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Even in the face of massive demand growth, service providers cannot afford to implement usage caps. Because nearly 60 percent of a typical wireless broadband purchase decision is based on service price and monthly usage caps, it's better for service providers to offer unlimited usage and manage traffic via real-time, network intelligence-based solutions like DPI and policy enforcement.
Nov. 23, 2009 | Report | by Philip Marshall
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The evolution of the content delivery network (CDN) market has resulted in increasing competition and a commoditization of services. To compete successfully, CDNs should provide ancillary services, partner with carriers and develop strategies for future wireless offerings.
Nov. 19, 2009 | Report | by Jon Paisner | CO-AUTHORS: Philip Marshall
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This Yankee Group Link Data product contains all the data to analyze the market to carriers, including billing/OSS forecasts, wireline and wireless capex forecasts and monitors, U.S. wholesale services and DSL equipment, globally.
Oct. 20, 2009 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall
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Once vendors, users and regulators begin correctly positioning and optimizing WiMAX for portable broadband rather than as a competitor for 3G technologies, it is set for robust growth. Although WiMAX subscriptions will vary across the globe, we forecast the overall number of WiMAX subscriptions will increase from 3.9 million to 92.3 million between 2009 and 2015.
Sep. 17, 2009 | Report | by Philip Marshall
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Service providers must capitalize on the mobile Internet or perish. This goes beyond the 4G rhetoric that myopically focuses on network speeds and feeds. To establish profitable mobile Internet strategies, service providers must capitalize on their strengths in service distribution and personalization, anticipate and leverage the proliferation of smartphone and embedded computing devices, and implement solutions to address the fundamental challenges in economically delivering profitable services.
Sep. 15, 2009 | Report | by Philip Marshall
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Containing retrospective and prospective data on fixed-line and mobile equipment and service sales into carriers and service providers, including network infrastructure, billing, BOSS, DSLAM and wholesale connectivity services in one Excel file.
Jul. 22, 2009 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall
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Network evolution to LTE is inevitable as service providers pursue mobile broadband solutions. North America is leading the charge with LTE, closely followed by several countries in Asia-Pacific. For most markets, particularly in EMEA and Latin America, inadequate spectrum resources is the primary limitation for LTE deployments.
Jul. 21, 2009 | Report | by Philip Marshall
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Mobile network traffic is exploding as more subscribers are availed with advanced device, application and service capabilities. As this occurs, service providers must aggressively pursue strategies to harvest radio spectrum resources and intelligent network architectures to gain sustainable superiority in delivering mobile broadband services.
Jun. 10, 2009 | Report | by Philip Marshall
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The mobile Internet is much more than a radio network. It demands transformative strategies that capitalize on all-IP and core network innovation to enable service providers to fully leverage its network assets.
Apr. 28, 2009 | Report | by Philip Marshall
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This Yankee Group Link Data product contains all the data to analyze the market to carriers, including billing/OSS forecasts, wireline and wireless capex forecasts and monitors, U.S. wholesale services and DSL equipment, globally.
Apr. 22, 2009 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: Vince Vittore, David Vorhaus, Jennifer Pigg, Jon Paisner, Andy Castonguay, Arindam Banerjee
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Mobile World Congress 2009 was modestly optimistic and illustrated the relative health of the mobile industry despite the global recession. Significant capital investment in new networks is occurring as the industry faces significant disruption from insurgent players. These investments must be complemented with operational, IT and core network investment strategies that enable service providers to capitalize on the intrinsic value of their network assets and benefit from the inevitable disruptions.
Apr. 1, 2009 | Report | by Philip Marshall
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Coming to MWC this year I was not sure what to expect in terms of attendance under the cloud of recession. When I arrived on Monday morning at 9am, there were no queues for registration - a first for me and not doubt an indicator of lighter than usual attendance....
February 18, 2009 | Blog | by Philip Marshall
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The Anywhere Network will transform service providers into Anywhere providers.
February 11, 2009 | Blog | by Philip Marshall
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The Anywhere Network heralds a broad range of offerings encompassing the Internet, communications, mobility, media and machines. Today's service providers must expand network design and change up human and technology resources to transform into successful Anywhere providers.
Feb. 9, 2009 | Report | by Philip Marshall
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Containing retrospective and prospective data on fixed-line and mobile equipment and service sales into carriers and service providers, including network infrastructure, billing, BOSS, DSLAM and wholesale connectivity services in one Excel file.
Jan. 22, 2009 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall
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With the upcoming BWA licenses, the Indian market will benefit from the lower-cost global ecosystem associated with the 2.3 GHz and 2.5 GHz spectrum bands. The proliferation of broadband is critical in supporting social and economic prosperity in India.
