Yankee Group perspective: Ubiquitous and inexpensive connectivity will drive an explosion of new connected device types, uses and competing business models over the next five to 10 years. Yankee Group believes competition will be intense and will drive innovation among traditional and non-traditional consumer and enterprise vendors. Our research focuses on the devices and trends that are transforming how people access and interact with the Anywhere Network.
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Smartphones are having a profound effect on the European wireless marketplace. Penetration is rising sharply, but so too are operators' customer acquisition and network-upgrade costs. To ensure long-term viability of smartphone-dominated strategies, operators must align growing costs with future ARPU uplift and other tangible commercial benefits.
Sep. 9, 2010 | Report | by Declan Lonergan
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Faced with consumerization in the enterprise, employers' first impulse is to single-mindedly seek control. But instead, they should look to balance and share responsibility for device and application usage with employees. Our survey results show such flexibility not only brings better control but can also produce a substantial uplift in productivity.
Sep. 9, 2010 | Report | by Chris Marsh
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Yankee Group analysts Vince Vittore and Dmitriy Molchanov host a webinar that explores the future of paid TV services.
August 31, 2010 | Blog | by Vince Vittore
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Five trends have matured the prepaid market to the point where it is no longer just for those who can't afford postpaid mobile services. Operators who want to thrive in this new, more mature prepaid business must embrace new market segments and find ways to serve underbanked subscribers.
Aug. 30, 2010 | Report | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Christopher Collins
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As smartphone usage and video traffic increases on mobile networks, content delivery networks (CDNs) are beginning to make their mark on the mobile landscape. Carriers and content providers should consider CDNs as they seek to strengthen their presence in the mobile market.
Aug. 18, 2010 | Report | by Terry Cudmore
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Ushering in a paradigm shift in enterprise mobility and freeing the information worker for a one-year old company with only 18 employees this is an ambitious goal, but then leapfactor don't seem short on ambition....
August 4, 2010 | Blog | by Chris Marsh
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With its recent acquisition of Cinterion, Gemalto dramatically raised its profile in the machine-to-machine (M2M) world and potentially changed the dynamics of the market. Operators and others looking to play a role in M2M need to partner or buy up key firms fast, while valuations are still reasonable.
Aug. 3, 2010 | Report | by Andy Castonguay
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Mobile video is already stoking unprecedented data traffic levels, and the demand will only increase as newer, video-savvy devices and 4G networks proliferate. Communications service providers (CSPs) can prepare for the onslaught by revamping their back-office systems and adopting more creative pricing and business models.
Jul. 30, 2010 | Report | by Terry Cudmore | CO-AUTHORS: Chris Nicoll
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AT&T and Verizon have started to roll out significant differentiators for their video services, leveraging what each sees as its greatest asset and seeding the interactive TV market. In order to continue the momentum, both companies must aggressively court outside developers and trumpet their differentiations to consumers.
Jul. 29, 2010 | Report | by Vince Vittore
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Many reports over the weekend reported that only 20 percent of Android owners would buy another Android phone. It isn't true. The true statistic is larger -- both in numerical terms and in the complexity of the story behind it.
July 26, 2010 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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A few years ago when we were first centering Yankee Group's research on ubiquitous connectivity, or what we now call Anywhere , I said something that I now see was wrong....
July 22, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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After many weeks of travel and visiting with our clients all over the globe, I finally found myself back in Boston last month, enjoying the beginning of summer in New England and working through a backlog of emails....
July 19, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Yankee Group research shows Apple iPhone owners shop more, buy more and remain more loyal to their phones than users of other devices. Mobile operators must understand the six forces that drive this behavior or risk falling further behind operators that have adapted to the Apple platform.
Jul. 19, 2010 | Report | by Carl Howe
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Consumerization is running wild in the corporate world, and enterprises have finally stopped fighting the trend and embraced individually liable policies in the hope of benefiting from the phenomenon. With the proper planning, provisioning, expense, support, security and growth policies, it doesn't have to be anarchy.
Jul. 15, 2010 | Report | by Joshua Holbrook
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20 db attenuation from a hand touching an antenna? Demand a recall! File a class action lawsuit!! Off with their heads!!!
Isn't that a bit of an overreaction when Consumer Reports still rates the iPhone the best mobile phone you can buy?
July 14, 2010 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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The Research Topic Mobile Devices tracks and forecasts wireless vendors; sales of mobile devices by feature, technology and technical components; and average selling price.
