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The 25 Most Powerful People in U.S. Wireless and Wireline 2013
This list is a compilation of who we think are the innovators and leaders in the U.S. wireless and wireline markets. We realize that the telecom industry is a global business, and many of our candidates oversee international companies, but we selected people based upon their influence here in the United States. You may not agree with all our picks but we can assure you that this list was not compiled lightly. The Fierce editors scrutinized every person we selected to make sure we could justify their position. Let us know if you disagree with our picks or think we overlooked someone. Special Report  Grading the top U.S. wireless carriers in the third quarter of 2013
The following charts the top U.S. wireless carriers in the third quarter of 2013 by subscriber base, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, and includes major metrics--such as churn, ARPU and revenue--of each carrier. As the third-quarter reporting season comes to a close, it's time to start parsing the information to see which carriers slipped and which managed to get ahead. Special Report
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Driving the business case for the connected car
To say that the connected car space is a massive new opportunity for wireless carriers is probably an understatement. Research from the GSMA predicts that this area will be worth $39 billion by 2018, an increase from $13 billion in 2012. Likewise, IHS Research predicts that the portion of consumer automobiles sold with OEM-installed, cellular-connected systems will grow from just under 9 percent in 2012 to nearly 33 percent in 2017. And that's not counting mobile device telematics systems, which the firm counts separately because they tend to use a mobile handset located in the vehicle and not an installed cellular technology. Nevertheless, the projections are quite bullish and it's clear that automakers are seeing wireless connectivity in the car as a huge opportunity to offer advanced applications to the driver. Despite the tremendous projections for the connected car, there are some challenges ahead. Car owners are keeping their cars longer and that's causing car makers to increasingly look to advanced wireless technologies to future-proof the connected car and avoid replacing the existing system or turning it off because it no longer works. That scenario happened to General Motor's OnStar system in 2008 when operators starting to sunset their analog networks. According to IHS, OnStar had to terminate service to approximately 500,000 subscribers in North America. Because of fears that this scenario may repeat itself, many car makers are looking to LTE. In fact, IHS predicts that in 2017 more than 93 percent of new OEM systems will use 3G or LTE technology in order to prolong the lifespan of their systems. Of course, LTE offers other benefits because it promises to deliver advanced applications such as real-time news, weather and other updates, video streaming capabilities and advanced navigation. The promise of LTE may be high, but so is the potential cost. For now, it's unclear how companies will make money by outfitting cars with wireless. Some believe that a wholesale model will evolve, with carmakers buying wireless connectivity from operators and bundling that connectivity into the price of their car or into a service plan. Others believe that consumers will likely pay for connectivity by adding the car as another device on their shared data plan. We are exploring all these aspects of the connected car ecosystem and more in our new ebook, "Driving the Business Case for the Connected Car." Download it today to find out what this opportunity means for consumers, wireless operators are car makers. --Sue Read more about: GSMA
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Today's Top News 1. Verizon leads Tier 1 carriers in Consumer Reports' survey, while Sprint slips to last
Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) led all Tier 1 U.S. carriers in a survey conducted by Consumer Reports over cell phone service, while Sprint (NYSE:S) fell to last place after ranking No. 2 behind Verizon last year in customer satisfaction. According to Consumer Reports, Sprint received "dismal marks" in 2013 for value, voice, text and 4G reliability. "Our latest cell service satisfaction survey revealed a somewhat precipitous decline by Sprint that shuffled the rankings of the major standard service providers," Glenn Derene, electronics content development team leader for Consumer Reports, said in a statement. Overall, Tier 3 carrier Consumer Cellular, which uses AT&T Mobility's (NYSE:T) network, received the highest overall score of 88 out of 100, followed by U.S. Cellular (NYSE:USM). The annual ratings were based on a September survey of 58,399 cell phone service subscribers by the Consumer Reports National Research Center. Derene said "smaller, no-frills, no-contract and prepaid service providers continue to do a better job of satisfying customers, and provide an increasingly viable alternative to some of the