with mobility services, technological advancements and consumers’ increasing need for convenience are the significant fact...

Overview: Following the announcement of the first phase of its new strategy in October 2020, Nokia provided more details on the strategy in December 2020, outlining key high-level strategic objectives along with details of a new operating model designed to ...

Overview: China’s booming logistics industry is being driven by rapid expansion of online shopping, yet compared to the US and Japan, there is far more opportunity to improve industry operating efficiency. Cainiao is Alibaba’s logistics arm, ...

Overview: The global TWS market grew 24% QoQ in Q3 2020 in terms of sales unit. Continued content growth and rising mobile video consumption by millennials helped drive demand. Low to mid priced brands continued to expand their market position, especially i...

Overview: 5G is now being recognized as a key determinant of future economic growth by an increasing number of countries and mobile operators are under pressure to accelerate their 5G infrastructure deployments. With the absence of Huawei and ZTE from many ...