| Consumers Consider Axing the Coax |
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| Description: Consumers are beginning to consider over-the-top solutions, gaming consoles and other connected devices not only as supplements, but as viable alternatives to pay TV subscriptions. Yankee Group predicts that in the next 12 months, 1 in 8 consumers will cut or reduce their pay TV service and get their video elsewhere. |
| Slow Recovery Stalls Europe’s Eastern Promise |
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| Description: Sluggish economic recovery in Central and Eastern Europe is driving consolidation among regional telecom operators. But unless consolidating operators address the need to integrate product portfolios, systems and processes, they will fail to achieve the true benefits of scale. |
| Why iPhones Matter |
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| Description: 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. |
| Evolution to a Virtual Data Center Requires a Network Fabric |
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| Description: Traditional network architectures can no longer handle the requirements of the virtual data center. Instead, enterprises need to migrate to flatter architectures based on emerging network fabric technology. Here we detail fabric strategies from Juniper, Brocade and Cisco. |
| New Smartphone Pricing Models Could Cause Consumerization Headaches for Businesses |
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| Description: 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. |
| Cashing in on the Bandwidth Binge |
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| Description: 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. |
| NFC: Nice in Nice? |
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| Description: Nice, France, is deploying near field communications (NFC) citywide, and Orange France expects to roll out the technology nationwide in 2011. The initiative solves two key NFC problems and offers a path to profitability for stakeholders in other regions considering the technology. |
| Amdocs Orchestrates a Suite Dream |
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| Description: Amdocs is focused on providing communications service providers (CSPs) with the tools and services required to navigate today’s increasingly volatile telecom industry. Yankee Group evaluates the vision and road map it unveiled at this month’s InTouch 10 conference. |
| Milking the Voice Cow |
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| Description: Mobile network operators (MNOs) can limit the effects of voice service commoditization by introducing innovations like visual voice mail and call completion solutions, and by integrating mobile voice with downloadable applications and Web services. In fact, we forecast global mobile voice users will grow from 4.33 billion in 2009 to 5.31 billion in 2014, when voice will still account for 70 percent of MNO revenue globally. |
| Best Practices in Managing Consumerization |
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| Description: 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. |
| Service Providers Put Interactive TV Advertising to the Test |
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| Description: After multiple false starts, interactive advertising will hit the market in force this year. For service providers, that means potential opportunities for additional revenue streams. However, they must be realistic in their expectations and should be in the planning stages now. |
| US Cable Operators Venture into the Mid-Tier Business Market |
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| Description: Several multiple system operators (MSOs) are on the verge of generating more than U.S.$1 billion in annual revenue from business services, with almost all of it coming from small business. In order to expand and compete in the mid-tier market, MSOs should re-evaluate their services, consider CLEC acquisitions and target friendly verticals. |
| AT&T’s New Data Plans: Less Anytime, Anywhere Media |
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| Description: AT&T’s new data plans will take some load off its wireless networks in exchange for about $1.3 billion less revenue. However, these new plans threaten many mobile media services, including streaming video, music and mobile advertising. |
| Mobile Broadband’s Next Big Push |
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| Description: 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. |
| FTTP Leader Asia-Pacific Offers Lessons for Other Regions |
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| Description: With 10 years of FTTP experience under their belt, operators in Asia-Pacific are embarking on the next phase of growth and re-evaluating some of their earlier decisions. Less fiber-rich regions, which face many of the same issues, should learn from their hard-won experience. |
| Squeezing Cost Out of Mobile Backhaul |
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| Description: Leased backhaul transmission capacity cost mobile network operators (MNOs) U.S.$25 billion in 2009, and it continues to skyrocket, accounting for as much as 60 percent of opex. MNOs looking to prosper in the face of ever-rising traffic demands need to revamp their backhaul strategies, embracing Ethernet, backhaul operation and/or design services and RAN sharing. |
| Tekelec Buys its Way into the Network Intelligence Party |
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| Description: With its purchases of Blueslice and Camiant, signaling system supplier Tekelec instantly gains credibility in the policy and subscriber data management world. It will need to navigate carefully, however, to fully exploit its new weapons in the Tier 1 space. |
| Turning Sprint Around |
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| Description: Sprint has had some tough times in the past couple years, but assuming it can execute on its current plans, the worst is behind it. Sprint is winning back consumers the old-fashioned way: with hard-nosed cost management, good customer service, and simpler and cheaper services. |
| US NFC Ecosystem Faces Strong Potential End Run by Mobile Operator Coalition |
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| Description: 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. |
| Between Iron Fist and Open Hand: Finding the Smartphone Security Balance |
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| Description: Allowing workers to bring personal smartphones to the office is all well and good. But enterprise IT teams must avoid turning a business IT architecture into a free-for-all resembling a college campus network. Implementing specific security tools and network configuration approaches can create the balance between productive/happy employees and a safe, manageable network environment. |
| Handicapping the Enterprise WAN Optimization Market |
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| Description: WAN optimization is a broad market category that can help improve application performance, lower the cost of bandwidth and help companies avoid costly network upgrades and new data center buildouts. We profile the top vendors--including Riverbed, Blue Coat and Cisco--and gauge their market success over the next five years. |
| 2010 Fast View Survey: Cloud Computing Grows Up |
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| Description: Cloud computing overall is on the cusp of broad adoption in enterprises, but the specific use cases, challenges and attitudes toward the cloud vary widely depending on cloud type and app. Data from Yankee Group’s Anywhere Enterprise: 2010 U.S. Cloud Computing FastView Survey breaks down the state of adoption and plans for platform-, infrastructure and software-as-a-service opportunities. |
| Learning to Love the Consumerized Enterprise |
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| Description: Whether enterprises have planned for it or not, personally owned smartphones and other consumer technologies are an increasing presence in the workplace. IT staff and business decision-makers can gain efficiency and save money through this consumerization if they evaluate all devices with enterprise-strength fundamentals in mind. |
| IMS Finally Finds Its Calling’ With Voice over LTE |
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| Description: The global mobile industry agrees that IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) is the target architecture for delivering revenue-critical voice and messaging services over LTE. The race is now on for the IMS vendor and operator ecosystem to work together and ensure that VoLTE can deliver on its promises. |
| Huawei, ZTE Map IPTV Plans Outside China |
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| Description: Huawei and ZTE have proven they can fight it out over IPTV contracts in China, and now the two vendors are making plans to take on the rest of the world. To increase their chances of success, both should leverage internal business units and nurture larger partner ecosystems. |
