Operators that can deliver quadruple play packages as successfully as cable operators have exploited triple play, potentially have a lot to gain."
Simon Sherrington, Author: Global Mobile Strategies for Quadruple Play
Global Mobile Strategies for Quadruple Play evaluates how mobile operators are responding to the challenges they expand into broadband, Internet telephony and TV markets.
Key Coverage
- Strategic market overview - comprehensive review of quadruple play strategies and the different approaches to the market
- Quadruple play value chain - gain insight to the current and evolving relationships between telecoms and media providers
- Potential risks - Quadruple play service provision is pitching at least three, and sometimes four, industry groups into ever increasing direct competition with one another. Each group holds a legacy position in its own market that it wishes to defend.
- Regional analysis - business intelligence covering 11 different markets, the quadruple play contenders and significant others
- Detailed case studies - discover the strategies of 42 different operators including Vodafone, Virgin, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Orange, NTT DoCoMo, SK Telecom and Sprint Nextel
Key Issues Addressed
This Management Report will enable you to:
- Evaluate the different approaches being adopted for quadruple play service provisioning by fixed carriers, mobile operators and cable/satellite companies
- Identify the threats and ramifications of current market developments and understand their wider strategic impact
- Understand how pure mobile operators will compete with full-service incumbents
- Assess how well telecoms operators are positioned to compete against the cable/satellite companies
Research the business strategies of 42 companies in eleven of the world's most important markets
Countries / Sectors / Companies covered
3 Italia, 3 UK, Amena / Orange, Bouygues Telecom, China Mobile, China Netcom, China Telecom, China Unicom, Cingular, Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile, E-Plus, France Telecom / Orange, KDDI, Korea Telecom, KTF, LG Telecom, Neuf Cegetel, NTL Telewest / Virgin Mobile, NTT DoCoMo, O2 Germany, O2 UK, Orange (formerly PTK Centertel), Orange UK, Polkomtel, Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, SFR, SK Telecom, Sprint Nextel, Telecom Italia / TIM, Telefonica O2 Czech Republic, Telefonica / Telefonica Moviles, T-Mobile Czech Republic, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone Czech Republic, Vodafone Germany, Vodafone Italy, Vodafone Japan, Vodafone Spain, Vodafone UK, WIND
Who should read this report
- Mobile operators - evaluate and quantify opportunities for future revenue growth by expanding into adjacent markets such as fixed telephony, broadband and TV services
- Fixed carriers - assess the opportunities and challenges presented by offering mobility and broadcast content as part of your service offerings
- Pay TV companies - ascertain the importance of mobility on top of existing telephony and broadband packages, and see which technologies are being implemented
- MVNOs and service providers - analyse the business models implemented on a country-by-country basis by the world's largest and most successful operators
- Vendors - discover what strategies operators are implementing and understand why the emergence of IP and better fixed and mobile broadband technologies is driving the development of quadruple play services
- Consultants, analysts and venture capitalists - benefit from unbiased, reasoned, clear business intelligence to support your recommendations and investment decisions
- Regulators -identify the opportunities and challenges in attempting to regulate two industries - telecoms and broadcasting - which are now forming a converged service offering.