Global cellular market trends and insight — Q2 2015
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Welcome to GSMA Intelligence’s quarterly review of regional mobile trends.
In this Q2 2015 edition, our analyst team has identified and summarised some of the key industry developments and data trends that took place in each region over the past quarter. The report features an enhanced focus on financial, spectrum, network, M2M, device, tariff and internet trends.
We know that you are busy and don’t have time to scan the thousands of operator data points captured in our online database each quarter, so our analyst team has curated the latest data trends for you in this analysis.
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