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Rosalind Craven
Senior Research Analyst, EMEA Telecommunication and Networking

Team: EMEA Telecoms
Rosalind Craven joined IDC in August 2010 as a senior research analyst in the EMEA Consumer Mobile team. Based in London, she is responsible for IDC’s mobile forecasts for Western Europe, as well as taking part in ongoing research into issues affecting the consumer mobile market.

Before joining IDC, Craven worked as telecoms analyst at country risk and industry analysis firm Business Monitor International, specializing in the EMEA region. During her time at Business Monitor, she worked extensively to expand coverage of telecoms markets in the Middle East and Africa, notably expanding significantly the depth of research into Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to her time at Business Monitor, Craven gained significant knowledge of telecoms pricing models at niche tariff research firm Tarifica.

Craven graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2006 with a BA in Arabic language.


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EE Touts "4G For the Mainstream," But Prices It for the High End
John Delaney, Rosalind Craven
Oct 2012 - Doc # lcUK23748012      IDC Link
Everything Everywhere, now re-branded as EE, is about to become the first U.K. mobile operator to offer LTE services, following Ofcom's August 2012 decision to allow the deployment of LTE in EE's 1800 MHz spectrum. Today the operator has re ...
Spanish Subscriber Losses Not the End of the World
Rosalind Craven
Jul 2012 - Doc # lcUK23621112      IDC Link
Much has been made of the slump in Spain's mobile market, but are things really that bad? According to the monthly report of the CMT, Spain's telecoms regulator, the mobile market as a whole lost a quarter of a million connections in May th ...

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IDC's Pre-MWC Brunch 2013
Chris Lewis, Eric Owen, John Delaney, Danielle Levitas, Courtney Munroe, Angela Salmeron, Carrie MacGillivray, John Byrne, John Jackson, Francisco Jeronimo, Rosalind Craven, Nicholas McQuire, Debra Osswald
Mar 2013 - Doc # MS54V      Insight
This Insight is based on the presentations and discussion at IDC's pre-MWC brunch session in Barcelona on February 24, 2013.: We have taken the opportunity to summarize the trends presented and discussed at the brunch in the context ...
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Mobile World Congress: The Big Consumer Themes
John Delaney, Rosalind Craven
Mar 2013 - Doc # MS53V      Insight
The mobile industry's biggest annual gathering, Mobile World Congress, took place from February 25 to February 28, 2013. After the show, the GSMA announced a record attendance of 72,000 delegates, up 7.5% from attendance at the 2012 even ...
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