Berge Ayvazian

Senior Analyst and Consultant at Wireless 20/20

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Berge Ayvazian joined Wireless 20/20 as a Senior Analyst in 2009, following more than 20 years as a senior telecom industry analyst and strategy consultant with Yankee Group, where he served as CEO and co-chairman of the 4G World and Mobile Internet World conference programs. He has extensive experience working with cities on Smart City initiatives, municipal broadband, public Wi-Fi, and public-private partnerships.

At Wireless 20/20, he leads an integrated practice to help mobile and wireless broadband operators and their vendors to develop their 4G/5G technology roadmaps and build a complete business case leveraging the Wireless 20/20 WiROI™ Business Case Analysis Tools. He has used these tools to develop operator 4G network business cases, and address the most challenging modeling problems associated with fixed wireless networks, Wi-Fi Offload, Small Cell deployments and 4G networks to serve venues such as stadiums, airports and train stations. With Wireless 20/20, Ayvazian is working with several cities on their IoT and smart city initiatives and with private sector vendors and service providers on their smart city programs.

Ayvazian also spent five years with UBM as a Senior Analyst/Consultant for Heavy Reading conducting 4G Network and Mobile Internet research on the convergence of broadband and mobility and the evolving business strategies of mobile service providers and their technology vendors. Ayvazian chaired 4G World conferences in the US and India and he continues to serve as the Program Director and Conference Chair of UBM’s Tower & Small Cell Summit.

Ayvazian is a frequent speaker and/or moderator at other telecom industry events worldwide organized by Informa/Knect365, UBM/Light Reading, 4G World/Yankee Group and W2i Digital Cities Convention. He has been a regular contributor of analyst notes, white papers and webcasts for RCR Wireless, Light Reading, Light Reading India, Wireless 20/20 and 4G Trends media portals.

Wireless 20/20 is a leading independent market research and consulting company focused on the broadband wireless market worldwide with clients spanning the entire 3G and 4G value chain, including network operators, service providers, OEMs, semiconductor vendors and investors. Wireless 20/20 is the leading industry analyst and consulting firm guiding the convergence of WiMAX, LTE TDD and FDD under the umbrella of 4G networks. Wireless 20/20 is the developer of the award-winning WiROI™ 4G Broadband Wireless Business Case tools that have been used to develop more than 100 business case for the introduction of new wireless broadband technologies and services. Wireless 20/20 also developed a suite of WiROI™ tools designed to assist City Officials in assessing the costs and revenue offsets from their Smart City networks and IoT applications.