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Thecla analyzes telecom, media, and technology trends as part of the Middle East and Africa team. She researches regional operator strategies, network deployments, and regulatory development. Specific areas of her research include broadband technology deployments (4G, 5G, FTTx), smartphones, OTT, and mobile financial services.
Thecla joined Omdia in 2003 as a telecom researcher and has over 20 years’ experience in the industry. She is a regular speaker and chair at industry conferences and comments on industry developments for regional and international media. Previously, Thecla worked for global telecom carrier Vectone in London.
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As part of Omdia’s forecasting and data analysis team in India, Sanket covers telecoms operators’ performance and tracks TMT developments across the African region. He provides quarterly updates of telecoms operators through the Omdia model, focuses on improving the quality of data available to clients, and contributes to several products.
Sanket has more than two years’ work experience in the research industry. He has experience in market and competitive analysis, product benchmarking, sales enablement, qualitative and quantitative research, forecasting, and in-database management processes. Before joining Informa (now Omdia), he worked as an analyst at Mordor Intelligence LLP on syndicated reports and market estimates. He has worked on various syndicated reports in telecoms, electronics, automation, and IT domains. He has also worked with various tools such as Factiva, DiscoverOrg, Capital IQ, and ONESOURCE. In 2019, Sanket received his postgraduate diploma in management in marketing and analytics from the Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur.
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