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Analyst Angle: Public safety PTT – Too critical to compromise

As the FirstNet board moves forward to get the public safety broadband network under way, there is still a lot of confusion within the public safety community regarding use of this network for voice.

Analyst Angle: Wi-Fi in Brazil goes beyond mobile offloading

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Mobile broadband is still a growing market in Brazil, led by Vivo with its wide HSPA+...

Analyst Angle: Goodbye ‘tower and power,’ hello hetnet

Almost every presentation at the conferences this year includes the “tsunami chart.” You know the one: It shows growth of mobile data demand, doubling every year.

Analyst Angle: Latin American pay-TV market still growing rapidly

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. With 48.9 million subscribers and an average household penetration rate over 32.1% in 2011, the Latin...

Analyst Angle: Excluding Claro from Colombia’s LTE auction is counterproductive

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Despite all the efforts of the Colombian ICT ministry, Mintic, to award LTE spectrum in December,...

Analyst Angle: Hybrid pricing as a postpaid strategy for emerging markets

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. We recently conducted a study on postpaid strategies in Latin America, and one of the key...

Analyst Angle: Mobile termination rate cuts had little impact on Latin American market dynamics

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Latin America was considered one of the most flexible regions in terms of mobile termination rate regulation...

Analyst Angle: Argentina’s telecom regulation case study

The telecommunications world is not without the phenomenal power of marketing, especially if the models being promoted are located thousands of miles away. It is for this reason that in private,

Analyst Angle: The Apple vs. Samsung lawsuit – Good news: Intellectual property is alive and well

By now, just about anyone who follows technology knows that on Aug. 24, nine jurors in California voted in favor of Apple with the largest patent lawsuit victory

Analyst Angle: Anatel’s sales ban highlights need for change in Brazil’s mobile market

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Recent battles between Brazil’s telecom regulator, Anatel, and the country’s top mobile operators highlight that it...

Analyst Angle: Puerto Rico mobile market update

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Puerto Rico’s telecommunications market exhibits the dichotomy characteristic of most liberalized markets: hyper-competition on the mobile service...

Analyst Angle: LTE – A game changer?

LTE initial network build activity has been particularly strong in North America, South Korea and Japan. Success by early adopters when it comes to network rollout and performance, device offering and subscriber adoption has compelled

Analyst Angle: Mid-year biopsy – Google, Apple and the mobile ecosystem duopoly

Strategy Analytics' Neil Shah analyzes the Apple/Google smartphone platform duopoly.

Analyst Angle: Choosing the right backhaul for small cells

There is a near universal consensus among mobile operators that small cells are the way of the future – the only solution that will enable them to provide the capacity they need to meet the expectations for the fast growing numbers of smartphone users.

Analyst Angle: Research In Motion – Will going with QNX prove better than Android?

For a while there (before the introduction of the iPhone), it seemed Research In Motion just about had it all. BlackBerry sales were growing worldwide and the devices were so addictive that the public called it “CrackBerry.”

Analyst Angle: Service provider Wi-Fi trends are looking up

Service providers have dramatically increased their investment in Wi-Fi, a trend we expect will continue for years to come. Dell’Oro Group predicts that by 2016, over nine million service provider Wi-Fi access points will be in operation,

Analyst Angle: Central, Eastern European markets in structural impasse

We recently attended Capacity CEE 2012 in Prague, where regional wholesalers and their retail customers shared their perspectives on the market. There was, of course, a lot of fighting talk

Special Report: Ericsson and GSMA on how to monetize ‘Connected Living’

STOCKHOLM - Last week, Ericsson and the GSMA teamed up to offer members of the media a tour of Ericsson's customer demonstration center at the company's Kista headquarters addressing the work both parties are doing in support of the GSMA's 'Connected Living' program. While the...

GSMA/Ericsson media tour: Requirements to enable Connected Living

STOCKHOLM - To promote its work with equipment vendors at enabling the Connected Living program, the GSMA arranged a media tour of Ericsson’s customer demonstration studio at the Swedish vendor’s Kista headquarters. The GSMA and Ericsson arranged for a roster of speakers to discuss...

Analyst Angle: Brazil begins the race for 4G coverage

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Anatel, the Brazilian regulator, concluded its spectrum auction on June 12, offering 4G services in the...

Symmetricom touts software-based clocks in support of small cells synchronization

Symmetricom joined the small cells parade today by announcing a series of software-based clocking solutions aimed at supporting sync for both consumer and enterprise small cells deployments. The new SoftClock solution will support a variety of sync tools such as IEEE 1588 v2,...

Alcatel-Lucent unveils small cells optimization solution, highlights Bell Labs services

Alcatel-Lucent launched what it is calling the Metro Cell Express solution based on its lightRadio hardware to help network operators improve capacity and performance in densely populated gathering places such as train stations, sports venues, etc. At first glance not much about the...

IMS 2012: Japanese invade Montreal, announce slew of products

The American subsidiaries of a number of Japanese electronics companies came to the 2012 International Microwave Symposium in Montreal armed with product announcements that, while not as sexy as a new tablet launch, should all play key roles in enabling increasingly robust microwave radio...

IBM: Survey says mobile ads coming, coordinating marketing and IT is key

IBM released the results of a survey of 350 marketing professionals across a range of industries and geographies in which some of the key findings indicate that CMOs feel a disconnect between the marketing and IT departments. This is particularly important because the survey...