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Strategy Analytics: LTE Cloud Phones to Disrupt Handset Market

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Posted May 25, 2010

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- “Cloud phones” will disrupt leading vendor positions by 2015, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics. Unlike most of today’s mobile phones, cloud phones will rely heavily on the Internet cloud to provide value-added applications and services to consumers.

Speaking about this report, “LTE Migration: Threats & Opportunities for Handset Vendors,” Alex Spektor, analyst at Strategy Analytics, said, “Each network generation has given rise to disruptive new designs, functionalities or devices. As operators begin to deploy LTE networks in the coming years, cloud phones will emerge as the next disruptive technology by leveraging LTE’s low-cost, low-latency, high-bandwidth connections to deliver a broad suite of content, applications, and services that live in the Internet cloud. Today’s market leaders will need to carefully manage the LTE transition in order to turn this potential threat into an opportunity.”

Chris Ambrosio, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, added, “Two distinct strategies offer vendors the highest cloud phone potential.

  • Vendors like Huawei and ZTE will battle Samsung and LG be mobile operators’ first-choice partners for developing handsets that optimize the mobile operators’ cloud services; or
  • Vendors will seek to develop their own cloud-based services. For example, players like Dell and HP will leverage their scale and computer heritage to tie cloud phones to a multi-screen cloud service play.”

About Strategy Analytics:

Strategy Analytics is a global, independent research and consulting firm. The company is headquartered in Boston, USA, with offices in the UK, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea and China. Visit www.strategyanalytics.com for more information.



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Neil Mawston, +44 1908 423 628
NMawston@strategyanalytics.com
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Alex Spektor, +1 617-614-0726
ASpektor@strategyanalytics.com
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Thomas Kang, +82 10 2874 8133
TKang@strategyanalytics.com

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