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The medium-term outlook for demand for cobalt now appears to be relatively
optimistic , as superalloy production is benefiting from renewed confidence in
the aerospace industry and the battery sector looks to be returning to the
rates of growth seen in the 1990s.

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Research and Markets: Phenomenal Growth in African Mobile Communications Market Set To Continue

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Africa 's cellular market is the fastest-growing in the world, gaining more
than 50% in 2002, almost 40% in 2003 and more than 40% in the first three
quarters of 2004 alone.

Research and Markets: Supply -Demand Balance Favours High Prices in Short-Term for Cobalt

The dominance of African copper-cobalt
producers has been replaced by a more even spread of output between leading
producing countries , with Canada, Norway and more recently Australia, together
with exports from Russia, replacing lost production in the Democratic Republic
of Congo. World production of cobalt
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The strongest growth in production of cobalt has come in Finland,
where output grew at over 16% between 1990 and 2002, largely as a result of
the aggressive expansion of capacity by OM Group.

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As early as 2001, Africa became the first
continent as a whole where mobile phones outnumbered fixed telephone lines,
which individually is the case in most African countries now.
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However, developments are still hampered by regulatory environments.

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The report offers a wealth of information on the Mobile market, covering:
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- Players
- Revenues
- Subscribers
- Prepaid
- Spectrum Auctions
- Developments
- Government Policies
- Infrastructure
- GSM
- CDMA
- 3G
- Mobile Data
- Market Issue
- Paging
- Dedicated Services
- SIM
- SMS
- MMS
- GPRS
- EDGE
- WAP
- M-Commerce
- Telemetry
- Location Services
- Bluetooth
- PMR
- TMR
- Mobile Satellite Services

Countries covered include: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana , Burkino Faso,
Cameroon, Chad, Cote D'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia,
Gambia , Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco,
Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria , Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia,
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This compares to only 3% penetration of fixed-line
telephony.
Mobile licences frequently require that operators rely on a fixed network
operator for interconnection, and relatively few countries allow their mobile
operators to operate their own international gateways. Summary
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It is primarily due
to the small number and high cost of fixed-line connections, which seldom
extend beyond the major urban centres. International trade in cobalt
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Prices for cobalt recovered strongly in the second half of 2003 and the
first half of 2004 as growing demand for cobalt coincided with some short-term
difficulties on the supply side. The factors that could put the brakes on
growth in the cobalt market include a desire on the part of the Chinese
government to control growth to prevent the economy overheating and the
effects that high oil prices could have on world economic growth.

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The mobile market is open to competition in the majority of the countries,
featuring between two and four operators, and it is largely private sector
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Countries covered in the report include:
Albania, Australia, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi,
Cameroon, Canada, China , Congo, Cuba, France, Guatemala, Indonesia, Ivory
Coast, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, Morocco, New Caledonia, Norway, Papua New
Guinea, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda , UK, USA,
Zambia, Zimbabwe

Report Contents:

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In early 2004, the last two countries on the continent, Guinea-Bissau and
Eritrea, launched mobile services. World consumption of cobalt
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The fact that 20 African countries have achieved
triple-digit compound annual growth rates (CAGR) for the period 1998-2003
shows that this phenomenal growth is not just short -lived. Despite this,
owning a mobile phone remains a luxury afforded by less than 8% of Africa's
840 million people. World production of cobalt has increased
steadily in recent years, almost trebling to 42,500 since 1993, an average
annual growth rate of over 11%py.

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Occurrence, geology and reserves of cobalt
3. Review of cobalt-producing countries and companies
5. End-uses for cobalt
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'The Economics of Cobalt' analyses the key trends, issues and developments
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