Mobile VoIP: Transforming Voice Networks, Devices & Business Models

Key Coverage

• Mobile VoIP: Transforming Voice Networks, Devices & Business Models delivers everything you need to ensure you fully understand this complex, business-critical issue:
• Realistic market segmentation and roadmaps for VoIP in the mobile and wireless markets – includes seven main market segments ranging from softphone and plug-in solutions to end-to-end VoIP integrated into cellular networks
• Detailed market forecasts to 2011 that enable you to understand the various variants of mobile and wireless VoIP and highlight how this market will develop going forward
• Extensive and exclusive operator case studies spanning the full range of company types and regions. These include detailed analysis of pricing strategies, services being launched and the market segments being targeted
• Unique analysis of key market drivers and inhibitors including regulation, business models, business cases, technology and competition
• Independent examinations of the business benefits of mobile and wireless VoIP, as well as the business strategies and revenue models currently being pursued
• In-depth analysis of the numerous technology options open to operators, service providers and vendors

Market Data

• The number of users of plug-in VoIP services will have a relatively high starting point - 410,000 users in 2006 – but this will be the smallest mobile VoIP category by 2011
• The majority of mobile VoIP soft solution providers are targeting access via WLAN connectivity. The number of subscribers to VoWLAN services will grow to more than 115 million users in 2011
• The total number of softphone over cellular users is set to grow over the next five years but by 2011 will be less than half that for VoWLAN services
• FMC VoIP subscribers will see strong growth over the next five years – this will be the dominant category of service by 2011
• Integration of VoIP into cellular networks is the ideal option for the operator to take full advantage of VoIP capabilities, however this will not be one of the dominant categories by 2011
• Widescale deployment of end-to-end VoIP services over mobile broadband networks is not expected before the take off of enabling networks such as HSUPA and EV-DOrA/B, expected in late 2008 or 2009.

Countries / Sectors / Companies Covered

Key topics addressed in this report:

• Fixed VoIP
• Mobile VoIP
• Wireless VoIP
• VoIP and value added services (VAS)
• Fixed Mobile Convergence
• Mobile Broadband
• WiFi Vs mobile
• Quality of Service
• ARPU decline and pricing strategies
• Smartphones, softphones, PDAs
• Enterprise markets
• Standardisation
• Industry restructuring

Who should read this report

Mobile VoIP Transforming Voice Networks, Devices & Business Models - what’s in it for you?

• Operators: Evaluate and quantify opportunities and threats emerging with MVoIP. Consider the ramifications of current market developments and understand their wider strategic impact. Anticipate the market as it moves forward and formulate strategies to tackle it. Assess key various technologies enabling MVoIP
• Service providers: Assess the opportunities and challenges of the various technology options for mobile and wireless VoIP, as well as understanding current market segmentation, strategic approaches and market drivers
• Device, network and software vendors: Understand the mobile and wireless VoIP business proposition and opportunities within it. Identify key players, potential partners and current and evolving roles in the service value chain
• Consultants, analysts and venture capitalists: Monitor this market with unbiased, reasoned hard facts free from industry hype and provide clients with clear business intelligence to support your recommendations and investment
• Regulators: Assess the impact of evolving mobile and wireless VoIP markets on the regulatory environment and compare regulatory developments on the global stage, as well as gauging the effectiveness of legislative approaches, their implications and long term consequence