Nov. 26, 2008 | Report | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: Berge Ayvazian
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All the data to analyze the market to carriers, including billing/OSS forecasts, wireline and wireless capex forecasts and monitors, U.S. wholesale services and DSL equipment, globally, is found in this file.
Nov. 13, 2008 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: John Jackson, Vince Vittore, David Vorhaus, Arindam Banerjee
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This forecast provides market data including subscribers, contracts, technologies and handset sales through data applications, content provider revenue and consumer/business splits.
Oct. 31, 2008 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: John Jackson, Nathan Dyer, Andy Castonguay, Declan Lonergan, Eugene Signorini, Felipe Estrada, Wally Swain, XJ Wang
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The evolution of the global mobile market toward an open access environment is inevitable. Stakeholders must take specific steps to secure sustainable positions of control as this transformation progresses during the next 5 years.
Oct. 2, 2008 | Report | by John Jackson | CO-AUTHORS: Philip Marshall
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We are a long way from 4G being a reality. The battle lines between LTE and WiMAX misrepresent the market, which is driven primarily by competition and the technology position of incumbent service providers.
Sep. 29, 2008 | Note | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: Berge Ayvazian
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Service providers must transform their businesses to profit from the Anywhere Network, which through ubiquitous connectivity brings the convergence of the internet, communications, mobility, media and machine.
Sep. 29, 2008 | Report | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: Jennifer Pigg
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This webinar introduces Yankee Group's independent framework to assess service providers' ability to address and anticipate the demands emerging from the Anywhere Network. It highlights the initial results from our research that evaluates relative service provider positioning and strategies, and identifies leaders and laggards in the context of the Anywhere Network.
August 8, 2008 | Blog | by Philip Marshall
Anywhere Network Scorecard Communications Service Providers
This webinar investigates communication service provider's readiness for the burgeoning Anywhere Network. Scorecards demonstrate the relative positoning of the players in terms of network, ecosystem, organizational, financial and BSS OSS.
Jul. 31, 2008 | Live Webinar | by Philip Marshall
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Alcatel-Lucent must take bold action to fix its ailing financial performance. On July 29, it took the first step by replacing the two top executives.
Jul. 30, 2008 | Note | by Brian Partridge | CO-AUTHORS: Camille Mendler, Philip Marshall
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Containing retrospective and prospective data on fixed-line and mobile equipment and service sales into carriers and service providers, including network infrastructure, billing, BOSS, DSLAM and wholesale connectivity services in one Excel file.
Jul. 28, 2008 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: John Jackson, Vince Vittore, David Vorhaus, Arindam Banerjee
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This Global Mobile Forecast contains forecast information across consumer and enterprise mobile segments, featuring detailed infotainment and enterprise segmentations.
Jul. 14, 2008 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: Jennifer Simpson, John Jackson, Jill Aldort, Nathan Dyer, Andy Castonguay, Declan Lonergan, Eugene Signorini, Dario Talmesio, Felipe Estrada, Wally Swain, Linda Barrabee, XJ Wang
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As service providers navigate the Anywhere Network they must simultaneously support the needs of their best of breed services and applications, the federation of third-party applications and the creation of new service categories.
May. 13, 2008 | Note | by Philip Marshall
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The merger of Sprint Xohm and Clearwire will accelerate the development of a nationwide 4G network to mobilize the internet.
May. 9, 2008 | Note | by Berge Ayvazian | CO-AUTHORS: Philip Marshall
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Global Network forecasts capital expenditure by service providers and tracks key companies providing infrastructure. Also include a searchable deals database of contracts since 2001.
Apr. 29, 2008 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: John Jackson, Sandra Palumbo, Vince Vittore, David Vorhaus, Paul Hughes, Sharon Ballard
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The Global Mobile forecast contains forecasts for all countries for mobile services to consumers and enterprises. Look out too for monitors of the key mobile network operators in each of the four regions.
Apr. 23, 2008 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: Jennifer Simpson, John Jackson, Jill Aldort, Nathan Dyer, Andy Castonguay, Declan Lonergan, Eugene Signorini, Wally Swain, Jonathan Doran, Linda Barrabee, XJ Wang
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The Anywhere Network is placing tremendous pressures on the business models for communications service providers. To remain competitive, they must address key network economics, business and operational support systems, and access network performance.
Apr. 3, 2008 | Report | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: Nick Maynard
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All the data to analyze the market to carriers, including billing/OSS forecasts, wireline and wireless capex forecasts and monitors, US wholesale services and DSL equipment, globally.
