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• LTE ~ Global Standard, Global Revenues

  The second of two LTE reports, this renewed study provides a strategic evaluation of the full range of prospective business models employed for the 4G revenue generation...

• Top 10 Mobile Trends for 2012

  As we enter 2012, the global economic situation is, to put it mildly, precarious. The combination of several interrelated prevailing conditions – high levels of government debt, low interest rates, high and rising unemployment, reduced average consumer purchasing power – have generated an environment which threatens at best a prolonged period of low to zero growth or – more likely - a double-dip recession across Western markets.

• LTE ~ The Next Generation

  This study charts the opportunity – both immediate and anticipated – to be seized by vendors, MNOs and regulators in a bid to be among the first to offer the next generation mobile broadband. Readers of the full report will gain unsurpassed insight of the development route of this technology, based on current and forecast LTE subscriber numbers, hardware shipments and regional operator status.

• Better Backhaul for Mobile

  In the past, mobile traffic growth has been accommodated by simply enhancing backhaul capacity on a piecemeal basis, but this strategy will no longer work as it becomes less and less cost-effective. It is not just a question of (up)scaling the backhaul, it is now about intelligently matching the backhaul network, not just to the new capacity demands of mobile data, but to the new traffic characteristics of a modern 3G or 4G network dominated no longer by voice but by increasing smart broadband data applications.

• Blue Skies Ahead for Mobile Cloud

  It is unclear precisely when the term “cloud computing” was coined, or by whom. However, it refers to the use of the Internet (often depicted as a cloud in network diagrams) and attendant infrastructure as a location wherein application data is stored. The definition of cloud computing is...

• Securing & Protecting a Mobile Future

  Smartphones currently possess many of the powerful capabilities similar to a PC and as new features and functionalities are being added, smartphones are becoming more vulnerable to certain kinds of attack. As smartphones are increasingly used for accessing remote data and carrying sensitive business and personal data, security apps are becoming an essential and integral part of the smartphone to make it less vulnerable to the different types of threats...