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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...

Analyst Angle: Why the industry will not move to $50 national unlimited calling

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 the advent of the new Boost national $50 Monthly Unlimited plan, many consumers and...

Analyst Angle: The death of subsidies for mobile devices may be exaggerated

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.A critical question for wireless operators in the US is whether prospective customers of wide-area...

Analyst Angle: Top 5 strategic trends to look for in the wireless industry in 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.It was a year most of us would like to forget, but one we're certain...

Analyst Angle: The dark side of the open OS handset trend

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 migration to mobile messaging and data was the story of the first half of...

Analyst Angle: Enterprise WLAN market expected to defy macroeconomic weakness

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 macroeconomic weakness and increased uncertainty has spurred enterprises to reduce capital budgets and increasingly...

Analyst Angle: The urgency of wireless voice service for cable operators: What do Cox, Time Warner and others need to do?

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.Cable operators are market leaders for pay TV and broadband services, and have done very...

Analyst Angle: More bytes for a buck: The fallacy of spectral efficiency improvements

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.Conventional wisdom suggests that the spectral efficiency of a wireless technology has a meaningful impact...

Analyst Angle: The open-data-pipe boogey man

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 Apple launched the iPhone a little over a year ago, they disrupted the industry...

Analyst Angle: Rising expectations for WLAN in the enterprise

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.Enterprise spending on WLAN equipment has outpaced the growth rate of both the Layer 2+3...

Analyst Angle: Opportunities for growth and responsible teenage spending: Who doesn’t love data?

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.Data usage is an important component for future revenue growth as it becomes an ever...

Analyst Angle: OMG, the teen market is slowing

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 last few years have seen significant growth in the U.S. teen market, a market...