Mobile Networks Forecasts: Future Mobile Traffic, Base Stations & Revenues

Mike Roberts is lead author of Future Mobile Broadband: Revenue Opportunities for HSPA to LTE, EV-DO to UMB & WiMAX and a Principal Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media. His research areas include mobile broadband, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, wireless VoIP, fixed-mobile convergence and IP Multimedia Subsystem. His primary outputs are reports, including WiMAX Broadband Convergence: Emerging Fixed, Portable & Mobile Revenue Opportunities and Municipal Wireless Broadband. Mike has been tracking emerging mobile, wireless and fixed markets since 2000, when he started contributing to Informa research services such as 3G Wireless Broadband and Telecom Markets. He regularly presents and chairs at key industry events and provides comments on mobile broadband, convergence and other topics to the press.

Gareth is Head of Forecasting within Informa Telecoms & Media’s Industry Research division, leading its centralised forecasting team.

In his role Gareth is responsible for the management and development of Informa Telecoms and Media's forecasts covering the mobile, fixed and media industries. Over the last seven years he has spearheaded the development of numerous forecasting products, spanning a range of sectors from devices and networks through to applications and services. He also manages the forecasts within WCIS, an industry leading market intelligence database whose numbers are quoted extensively throughout the ICT Industry.

His most recent work involved forecasting the rapidly changing mobile content and services market and developing models to predict the future growth of traffic on mobile networks.

Gareth has over nine years experience in statistical and financial modelling in the ICT industry. Before joining Informa, Gareth worked as a commercial analyst for MCI where he focused on European telecom pricing. Gareth holds a degree in Business Economics in which he specialised in Econometrics.