Americas News Digest – September 2024

Ari Lopes

Practice Leader

Ari Lopes manages the Service Provider Markets Americas team, which covers the telecom markets in the Americas region, including North America, Central America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. His research focuses on telecom operator strategies for 5G, fixed broadband—especially fiber broadband—enterprise telecoms, and IoT. Ari also analyzes developments in the Latin American telecom market, particularly Brazil.

Before joining the company in 2012, Ari worked as a senior financial analyst for Google, a pricing manager for Oi (formerly Brasil Telecom), and a pricing analyst for Vivo. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and a Master of Science in communications management from the University of Strathclyde.

Kristin Paulin

Principal Analyst, North American Markets

As part of Omdia’s service provider markets team, Kristin Paulin covers the North American mobile and fixed telecoms markets, particularly service provider strategies, product and service launches, and network deployments.  

Kristin’s research covers key developments in North America, including 5G, digital strategies, service plans and pricing, market dynamics, and service provider strategic initiatives through thought leadership pieces, as well as operator and market profile reports. She also works on market forecasts, and provides support and insight to key audiences with quarterly data from Omdia’s World Information Series database.

Kristin has over 16 years’ experience in the telecoms sector. Before joining Omdia, Kristin was a market research analyst at semiconductor start-up PrairieComm, and Freescale Semiconductor.

Kristin has a BS in environmental studies from the University of Minnesota, and an MBA in marketing from North Park University, Chicago.

Rohan Satpute

Analyst

Rohan Satpute is a research analyst and member of the Service Providers team for the Americas region. He is responsible for providing competitive analysis, market research, and forecasting of the Americas telecom market.

Rohan has more than four years of experience in business consulting and market research across TMT sectors. Before joining Omdia, Rohan worked with GD Research Center Pvt. Ltd. as an analyst for the TMT-Technology domain. He has experience in market estimation and forecasting, business consulting, technology database, and sales and marketing experience of ICT products. Rohan holds a master’s degree in business administration in marketing from Sinhgad Institute of Management, Pune, and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Pune University.