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By Gary Kim

Gary Kim writes regularly in the mobile, mobile payments, mobile marketing, mobile banking, IP communications and broader communications industries. He writes for Carrier Evolution, TMCnet, Mobile Marketing & Technology, EtherNews and IP Carrier content sites, with and a primary focus on business models, end user demand and applications.

He has been a communications industry analyst, commentator and journalist since 1983, with periodic stints in the market research and service provider businesses. His current work in social media focuses on how brands can use content as part of their overall marketing efforts.

He graduated from the University of Oregon with degrees in history and management and is a member of Mensa, the international organization for people with IQs in the top two percent.

He chairs annual meetings for the Pacific Telecommunications Council and the Mobile Payments Conference. He speaks frequently at other industry meetings as well.
 

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05/23/2013 Universal Service versus Gigabit Networks
05/23/2013 HP Beats Expectations, Top-line Revenue Drops
05/23/2013 Two Orders of Magnitude Price Declines Will Drive Gigabit Access
05/22/2013 Video Entertainment Business Has Hit its Peak
05/22/2013 How Much Will 30-Mbps Throughout the EU Cost?
05/22/2013 63 Percent of U.S. Internet Access Is from Mobile Devices
05/21/2013 Dish Network Bids for LightSquared Spectrum
05/20/2013 LTE Revenues to Reach $340B by 2017
05/20/2013 How Much Longer Before Nobody Wants to Be a Linear Video Provider?
05/20/2013 Samsung Earns 95 Percent of Android Phone Profits
05/17/2013 Biggest Changes in Broadband Access Market are at Top End
05/16/2013 Global Telecom Revenue Growth Will Come From Everywhere But Europe
05/15/2013 Smartphones are Driving Mobile Prepaid Growth
05/15/2013 Smart Phones are Driving Mobile Prepaid Growth
05/15/2013 Free Continues to Disrupt French Market
05/15/2013 Is Recession Decimating the PC Market?
05/14/2013 Get Ready for Mobile Video Inflection Point
05/14/2013 France Wants New Taxes on Smart Phones, Streaming
05/13/2013 Mobile Bandwidth Forecasts Now Reflect Changing User Behavior
05/13/2013 Possible ESPN Mobile Deal Lets Consumers, ISPs, ESPN Win
05/10/2013 BYOD is Already Enterprise Policy, Even if Policies Aren't Formal
05/09/2013 Comcast Tops Ranks of Hosted IP Telephony Providers
05/09/2013 Market Share Effects Now Showing at Cablevision and Dish
05/09/2013 What Now Constitutes a 'Good Quarter' for a Tier One Telco?
05/08/2013 How Well Will T-Mobile USA Fare?
05/08/2013 Telstra Goes Big in Spectrum Auctions, Vodafone Doesn't Bid at All
05/07/2013 By 2014, OTT Revenue Might be 7% the Size of Linear Video Revenue
05/07/2013 In UK, Voice is Down, Broadband and Mobile Up
05/06/2013 28 Percent of Comcast Cable Revenue is 'Dumb Pipe,' Will Grow
05/06/2013 Clearwire Urges Shareholders to Accept Sprint Offer
05/06/2013 Video Streaming Infrastructure Gets Better, Quality of Experience a Bigger Issue
05/03/2013 Netflix, Hulu, YouTube are 'Different Animals'
05/02/2013 US-Originated International Long Distance Fell 18 Percent in 2011
05/02/2013 Tablet Shipments Grow; Apple and Samsung Lead
05/01/2013 No Matter Who Gets Sprint, Consolidation is Not Over
05/01/2013 Will Online Video Really Harm Cable and Telcos?
04/30/2013 How Much Incremental Revenue will LTE Create?
04/30/2013 European Telcos Will Cut Employee Roles in Half
04/29/2013 How Much Will LTE Allow Operators to Raise Prices?