Jan. 22, 2008 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: John Jackson, Sandra Palumbo, Vince Vittore, Nicole Klein, David Vorhaus, Paul Hughes, Sharon Ballard
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As core network architecture is converging toward IP, there is a need for traditional messaging platforms to converge. Such convergence is focusing on improving the user experience.
Jan. 22, 2008 | Note | by XJ Wang | CO-AUTHORS: Philip Marshall
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The new forecast for January 2008 contains the technology and activity views of mobile data.
Jan. 22, 2008 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: Jennifer Simpson, John Jackson, Charles Moon, Jill Aldort, Nathan Dyer, Andy Castonguay, Declan Lonergan, Eugene Signorini, Wally Swain, Linda Barrabee
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By endorsing WiMAX as an IMT-2000 technology, the ITU has opened opportunities for enabling WiMAX to be implemented in the 2500 to 2690 MHz and other GSM and UMTS spectrum bands.
Nov. 8, 2007 | Note | by Philip Marshall
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Global network includes monitors and forecasts for B/OSS, capital expenditure on fixed-line and mobile infrastructure, DSL CPE and DSLAMs and wholesale services.
Nov. 2, 2007 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: John Jackson, Sandra Palumbo, Vince Vittore, Nicole Klein, David Vorhaus, Mark Bieberich, Paul Hughes, Sharon Ballard
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New Technology and Service Pressures Compel Service Providers to Respond
Oct. 26, 2007 | Note | by Philip Marshall
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Technology architectures play a critical role in the proliferation of the Anywhere Network. The report investigates how various technology architectures impact service delivery, market adoption and overall network effects
Aug. 28, 2007 | Report | by Philip Marshall
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Sprint Nextel and Clearwire's planned partnership for WiMAX deployment will consolidate key resources and create capital and operational efficiencies that are critical for the early market development of WiMAX.
Aug. 15, 2007 | Note | by Philip Marshall
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Containing retrospective and prospective data on fixed-line and mobile equipment and service sales into carriers and service providers, including network infrastructure, billing, BOSS, DSLAM and wholesale connectivity services in one Excel file.
Jul. 6, 2007 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall
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All the data to analyze the market to carriers, including billing/OSS forecasts, wireline and wireless capex forecasts and monitors, US wholesale services and DSL equipment, globally.
Apr. 25, 2007 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall
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The Anywhere Network is Yankee Group's vision of a seamless and always-accessible intelligent infrastructure that provides a connection for everyone to everything from anywhere.
Mar. 26, 2007 | Report | by Philip Marshall
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Globalization of business offers both opportunities and challenges to service providers. In an intensely competitive environment making the right investment decision is critical to the service providers? ability to compete.
Feb. 14, 2007 | Note | by Tony Marson | CO-AUTHORS: Philip Marshall, XJ Wang
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The largest mobile event in the world marked the emergence of Alcatel-Lucent's and Nokia/Siemens? new brands. As these behemoths come together, they will face significant consolidation challenges and lack strategic vision as they reinvent themselves.
Feb. 13, 2007 | Note | by Philip Marshall
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Global network includes monitors and forecasts for B/OSS, capital expenditure on fixed-line and mobile infrastructure, DSL CPE and DSLAMs and wholesale services.
Jan. 17, 2007 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: Vince Vittore, Nicole Klein, Mark Bieberich, John Romagnoli, Andy Bairsto, Paul Hughes
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The WiMAX market will see modest growth from 2006 to 2011. Globally, mobile solution growth will gain traction after 2010 and accelerate depending on broadband demand and technology development.
Jan. 16, 2007 | Report | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: Tara Howard
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This Forecast provides market data including subscribers, contracts, technologies and handset sales through data applications, content provider revenue and consumer/business splits.
Jan. 2, 2007 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: Matthew Hatton, Charles Moon, Nathan Dyer, Declan Lonergan, Eugene Signorini, Marina Amoroso, Wally Swain, Luis Minoru, Linda Barrabee, David Yeh, Jeff Leiper
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From December 2006, we have substantially augmented the ASP model to include ASP monitoring and forecasting by region, technology and phone grade. In addition, users get company monitoring of key handset vendors, and an in-depth feature forecast.
Jan. 2, 2007 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall | CO-AUTHORS: Sharon Ballard
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This forecast includes data on users and carrier and content provider revenue for mobile data applications, including messaging, infotainment, marketing, m-commerce and enterprise data.
Dec. 29, 2006 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall
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This forecast includes data on users and carrier and content provider revenue for mobile data applications, including messaging, infotainment, marketing, m-commerce and enterprise data.
Dec. 29, 2006 | Data Module | by Philip Marshall