expensive, long-term contracts that many consumers find themselves locked into." Previous Consumer Reports' surveys have shown that smaller carriers such as Consumer Cellular and TracFone rated better than the Tier 1 carriers in customer satisfaction by offering high-quality phones, relatively reliable service, and simpler, more consumer-friendly plans. Verizon ranked highest again in 2013 among the Tier 1 carriers with a score of 71. Consumer Reports said that T-Mobile and AT&T received "mostly ho-hum marks." T-Mobile rated 65 and AT&T came in at 64, according to survey results. However, Consumer Reports said AT&T was the lone carrier to receive the top rating for the reliability of its 4G service. Sprint, however, took the lowest score of 59. That could be attributed to several factors. Sprint shut down its legacy Nextel iDEN network at the end of June, resulting in a loss of service for many customers. Sprint had worked to move its iDEN customers onto its CDMA and LTE networks. Additionally, as part of Sprint's Network Vision network modernization project, Sprint has been ripping out and replacing 3G CDMA equipment, in addition to deploying LTE, as part of an effort to improve inbuilding coverage and voice quality. However, in markets where Network Vision is not yet complete, Sprint executives have said that customers have experienced degradation in service. Yet in markets where Network Vision is nearing completion, Sprint has reported improved call quality and service levels. "In cities like Chicago, where our Network Vision build is more than 70 percent complete, we are seeing significant improvements, not only in churn, but also in gross adds, compared to earlier months when customers were experiencing the 'pardon our dust' phase of our Network Vision deployment," Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said on the company's third-quarter earnings conference call at the end of October, according to a Seeking Alpha transcript. "It has been a very complex and it's been very hard work to take down the Nextel network and to rip out and replace the entire Sprint 3G network in order to build a flexible platform running 4G LTE on three spectrum bands with the network architecture flexibility to add even more frequencies in the future," Hesse said. "We are finally turning the corner on this massive project and seeing the light at the end of the tunnel."
For more:
- see this release
- see this CNET article
- see this Reuters article
- see this Bloomberg article
- see this CNN article
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2. Report: New roaming tech, more hotspots to drive Wi-Fi offloading
New roaming technology as well as the deployment of more hotspots and small cells will lead carriers to increasingly turn to Wi-Fi offloading for data capacity in the years ahead, according to a new survey from the Wireless Broadband Alliance. The WBA survey, which was compiled by research firm Maravedis-Rethink, found that Tier 1 carriers around the world expect 22 percent of all additional data capacity added during 2013-2014 to come from Wi-Fi offloading. The report also found that by 2018, Wi-Fi offloading is predicted to contribute 20 percent of additional mobile data capacity, while a further 21 percent is expected to come from small cells with integrated Wi-Fi capabilities. The survey also found that that 51 percent of respondents are more confident about investing in Wi-Fi to supplement cellular capacity than they had been a year earlier. The survey, carried out during the third quarter, had a total of 197 respondents, 56 percent of which were operators. Within that group, two-thirds were fixed or mobile operators and one-third were WISPs or pure-play Wi-Fi operators. North America and Asia-Pacific each accounted for 30 percent of respondents, followed by Europe at 28 percent. Maravedis-Rethink forecasts a steady annual increase in the total number of Wi-Fi hotspots deployed, from 5.2 million in 2012 to 10.5 million in 2018. The WBA said operators are expanding the access they provide via roaming agreements, and as the process becomes simplified and standardized, the WBA expects this trend will continue to accelerate. The WBA's main effort in this area is the Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) program, which is expected to truly get going commercially next year and has the backing of the likes of AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T), China Mobile, KT, NTT DoCoMo and Orange. Last year the Wi-Fi Alliance's Certified Passpoint program launched with a broad set of approved network gear. Mobile devices that are Passpoint-certified can work and roam on the Hotspot 2.0 standard. The Hotspot 2.0 technology makes registration and authentication of access points seamless, and the NGH program is a complement to Hotspot 2.0 that lets data sessions be passed along from cellular to Wi-Fi seamlessly. The NGH program is designed to do several things, both for end users and for carriers. For customers, their phones will be able to jump onto the best network available, whether that be Wi-Fi or the cellular macro network, without them having to actively switch networks. The