Jul. 8, 2010 | Data Module | by Andy Castonguay | CO-AUTHORS: Wally Swain
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AT&T's tiered pricing plan will have a significant impact on many players in the mobile data industry. Now that data customers must keep tabs on bandwidth consumption, operators, content providers, manufacturers and developers will either enjoy new growth opportunities or be forced to rethink their mobile business strategies.
Jul. 8, 2010 | Report | by John Keough | CO-AUTHORS: Susan McNeice, Jennifer Pigg, Sheryl Kingstone, Chris Nicoll
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Google's Andy Rubin was recently quoted as saying that Google is currently activating 160,000 Android phones each day....
July 7, 2010 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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AT&T's shift away from unlimited smartphone data pricing is a positive trend for carriers, but it will create additional complexities for businesses trying to manage employee wireless usage. AT&T and other operators that follow this trend must help enterprises manage increased consumerization of smartphones.
Jul. 6, 2010 | Report | by Eugene Signorini
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Zeus Kerravala comments on the Cisco Cius and it's relationship to the iPad.
June 30, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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The apparent progress of mobile operators Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile in developing a joint venture to drive adoption of near-field communications threatens to disrupt the overall payment landscape in the U.S. Long considered the "nuclear option" should negotiations between operators and payment card companies fail, an operator-backed mobile payment system would create a uniquely powerful challenge to the hegemony of MasterCard, Visa and American Express.
Jun. 30, 2010 | Report | by Andy Castonguay
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Narrowband subscribers and consumers who share broadband connections represent good prospects for U.S. mobile broadband providers and a market opportunity as large as U.S.$1.4 billion. In a world of shrinking margins, these consumers are low-hanging fruit.
Jun. 23, 2010 | Report | by Dmitriy Molchanov
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After four years of iPhone launches, you'd think that Apple and AT&T would refined the ordering process to a high gloss. Based on the fact that the eCommerce servers of both companies are melting under the pre-order load today, the reality is that the two companies still have a way to go.
June 15, 2010 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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Anywhere is a rapidly accelerating future in which all of us, as well as the things we care about, will be connected. In my on-going quest to find yet more things in our lives that have already become connected, one of my most recent discoveries is the connected beer tap ....
June 9, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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The most important thing about the iPhone launch was not revealed during the keynote, but instead came from an FCC filing that was made public yesterday. The iPhone 4 supports five radio bands, up from 4 in the 3GS.
June 8, 2010 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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The never ending cycle of technology upgrades ensures a never ending cycle of hype around the technology or to drive user interest. That's too bad because the expectations driven by the hype tends to blunt true user enthusiasm unnecessarily.
June 2, 2010 | Blog | by Christopher Nicoll
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Apple officially announced today that it had sold its two millionth iPad, officially making the iPad the fastest ramp to $1 billion in revenue in consumer electronics history.
May 31, 2010 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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The current hot Anywhere device is not only changing the way we do business, but also how Congressional representatives work. The Politico has an article today noting that Apple's iPad has arrived in the House of Representatives:
May 21, 2010 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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At today's Google I/O keynote, Google announced that it will introduce Google TV this fall in conjunction with Sony, Logitech, and Intel. Through Sony TVs and Blu-ray players and new Google-branded add-on boxes, Google TV will bring a new wave of content to TV.
May 20, 2010 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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As data traffic increases, so will the market for content delivery platforms (CDPs). Yankee Group predicts the global CDP market will grow from $3 billion in 2010 to more than $4 billion in 2014, spurred on by operators looking to leverage CDPs to cement their place in the content delivery value chain.
May. 18, 2010 | Report | by Terry Cudmore
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Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the wireless sector is heating up, with HP's $1.2 billion purchase of Palm just the latest in a string of exciting deals. But unlike many of the big acquisitions prior to 2009, recent M&A activity has been driven by asset and capability acquisition rather than simple market consolidation. This race to acquire key capabilities reflects the evolution of wireless and suggests that more deals are on the horizon.
May. 6, 2010 | Report | by Christopher Collins
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Update: i've corrected the post to recognize only the time since pre-orders on March 12. I brought my 3G iPad to last night's panel discussion at the TiE Boston panel, "The Google Effect", and it attracted the usual crowd of admirers....
May 5, 2010 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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HP's $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm generates almost as many challenges as opportunities. Despite Palm's innovative mobile OS, its sales volume and device portfolio have failed to ignite the market in any significant way. Even with its extensive enterprise positioning and computer portfolio, HP's conspicuous absence from the mobile marketplace makes leveraging its scale and services portfolio a formidable challenge.
