Analyst Blogs

Cisco Exiting the WiMAX Base Station Market
Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:28:41 EST
Philip Solis | Practice Director, Wireless Connectivity
Let me get my umbrella out first . . . the media will be cloudy with a high chance of impending-doom-for-WiMAX stories. OK. Is this really a bad thing for the WiMAX ecosystem? No. This is good for the WiMAX ecosystem and good for Cisco. This is good for the WiMAX ecosystem becaus...
Apple sues HTC – it’s not an Android thing
Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:28:16 EST
Michael Morgan | Industry Analyst, Mobile Devices
First and foremost, I would like to state that I am not a patent lawyer, nor do I intend to become one…EVER. The Nexus One, Touch Pro, Touch Diamond, Touch Pro 2, Tilt II, Pure, Imagio, Dream, myTouch, Hero, HD2, Droid Eris are the models that Apple has decided are in violation of illegally usin...
More WiMAX Products from Cellular Modem Vendors are a Sign of WiMAX Growth to Come
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:48:31 EST
Philip Solis | Practice Director, Wireless Connectivity
Cellular modem vendors are typically the first companies to produce WWAN products based on the latest technologies. The newest WWAN air interfaces have always seen their introduction in external cellular modems first, followed by miniCards (mini-PCI in the past) for embeddeding into laptops (a...
Scribd Unveils Mobile Strategy for Online Document Viewing
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:54:26 EST
Jeff Orr | Senior Analyst, Mobile Devices
Known for being an online repository of electronic documents -- self-published books, marketing presentations and brochures, and clippings from other Internet sources -- Scribd claims more than 10 million online documents on its servers. The company recently unveiled a campaign to address mobile use...
Clearwire is Doing Well Based on 4Q09 Report
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:15:45 EST
Philip Solis | Practice Director, Wireless Connectivity
Clearwire had it's 4Q09 earnings call today, Wednesday 2/24/2010. I won't focus on the financials - I'll leave that to Wall Street. Here is a snapshot of the information relevant to the way ABI Research tracks the market: Clearwire now has 688,000 total subsribers - both proprietary a...
Wholesale Applications Community – MNOs Can Change the Game With Web-based Apps
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:23:00 EST
Mark Beccue | Senior Analyst, Consumer Mobility
Today at the Mobile World Congress, some of the world’s largest MNOs got clever about mobile applications. The Wholesale Applications Community initiative, backed by 24 MNOs from across the globe have unified themselves behind the idea of a single platform where mobile applicati...
AT&T selects ALU and Ericsson for their LTE rollout – what are the network infrastructure implications?
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:33:16 EST
Aditya Kaul | Practice Director, Mobile Networks
In the run up to MWC and the flurry of announcements that are starting to already pour in, AT&T has announced that they will be going with ALU and Ericsson for their LTE rollout. Here is the press release. Commercial services are scheduled to begin in 2011. While Verizon had taken the o...
Mobile Apps Beware -- Rapidly Accelerating Mobile Touch Web Is Perfect Example of Mobile Cloud Computing
Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:59:41 EST
Mark Beccue | Senior Analyst, Consumer Mobility
On Wednesday (Feb 3), mobile analytics firm Taptu http://www.taptu.com released a new metrics report detailing the size and characteristics of a new breed of mobile website – the mobile touch website. These sites are optimized for touchscreen devices with finger-friendly layouts and light...
KDDI selects Airvana and Hitachi for femtocell trials
Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:47:43 EST
Aditya Kaul | Practice Director, Mobile Networks
KDDI, Japan’s second biggest operator has finally come clean on femtocells. This after their two main competitors Softbank and NTTDoCoMo already having launched commercial femto services. For details of the launch here is the link to the press release http://www.airvana.com/news/news_1011.htm ...
Apple’s iPad and LBS?
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:25:58 EST
Dominique Bonte | Practice Director, Telematics and Navigation
The hotly debated iPad tablet features a built-in GPS-receiver. More precisely the 3G version does, the Wi-Fi only version has to do without, similar to the iTouch. This is yet another example of how GPS is spreading to an ever larger number of portable devices following its appearance in digit...