Analyst Profile
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Mark Winther
Group Vice President and Consulting Partner, Worldwide Telecommunications
Team:
Custom Solutions
Telecommunications
VOIP
Worldwide Telecom Services Database
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Mark A. Winther is Group Vice President and Consulting Partner of Worldwide Telecommunications at IDC. In this role Winther leads a focused Global Telecom Consulting group that helps clients meet their planning, business, and market intelligence needs. His global consulting team leverages the knowledge assets of more than 150 communications analysts worldwide to effectively develop solutions and services that global clients require.
Prior to his leadership role above Winther was responsible for the strategic direction and planning, as well as project management and profitability for the IDC global telecommunications syndicated services practice. This practice consisted of IDC research covering IP convergence, broadband, wireless, enhanced voice and data application services. Overseeing a global product line, Winther managed operations in US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Winther is a founding producer of IDC’s European Telecom Forum, an annual conference and exhibition targeting visions of the fixed and mobile broadband future. He is also the founding producer of IDC’s Web Talk Forum, an annual conference which addresses the emerging opportunities in IP voice applications, business models and technologies.
Specializing in telecommunications service provider markets and technologies, Winther is a recognized expert in telecommunications competition, IP convergence, softswitch services and infrastructures, enterprise IP networking, broadband markets, and wireless transformation.
Winther is a frequent speaker at industry events worldwide and has presented at the following selected events: Mobile Internet Latin America Summit, Vortex, Chase Securities Telecom Tutorial Series, Telecom Business, IDC Telecom Transitions conferences in the US, Europe, and Asia; IDC European Telecom Forum, Italia TeleComNet, ComNet, the Columbia Institute for TeleInformation, and TeleStrategies Seminars. Winther has contributed articles to the Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, NetworkWorld, and Computerworld.
Winther joined the International Data Group family in 1984 when he joined LINK Resources Corp. LINK Resources was fully merged into IDC in 1993. Prior to joining IDG, Winther served as managing editor at QV Publishing Inc., a major publisher of newsletters and market research reports on the cable TV, pay-TV, and consumer online services markets.
Winther has a BA from Swarthmore College and attended the Masters Program at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania
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The Apple and the Carrier: Who Needs Who?
William Stofega, Mark Winther
May 2012 - Doc # lcUS23467112
IDC Link
By every measure, Apple had an amazing March quarter. Revenue was up 59% to $39.2 billion, and iPhone and iPad unit sales were up 88% and 151%, respectively. Connected devices, iPhone and iPad, drive 75% of Apple revenue. Without mobile ope ...
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Global Telecommunications: On the Rebound in 2013
Mark Winther
Apr 2013 - Doc # WC20130425
Event Proceeding
This IDC Web conference reviews the 2012 performance of the world's telecommunications service providers, covering revenue, connections, capital programs, and profitability. In 2012, the global telecommunications industry just about retu ...
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