Karl Hicks

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  Bluetooth Is Coming Nick Selby - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/21/2001    Last Visited: 7/21/2003  

  Not quite accurate, said Karl Hicks, a manager at Datamonitor's technology division.
  
  "Some would say that there's a problem with price at the moment," Hicks said, "but the cost is really only $15 or $20 per chip currently, and when you see the kinds of announcements and developments in Bluetooth, the large economies of scale will begin to bring prices down very soon."

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  CommentWire by Datamonitor - Key Analysts - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/25/2003    Last Visited: 12/25/2003  

  Karl Hicks

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  Corporate WAP - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/1/2001    Last Visited: 2/11/2004  

  "The main lesson for service providers from WAP is to develop services that business people really want to use," explains Karl Hicks, an analyst with Datamonitor in London.

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  Interactive Consumer 2001 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/24/2001    Last Visited: 6/20/2002  

  Karl Hicks, Lead Analyst, Datamonitor Technology
  
  12:00 pm:Multi-channel integration and CRM
  
  What lessons have been learned from the evolution of the CRM industry? How can companies reach, attract and sell to consumers in the multi-channel age? What will keep profitable customers loyal and turn bad customers into good? And how much will it cost?

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  IrishAbroad - Online - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/9/2000    Last Visited: 9/9/2000  

  Karl Hicks, a mobile market analyst with Datamonitor, a UK-based research firm, says many of the problems have not been down to Wap at all, but the devices and networks used.The small screens on mobile phones, the difficulty of entering text, the slow connection speeds and the inability to get on the network, because of bandwidth restrictions, are not Wap's fault, but people associate them with Wap, he says.
  
  But the truth is that the system was massively oversold.When Wap phones and real Wap services became widely available, the flakiness of the reality made the hype unsustainable.And while it is tempting to blame journalists for hyping a system that not all had used, the trade tends to point the finger at BT.
  
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  As Hicks says, It needs a lot more momentum behind Wap before that really starts to happen..
  
  There are several excuses for holding back.For example, Wap might be overtaken by i-mode, which NTT DoCoMo is keen to export, or another system.Even if it is successful, Wap may have a very short life.Some argue that mobile devices are becoming more powerful every year, and that GPRS and UTMS will make it possible to deliver the whole internet to mobiles within two or three years.what be the point of investing in an incompatible cut-down web when you can have the real thing.

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  Mobile Lifestreams - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/31/2000    Last Visited: 3/14/2001  

  It is a case of waiting and seeing what the pull is going to be on the consumer side , otherwise large organisations will waste large investments on technology , says Datamonitor analyst , Karl Hicks.It has proved to be extremely difficult to predict the popularity of anything in the mobile data arena.The unexpected success of SMS is a good example of this.

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  Mobile Messenging is a monthly mobile data newsletter... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/31/2000    Last Visited: 12/8/2001  

  "It is a case of waiting and seeing what the pull is going to be on the consumer side, otherwise large organisations will waste large investments on technology," says Datamonitor analyst, Karl Hicks.It has proved to be extremely difficult to predict the popularity of anything in the mobile data arena.The unexpected success of SMS is a good example of this.

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  Nonvoice News is a monthly mobile data newsletter with... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/5/2000    Last Visited: 3/10/2002  

  "It is a case of waiting and seeing what the pull is going to be on the consumer side, otherwise large organisations will waste large investments on technology," says Datamonitor analyst, Karl Hicks.It has proved to be extremely difficult to predict the popularity of anything in the mobile data arena.The unexpected success of SMS is a good example of this.

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  QSDG Magazine - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/2/2000    Last Visited: 4/4/2003  

  Karl Hicks, an analyst with London-based research house Datamonitor blames the media for oversimplifying matters by attributing to WAP problems which originate from different sources."WAP does have its problems, such as security, but the ones everyone is talking about are relating to handsets and content, not to the Protocol itself" he told QSDG magazine: "The awkwardness is due to the handsets, while problems with accessing content are dependent on limited bandwidth and transmission issues, not to WAP" he said.
  
  With more than 400 members, the WAP Forum aims to create a global wireless protocol specification that works across all wireless network technologies.This is a crucial task for an industry where rapid technological advances, the existence of a myriad of product developers and increasing user expectations create an explosive mix of potentially confusing offers and increasingly sophisticated demands that risk inflicting damage on the WAP industry.
  
  The Forum claims that wireless subscribers have different essential needs from desktop or even laptop Internet users.Understanding and catering for these needs is the challenge facing WAP service providers.

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  TelecomClick - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/1/2001    Last Visited: 3/4/2001  

  The main lesson for service providers from WAP is to develop services that business people really want to use , explains Karl Hicks , an analyst with Datamonitor in London.
  
  Customer indifference is not limited to corporate users.U.K.-based market research firm BMRB International reported in November that fewer than 2 percent of all WAP phone subscribers were using their phones to access the Internet.
  
  One way of encouraging greater WAP use is to allow companies to use the technology to deliver their own services.Vodafone , for example , now is presenting companies with a solution whereby employees can pull down database information , customer profiles or even order forms from a WAP device at a remote location.

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