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List of reports from Yankee Group
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Amdocs Orchestrates a Suite Dream
6/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... 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.
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Qwest Merger Catapults CenturyLink to the Top of the Tier 2 Market
5/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
CenturyLink’s acquisition of Qwest reshapes the Tier 2 ILEC market and gives the former rural carrier several new sources of revenue, most notably from enterprises and the mobile backhaul market.
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Managed Mobility Comes of Age
5/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... to catch up with supply. Current demand is driven by efforts to reduce operational costs, but as the market matures and enterprises push the boundaries of mobile initiatives, vendors will need to expand their capabilities.
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With Sybase, SAP Snags More Than Just a Database
5/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
SAP’s U.S.$5.8 billion purchase of Sybase gives the ERP giant essential mobile and cloud capabilities, in addition to a workhorse database. The move could spell trouble for Oracle.
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Network Intelligence Is Key to Profiting From Anywhere Demand
5/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... key enabling technology in the critical areas of billing and charging, revenue assurance and bandwidth management. NI solutions should provide the flexibility to support multiple deployment options and go deep enough to support application-aware billing.
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There Is a Business Case for FTTP in (Some)Emerging Markets
5/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
Fiber to the premises (FTTP) is often considered to be exclusively for developed markets, but there are drivers for deployment in emerging markets as well. This report identifies a set of countries with definite potential.
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HP-Palm Deal Is Representative of the Shifting Wireless M&A Landscape
5/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... 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 ...
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Data Traffic Growth Drives the Content Delivery Platform Market
5/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... 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.
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Messaging Is Dead. Long Live Messaging!
5/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... operators (MNOs) can overcome stagnating messaging revenue through service and ecosystem innovation. They should enhance their messaging portfolios by adding a wide range of value-added services, and collaborate with third parties to create new applications.
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The Mobile Data Hot Potato
5/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... when you can pass that hot potato to the residential broadband network? Recent announcements and product introductions in the femto/Wi-Fi markets are making mobile access offload a reality, but gaps in the solutions still exist.
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Exploring the US Anywhere Atlas
5/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... but that number doesn’t capture the nuances of spending and subscription variations across the country. By plotting the survey results on maps, we can identify trends and find correlations between pricing, penetration and subscription rates.
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Collaborative Italian FTTH Model Offers a Blueprint for Migration to Fiber
5/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... FTTH network deployment plans in early May. The incentives are clear and the model seems viable. Telecom Italia has some tough choices ahead and competitive operators elsewhere in Europe should look to this for inspiration.
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Surviving the Mobile Data Revenue Roller Coaster
5/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... can’t sustain, leading to inconsistent service and customer churn. MNOs must tap into their network data traffic and use real-time subscriber intelligence to improve the customer experience and successfully monetize their network and data usage.
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Huawei, ZTE Map IPTV Plans Outside China
5/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... 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.
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Assessing the Managed Public Cloudscape
4/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
More telecom operators are offering managed public cloud solutions for enterprises. Here we profile five key offerings and determine how well they stack up to current—and future—enterprise needs.
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2010 Global Telecom Capex Forecast: As North America Recovers, Asia-Pacific Falls
4/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... reins in spending further and declines in capex spending by Chinese operators offset modest growth in U.S. spending. While telecom services revenue is remarkably resilient, decreasing revenue-to-capex ratios continue to drag aggregate spending down slightly.
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What If Google Paid?
4/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... their revenue to make the investment in next-generation broadband sustainable. But our model shows that even a very generous revenue-sharing scenario would provide only a minimal fraction of the income needed to fund the upgrade.
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Carriers Eye B2B Opportunities at CTIA
4/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... 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 the iPhone focusing on industry-specific requirements.
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Cloud, Video and Collaboration Reshape Enterprise WANs
4/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... are radically redesigning their WANs to accommodate new cloud computing architectures, increased video usage and new business-to-business data-sharing scenarios. Carriers must accommodate these needs by offering both intelligent, managed offerings and simple, fast data services.
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4G Déjà Vu
4/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... will happen relatively slowly, prepaid services and great 4G devices will be required from day one, and MNOs can win in the long run even if they’re not first out of the blocks with 4G.
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Mobile Hotspots’ Moment in the Spotlight
4/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... 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.
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HP Acquires Palm in a Risky Move to Break into the Advanced OS Market
4/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... 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.
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Cloud 99.99: The Small Print Exposed
4/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... robust privacy policies are rare, potentially exposing enterprises to litigation. Enterprises must take a close look at the small print before they proceed, and develop proactive strategies to get the best out of cloud services.
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Sprint Charges Ahead with 4G Flagship Device
4/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... 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.
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CTIA 2010: Devices, Apps and OSs Overshadow the Network
4/1/2010 | published by: Yankee Group
... 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.
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