survey found 78 percent of respondents are planning to launch an NGH by end of 2015. For carriers, Passpoint-certified phones that access Passpoint-certified network equipment will know which cell tower they are connected to, using SIM-based authentication. Carriers can set rules that would push cellular traffic from the macro network onto NGH Wi-Fi hotspots if a phone is connected to a congested tower or a particular tower at a certain time of day when network congestion is high. It will largely be up to the carriers about how transparent they will be with customers about their network management. Carriers also will be able to cut down on roaming costs using the technology. Boingo Wireless recently launched the world's first commercial NGH Wi-Fi network at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Further, the WBA this week launched the first live, end-to-end NGH network during the Wi-Fi Global Congress in Beijing. The network is being hosted by Cisco and China Mobile. The WBA has said a total of 13 service providers will demonstrate NGH capabilities using the network during the Congress, which ends today. Among them are AT&T, Boingo, China Mobile, Fon, Time Warner Cable and Towerstream. For more:
- see this release
- see this CNET article
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Boingo exec: Enhanced cellular/Wi-Fi roaming to launch commercially in 2014
AT&T, others pass first hurdle in WBA's global Wi-Fi roaming effort Read more about: Wi-Fi
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3. Microsoft: Instagram, Vine apps show Windows Phone is 'turning a corner'
Apps for Instagram and Vine are now available on Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone platform, giving the OS a needed boost in the app market.  | | Instagram is now available on Windows Phone. | The apps, especially Instagram, have been missing from Windows Phone and long coveted by Microsoft. Nokia, whose handset business Microsoft is in the process of acquiring, pressured Instagram to add support for the platform. The arrival of the apps comes as Nokia reported selling a record 8.8 million Lumia Windows Phones in the third quarter. Microsoft's senior Windows Phone marketing manager, Casey McGee, told The Verge that "we do feel like we're turning a corner here."
The Windows Phone app catalogue now holds 190,000 apps, still a fraction of the nearly 1 million available for Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android and Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS, but more complete now with leading apps. McGee is out to change the perception this holiday season that Windows Phone is not a viable third alternative. "We really want to take this opportunity to make sure people really see the breadth and depth of the offering, and frankly see if we can change some of that feeling that the app ecosystem is just holding us back, because frankly the data doesn't tell us that," McGee told The Verge. The Instagram rollout was not without its bumps. Early reports on the app misreported the app's capabilities and said there was no way to take pictures from the app, which is not true. "Windows Phone users will be directed to their camera roll instead of a camera interface initially, where they have the option to either select an existing photo or take a new photo to apply filter to before sharing," Instagram explained. Instagram for Windows Phone is technically a beta. Video capture and uploading, tagging photos, viewing geotagging and in-app camera capture are not yet present, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to ZDNet. Yet Microsoft is trumpeting its progress in apps. According to TechCrunch, Microsoft said Windows Phone has seen 3 billion application downloads, an impressive number but still well below iOS' more than 60 billion aggregate downloads. Windows Phone has 10 million app transactions each day, or 300 million per month, which is up from 9 million per day in September, and 6.66 million per day in June. According to the company, 500 new Windows Phone applications are uploaded daily. Microsoft is hoping the expansion of its application offerings will help increase its share of the market. According to research firm Gartner, Windows Phone captured 3.6 percent of the global smartphone market--still paltry compared to Android and iOS, but up from 2.3 percent in the year-ago period. However, Windows Phone posted its highest market share to date of 9.2 percent across the five major European markets of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, and is now within one percentage point of iOS in Germany, according to a recent data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. "I think there's sort of this perception out there with some that Windows Phone customers are feeling something is missing or not having the experience that they want, and it's really quite the opposite," McGee said. "We're seeing positive reactions from customers, higher-rated apps, and that has a lot to do with the fact that we're catering to a different ecosystem." For more:
- see this Windows Phone blog post
- see this TechCrunch article
- see this The Verge article
