Julien Blin
Top 10 Predictions for the North African Wireless and Telecom Markets in 2010
The telecommunications and wireless sectors have been bright spots in North African economies and likely to continue to grow. The success of these sectors comes from a wide consumer adoption first of basic mobile phone services, in particular voice, at very affordable prices, then expanding into new services from SMS texting to ring tones. In this paper, Julien Blin, the North Africa Journal’s technology editor and CEO of JBB Research predicts what is to come in Africa’s wireless and telecom markets this year. (copyright JBB Research: http://www.jbbresearch.com)
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Julien Blin
Julien Blin, is a contributor to The North Africa Journal with focus on telecommunications and IT issues. Mr. Blin is also Principal Analyst and CEO of JBB Research, a leading research and consulting company focusing on the wireless and communications space. Mr Blin comes from IDC where he covered the mobile entertainment space before moving to equity research at Wedbush Morgan Securities.
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