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Key Issues: Google’s disruptive week
Google steps up the pace of disruption of the entrenched mobile models

• Five years on, Nexus is finally poised to sideline the carrier
• Google’s Jibe purchase will be a Trojan horse in the MNO camp
• Microsoft-Google IPR truce spells doom for traditional mobile licensing

• Microsoft and BlackBerry build the barricades around their enterprise turf
• Cloud-RAN becomes real, but not in China Mobile’s blueprint
• Marvell is latest casualty of mobile modem meltdown
• Evolve group marshalls LTE forces for 5 GHz attack
• Full-duplex moves closer to reality with Deutsche Telekom trial
• MediaTek broadens smart home reach with Amazon deal at the heart