- see this separate The Verge article
- see this Engadget article
- see this ZDNet article
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4. Qualcomm wants LTE deployed on unlicensed spectrum
Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) is interested in exploring the possibility of deploying LTE services on unlicensed spectrum, according to CEO Paul Jacobs. Carriers that have deployed LTE around the world have done so on their own licensed spectrum, while unlicensed airwaves have mainly been reserved for technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. However, without getting into too many technical details, Jacobs said the chip giant is interested in using unlicensed airwaves to deliver faster wireless services. Speaking at a meeting Wednesday with analysts, Jacobs was quick to state that the move is not designed to "step on" Wi-Fi, which Qualcomm makes a great deal of money supporting. However, according to the Wall Street Journal, he said the two technologies can coexist and improve data delivery, while minimizing interference. "It's a better neighbor," he said. It's unclear how LTE would be deployed on unlicensed spectrum, but the technology could result in a better experience for the user. "All the user would experience is faster and more reliable connectivity than they had before," Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, told the Journal. According to Electronics Weekly, Jacobs explained the reasons behind the move: "We paid for that very sophisticated LTE receiver in the devices, it's a better receiver than the receiver that's been used for Wi-Fi. That means you get better capacity and better coverage out of an LTE unlicensed deployment." "Regulators around the world are putting out unlicensed spectrum as we drive it with small cells to small cells more like a Wi-Fi access point in terms of deployment," Jacobs added. "You see a lot of companies that are looking at you getting access to spectrum and they'll be able to use both licensed and unlicensed bands with the small cell technology." It's unclear which bands could be used for unlicensed LTE services. One that has been bandied about is the 3.5 GHz band, which is being eyed for small cells in the United States. For more:
- see this WSJ article (sub. req.)
- see this Electronics Weekly article
- see this Xconomy article
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5. Sierra Wireless complains about Nokia's patent licensing
Wireless modem and M2M vendor Sierra Wireless filed complaints with the European Commission and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against Nokia (NYSE:NOK), alleging that Nokia is behaving unfairly in how it licenses its patents. The EC complaint argues Nokia is discriminating against Sierra and is abusing its dominant position as a GSM and 3G standards essential patent holder. Sierra is claiming Nokia applies widely different, and therefore unfair, royalty rates for the same SEPs (standard essential patents) to make identical GSM wireless modules, and that Nokia is imposing unfavorable and unreasonable royalty terms that put Sierra Wireless at a competitive disadvantage. Sierra also claims Nokia has refused to license 3G SEPs for wireless modules "in spite of its clear obligation and repeated requests from Sierra Wireless to do so." In the U.S., Sierra has asked the FTC open an investigation into Nokia's breach of rules on licensing under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, and U.S. laws on fair trade and monopoly practices. Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant dismissed Sierra Wireless' complaint as "unfortunate," and told Dow Jones Newswires that the company has been in breach of its patent agreement with Nokia. "Despite many years of good faith attempts by Nokia to resolve the disagreements, Sierra has failed to pay Nokia the royalties which Sierra owes under the license," Nokia spokeswoman Nina Ratavaara told IDG News Service. "As Sierra is now pursuing these abusive tactics, seeking to continue to use Nokia's innovations without paying the agreed royalties, Nokia will take whatever steps are necessary to protect our intellectual property, our rights and our reputation," she added. Sierra said it has been seeking a mutually acceptable resolution of the royalty rate issues and a license to use Nokia's 3G SEPs but has received no clear response from Nokia. "We are acting to protect our customers and ourselves from the unreasonable actions of some standard essential patent holders, which result in unresolved patent license disagreements that we want to remedy on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms," Sierra Wireless' senior director for legal affairs, Pierre Cosnier, said in a statement. Following the closing of its deal with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to sell its handset business, Nokia is banking on its Advanced Technologies division to serve as a research and development hub within the company. The Advanced Technologies unit will handle Nokia's patent portfolio and intellectual property licensing. For more:
- see this release
- see this Dow Jones Newswires article (sub. req.)
