Yankee Group Further Fortifies its Mobile Network Expertise

Noted 4G, WiMAX and LTE expert Ken Rehbehn joins company as principal analyst.

Boston, MA Jun 29, 2010 - Yankee Group today announced that next-generation wireless network technology expert Ken Rehbehn has joined the firm as principal analyst and a key member of the Anywhere Network® team. In this role, Rehbehn will leverage his more than 25 years of industry expertise to augment Yankee Group's research in the areas of 3G/4G radio access networks (RAN).

Rehbehn comes to Yankee Group from Alcatel-Lucent, where he was strategic marketing manager for North America. Prior to that Ken served as lead wireless infrastructure analyst for market research firm Current Analysis and worked as an independent consultant. He has also served as director of product management for 3G wireless startup Megisto Systems and a technical strategist for Visual Networks. Rehbehn holds a patent for a method of performing service level analysis on communications network performance metrics. 

At Yankee Group, Rehbehn will drive the firm's research into the emerging technologies enabling the advancement of the Anywhere Network, with a focus on advanced RAN for 3G/4G networks, including LTE, LTE-Advanced, HSPA, HSPA+ and WiMAX.  Beyond RAN technologies, Rehbehn leads femtocell and Wi-Fi offload research.

"Ken's deep technical expertise is an invaluable addition to Yankee Group," said Brian Partridge, vice president of research.  "Specifically, he strengthens our focus on the current and next-generation mobile technologies that will enable our service provider clients to build and prosper from the Anywhere Network."

About Yankee Group
Yankee Group is the preeminent research and advisory firm equipping enterprises to profit in a mobile world. The core of our content is proprietary research and analytics on the attitudes, behaviors and usage patterns of mobile users. Based on this research, we provide a range of actionable data, insights and advices to marketing, strategy and product executives driving the mobility revolution in leading companies worldwide.

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