NETWORK BUSINESS QUARTERLY

Network Business Quarterly [NBQ] provides comprehensive qualitative and quantitative analyses of leading vendors in the telecom, network, and mobility value chains as well as the service provider, enterprise, and consumer target markets. With its syndicated and consulting components, NBQ delivers outstanding value whether you compete, partner, supply, invest, or buy from the vendors analyzed.

In response to client feedback and market dynamics, NBQ has a specialized focus on services that include managed services, hosting, and the solutions channels. TBR provides extensive coverage on the services business and its related ecosystem as well as the solutions channel of telecom/network equipment manufacturers.

As part of the NBQ practice, TBR is also covering IT vendors IBM, HP, EDS, and Accenture from the telecom, network, and mobility value chain perspective.

Currently, nineteen companies are being analyzed on a quarterly basis. These companies are:

	Accenture LTD		Alcatel-Lucent
	AT&T Mobility		Cisco Systems
	Electronic Data Systems		Ericsson
	Hewlett-Packard		Huawei
	IBM Corp.		Motorola Services
	Nokia Corp.		Nokia Siemens Networks
	Nortel Services		Samsung Communications
	Sprint Nextel		T-Mobile USA
	TIS Market Opportunity Model		Verizon Wireless
	ZTE

We believe the telecom industry is entering a new era of cooperation between competitors that seek to differentiate themselves on their ability to deliver and support integrated end-to-end solutions, which downplays technology competition at the product level. This evolution toward services-centric strategies is generating significant uncertainty while creating related opportunities for both the telecom and IT industries.

TBR provides insight into opportunities and threats that are emerging from this new competitive environment that is driving equipment manufacturers and solutions and forcing providers to rethink how they capture capex and opex spending, while leveraging relationships with enterprise customers.

Mobile Operator Coverage

TBR's coverage of the mobile operator market follows our traditional company-centric analysis model by providing a unique analysis with a combined business, technology, and financial perspective. Focusing on the top wireless service providers in the US, our wireless operator coverage emphasizes the key strategies these companies employ and the industry dynamics within which these strategies should be executed.

TBR analyzes the business, market, product, and partnering strategies of these wireless service providers as well as the infrastructure and handset technologies they adopt. Understanding mobile operators' strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures help you to understand the overall competitive landscape, whether you compete with them, partner with them, or buy from them.

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