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Mobile Health – Who Pays?
11 February 2011
Mobile health (mHealth) offerings promise to improve healthcare delivery and provide revenue for service providers – but adoption and monetizing the opportunity will require changes to the way the industry does business.

New study on the Internet questions its commercial viability and calls for rebalancing of economic relationships along the value chain
20 December 2010
A.T. Kearney has today released a report on "A Viable Future Model for the Internet", which explores the technical and commercial sustainability of the current explosive growth in traffic and services, especially video.

Solar thermal electricity (STE) reaches marketability – generation costs can be reduced by more than 50 percent by 2025
29 June 2010
A joint study by A.T. Kearney and the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association, ESTELA, shows the growing mid-term potential of STE to progressively substitute conventional energy sources and complement the renewable energy sources portfolio with a cost-competitive dispatchable solution – In a best-case scenario industry roadmap involves creation of 100,000 to 130,000 jobs by 2025.

Kick-starting Industry growth - Tuning into the future of telecoms
11 June 2010 - Telling Tech Tales
Television is becoming increasingly fundamental to the future of the telecoms industry, according to senior executives gathered in London this week for an A.T. Kearney telecoms and media conference.

GSMA Shines Spotlight on Asian Mobile Industry at 2009 Mobile Asia Congress
17 November 2009 — PR newswire
On the eve of the 2009 Mobile Asia Congress, the GSMA, the body that represents the worldwide mobile communications industry, issued key findings that underscore the strength and success of the Asia Pacific mobile industry. The GSMA today released its Asia Pacific Mobile Observatory Report, which shows that since 2003, the Asia Pacific market has more than tripled in size, adding over a billion connections and growing at 26% CAGR(1) to reach 1.7 billion connections in 2008.

Inaugural “Green Mobile Award” awarded
18 February 2009 — atkearney news release
Philippines-based wireless services provider SMART Communications (SMART) was awarded the first-ever “Green Mobile Award."

Nominations for “Green Mobile Award” Announced
21 January 2009 — atkearney news release
The GSMA has announced its five nominees for the first “Green Mobile Award” sponsored by A.T. Kearney, which will be awarded on Tuesday 17th February 2009.

New A.T. Kearney research recognises the mobile industry's substantial contribution to the European economy, identifies challenges for future growth
18 September 2008 — atkearney news release
The GSM Association (GSMA), the global trade body for the mobile industry, releases the European Mobile Observatory, the first of a series of reports documenting the state of the mobile industry.

Icahn Jimmies Into Yahoo Boardroom
21 July 2008 — E-Commerce Times
Alex Liu, A.T. Kearney Lead for Americas Communications & High Tech Practice, comments on the deal between Yahoo's board of directors and investor Carl Icahn.