Posts by Andrew Burger
Andrew is a Contributing Editor to Telecompetitor. Having worked in the wholesale debt, money and derivatives markets for a major Japanese bank and later as a business and technology reporter, Andrew now earns his living teaching English overseas and freelance reporting. He's lived and worked on every continent barring Antarctica and has a BA (Geology, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder), and an MBA (Finance, Pace University, NY).
Andrew can be reached at andrew@telecompetitor.com
Report: Gateways Seen as Crucial for Broadband ARPU Growth
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Broadband service operators globally are increasingly making use of residential gateways to provide wireless delivery of multiscreen (mobile phones, PCs and tablets) video to viewers in the home. The percentage of operators offering such services through residential gateways will grow fast, reaching 50% by 2014 from just 6% today, according to new research from Infonetics....Learn More
4G Americas: North America Now Has 57 million 4G LTE Subscribers
Worldwide LTE connections will surpass the 100-million milestone this week, with the U.S. and Canada accounting for 57 million of the global total, according to data from Informa Telecoms & Media. There are 172 operators in 70 countries with LTE networks up and running, according to the regional industry association and the Bellevue, Washington-based market...Learn More
Report: Small Cells with Wi-Fi Will Reshape the Wireless Industry
Incorporation of Wi-Fi functionality into small-cell base stations “will be a game changer for cellphone service providers,” affording them the means to offload traffic from heavily congested channels while “linking together billions of devices into a single network architecture,” according to a new report from IHS. IHS expects large-scale deployment of small cell Wi-Fi base...Learn More
Sandvine: 20% of Fixed Data Traffic is Mobile Offload
Fixed and mobile data traffic continues to grow by leaps and bounds across the U.S., North America and worldwide, according to Sandvine’s “Global Internet Phenomena Report: 1H 2013.” Mean monthly fixed access network usage amounted to 44.7 gigabytes (GB) through the first six months of the year, a 39% year-over-year increase, while mean monthly mobile...Learn More
Report: Apple Has 39% of Smartphone Market
Apple continued to top the ranks of the world’s smartphone manufacturers and Google’s Android continued as the #1 smartphone platform during the three month period ending March, according to the latest from the comScore MobiLens market research service. Apple smartphones accounted for 39% of OEM market share while Android captured a 52% platform market share....Learn More
LRG: More Than 1/4 of U.S. Adults Watch Video Daily on Something Other Than a TV
More and more Americans are turning to TV set alternatives to watch video, according to a new report from Leichtman Research Group (LRG). Twenty-seven percent of U.S. adults watch video daily on devices other than TV sets and 53% do so on a weekly basis. The latest results are up from 14% daily and 37%...Learn More
Report: 78% of U.S. Broadband Homes Have a Home Network
Opportunities to provide tech support are growing in the U.S. as home network routers are installed in more homes, according to a new whitepaper by Parks Associates and Support.com. Seventy-eight percent of U.S. broadband households have a home network router and that’s driving demand for tech support, according to “Expanding to the Home Network: The...Learn More
TDG: 56% of U.S. Broadband Homes Have an Internet-Connected TV
Fifty-six percent of all U.S. broadband households have at least one TV connected to the Internet – be it a direct connection to a smart TV or indirectly via ancillary devices, such as game consoles and Blu-ray players, according to a new report from The Diffusion Group (TDG). Two or more Net-connected TVs are present...Learn More
Hulu Sets New Revenue Record, Tops 4 Million-Subscriber Mark
OTT video provider Hulu set a new record for revenue in 1Q 2013, as viewers streamed more than 1 billion videos in a single quarter, according to a blog post from acting CEO Andy Forssell. Forssell and Hulu management offered insights into Hulu’s recent performance at the Hulu Upfront conference in New York City. Subscriptions...Learn More
Comcast Trying to Build Differentiation With Wi-Fi Gateways
Comcast on April 26 launched its latest Xfinity Wireless Gateway, which boasts of delivering the fastest in-home wireless network speeds in the nation and the most coverage throughout customers’ connected homes. The largest U.S. Internet Service Provider (ISP) also announced it has boosted the speeds of its two most popular Xfinity Internet service plans –...Learn More
IDC: Smartphone Dominance is Upon Us
For the first time, more smartphones than feature phones were shipped worldwide in 1Q 2013 as the global market for mobile phones grew 4% year over year, according to the latest data from IDC. Vendors shipped a total of 418.6 million mobile phones in 1Q13 as compared to 402.4 million in 1Q12 and 483.2 million...Learn More
Report: 52 Million Consumers Use Apps During Primetime
The mobile media channel now rivals that of TV and other mainstream media in terms of reach. But the mobile audience is a highly fragment market of niches, which poses challenges for marketers looking to incorporate mobile into the media mix, according to Flurry, a mobile media strategy and business development company. Flurry is now...Learn More