Analyst Profile Detailed
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Mark Winther
Group Vice President and Consulting Partner, Worldwide Telecommunications
Team:
Directions Presenters
IDC Predictions Team
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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Verizon Wireless Bids for Alltel
Richard Murphy, Lewis Ward, Mark Winther, Shiv K. Bakhshi, Ph.D., Stephen D. Drake, Carrie MacGillivray, Godfrey Chua
Jun 2008 - Doc # 212735
Event Flash
This IDC Flash considers the implications of the June 5, 2008, announcement that Verizon Wireless intends to acquire Alltel, the fifth-largest mobile network operator (MNO) in the United States, for $28.1 billion.:
purchase document
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