Current Analysis Show Coverage
Mobile World Congress 2012
 Current Analysis is providing coverage of the 2012 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The world's biggest mobile-focused trade show, Mobile World Congress pulls in thousands of visitors and exhibitors marketing their offerings and, more importantly, their vision of the market.
To sort through these potentially conflicting messages - and determine their impact on the near-term competitive landscape - Current Analysis had a full complement of analysts on-site covering the entire wireless value-chain: mobile infrastructure, mobile services (business and consumer) and mobile devices.
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Jerry Caron
Senior Vice
President,
Analysis |
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William Ho
Vice President,
Consumer
Group |
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Peter Jarich
Service Director,
Mobile
Ecosystem
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Service
Provider
Infrastructure
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Avi Greengart
Research
Director,
Consumer
Devices |
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Emma
Mohr-McClune
Research
Director,
Consumer
Services
Europe |
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Kitty Weldon
Principal Analyst,
Enterprise Mobility |
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Ed Gubbins
Senior Analyst,
Mobile Access
Infrastructure
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Jason Marcheck
Director, Custom
Research, Service
Provider
Infrastructure |
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| Current Analysis MWC 2012 Report Summaries |
| Summaries from MWC 2012 reports appear below. Clients with subscriptions to the respective services can read the full reports by clicking the Client Access links. Click here for more information on becoming a client. |
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MWC 2012: No Transit Strike, but Plenty of Riot Police and Black Rectangles
Consumer Devices - Advisory Report - At this year’s Mobile World Congress we saw lots of flagship smartphones from non-traditional vendors, applications processor wars, new approaches to the tablet, and much, much more. - 3/13/2012 - Client Access |
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MWC 2012: Policy, Diameter, CEM, VoLTE and IMS – the IPSI Roundup
IP Services Infrastructure - Advisory Report - In previous years, Mobile World Congress seemed dominated by news of VoLTE or IMS or even the WAC. None took center stage this year, but all were present and joined by a number of other, rather pragmatic, themes. - 3/13/2012 - Client Access |
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MWC 2012: The Mobile Ecosystem Roundup (Commerce, HTML5, WiFi - but Little VoLTE or LTE-A)
Mobile Ecosystem - Advisory Report - LTE, WiFi and small cells ruled MWC on the network front. OTT players ruled on the services front. Quad-core smartphones and Nokia’s 40+ megapixel phone wowed device lovers. Against this backdrop, however, was a broader ecosystem story. - 3/9/2012 - Client Access |
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MWC 2012: LTE RAN and Mobile Packet Core
Mobile Access Infrastructure - Advisory Report - Although small cells and WiFi sucked up most of the oxygen in the infrastructure corners of MWC, important moves were made with other aspects of the RAN and packet core. - 3/9/2012 - Client Access |
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MWC 2012: Mobile Backhaul and Microwave Roundup
Mobile Access Infrastructure - Advisory Report - LTE and small cell deployments might be necessary to keep up with mobile data demands, but without the requisite backhaul, they are meaningless. MWC 2012 should have seen solutions to this axiom, but did vendors go far enough? - 3/8/2012 - Client Access |
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Silicon Core Wars and Architectures – How Many is Enough?
Mobile Ecosystem - Intelligence Report - MWC 2012 generated tremendous hype around application platform marketing efforts, including NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 with its quad-core CPU design. Now device makers must decide how many cores are needed to compete successfully long-term. - 3/7/2012 - Client Access |
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MWC 2012: Small Cell & WiFi Roundup
Mobile Ecosystem - Advisory Report - In the run-up to Mobile World Congress 2012, it was clear that small cells and carrier WiFi would be the dominant themes in the network space. LTE and data demands are driving the space, but it is still largely in search of solutions. - 3/7/2012 - Client Access |
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Enterprise Mobility Is Everywhere!
