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Cellular Standards & Intellectual Property Rights
Actionable Benefits
- Help operators plan and prioritize The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) involvement.
- Identify successful patent strategies and the key innovators in the market.
- Understand and learn from successful standards and patent strategies.
- Correlate between operator techco initiatives, standards involvement, and patent ownership.
Research Highlights
- China Mobile and NTT DOCOMO are the leading operators, both in standards and patent developments and techco transformations.
- Other operators, including Vodafone, are investing in market-led innovations, rather than standards and patents.
- Despite standards and patent developments being led by Tier Ones, smaller operators may be more nimble and niche to transform to a techco.
Critical Questions Answered
- Which mobile operators are leading in terms of standards developments and patent holdings?
- How does patent ownership and standards involvement correlate with strategic transformation to techco?
- What do standards involvement and patent initiatives tell us about techco transformation in the current market?
Who Should Read This?
- Decision makers within operators and vendors who are planning standards and patent strategies.
- Innovation leaders for Mobile Service Providers (MSPs) who need to understand who will likely innovate in standards and hold the most patents in the future.
- Planners within telco organizations who need to chart a path forward to identify future technologies and concepts.
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