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Nokia grabs Psion's Symbian stake
News According to Dean Bubley, analyst at Disruptive Analysis, the sale of Psion's stake to Nokia is confirmation that Symbian is largely synonymous with Nokia, rather than being the cross-industry platform it was once meant to become.
[February 9, 2004, 12:35]
3G tech gets cheaper as standardisation takes hold
News Dean Bubley, founder of analyst firm Disruptive Analysis, said that 3G infrastructure costs have been influenced by alternative wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi and WiMax, which have created pressure to offer 3G more cheaply.
[June 2, 2004, 17:35]
Internet giants threaten mobile operators
News This might be true at the moment for voice telephony, but for interactive services they are very far behind," said Bubley, founder of Disruptive Analysis. Disruptive players offer more. If I could run Skype on mobile phones, that would be very...
[April 7, 2006, 15:50]
Energy inefficiency could kill pure cellular
News Dean Bubley, of Disruptive Analysis, also pointed out that femtocells — essentially miniature mobile phone transmitters for the home or small office — could prove another solution for operators looking to mitigate their energy costs.
[January 12, 2007, 13:22]
Orange squeezes 3G pricing with launch
News I reckon the stable price for 3G data will end up at around £40 to £50 a month for unlimited access by the end of this year or early 2005," said Dean Bubley, founder of Disruptive Analysis. Click here to see more of the latest 3G news, analysis and...
[July 6, 2004, 17:15]
Analyst sees big future for VoIP-over-3G
News According to analyst Dean Bubley, of Disruptive Analysis, there could be over 250 million "VoIPo3G" users by the end of 2012. VoIP-over-3G will be far more successful than the voice-over-Wi-Fi approach being touted by many communications providers...
[November 16, 2007, 15:12]
Bluephone continues despite standards group's demise
News Bluephone's main aim is to gain experience for BT, before "real" converged services based on the SIP protocol emerge, according to analyst Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis. Progress to integrate Wi-Fi and mobile phones will not be affected by the...
[May 23, 2005, 13:10]
Free support for smartphones tipped to end
News Dean Bubley, ex-Datamonitor analyst and founder of consulting firm Disruptive Analysis, said that because mobile phones have evolved from being completely reliable, single-use devices into complicated multi-functional devices, network operators...
[November 27, 2003, 10:05]
BT on the verge of launching Bluephone
News This is an early example of something that will be a reasonable success into the long-term," said Dean Bubley, an analyst at Disruptive Analysis. After nearly two years of expectation and rumour, BT is ready to launch Bluephone, its converged...
[June 9, 2005, 15:45]
Should Vodafone buy BT?
News Vodafone painted themselves into a corner with their mobile-only strategy," said Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis. Speculation over the future of Vodafone intensified on Monday after Sir Christopher Gent resigned as life president amid...
[March 13, 2006, 15:55]
O2 enjoys early i-mode success
News Analyst Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis believes there is a "gap in the market" for optimised mobile versions of such sites. A quarter of a million customers have signed up for O2's i-mode service in the first six months since its launch, three...
[June 7, 2006, 11:15]
No free broadband for businesses
News As Disruptive Analysis's Dean Bubley puts it: "I'm looking forward to Kelloggs bringing out a free broadband offer saying it's the only one where you don't have to get a mobile phone contract, you just have to buy 98,000 boxes of cornflakes.
[August 1, 2006, 9:20]
iPass Orchestration enforces security policy
News It is important that companies ensure remote users keep laptops and PDAs up to date with the latest patches and virus signatures so they cannot infect the network, said Dean Bubley, founder of analyst firm Disruptive Analysis.
[July 19, 2004, 16:50]
BT launches 3G combo package
News This is reasonably competitive", said Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis. More than five years after it won one of the UK's 3G licences BT has finally launched a third-generation mobile product, a combined 3G, Wi-Fi and GPRS service called BT...
[October 3, 2005, 16:50]
Industry cautious over 4G auctions
News People are now a lot more intelligent about the timing of when they can launch," Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis told ZDNet UK on Monday. Spectrum auctions for so-called 4G telecommunications will not raise anywhere near the amount of money that...
[June 27, 2006, 11:15]
Qualcomm builds NFC into mobile chipsets
News However, telecoms analyst Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis told ZDNet UK that he doubted NFC would take off in the short to medium term. Qualcomm has announced it is now building near-field communications technology, a type of RFID, into some of...
[February 11, 2009, 16:17]
Orange and Vodafone to outsource operations
News The deals fit in with an ongoing trend towards using network-equipment providers as managed-services providers, telecoms analyst Dean Bubley, of Disruptive Analysis, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday. Orange and Vodafone have both announced that they are...
[March 18, 2009, 14:02]
Move over, Google: Here's MSN Virtual Earth
News Dean Bubley, of research firm Disruptive Analysis, said that accuracy could also be a problem, unless Microsoft has unlimited budget "to drive a car with logging equipment around every street, in every city, in every country and repeat that once...
[July 25, 2005, 18:25]
BT slashes Wi-Fi tariffs
News It's more that BT has been doing what it usually does and skimming the top end of the market while it can," said Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis. Wi-Fi operator BT Openzone is making big cuts to some of its service tariffs in the hope of getting...
[July 27, 2004, 13:40]
Chip ushers in the disposable mobile
News Dean Bubley, founder of analyst firm Disruptive Analysis, believes that it could help to push the cost of making a basic mobile phone as low as $25 within a couple of years, which would mean handsets could actually be given away.
[January 25, 2005, 13:20]