Business Nertwork and IT Services - Advisory Report - Mobile World Congress featured enterprise mobility products, demos, speeches, and announcements from an increasingly complex ecosystem where MDM meets security, IT meets mobility, mobility meets the cloud, and consumers have increasing clout. - 3/6/2012 - Client Access |
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MWC 2012: Smart Innovations – March 2, 2012
Consumer Services Europe - Advisory Report - This week, we focus exclusively on announcements that emerged at Mobile World Congress 2012. Topics highlighted include mobile payments, the collaborative evolution of RCS-e and WAC, ‘anti-bill shock’ and data roaming. - 3/2/2012 - Client Access |
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Atos and Huawei Targeting Telecom Operators NGBSS
Telecom Vendor Services - Intelligence Alert - Atos and Huawei, who have a history of working together in a collaborative fashion, have taken the relationship to the next level to better address the unique needs of the telecom operators from an IT perspective to deliver NGBSS solutions. - 3/1/2012 - Client Access |
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Payments Alert – Vodafone Partners with Visa for Worldwide M-Payments
Consumer Services Europe - Intelligence Alert - Vodafone will partner with Visa to develop and launch Vodafone-branded mobile wallet services worldwide. The initial details are vague, but a global partnership with established player Visa is a well-placed m-payments stepping stone for Vodafone. - 2/29/2012 - Client Access |
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Lack of RCS-e Momentum Spells More OTT Trouble Ahead
Consumer Services Europe - Intelligence Alert - MWC 2012 should have been the showcase for RCS-e commercial deployments across multiple markets. Instead, carriers’ key OTT offset strategy is still a case of ‘later, perhaps’, with plenty of questions still unanswered. - 2/29/2012 - Client Access |
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Orange Extends Initiatives to Limit Roaming Bill Shock
Consumer Services Europe - Intelligence Alert - This announcement sees Orange extend three innovative roaming projects to more markets in Europe, signaling a more standardized approach to bill shock control with an app, an ‘integrated service’ roaming bundle and data roaming caps and alerts. - 2/29/2012 - Client Access |
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Aylus Socializes Its Aylus Video Platform
Digital Media Infrastructure - Intelligence Alert - Aylus Networks demonstrates how its Aylus Video Platform can deliver live video sharing as part of the social network experience. But can Aylus now convince operators and OTT players to adopt its solution to support this type of application? - 2/29/2012 - Client Access |
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MobiWorld Media Takes SPB TV to More Screens
Digital Media Infrastructure - Intelligence Alert - MobiWorld Media introduces the SPB TV Solution for Three Screens aimed at enabling operators to support multi-screen TV services with mobile TV. The move is logical for MobiWorld, but how far can mobile TV help drive multi-screen integration? - 2/28/2012 - Client Access |
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Sprint’s ‘New Ventures’ Brings New Revenue Opportunities for Partners
Wholesale Services - Intelligence Alert - Sprint launched ‘New Ventures,’ a sales and support team focused on expanding the carrier’s partnerships. Sprint gained good momentum from mobile wholesale in 2011; a targeted focus should support continued growth in 2012. - 2/24/2012 - Client Access |
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Payments Alert – BOKU Launches White Label Payments Platform for Mobile Carrier
Consumer Services Europe - Intelligence Alert - BOKU Accounts is a new turnkey, white label platform for mobile providers that supports online, in-app and in-store payments. Courting the mobile operator community, rather than sidelining it, is an interesting tactical counter to Google and PayPal. - 2/24/2012 - Client Access |
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NSN Broadens Small Cell Play with Liquid Radio Treatment, but Is It a Good Match
Mobile Access Infrastructure - Intelligence Report - NSN expanded its small cell story, applying the Liquid Radio theme. Its new Flexi Zone uses a slew of trendy technologies to cluster small cells in high-density areas, a comprehensive approach that ventures into uncharted territory. - 2/23/2012 - Client Access |
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Mozilla Opens App Marketplace with HTML5 for “Write Once” App Development and “Buy Once” Consumption
Mobile Ecosystem - Intelligence Alert - HTML5 is appreciated as a cross-platform application development tool, but there are not many dedicated HTML5 app markets. Mozilla is building its own, adding “buy once, use anywhere” functionality, but is it all an attempt to drive Boot to Gecko? - 2/23/2012 - Client Access |
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