Amrish Kacker, Partner, leads Analysys Mason’s Strategy Consulting work in the Asia-Pacific region. He has been with Analysys Mason since 2000 and moved to Singapore from Analysys Mason’s Cambridge office, UK, in 2006.
Amrish specialises in supporting board-level investment and strategy decision-making in the telecoms sector. He has wide experience in working with fixed and mobile operators across the world.
Notably he led several projects for a European operator over a fifteen-month period, working with the Executive Management team to support their new technology investment strategy, business planning, development of a pricing process and regulatory lobbying (MVNOs and international roaming).
He has considerable expertise in the area of NGN transformation having directed assignments for a European incumbent, an Asian regulator and an integrated Asian operator on assessing the migration to NGN and the strategic implications for the existing broadband business.
He is the thought leader in the Wireless Broadband and Fixed–Mobile Convergence (FMC) space within Analysys Mason, having worked on a variety of wireless broadband projects across a range of technologies – HSPA, WiMAX and CDMA. He has recently supported the development of a business plan for a new entrant launching a WiMAX-based service to deliver voice and Internet access in an emerging market, as well as undertaken a commercial strategy review for a Western European operator leading the adoption of HSPA.
Amrish also leads the work for International Wholesale strategy within Analysys Mason.
He has a diverse background having worked for a large European strategy consulting firm for three years as well as having spent more than five years in sales and marketing with Unilever. Amrish holds an engineering degree in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
The provision of a full-screen Internet experience using mobile broadband dongles has been extremely successful, but a profitable business case has still to be established.
The provision of a full-screen Internet experience using mobile broadband dongles has been extremely successful, but a profitable business case has still to be established.
Fixed-only and mobile-only business models are rapidly disappearing as different forms of multi-play offerings appear.
High-speed packet access (HSPA) technology, referred to as mobile broadband, is being rapidly adopted by operators worldwide as a main or supplementary type of broadband connection. But several factors threaten the potential future profitability of mobile networks with the successful adoption of mobile broadband.
The success of wireless broadband is increasing the debate on how wireless is able to compete with the lower-cost, higher-bandwidth fixed services provided by fixed broadband.
