The convergence of fixed and mobile is poised to revolutionise the telecommunications market over the next five years.
Paul Merry, Author: Fixed Mobile Convergence
Fixed Mobile Convergence critically evaluates current and future developments and their ramifications. The report presents potential future scenarios, while providing essential and realistic analysis of the evolving fixed mobile convergence market.
Key Coverage
- Strategic market overview - gain a clear understanding of the current status of fixed mobile convergence and strategic implications
- Extensive forecasts to 2011 - presents four potential market scenarios and includes subscriber figures and revenues for FMC and FMS split by consumer and enterprise and handset forecasts by device types
- Defence strategies - assess the risk of VoIP and formulate defence strategies in the wireless and fixed environment
- FMC value chain - understand current and evolving roles in the FMC service provisioning value chain
- Detailed case studies - discover the strategies of major players in the operator and vendor environment
- Regional analysis - analyse actual and forecasts to 2011 of broadband subscribers by specific countries
Market Data
Actual and forecasts to 2011 of broadband subscribers in the following countries:
- Europe - France, Germany, UK, Finland
- North America - USA, Canada
- Latin America - Brazil, Mexico
- Asia-Pacific - Japan, China, Korea
- Middle East and Africa - Israel, South Africa
Forecasts
Fixed Mobile Convergence presents four core market scenarios identified by strategic analysis of key players. These scenarios are built through considering implications of actions taken by core players.
These scenarios are:
- Status quo/limited development
- Fixed rollout wireless defence
- Aggressive fixed and wireless rollout
- Extreme fixed mobile substitution
Each scenario presents the following forecasts:
- Voice subscribers by enterprise and consumer
- Voice revenues by enterprise and consumer
- Technology usage by UMA, IMS and proprietary
Key Issues Addressed
- Evaluate and quantify operator opportunity in this market
- Identify the threats and ramifications of current market developments and understand their wider strategic impact
- Anticipate the market as it moves forward by means of unique forecasts to 2011 and formulate strategies to optimise your revenues
- Understand current and evolving roles in the FMC service provisioning value chain
- Assess key strategic factors, allowing your organisation to move proactively
Countries / Sectors / Companies covered
Detailed case studies of major players including:
- BT Fusion
- Telecom Italia
- Orange
- Nokia
- Calypso Wireless
Who should read this report
Operators - evaluate and quantify opportunities and threats emerging with FMC and assess various fixed wireless and core network technologies enabling FMC
MVNOs and service providers - assess the opportunities and challenges of FMC in relation to the MVNO service proposition, analyse the successful business model from the perspective of specific industries including, brand owners, retailers, business service providers and content providers
Device, network and component manufacturers - understand the FMC business proposition and opportunities within it; identify key players, potential partners and examine current and evolving roles in the FMC service provisioning value chain
Vendors - understand the FMC value proposition and the platform/software provider's role within it; identify opportunities for service provisioning and support
Consultants, analysts and venture capitalists - benefit from unbiased, reasoned hard facts, free from industry hype and from clear business intelligence to support recommendations and investment
Regulators - ascertain the impact of evolving FMC markets on regulatory environment; compare regulatory developments on the global stage and gauge effectiveness of legislative approaches, their implications and long term consequence.