A curate’s egg of mixed Q3 results has burst to reveal that newer markets accounted for many of the good bits, while sales sagged in traditional sectors. A common thread was saturation of primary markets such as consumer mobile or fixed broadband, combined with accelerating growth in new targeted areas, like Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), of developing geographical markets. All of these trends show up in our chosen sample of earnings from Verizon and Orange on the operator side, and Nokia and China’s ZTE among major vendors. For Verizon, the main positive was already well known and quickly becoming traditional, FWA, where the operator has been vying particularly with T-Mobile, given AT&T’s relatively late conversion to the cause. The company…