Analyst: Beware The Telecoms Mini-bubble
News Forrester telecoms analyst Lars Godell, who published a major report on triple-play strategies on Friday, told ZDNet UK that telcos are putting a lot of money into areas in which they were inexperienced, when customer demand was as yet unproven.
[June 9, 2006, 14:35]
Bluetooth Will Coexist With WLANs, Says Forrester
News There will be ten times as many Bluetooth devices as wireless LAN nodes, according to analyst Lars Godell; but Wireless LAN (WLAN) will dominate for PC access, especially in public "hot spots" like airports and railway stations.
[October 22, 2001, 15:26]
More Calls For BT's Break-up
News According to senior analyst Lars Godell, the newly independent business units created by a break-up would be able to achieve higher revenues while running up lower costs, and would also be able to give more attention to innovation.
[September 17, 2002, 13:24]
Cellnet Will Miss Summer Target: Forrester
News There will be nothing like a full commercial launch [of Cellnet's GPRS services]," says Lars Godell, author of the Forrester report. I've been talking to suppliers and they're saying they're going to need to do testing with the handsets after GPRS...
[March 30, 2000, 11:11]
BT: Google Is Our Biggest Threat
News I think he’s a little bit ahead of his time," said Lars Godell, principal analyst in Forrester's Telecom & Networks research team. I don’t see Google owning an infrastructure," Godell told ZDNet UK. Referring to the services that BT plans to...
[June 8, 2006, 13:15]
GSM World Forum: Wireless Future Discussed
News One problem is the amount operators will be able to charge for services," says Forrester analyst Lars Godell. It is clear Bluetooth will provide competition for the UMTS players," says analyst Godell.
[February 19, 2001, 9:36]
Analysts Predict Wi-Fi Crash
News With all the hype today about the rollout of WLAN public hot spots, it's as if the dot-com boom and bust never happened," said Lars Godell, Forrester senior analyst. Additionally, the sky-high costs of providing Internet backhaul from hot spots...
[June 19, 2003, 16:26]
News Burst: Orange Outpaces Cellnet
News There will be nothing like a full commercial launch [of Cellnet's GPRS services]," said Lars Godell, author of the Forrester report. Orange is set to leapfrog BT Cellnet in providing its customers with high speed mobile services, according to a...
[March 29, 2000, 15:54]
Openzone Boss Optimistic About Wi-Fi Take Up
News Gartner analyst Lars Godell told ZDNet UK earlier this week that he didn't believe this promotion would significantly boost take-up. Chris Clark, chief executive of BT Openzone, claimed on Thursday that Wi-Fi usage was accelerating fast in the UK.
[August 26, 2005, 14:30]
Terrorism Threat To Drive Security Outsourcing
News Companies will be forced to outsource in order to cope with an increasingly volatile security environment, according to Forrester senior analyst Lars Godell. IT spending went through the roof just before the millennium as companies upgraded their...
[July 2, 2003, 11:50]
Britain Hottest In Europe For Wi-Fi
News Additionally, the sky-high costs of providing Internet backhaul from hot spots will kill many hot-spot business cases," predicted Lars Godell, Forrester senior analyst, when the Forrester figures were released in June.
[August 13, 2003, 12:50]
Government Continues To Deny Secret 3G Talks
News Telecoms analyst Lars Godell believes network operators will be forced to merge, diversify or collapse. Officials at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) are this week continuing to deny that they are holding secret meetings with telecom...
[April 24, 2001, 8:38]
Market Debates BT's Access Division
News However, Lars Godell, principal analyst in Forrester's telecom and networks research team, said he would be surprised if that was the case. Forrester's Godell, however, said the changes will benefit ISPs rather than end users.
[September 23, 2005, 9:10]
BT Woos Wi-Fi Virgins
News Lars Godell, principal analyst for Forrester, said the price reduction was "great news" for wireless broadband users. Businesses are concerned with security issues, and individual users are also concerned with privacy, Godell said.
[August 24, 2005, 17:15]
More Woe For 3G, Says Research
News Lars Godell, telecoms analyst at Forrester, believes operators will be forced to merge, diversify or collapse. Other operators will have to merge with these winners, according to Godell. European mobile phone network operators will fail to generate...
[January 5, 2001, 13:52]
Hutchison Could Trigger 3G Price War
News Lars Godell, telecoms analyst at Forrester, said earlier this year that 3G would be remembered as "the trigger that imploded Europe's mobile industry". Godell reckoned that industry consolidation would lead to only five 3G operators being in...
[July 6, 2001, 13:42]
Deutsche Telekom Sheds CEO
Blog Over to Forrester's amiable Lars Godell: "The departure.doesn't solve any of DT’s structural, long-term problems so people need to be realistic when assessing the potential for quick change at the company.
[November 13, 2006, 15:47]
Government Denies Allegations Of Secret 3G Talks
News Lars Godell, telecoms analyst at Forrester, has warned that most mobile network operators will be faced with a choice of merging, or going bust. The government denied on Monday that it has been conducting secret meetings with mobile network...
[March 19, 2001, 11:53]