Apr. 30, 2010 | Report | by Andy Castonguay
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Mobile hotspots are not new, but new implementations of the technology are sure to bring attention to this important product category because they allow service providers to address increasing consumer demands and the rapidly accelerating pace of device innovation.
Apr. 30, 2010 | Report | by Christopher Collins
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A lot of the iPad analysis I've seen in recent weeks fixates on where it fits in our current world: where, or how, it inserts itself as a new type of connected device between a laptop and a smartphone. Playing with Yankee Group's unit, which so far on balance I do love, I get the question....
April 29, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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HP's announcement that it is acquiring Palm today for $1.4 billion ($1.2 billion after factoring in Palm's cash and debt) isn't the most obvious deal in the world. But it does offer something for, if not everyone, at least three major players:
Palm gets an attractive exit....
April 28, 2010 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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The Mobile Device Shipment Monitor & Forecast tracks wireless vendors and forecasts sell-in and sell-through of mobile devices by feature,
technology and technical components.
Apr. 28, 2010 | Data Module | by Andy Castonguay | CO-AUTHORS: Wally Swain
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The minute I saw an iPad for the first time in January, I thought to myself, "Those would make great Anywhere devices for health-care workers in hospit...
April 23, 2010 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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Yankee Group's new model evaluates 16 devices on their potential to be transformed by ubiquitous connectivity and identifies five Anywhere Target Devices: smartphones, tablets, connected cars, e-book readers and HDTVs. Devices that share their attributes hold the most promise for success.
Apr. 21, 2010 | Report | by Dmitriy Molchanov
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CTIA has lost some of its luster, as the most exciting developments in wireless today are actually taking place outside the industry. But as consumers become more sophisticated in their understanding of how new devices, applications and OSs work together to bring the network to life, CTIA remains the industry's best venue to appreciate the breadth of connected services available today.
Apr. 19, 2010 | Report | by Christopher Collins
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Sprint's new HTC EVO 4G smartphone establishes a new level of technical prowess, even though U.S. nationwide availability of 4G services is still not a reality. While future 4G connectivity will add impressive data speeds, Sprint should focus its marketing efforts on what this device can provide to consumers over its excellent 3G network today.
Apr. 15, 2010 | Report | by Andy Castonguay
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Even as we continue to extoll the virtues of the next generation of communications, we are still missing the fundamental ability to easily manage our personal and business online personalities. Today, many people are performing that management through the use of separate devices, and with more devices such as the iPad coming to market, we'll be spreading our online personality over even more devices. The major telecom equipment vendors have all been talking about the 'blended lifestyle', but when it comes to our devices, there's not much blending - its either all-in or all-out.
April 13, 2010 | Blog | by Christopher Nicoll
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I've been following the iPad story for a good while, with a mix of fascination and defiance....
April 12, 2010 | Blog | by Benoît Felten
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There aren't many products that generate instant respect from teenagers, but Apple's iPad is one of the few that do....
April 7, 2010 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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CTIA Wireless 2010 highlighted a renewed focus on the business market for operators. Sprint made waves with its WiMAX-capable EVO smartphone, T-Mobile announced plans to get in the mobile broadband game, and AT&T launched new mobile application functionality for iPhone focusing on industry-specific requirements.
Apr. 5, 2010 | Report | by Eugene Signorini
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Writing in Time magazine, Stephen Fry does a nice job of describing the iPad experience afte...
April 2, 2010 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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The Research Topic Mobile Devices tracks and forecasts wireless vendors; sales of mobile devices by feature, technology and technical components; and average selling price.
Mar. 30, 2010 | Data Module | by Andy Castonguay | CO-AUTHORS: Wally Swain
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For one day, Sprint can feel like Apple. In front of a standing-room-only crowd that clapped and cheered with every light-hearted dig at ATT, Verizon, the iPhone and the Droid, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse unveiled the new HTC Evo ....
March 24, 2010 | Blog | by Christopher Collins
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Recent announcements from Samsung, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Motorola reveal their different strategies for achieving dominance in the increasingly important smartphone OS market. We handicap their chances.
Mar. 18, 2010 | Report | by Andy Castonguay
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This Tues Cisco announced their new addition to the CRS family of core routers the CRS-3 billed as a 322 Terabit Router. This means it has over three times the capacity of the CRS-1 which has a maximum system capacity of 92 Tbps....
March 12, 2010 | Blog | by Jennifer Pigg