New Report: State of the Industry 2010; Wireless and Telecom in Transition

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What’s coming next? Opportunities, challenges and risks; looking at the changing industry and the companies who compete

Atlanta, GA, December 21, 2009 — State of the Industry 2010 is the first in a series of reports by Jeff Kagan and includes his thoughts on the changing telecommunications industry and changing competition.

This commentary and report is now available for purchase.

To be notified of upcoming reports, interested parties may send their names and email addresses to jeff@jeffkagan.com and ask to be added to the list.

This report looks at:

• Who is winning, who is losing and why?
• What is new and what is next?
• How will changing government regulation impact growth and opportunities?
• What new ideas, companies and brands are transforming the industry?
• Which companies, technologies and ideas are at the beginning of their growth curve, and which are at the end?
• Will the regular wireless handset market recover?
• Will the entire wireless market go smart phone?
• As the industry closes in on 300 million devices in the US, where will growth come from?
• What about the rest of the world?

Over the next few years the industry will continue to transform. New leaders will emerge. Old leaders will struggle. Well-known brands and strategies must be updated. New thinking continues to reshape the industry.

The good news is opportunities are enormous, but they look very different from the past. What do companies have to do for continued success? What new threats do existing leaders have to keep their eyes on?

This report is for industry executives, investors, workers, customers, advertising and public relations firms, regulators, media, students and more.

It looks at wireless and telephone companies and their competitors, as well as networks and handset makers. Included are industry groups like telephone, wireless and cellular, cable television, IPTV, Internet, and much more.

It takes a close look at many companies: what they are doing right and wrong and what is the next big threat they face.

More information about this report at http://jeffkagan.com/REPORTStateOfTheIndustry2010.htm at the http://www.jeffkagan.com web site.

Companies evaluated in this report include:

Apple

AT&T

Boost Mobile (Sprint)

CenturyTel

Clearwire

Comcast

Cox

Dell

Dish Networks

Google

HTC

LG

Lucent

MetroPCS

Microsoft

Motorola

Nokia

Nortel

Palm

Qualcomm

Qwest

RIM Blackberry

Samsung

Sony Ericsson

Sprint Nextel

T-Mobile

Time Warner

Verizon

Virgin America (Sprint)

Windstream

xG Technology

Partial list of other companies this report is valuable to:

Time Warner

Global Crossing

Time Warner Telecom

Cellular South

Echostar

Leap Cricket

Boost Mobile

Virgin America

XO Communications

Century Tel

Alcatel Lucent

Nortel

MetroPCS

US Cellular

Pae Tec

Emerson

TracFone

Iridium Satellite

Earthlink

Vonage

Skype

Level 3

US Wireless Data

Cablevision

BrightPoint

Siemans

Avaya

Sun Microsystems

Nortel

HP

Corning

Tellabs

Ciena

NEC

Telcordia

Emerson

Fujitsu

Oracle

Jupiter

Broadcom

Cincinnati Bell

And more . . .

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