CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 12 /PRNewswire/ -- As a research partner of Mobile World Congress, Pyramid Research is sending a team of analysts and directors to the event to discuss their perspectives on global mobile trends with the most influential players in the telecoms industry. If you would like to request a meeting during the event with one or more of the Pyramid team members listed below, please contact Jennifer Baker at jbaker@pyr.com.

Gabriela Baez, Managing Director, Global Research Consulting Daniel Amparan, Vice President Stela Bokun, Analyst, EMEA Fernando Pafumi, Director, Latin America Erik Anderson, Director, North America

To help your preparation for Mobile World Congress, watch a video Interview (http://www.pyramidresearch.com/MobileGrowthStrategiesInAfrica.htm? sc=PRN021210_MWC) with Pyramid Research analyst Badii Kechiche and Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre as they discuss developments in the African mobile market as part of Light Reading's Mobile World Congress News Analysis (http://www.lightreading.com/mobile-world-congress/).

For more analysis on the global and emerging market mobile trends, download complimentary excerpts of the latest Pyramid reports:

Telecom Insider Reports: Register to download free excerpts here (http://www.pyramidresearch.com/downloads.htm?id=5sc=PRN021210_MWC).

Mobile Operators See Strong Revenue Potential from Social Networking Mobile Internet Adoption: Content is the Catalyst Mobile Gaming in China: Waiting for a 3G Boost Room for Improvement: Young Europeans Pursue the Killer Mobile App

Research Reports: Register to download free excerpts here (http://www.pyramidresearch.com/downloads.htm?id=1sc=PRN021210_MWC).

Mobile Enterprise Services in Emerging Markets WiMax and LTE: The Case for 4G Coexistence Smartphone Forecast: Operator Strategies Will Fuel Growth in Emerging Markets Mobile Gaming in Emerging Markets: Five-Year Forecast and Impact Analysis Mobile Video Services: A Five-Year Global Market Forecast Mobile Broadband for the Masses: The Case for Bundled Netbooks

As the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network, Pyramid Research contributes to the US$3 trillion communications industry's most comprehensive market data, trusted research, and insightful technology analysis. Pyramid will be participating in Light Reading's Meet the Editors Analysts Speed-Dating Event on Wednesday, February 17, in Barcelona. Learn more about how to get dedicated one-on-one time with two or three analysts and editors at wherestheparty@lightreading.com.

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Pyramid Research (http://www.pyr.com) offers practical solutions to the complex demands our clients face in the telecommunications, media and echnology industries. Our analysis is uniquely positioned at the intersection of emerging markets, emerging technologies and emerging business models, powered by the bottom-up methodology of our market forecasts for over 100 countries - a distinction that has remained unmatched for more than 25 years. As the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network, Pyramid Research works with Heavy Reading, providing the communications industry's most comprehensive market data, trusted research and insightful technology analysis.

About Light Reading

Founded in 2000, Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com) is the leading online media, research, and focused event company serving the US$3 trillion worldwide communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate ource for technological and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation. Light Reading's research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research, provide the most comprehensive communications research, market data, and technology analysis in close to 100 markets around the world. Light Reading produces nearly 20 targeted communications events including TelcoTV, and TelcoTV Asia, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet Europe, and The Tower Summit @ CTIA, as well as focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and wireline executives in the US, Europe, India, and China. Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and operates as a unit of TechWeb.

About TechWeb

TechWeb (http://www.techweb.com), the global leader in technology media and professional information, enables people and organizations to harness the transformative power of technology. Through its three core businesses - media solutions, marketing services and paid content - TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed brands and media applications in the technology market. More than 14 million business and technology professionals (CIOs and IT managers, Web Digital professionals, Software Developers, Government decision makers, and Telecom providers) actively engage in TechWeb's communities and information resources monthly. TechWeb brands includes: global face-to-face events such as Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and VoiceCon; award-winning online resources such as InformationWeek, Light Reading, and Network Computing; and market-leading InformationWeek, Wall Street Technology, and Advanced Trading magazines. TechWeb is a UBM company, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services, with a market capitalization of more than US$2.5 billion.

About United Business Media Limited

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com.

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