The low penetration of smartphones in these markets is offering most chipset players an even ground to grow their market share.
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Since the company has a low penetration in these regions currently, we expect to see strong comparable sales growth in the short term.
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In part six, I argued that there could be stark benefits and massive business disruption even at low penetration rates of driverless technology.
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Developing economies are expected to be a growth hub for mobile devices due to their current low penetration levels especially in non-urban areas.
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Rising disposable income, the growth of the middle class and a relatively low penetration rate for appliances are making the Philippines a hot market for consumer durables.
The rollout will enable Skype to offer its customers a fast and convenient way to purchase Skype Credit, creating new revenue streams in existing markets, as well as in new markets where other payment methods have low penetration rates.
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With a lower online penetration (compared to US), a fragmented hotel market and low OTA penetration in Eastern Europe, we believe that the European online travel market offers considerable growth opportunities for OTAs.
Currently, the low 3G penetration means that the impact of the higher 3G ARPUs is more than offset by the decline in voice ARPUs.
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For now, the bigger challenges around high-definition DVD players lie in low HDTV penetration and the impressive quality of particularly upconverted DVD on high-definition televisions.
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Low 3G penetration of about 15% in China is giving smaller wireless carriers such as China Telecom ample opportunity to compete on an even ground with the otherwise dominant China Mobile.
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Low 3G penetration of around 18% in China is giving smaller wireless carriers such as China Unicom ample opportunity to compete on an even ground with the otherwise dominant China Mobile.
This is not too far from what the company enjoys in the U.S. Additionally, 145 million households mean that the addressable market size is substantially more than that in the U.S. but the limitations exist in terms of low pay-TV penetration currently.
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Attendees at the Kampala conference questioned her not just about data collection, but about ways to do this in a country where Internet penetration is relatively low.
Long term growth will be broadly driven by the fact that pay-TV penetration is still low in Latin America, and therefore, there is significant potential to expand.
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In fourth-quarter 2012, Verizon Wireless delivered the highest number of retail postpaid net additions of any quarter in its history, strong growth in revenues, an increase in smartphone penetration, and continued low retail postpaid churn.
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Additionally, Internet penetration in these economies is relatively low but is expected to grow at a rapid pace, which leaves immense potential for growth for the online travel industry as a whole.
Despite the strong growth over the past couple decades, the penetration rates for cruising are still very low, averaging around 2%-3% globally.2 I believe this provides a significant growth opportunity for Carnival.
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Still, penetration rates for both cable and satellite are relatively low in Mexico, says Christy, and Grupo TV has plenty of room to grow as the nation's consumers move up the economic ladder.
This growth will be driven by an increase in smartphone penetration in Japan, which currently stands at a surprisingly low 15%.
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