Smartphones' Share of New Handsets Sales in U.S. Will Double by 2014

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, November 12 - A dramatic shake-up in the U.S. market for new handset sales will ensue
as smartphones grow to comprise roughly 60 percent of new handsets sold in
the U.S. by 2014, according to the latest forecast data from Pyramid Research
(www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications
Network (www.lightreading.com).

Pyramid Research's recently released Mobile Handset Forecasts
(www.pyr.com/mhfcst.htm?sc=PR111209_FCMBHN) find that smartphones will
represent 31 percent of new handsets sold in the U.S. in 2009, more than
double from 15 percent two years prior, writes Dan Locke, Senior Analyst at
Pyramid in Why BlackBerry Will Be No. 1 by 2014. "Today, BlackBerry has
nearly 50 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, but when smartphones' share
of new handsets sales double in 2014, we expect Apple's exclusive
relationship with AT&T to have ceased, which could potentially make the
iPhone available to an additional 200 million U.S. wireless customers," Locke
writes. "However, even if competitors, such as Motorola, LG, Samsung, and
Nokia, are able to improve their positioning in this growing segment, we
expect RIM to remain at the forefront of the U.S. market."

Read the full Pyramid Point "Why BlackBerry Will Be No. 1 by 2014
(www.pyramidresearch.com/points/item/091109.htm?sc=PR111209_FCMBHN)."

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It includes five years of historical data and five years of market
projections for metrics such as total handset sales, handset sales by network
technology, new handset sales (by technology, by technology generation, by
feature set), smartphone handset sales, vendor market share, and handset ASP.
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Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and
operates as a unit of TechWeb.

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TechWeb (techweb.com/aboutus), the global leader in business
technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of
technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most
respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today,
more than 13.3 million* business technology professionals actively engage in
our communities created around our global face-to-face events, Interop, Web
2.0, Black Hat, and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network,
Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and
The Financial Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning
InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, and Wall Street &
Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services including
next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and
analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global
provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a
market capitalization of more than US$2.5 billion.

*13.3 million business decision-makers: based on number of monthly
connections

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of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve
professional commercial communities — from doctors to game developers, from
journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists — with
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staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that
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Contact: Jennifer Baker, Pyramid Research, +1-617-871-1910,
jbaker@pyr.com

Jennifer Baker of Pyramid Research, +1-617-871-1910, jbaker at pyr.com