Executive Summary
China Mobile, Vodafone, AT&T, Verizon and NTT DOCOMO retain global top5 positions: From the revenue perspective, the $50 billion revenue club is retained by China Mobile, Vodafone, AT&T Mobility, and Verizon Wireless and NTT DOCOMO.
China and India demonstrated strong growth in absolute subscriber additions: The Global Wireless Markets continued to grow rapidly especially in India and China where the carriers (combined) are adding almost 30M new subscriptions every month. China touched 757M wireless subscriptions while India crossed 525 M by the end of 2009. China Mobile Reported highest wireless revenues (16B US$) followed by Verizon and AT&T in Q1, 2010.
China Mobile announced highest Q1, 2010 wireless revenues: China Mobile Reported consolidated wireless revenues of over US$ 16 Billion in Q1, 2010. Total number of 3G subscribers is reported somewhere around 7.60 Million. China Mobile’s aggregate ARPU during Q1, 2010 was $ 10.32. Read more…
AT&T surpassing Verizon Wireless to become second largest wireless operators only after China Mobile in Q1, 2010. AT&T delivered strong wireless growth in the first and second quarter, led by continued growth for mobile broadband services, significant demand for iPhone 4 and iPad 3G and rapid adoption of connected devices such as eReaders, global positioning systems, alarm monitoring systems and a host of other emerging products.
Figure : Quarterly Wireless Revenues (1 Jan 2010 to 31 March 2010)
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In the recent years, the ARPU from voice service has been declining due to the factors of discounted services and shorter phone calls. DOCOMO has seen downward trend in aggregate ARPU and is planning to offset this by taking steps to increase packet ARPU. In FY 2010, the ARPU from packet service is expected to surpass voice ARPU. To strengthen packet based services and reverse downtrend of aggregate ARPU, DoCoMo is planning to promote usage of flat-rate service. In FY 2009, the revenues from voice declined 12.9% year-on-year and Read more…
Executive Summary
Verizon’s LTE Plans on track, all set to launch services in November 2010. Verizon is all set to launch LTE in 25-30 markets before year end (Boston and Seattle by 15th , November) , covering about 100m citizens. It is expected that operator will launch 4G iphone in Q1, 2011. Verizon and AT& T now controls over 69% of US mobile data market and has seen biggest jump in data revenues along with Softbank, AT&T and DoCoMo(11%) in first Half 2010.
AT&T announced their 4G partners to build LTE network. AT&T announced their plans to build LTE network, and contracted Alcatel Lucent and Ericsson as their LTE equipment suppliers. However the operator believes that LTE has its own time to come and Read more…
By BP Tiwari (Beyond4G)
The LTE camp is euphoric about Qualcomm wining four circles which further got comprehensive media attention as Reliance controlled Infotel expressed their interest towards LTE. All the other players like Aircell ,Bharti, Augere and Tikona is watching Reliance controlled Infotel’s move for BWA deployment
The WiMAX camp spearheaded by Samsung, Hauwei and ZTE will try to convince Infotel for immediate WiMAX deployment to enter market in similar timelines as 3G. The strategy is not impending from the fact that they do not have a LTE roadmap, but rather their eagerness to enter the agreement with Infotel and secure their mobile data business. Read more…
The unprecedented levels of the recent India 3G & BWA spectrum auctions will keep broadband access out of the reach of many India’s population while putting significant financial strain on service providers ability to deliver services. It is not my intention to reprimand the whole 3G and BWA auction that took place after repeated delays and embarrassments in India. However the high price of spectrum will make people of India the real defeaters. I am not surprised to read Mr. Mittal’s view in financial express where he commented “The bidding which is happening for broadband wireless access is wrong and the same was the case with regard to the 3G auctions which preceded it. The government may be in a celebratory mood with high revenues, but having bid so high, one thing is ensured: Tariffs for 3G services will remain high and unaffordable for large sections of people.” Mittal added that one year down the line, everyone would come to know who all are able to consolidate 3G services, having bid so high for just 5 MHz spectrum. Read more…
By Guest Contributor: Richa Singh
One of the most well enjoyed human endeavors these days is social networking. It is mainly because we get to communicate with anyone from any part of the worldwide web by texting, chatting and VOIP or voice over internet phone. There are both great opportunities and huge risks in social networking, similarly to what has occurred with other extremely useful capabilities and technologies that have emerged and gained popularity in society. Using social networks have gained the opportunity and ability to influence many more people than before.
“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” (Steiner, 1993), suggests that identities are so hidden online that opportunities would be widely open to all, regardless of background characteristics that may have traditionally disadvantaged some people compared to others. Read more…
India Wireless Market Update
- The Indian wireless market grew at 32% Y/Y in the period between December, 2008 to 2009.
- India continues to be the hottest market on the planet in terms of net-adds with (again) a world record-setting month in Jan 2010 with 19.9 million net adds. For the year 2009, India added 177 million subs vs. 106 million for China. Combined, one year of growth in these two market is equivalent to the size of the third largest market – the US, to date.
- Total Wireless customers in India surpassed 575 Million in Feb 2010.
- India became number two wireless market and the world order is : China, India, US, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Germany, Pakistan and Italy. Read more…
Source: Cellular News
As 4G network deployments gather momentum, a substantial 22% of device subscription revenues will come from suites of operator-branded premium services. Total 4G mobile consumer service revenue – including mobile Internet services – will grow rapidly to exceed $70 billion worldwide in 2014.
According to ABI Research practice director Philip Solis, “Operators of 4G networks will refuse to be marginalized as ‘dumb data pipe’ service providers. Instead, they will offer suites of ’smart services’ – some internally developed, others via partnerships with third party suppliers – that will be provided over ’smart networks’ enabled with all-IP technologies, IMS infrastructure and cloud-based storage.”
These 4G services will be optimized to enable a proliferation of mobile devices, such as smartphones, netbooks and PNDs, and many operators will be offering pooled device subscriptions: one user subscription, many activated devices.
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Source: IAMAI
Wireless infrastructures have emerged as an effective option of connecting to an ever-evolving expansive information network such as the Internet. Such infrastructures, due to their inherent advantages, promise a renewed future in terms of offering improved and exciting services to the existing users. As a result, stakeholders are willing to encourage the success of such infrastructures supporting “Internet on the move”.
This promise is not without a concrete platform. In the recent past, there have been ground-breaking innovations such as 3G, WiMax and the like that could support disparate forms of content. The practicality of their implementation resulting into improved usage is yet to be witnessed, however.
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