04/29/2013 BT Gets Back into the Facilities-Based Mobile Business
04/26/2013 Will Spectrum Set-Asides Really Work?
04/25/2013 Verizon Communications Prepping Bid for Verizon Wireless Shares?
04/25/2013 Google Fiber: Competition or Disintermediation?
04/25/2013 Shift Away from Linear TV Will Have Huge Marketplace Consequences
04/24/2013 France Telecom Betting on LTE to Reverse Revenue Trends
04/24/2013 AT&T First Quarter 2013 Earnings Mostly as Expected
04/23/2013 New Netflix 'Family Plan' Has ISP Implications
04/23/2013 Triple and Quad Plays are the Only Way Telcos Will Hang on to Fixed Network Revenue
04/22/2013 US Telecom in Better Shape than Elsewhere
04/22/2013 Google Fiber a Test of Ad-Supported Broadband?
04/19/2013 North American Mobile Bandwidth Growth Rate Slows
04/18/2013 Verizon Revenue Now 66 Percent Wireless
04/17/2013 Could the U.S. Mobile Market Shrink to Three?
04/16/2013 VimpelCom, Algerian Government Spar Over Orascom
04/16/2013 Big Data Drives Storage Revenue
04/16/2013 40 Percent of Mobile Data Will be Offloaded by 2017
04/15/2013 84 Percent of US Enterprises Use IP Telephony
04/15/2013 DoJ: T-Mobile USA and Sprint Should Qualify for More Lower-Frequency Spectrum
04/12/2013 Video Business Showing More Strains, But Not Ready to Break
04/11/2013 PC Shipments Plummet, Post-PC Era Picks up Speed
04/11/2013 Buyers, Sellers Disagree About Value of Cloud Computing
04/10/2013 Is Common Carrier Regulation a Barrier to Gigabit Access?
04/10/2013 ISPs will Need 'More Symmetrical' Links
04/10/2013 ISPs are Becoming 'Access to Video' Providers
04/09/2013 France Uses Public-Private Partnerships for FTTH
04/09/2013 If Google Can Do Google Fiber, Can Telcos and Cable Companies?
04/08/2013 Service Providers Waste 20 Percent of Their Capex
04/08/2013 For Many Tier-One Service Providers, Profit Troubles Grow
04/05/2013 Will Austin Get Google Fiber?
04/05/2013 Will 100 Mbps and 1 Gbps Change ISP Competitive Positions?
04/04/2013 Service Providers Waste 20% of Their Capex
04/04/2013 Will T-Mobile USA Raise its Offer for MetroPCS?
04/03/2013 Fiber to the Home Reduces Operating Costs 20 Percent
04/03/2013 Aereo Wins Court Case
04/02/2013 Investment and Competition Guide Ofcom Policies
04/02/2013 AT&T and Verizon to Bid for Vodafone?
04/02/2013 Bundles Work, Consumer Reports Suggests
04/02/2013 Bundles Work, Consumer Reports Suggests
04/01/2013 India Smartphone Market will Grow 70 Percent in 2013
04/01/2013 SEA-ME-WE 4 Cable Cut, Again
04/01/2013 Facebook Phone?
04/01/2013 Broadband Access is Becoming a 'Barbell' Business
03/28/2013 Telecom New Zealand Launches 'Ultra Fibre' Service
03/27/2013 Tablets Now Lead the Growth of Smart Connected Devices
03/26/2013 Telco 'OTT' Concern Might be Ebbing
03/26/2013 Single EC Telecom Market Could Cut Broadband Deployment Costs by 30 Percent
03/26/2013 T-Mobile USA Unveils 'Uncarrier' Push Today
03/25/2013 IT and Telecom Supplier Industries are Merging
03/25/2013 Smartphone Customers are More Satisfied; Will They Churn Less?
03/22/2013 Softbank-Sprint-Clearwire Deal Seems on Track
03/22/2013 What Comes Next for the FCC?
03/22/2013 Which Way Forward for Telecom Regulation?
03/21/2013 AT&T Offers 'Wireless Home Phone'
03/20/2013 Has T-Mobile USA Already Fumbled its 'Uncarrier' Effort?
03/19/2013 Rural, Urban Broadband Adoption Gap Hasn't 'Closed'
03/19/2013 AT&T Launches New 'Mobile Share' Plans for Business
03/18/2013 T-Mobile USA Isn't Going to 'Act Like a Wireless Company'
03/18/2013 Cable Operators Face AT&T's 1990's Problem
03/18/2013 AT&T Asset Sales: What Would They Indicate?
03/15/2013 Is Voice Dead?