A bird’s eye view of today’s global smartphone market

The global smartphone market is continuing to make steady progress following the COVID induced slowdown of 2020, even showing positive signs of buoyancy. As the new ‘Roaring Twenties’ gathers pace,

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Why 5G and the secondary device market are crucial to COVID-19 recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic confirmed just how dependent we are on connectivity. Overnight, everyday life transformed with economies around the world depending on speed and reliability to support the new remote

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Mobile trade-ins return $668mn to U.S. consumers in Q1 2021

Assurant, a global provider of lifestyle and housing solutions that support, protect and connect major consumer purchases, announces findings from its analysis of the mobile device trade-in and upgrade market for

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Could your phone be contributing to the destruction of the Amazon?

The world’s attention has been drawn to the wildfires raging through the Amazon rainforest. Many believe that cattle ranchers and farmers caused the flames by clearing the land, but in

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European mobile operators must fully embrace the secondary smartphone market

The secondary smartphone market is a huge success story. Mobile operators, device manufacturers and retailers that have implemented buyback processes for pre-owned devices at the point of new device upgrades

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Career Snapshot: Biju Nair, CEO of HYLA Mobile

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Biju Nair: Growing up in India, I manned a milk delivery booth. The milk would be delivered to a refrigerated tank by truck to

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