Digitial advertising takes the lead – Dominated by Google and Facebook
By Roger Entner on May 30, 2017
The IAB just published its 2016 advertising revenue figures. It was a banner year with record setting revenues of $72.5 billion, 22% higher than last year. This makes digital advertising the number one advertising medium in the United States as TV advertising according to eMarketer came in at $71.3 billion. Seventy-five years after the first […]
More screens, different screens
By Roger Entner on October 13, 2016
By now a three screen strategy is a must for anyone in the business of media consumption. It’s certainly one of the ways broadband providers are participating in the market place. Some see three screens – TV, mobile, digital – as the objective, but they don’t realize that three screens is just an intermediary step […]
Scientific Testing: The Most Reliable Way to Test a Network
By Roger Entner on August 9, 2016
The FCC is seeking to more closely regulate a key tactic in mobile carrier marketing—their performance and speed claims.
The commission already does this for fixed broadband and has proposed to use crowd data to set the upper limit for carrier marketing claims.
But here’s the problem: There are significant differences between crowd and scientific […]
The Wireless Industry: Revisiting Spectrum, the Essential Engine of US Economic Growth
By Roger Entner on April 20, 2016
The wireless industry is making a greater impact on America than ever before. The world is becoming hyper-connected, with smart phones, smart meters, smart houses, smart cities, smart businesses and smart people all relying on the fast connections that the wireless industry provides. In just four years, the wireless industry’s contributions have grown dramatically. For […]
The Story behind the Microsoft Headlines
By Roger Entner on July 14, 2015
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s the case, then the Twitter header image for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demonstrates that perfectly. Just look at Nadella’s tortured smile then try to make sense of the picture in the header. It resembles some kind of hellish, hopelessly complex landscape that maybe someone […]
Incentive Auctions: What Matters Here and Now
By Roger Entner on May 14, 2015
Another hot topic is the upcoming incentive auction. The amount of available spectrum per subscriber tells us how much capacity the carrier has to serve its customers and therefore what the theoretical upper limits of data speeds are. It also shows us how urgently the respective carrier needs more spectrum to serve its customers at […]
2014 US Mobile Phone sales fall by 15% and handset replacement cycle lengthens to historic high
By Roger Entner on February 10, 2015
In 2014, roughly 143 million mobile phones were sold in the United States, approximately 90% of them smartphones. This is a decline of 25 million phones from 2013 when approximately 168 million phones were sold – and only half of them were smartphones. The decline in phone sales is predominately due to the rise of […]
Tablets Fuel Growth and Verizon Leads the Pack
By Roger Entner on December 18, 2014
Over the last two years, in addition to attracting new customers, most of the wireless industry has focused on better serving its existing consumers with products and services those consumers want. We all watch more mobile video and play mobile games. As a result, an unsung hero—in form of the tablet—has emerged. Launched only 4 […]
Out of the Title II News Blizzard
By Roger Entner on December 6, 2014
All the while when we were trapped in the Title II News Blizzard that made any other topic seem small and irrelevant, the FCC has been conducting an auction of wireless spectrum. This wasn’t supposed to be the big auction – that honor was reserved for the incentive auction, in which broadcasters would sell spectrum […]
Spectrum Fuels Speed and Prosperity
By Roger Entner on September 25, 2014
Recon Analytics recently completed an exhaustive study of the US mobile market and how it compares with its G7 peers (funded by CTIA). This article presents a summary of the study—the results of which are available here.
The US mobile broadband experience is the stuff of lore around the world, in part […]
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