Paul Lambert
Senior Analyst, Editor
UK
+18 years experience
With a keen interest in 4G, Paul continually evaluates the options open to operators moving to 4G voice and what this means in the context of OTT players’ focus on enhancing their core telephony features.
He specializes in the implications resulting from eSIM and the evolving capabilities of mobile broadband. Other recent reports have examined eSIM, 5G, LoRA, and IoT.
Paul also edits Ovum's news publication Global Telecoms Daily.
Service Provider Markets
By Paul Lambert 05 Jul 2019
Vodafone UK's 5G launch is an excellent example of how operators can use network investments and pricing to reposition in the market, putting itself in a strong position to compete with market-leader BT/EE .
Topic 5G
Service Provider Markets, Consumer and Entertainment Service...
By Paul Lambert 27 Jun 2019
If Apple and Qualcomm move on from past tensions and agree the commercial terms of an agreement, they can realize significant benefits from being among the leaders in their fields, put further distance between themselves and their respective competitors for new products, and in the process supercharge the global 5G market.
Topic 5G
Service Provider Markets, Consumer and Entertainment Service...
By Paul Lambert 27 Feb 2019
Ovum's roundup of events and announcements from the third day of Mobile World Congress 2019.
Service Provider Markets, Consumer and Entertainment Service...
By Paul Lambert 23 Jan 2019
Because of the market realities it faces, when commercially viable 5G chipsets launch, Apple will have to decide whether it can continue with its past strategy of waiting to introduce the latest generation of cellular technology.
Topic 5G
Service Provider Markets, Consumer and Entertainment Service...
By Paul Lambert 14 Sep 2018
Apple's new iPhone Xs devices include technologies that embody two of the most significant trends operators need to get a grip on: the first is eSIM and the shift to becoming a fully digital service provider; the second is Gigabit LTE (Cat 16) and differentiation it offers around the network experience.
Service Provider Markets
By Paul Lambert 05 Jul 2018
Ovum's latest research on 5G aims to help operators navigate their approaches to 5G's increased complexity, and how they can capitalize on the expanded range of opportunities it makes possible.
Service Provider Markets, Consumer and Entertainment Service...
By Paul Lambert 21 Nov 2017
Vodafone's first major step into the consumer IoT market is the most coherent and well-targeted offering outside of the connected home and automotive segments so far by a European operator.
Service Provider Markets
By Paul Lambert 05 Sep 2017
"An iPod, a phone, an internet communicator. Are you getting it?" With these words in September 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the world to his company's latest invention, which was also a new, clear, and tangible vision for how technology could meaningfully change the way we live.
Service Provider Markets
By Paul Lambert 10 Mar 2017
The first 5G standards will become available in early 2018 and equipment will be ready in 2019, one year earlier than expected.
Service Provider Markets, Consumer and Entertainment Service...
By Paul Lambert 09 Nov 2016
Operators shouldn’t fear the eSIM, but they must be wary of the non-telco threat.
Consumer and Entertainment Services, Service Provider Market...
By Paul Lambert 20 Oct 2016
The gradual upgrade of circuit-switched networks to IP voice and developments in the way major Internet players are targeting voice mean that operators need to assess what role they want to play in voice’s all-data future.
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