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Analyst Angle: Making the most of Holiday 2009

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.Do you remember back in 2005 when the term Cyber Monday was coined? Retailers noticed...

Analyst Angle: “Show me the Cellfax” – turning mobile experience upside down!

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.For those that have been around the Wireless industry for some time, think back to...

Analyst Angle: The hyper-competitive Indian cellular market: Do we want prices that low in the U.S.A.?

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.I just returned from a very enlightening trip to India, where I sampled some of...

Analyst Angle: AT&T disrupting SiriusXM – monetizing wireless

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.As I was driving to daycare this morning, listening to CNBC on Sirius, a few...

Analyst Angle: African mobile payment market: Opportunities, drivers, issues and future trends

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.Over the past few years, mobile payment solutions have experienced strong adoption in emerging markets...

Analyst Angle: Wireless shoppers and social networking

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.Those of us that spend hours a day, minutes a day, or even seconds a...

Analyst Angle: Is FMC dead or just resting?

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.It’s official — fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) has proved to be a failure in the enterprise....

Analyst Angle: The wireless operator of tomorrow

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 my background working for a major wireless original equipment manufacturer and spending most of...

Analyst Angle: App Stores: How many apps is enough? : (Do you really need that 79,873th app?)

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.Today’s article will be unusually short. Two reasons: One, I’m writing it on my netbook...

Analyst Angle: Evolution of wireless infrastructure OEMs

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.Wireless infrastructure OEMs such as the likes of Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, etc.,...

Analyst Angle: Brazilian mobile content/services market set to take advantage of the 4G revolution

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 150+ million wireless subscribers today, Brazil has become one of the largest wireless markets...

Analyst Angle: The economy helps boost the prepaid 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.Interest in prepaid providers continues to boom. TNS Compete's behavioral panel tracks the online behavior...

Analyst Angle: Dell’s smartphone is poised for success

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.The wireless market is littered with companies failing to extend their strong brand into the...

Analyst Angle: Defining mobile broadband

The VisionMobile broadband is the network connectivity environment, where networks of different shapes and sizes collaborate to provide users unfettered access to the information they seek, the content they want to engage in, connect people in new and exciting ways, where time and distance...

Analyst Angle: Do carrier-subsidized netbooks show promise?

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.The attraction of netbooksThe growth of the netbook sector has been an anomaly in an...

Analyst Angle: Verizon Wireless takes the lead, offering the best depth and variety of parental controls

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.Today, while the U.S. mobile adult content market remains in a very early stage as...

Analyst Angle: How netbooks can sink an operator’s brand

For wireless carriers, the white knight in the tale of declining voice ARPUs is wireless data services. They have been employing various techniques over the years to drive adoption. First there were heavily marketed text messaging plans; next were affordable, then free, smartphones for...

Analyst Angle: Mobile convergence good for USA

Cellular phones are, as you well know, ubiquitous these days. And for the past decade, the dominant players in the industry have been well distributed around the globe. There is strong representation from Korea, Japan, Scandinavia, Germany, the U.S., China, Taiwan, and lots of...

Analyst Angle: China Set To Boost Apple’s Global iPhone Sales, But Competition Likely To Be Strong

After months of speculations, Apple iPhone 3G S is about to make its “official” entry in the Chinese market, following China Unicom's announcement of a three-year deal with Apple to sell the watershed device in China in 4Q. Through this deal, and while Apple...

Analyst Angle: Has industry consolidation killed wireless competition?

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.The wireless industry has consolidated with regional carriers absorbed by larger national giants. Many decry...

Analyst Angle: Money to be saved by businesses that centralize their wireless services: 2009 tough on enterprise mobile and wireless spending

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.Since March 2007, the good folks at RCR Wireless have been very patient with my...

Analyst Angle: The wireless ecosystem needs to prepare for a deep chill: There will be a freeze in operator opex and capex over 2009 and 2010

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. When it comes to the wireless sector, I would just like to say what everybody...