2009 Year-end Thoughts on the US Communications & Media Industries
Dec 15, 2009 As 2009 draws to an end, we look back on the last 12 months and consider what awaits in the coming year. The year began with financial turmoil and economic gloom across all sectors....
View ArticleTV 2.0: Winning the Battle for Viewers
Jan 15, 2010 Internet video will transform the traditional linear TV experience through a dramatic expansion in the quantity and type of content available on TVs. As a result, service providers need...
View Article4G Services - Market Opportunities and Implications
May 05, 2010 The benefits of 4G networks will enable a greater range of services and use-cases. However, the business models and eco-systems required to drive adoption from a customer and service...
View ArticleThinking Outside the Box on Mobile Value Added Services: Advertising Ringback...
Dec 10, 2010 Advertising ringback tones represent a substantial opportunity in the increasingly competitive market for price sensitive customers. With the right business model, wireless and VoIP...
View ArticleWireless Technologies for the Insurance Sector
Dec 20, 2010 Service providers and technology vendors are frequently evaluating how they can better address vertical segments. Insurance is a vertical that has traditionally been slow to adopt new...
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Success in the Cloud: Differentiating IaaS
Feb 17, 2011 Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is a major component of the overall cloud service opportunity, but faces significant risk of commoditization. While a rising tide may float all boats...
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Business Assurance - A Holistic Approach to Optimizing Business Performance
Mar 01, 2011 As operators continue to transform their businesses, c-level executives are increasingly turning to business assurance as a means to gain a holistic view of their businesses’ performance....
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In Our Increasingly Complex World, Are You Playing Business Assurance Roulette?
Mar 01, 2011 The immense complexity involved with inter-connected services, the diverse entities in the value chain, the rapid introduction of new products and the deployment of disruptive...
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Body Area Networks: Driving mHealth Growth
Mar 03, 2011 Body area networks (BANs) are small wearable or implanted sensors that monitor body vital signals or movements and then transmit the resulting data wirelessly to external devices such as...
View ArticleService assurance – A critical challenge in the 4G world
Mar 30, 2011 The surging 4G world promises to deliver many innovative and groundbreaking features to customers around the globe. However, what may be good for the consumer will prove daunting for the...
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Executing a Winning Network Sharing Strategy
Apr 25, 2011 As mobile operators juggle network expansion requirements with cost control, network sharing has emerged as a potential solution in both developed and emerging markets. How do the...
View ArticleRCA 2011: TMNG suggests differentiation key play for rural carriers
Apr 28, 2011 RCR Wireless discusses challenges and opportunities for rural carriers with Greg Hull at the Rural Cellular Association conference LAS VEGAS – Rural operators face many challenges in...
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Apps, Services and Rich Content Migrate to the Mobile Browser
Aug 31, 2011 Over the past several years we have seen accelerating growth in use of the mobile web, though primarily for static content. However, with standards coalescing and browser capabilities...
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Innovating in Telecom, Media and Technology
Aug 31, 2011 In his 2010 book, “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation,” Steven Johnson argues that those most interested in developing something new should emulate something...
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Voice Over LTE’s Spectrum Impact
Oct 01, 2011 Voice over LTE services are entering the wireless market, bringing expectations of better voice service and more efficient use of spectrum. Will successful deployments relieve looming...
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Google Buys Motorola: The Most Expensive Corporate R&D Experiment of All Time?
Oct 03, 2011 Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility in August was the biggest—and perhaps the most surprising—purchase the company has made in its short history. Motorola’s large...
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Mobile Commerce: Jockeying to Create Value?
Oct 07, 2011 Mobile commerce (mCommerce), also referred to as Mobile Money, is an umbrella term for a broad set of technologies and functionalities that are enabled through the mobile phone1 and have...
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Consumerisation of IT: The Mobile Operator Challenge
Nov 30, 2011 The current trend of consumer technology entering the workplace presents major challenges for mobile operators as well as their business customers. How can operators maintain lucrative...
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What Does the Future Hold for the MVNO Market?
Jan 11, 2012 Now more than ever, operators are placing an increasing emphasis on MVNO as new MVNOs are rapidly rolling out and existing MVNOs are expanding their services to include billing, marketing...
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2011 Year-End Thoughts on the US and Global Communications & Media Industries
Feb 01, 2012 In December 2010, CSMG made 10 predictions for 2011. See how we did. For 2012, no single theme encapsulates our predictions, though many of our views center on applications and mobile...
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