Dr. Robert Roche
Dr. Robert F. Roche has headed CTIA’s Research Department since January 1993, and is responsible for directing CTIA's surveys, and providing research findings and background information about the wireless industry to the media, industry analysts, representatives of government agencies and foreign governments and businesses. Dr. Roche has helped develop a number of wireless industry metrics for both CTIA and its affiliates, as well as for third-party accounting and survey firms.
Dr. Roche co-authors CTIA’s comprehensive semi-annual report on the U.S. wireless industry CTIA's Wireless Industry Indices Report, and the CTIA Insight series and has written numerous papers on wireless industry performance and communications policy, including “Wireless Local Loop Around the World,” “Competition and the Wireless Industry,” “The Who, What and Why of Calling Party Pays,” “Reinventing Competition: The Wireless Paradigm and the Information Age” and “PCS Predictions and Prescriptions: Highlights from 32 Studies and Reports on the Prospects for PCS.”
Dr. Roche has spoken on wireless measurement and performance at numerous venues, addressing visiting delegations of international service providers and regulators, as well as government- and industry-sponsored conferences on wireless issues.
Progressive Policy Institute Explains Why BLS Data is Easily Misinterpreted
**UPDATE @ 11 a.m. ET: In his op-ed published this morning, Harold Furchtgott-Roth, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a former FCC Commissioner, pointed out how the “narrowly focused” data cited by the recent WSJ article fails to accurately reflect the larger U.S. wireless ecosystem.** I’ve been tracking the U.S. wireless industry for years. [...]
Different Approaches and Different Definitions Change the Count of Wireless Industry Jobs
Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published its June 2011 “Employment Situation Summary,” which is their latest jobs numbers for a variety of industries. Some of those numbers were about the telecom industry, which includes “wireless telecom carriers.” According to the preliminary BLS figures for May 2011, both the total telecom and the wireless [...]
Wireless Industry Innovation: The Digital Revolution
Wireless is so much a part of our lives today, it’s hard to realize how new it is and how far we’ve come in such little time. Later this year, we’ll celebrate the 28th anniversary of wireless service in America, since the launch of commercial cellular service in October 1983. When I joined the wireless [...]
Wireless Data Traffic Grew 110% from 2009-2010
As I previously mentioned, CTIA has released the latest edition of the CTIA Wireless Industry Indices report — an in-depth analysis of the semi-annual data survey conducted by CTIA since January 1985, updated through year-end 2010. With more than 117 tables and 72 charts, the 390-page CTIA Wireless Industry Indices report provides a comprehensive review [...]
Wireless Industry Capital Expenditures 2008-2010 was More Than $71 Billion
CTIA has released the latest edition of the CTIA Wireless Industry Indices report — an in-depth analysis of the semi-annual data survey conducted by CTIA since January 1985, updated through year-end 2010. With more than 117 tables and 72 charts, the 390-page CTIA Wireless Industry Indices report provides a comprehensive review of the survey results over [...]
A Little More Info About CTIA’s Semi-Annual Report and the Wireless World
In the last 24-hours, there have been some recent discussions about CTIA’s wireless industry semi-annual survey. Since there seems to be some confusion on our statistics, we thought it was important to be clear on what CTIA does – and doesn’t – track. When CTIA’s semi-annual survey began in January 1985, we tracked a number [...]
CTIA’s VP of Research Says: No More Flawed Surveys
Every so often, organizations release information attacking the competitive nature of the U.S. wireless market as compared to other countries. Unfortunately, all too often they have fatal flaws that render them meaningless. If one is to conduct a credible, rigorous study of international wireless markets to compare against the U.S., it must: Be an apples-to-apples comparison [...]
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