Deborah Strickland

I have the greatest market research focus group in the world.  I have teenage children.  They are smarter than me and find ways of using new applications, services, and technologies long before I’ve heard of them.  Their usage patterns and methods of communicating will carry on into the future work force and will set the stage for the next 30 plus years.   My youngest son has given me permission to show his “command” center where he connects to the world.   A typical interaction consists of his Xbox where he plays his very interactive and bandwidth hogging games such as Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3.  He also uses the Xbox for voice communications with his friends (even when he’s not playing games).  Note to application developers, he really wants to play these games when he’s mobile….Also, note that when his brother is home from college... (more)

Observations from CTIA Wireless 2012

I am just back from New Orleans where I was attending the CTIA Wireless 2012 conference and speaking on the Mobile Cloud panel.  The conference has a different feel than Mobile World Congress, with obviously more of an American perspective on what is happening in the mobile industry.  While many of the things that I observed at MWC in Barcelona were equally applicable in CTIA, I also observed a number of different items, or different slants on previous observations, in New Orleans.   The following are my personal observations and extrapolations from the show based on my convers... (more)

LTE Kicks Off in Latin America

By: Florian Hartmann More than 450 professionals from all over Latam attended the 4th LTE Annual in Rio de Janeiro. With this number it became one of the principal SP events in the region, beside Futurecom. Cisco managed to gain visibility in the sector entering as a Badge and Lanyard Sponsor. Among the sponsoring companies were: Tekelek, Oracle, amdocs, Mavenir, gemalto, WebRadar, JDSU, O3b and some others. Main topics that were discussed at the presentations and panels were: Offload with WiFi and Femto Spectrum allocation (different spectrum than in US limits device penetration... (more)

Mobile ... Phone or SMS Device

PHONE? SMS? MMS?   By:  Nora Goodman   Mobile phone or cell phone?  No.  It’s not really a phone at all.  It is, by the very new nature of the device and use of communication, an sms device. Statistics show us that more texts are sent than phone calls.   It’s a societal trend that may actually have been with us through-out time.   Man has been known to first tell stories, then when he had the ability to write, he did.  Eventually when the printing press came to be, man then had the ability to mass produce, and he did just that.  Henceforth, allowing for the arc... (more)

Eight Strategic Inflection Points Redefining the Mobile Industry

There are a number of major disruptions, or strategic inflections points in the mobile industry that are radically altering the entire mobile ecosystem as we know it.  Some of these disruptions have been slowing building up steam over the last couple of years; although, many of these have just started and have yet to really play out.  However, these strategic inflection points are causing, and stand to cause even greater, disruption and uncertainty in the industry. The following 8 key strategic inflection points that I believe will re-define the mobile ecosystem.   1. Explosiv... (more)