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Analyst Angle: Mobile gold at 2012 London Olympics

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 London Olympic Games were eagerly anticipated by the telecom sector; it was the first Olympic Games...

Analyst Angle: MVNOs and mobile broadband across Latin America

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. In the world of telecommunications analysis, there is one unavoidable recurring event at the end of each...

Analyst Angle: Mobile service trends in Argentina and the ARSAT case study

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 mobile market is expected to grow 9.9% annually in terms of revenue until 2017, driven...

Analyst Angle: Carriers will benefit from OTT video boom in Latin America

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. Many carriers see the proliferation of over-the-top (OTT) video services such as Netflix as a threat...

Analyst Angle: Government intervention jeopardizes Argentina’s telecom development

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 Argentinean government’s intervention in the economy has increased significantly over the past year, causing some...

Analyst Angle: Colombian mobile market cap proposal doesn’t benefit consumers

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. More than 200 years ago, Edmund Burke said one of the most over-quoted sentences in history:...

Analyst Angle: What is the big deal about LTE spectrum auctions in Latin America?

Spectrum auctions for next generation mobile services have two different strategic implications for our region. First, in developing markets such as Latin America, mobile broadband is a crucial, cost-effective opportunity to increase broadband penetration, fulfill local governments' goals of digital inclusion and bring digital...

Analyst Angle: Thoughts ahead of T-Mobile USA’s Q3 earnings release

T-Mobile USA is set to release its third quarter earnings and performance metrics on Nov. 8 as part of its overall parent's

Analyst Angle: 3 Group shows the way for carriers to partner with OTTs

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. Three Group has often been ahead of the curve when it comes to taking innovative services...

Analyst Angle: Social network integration and pricing innovation

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. Even with flattening growth rates and price pressure from increasing competition, voice is still a very...

Analyst Angle: Sprint Nextel – Thoughts ahead of the earnings release

Sprint Nextel is the third tier-one carrier set to release its earnings and performance metrics, scheduled for Oct. 25. The company is in the midst of a turnaround cycle.

Analyst Angle: Foreign telecom investment in Mexico

As the second largest telecommunications market in Latin America, Mexico commands great interest from foreign companies. Nevertheless, over the last decade most of the attention has originated

Analyst Angle: AT&T Mobility – Thoughts ahead of the earnings release

AT&T is set to release its earnings and performance metrics tomorrow. Its earnings has followed Verizon Communications in the past and observers cannot help but compare the two.

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...