Tole Hart Laid Off from Gartner

Tole Hart has been laid off from the analyst firm. Tole was a research director for the Consumer Services group of the communications area of Gartner Technology & Service Provider research. His areas of coverage included mobile voice and data trends, mobile advertising, mobile VoIP, mobile applications and mobile Web, SMS campaigns, context-aware computing, mobile portals, mobile virtual network operations (MVNOs) and mobile entertainment. He had been with Gartner for 13 years. Prior to joining Gartner, Tole worked for Northern Business Information (NBI) as a senior analyst covering the wireless industry. He also worked at Frost & Sullivan as a profiles analyst. Tole is currently working as an independent wireless consultant. From what we’ve heard, there have been additional layoffs at Gartner; we will keep you updated as we continue to research the situation. Should you know of any additional information, please forward it to me at lborgstede@calsyto.com.