A comprehensive strategic report on emerging mobile convergence markets and analysis of key value chain segments including devices, device components and services
Key Coverage
- Identify the technology choices being made and when these devices will be in the mobile converged devices market
- Assess the impact of convergence on the fixed and mobile telecoms industries
- Trace the potential landscape of Fixed Mobile Convergence market and the market place for different competing technologies
- Evaluate the business case for deploying IETF SIP, 3GPP SIP and enabled services
- Gain an insight into today’s latest technologies including PoC, MIM&Presence, Mobile VoIP, and video sharing services and enabling devices.
Market Data
- Understand the technology choices and in-market dates of mobile converged devices.
- Identify how operators may use these devices in their strategies
- Evaluate the dynamics and competition within the Mobile Converged Devices market place
- Discover the Mobile Converged Devices value chain through an in-depth analysis of different segments and links
- Assess the opportunities and challenges facing the key enabling technologies of the mobile converged devices market
- Trace the significant market developments, analyse partnership opportunities with device manufacturers and understand major competitors’ strategies
- Gain insightful, expert commentary on the state of the converging telecommunications and media industries and weigh up the likely development in the mobile converged devices market
Forecasts
- Users of different converged services by region, including:
- FMC and VCC/IMS vs UMA vs proprietary technologies
- Users of SIP by region including IETF/SIP and 3GPP/SIP
- IP multimedia and mobile converged devices sales by technology by region
- UMA
- VCC
- Proprietary technologies
- SIP IETF
- SIP 3GPP
- Sales of 3GPP devices by service type including IMS PoC, Advanced MIM, IMS video sharing, IMS mobile VoIP
- Sales of WLAN and WiMAX enabled handsets by region
- Global handsets sales by technology (2.5G, 3G, 3.5G+) and by feature set (i.e. basic, low-feature, feature-rich, smartphones)
Key Issues Addressed
- What drives the adoption of Mobile Converged Devices?
- What is the current status of convergence?
- What types of device are likely to evolve to form the Mobile Converged Device segment?
- How will convergence affect business models and how will value chains evolve?
- How will the evolution of hardware and software impact on Mobile Converged Devices?
- What are the Mobile Converged Device strategies for traditional mobile handset vendors?
- What are the Mobile Converged Device strategies for other actors (IT device vendors, consumer electronics vendors etc)?
- Why are some device vendors promoting Mobile Converged Devices?
- Who will benefit most from deploying Mobile Converged Devices and services; mobile operators, fixed operators or new entrants?
- What are the opportunities and challenges, costs and benefits for other players in the industry value chain?
- How will Mobile Converged Device costs evolve over time?
- When will Mobile Converged Devices become widely used?
- How will Mobile Converged Device battery life be improved?
- What challenges does convergence place on device software?
Countries / Sectors / Companies Covered
Mobile handset vendors
- Nokia
- Motorola
- Samsung
- Sony-Ericsson
- LG Electronics
- RIM
- HTC
- Palm
- HP
- Cisco
- Microsoft
- Skype
- e28
- Gupp
- Apple
- Sony
Who should read this report
Mobile operators and mobile service providers:
Evaluate the business case for MCD
Fixed operators and fixed service providers:
Assess the opportunities and challenges in the mobile market
Traditional device vendors (ODMs, OEMs, etc):
Understand the economics of MCDs, evaluate opportunities including product differentiation and potential service offerings
IT and consumer electronics device vendors:
Seize opportunities in the mobile and fixed markets
New entrants and start-ups:
Adopt a position in the new value chain and adapt products and services to the MCD market
Software vendors and chipset manufacturers:
Differentiate products and reposition within the new telecoms industry value-chain
Networks equipment vendors:
Assess the technical and strategic challenges in the MCD market, assess and build strategies accordingly
Application developers and publishers:
Understand market segmentation and seize opportunities in the MCD market.