- see this IDG News Service article
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SPOTLIGHT ON... Flipping through the top 6 super DVRs  Not all DVRs are alike, and DVRs have evolved in terms of capabilities in recent years. For nearly a decade, most pay TV distributors have deployed DVRs containing two tuners and a maximum of 250 GB of storage space. But with the rollout of their respective Hopper and Genie DVRs in 2012, Dish Network and DirecTV forced rival cable operators and telcos to invest in new gear. FierceCable has counted down the top six DVRs on the market, whose multiple tuners and tons of storage space set them apart from the rest. Special report
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Lowenstein's View: 10 problems mobile can help solve
It's mid-November, which means the beginning of "prediction season" for the analyst community. I'd like to kick things off with a bit of a twist. But first, here is some context. The smartphone/mobile data/apps revolution, circa 2008-2012, was primarily focused on "mobilizing" or mobile-enabling many of the functions we had been performing on the Internet from our PCs. Messaging (email, IM to text, etc.), games, media consumption (books, music, videos), steadily improving access to mainstream Web commerce sites such as Amazon and eBay, and mobilizing social networking and productivity tools (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter) took center stage. I think we have entered an exciting new phase, where the unique combination of smartphone capabilities, plus their ubiquity and near constant presence, are enabling new categories of applications and services. Examples of this include mobile showrooming, fitness tracking applications, traffic apps such as Waze, and home security services such as AT&T's Digital Life. The next couple of years will move us further along this trajectory of mobile value creation. In that vein, here are ten "problems" that the unique capabilities of mobile can help solve (in no particular order): 1. Grocery Shopping/Coupons. The grocery shopping experience is one where mobile has yet to have much impact. There are lots of opportunities here, such as an improved in-store experience, targeted promotional offers, nutritional information, and so on. As another example, it is still amazing how many people manually clip coupons in this digital era. Someone should figure out a good coupon experience – store, search, proactively deliver, and use – all from the mobile device. And forget the "mobile wallet"--how about an app that allows you to store, track and redeem all of your coupons/gift cards on one device, with reminders for expiration dates? 2. Contextual travel. Travel is stuck in the "first generation" of the mobile revolution--basically, access to airline apps and the same travel sites that grew up on the Web. There are lots of opportunities for mobile to take travel to the next level, such as leveraging big data for a more sophisticated suite of fare comparison and alert services, improved re-booking procedures for delayed/cancelled flights, proactive upsell for seats, meals. 3. Micro-transactions. One of the reasons that mobile payments have not taken off in the U.S. is that the current debit/credit card infrastructure works well for most people. Square has been successful because it addressed an under-served market: small merchants. An important area of opportunity for mobile payments is for types of transactions where cash is a hassle or credit/debit cards can't be used, are impractical, or are too expensive. Examples: parking meters, bike sharing programs, vending machines, parking garages and public transportation systems. The challenge is that a lot of these low-hanging fruit segment are connected to the public sector and are highly localized, which makes alternative payment solutions difficult to scale. 4. A really good fitness-centric phone. There are fitness accessories such as Fitbit and Jawbone Up, and there are fitness apps in phones, such as MapMyFitness or RunKeeper. At some point, the twain shall meet. I think there's an interesting opportunity for a really good, fitness-oriented smartphone. The device itself would be ruggedized, have a fitness "look", come with the right package of accessories, and would ship with select on-board health/fitness/nutrition apps customized for the device...Continued  More
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