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The Future of Mobile Voice, 2006
- How Mobile VoIP will Challenge the Mobile Carrier Business Model

Publication Date: September 2006
Author: Lead - Nick Holland
Pages: 30
Exhibits: 15
Price: £1012 / $1990 / €1505

Background

How can traditional telcos best compete in a landscape of new players?

This recent report, The Future of Mobile Voice: How Mobile VoIP will Challenge the Mobile Carrier Business Model, bases its findings on real life case studies of global operator best practices for protecting core voice revenues.

Contents

Part two in the VoIP report series, The Future of Mobile Voice adds the mobile market perspective to the fixed operator analysis made in Part one of the set: VoIPocapolypse Now - How Google, Skype, and Yahoo! will Change Fixed Telcos Models.  Pyramid's analysts give their insight on the impact of VoIP on the mobile telecom market, now and in the future. Topics discussed include:

  • Will current models support mobile competition in the face of new VoIP players?
  • UMA and/or SIP - which technology will help sustain the mobile carrier model?
  • Will the "Skype Phenomenon" be repeated in the mobile marketplace?
  • Is there anything that mobile operators can do to maintain the value of voice

Target Audience

Use this report to gain an understanding of current and future market challenges resulting from the ongoing commoditization of voice, strategies for maintaining voice revenues in the short and long term, and whether these strategies are an effective response against the competitive threat of VoIP.

The report includes analysis and examples on both a country-specific and global scale - allowing operators, equipment manufacturers, and VoIP providers to evaluate trends for the future of mobile voice and the role that VoIP will play in the upcoming competitive landscape.

Pyramid's authors detail the state of the mobile industry, areas of vulnerability for operators and the evolutionary path for mobile VoIP.  Players in the telecom industry can use this information to assess the timeline for the migration to VoIP in the mobile domain, gain a clear and unbiased view of technological developments in mobile voice and understand required technology and business model changes.

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