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Articles tagged with: Arthur D. Little
Mobile Payments Surging Ahead with Opportunities in Emerging Markets
In the last five years, markets with mobile payment offers have matured with a variety of players entering the industry value chain and new services being launched. Initially, there was a race to enter the market and a strong rivalry between different technological propositions that would facilitate mobile transaction channels. Today, we observe that, in many national markets, only one or two dominant mobile payment platforms (e.g. the paybox platform in Austria) have prevailed, and key issues now being addressed include cross border interoperability and standardization. more
Related Tags: mobile-payments, near-field-communication, nfc, m-banking, tim, itu, ovi
Mobile Internet Usage is Driving a New Wave of Mobile Banking Services
A new report from Arthur D. Little has identified investment in mobile banking as a promising revenue growing opportunity for the global financial services industry. Moving well beyond simple text-based balance updates, Mobile Banking 2.0 will capitalize on customers' increasing mobile internet use to carry out complex transactions and introduce novel ways to reach customers through the mobile medium. more
Related Tags: sim, iphone, sms, near-field-communication, itu, driving, tim, ovi, iden, call-centre, personal, mobile-internet, mobile-banking
Projections for Significant Mobile TV Subscriber Increase
Approximately 40 million users watch mobile TV based on broadcast networks, in addition to those watching mobile TV streams via 3G networks - but this is well below initial projections and only about 1% of all mobile phone users, says a report from Arthur D. Little. Even the business models in markets with sizeable numbers of broadcast mobile TV subscribers - such as Japan with 18 million, South Korea with 17 million or Italy with well over 1 million - have not yet become viable commercial success stories. However, mobile operators remain interested in promoting the service as it can support customer acquisition and retention, and can be used to promote high value "flat-rate packages". more
Related Tags: 3g, mobile-tv, eu, satellite, play
European telecoms operators in strong position to ride out recession
European telecoms operators in strong position to ride out recession according to Arthur D. Little - Exane BNP Paribas joint study "reviving the fixed line" predicts increase in incumbents' valuations of up to 27% over the period 2008-15 more
Related Tags: eu, arpu, ict, itu, wind, lte, mobile-broadband, comcast, satellite, sfr, tele2, billing
Telecom Suppliers: The Pressure is on
A recent study by global management consultancy Arthur D. Little has found that traditional telecoms suppliers are facing an overall critical situation as the recession deepens in 2009. The increasing strength of the Asian market was identified as the primary threat that telecom suppliers face, due to its expanded reputation, innovation and consistent delivery of quality. For example, the Chinese telecoms provider Huawei has already achieved more than 10% of the global market share for investments of fixed and mobile network infrastructure, while the expansion rate for investments in fixed and mobile networks in industrialized countries is stagnating. more
Related Tags: nokia, wimax, motorola, cisco, itu, huawei, lte, alcatel-lucent, ericsson, nortel, wimax,, siemens, nokia-siemens
High M&A activity in the Eastern European telecommunications markets
According to a new report from Arthur D. Little, both strategic investors, such as telecommunications operators, and especially financial investors are benefitting from the prospects of continued high merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the Central Eastern and Southeastern European telecoms markets. The report predicts that the volume of telecommunications M&A transactions is expected to stay on similar levels as the €3.9 billion M&A volume realized by the ten largest telecommunications transactions in the region in 2007. more
Related Tags: deutsche-telekom, ote, telekom, wimax-license
Report Forecasts 60% Annual Growth in Mobile Advertising over the Next 4 Years
As consumer demand for mobile broadband services reaches critical mass… Arthur D. Little predicts in a new report that in the coming years mobile advertising is poised to be the next major digital media platform for brands to reach customers, and the key telecoms players have a great deal to gain from bringing their services to market early. more
Related Tags: google, mobile-tv, mms, voicemail, compete, mobile-advertising, blyk
50% mobile broadband penetration in Europe within 5 years
As consumer demand for mobile broadband services reaches critical mass - telecom operators can expect that 50 percent of the European population will access the internet through broadband on their mobile phones by 2012, according to the seventh annual research report from Exane BNP Paribas and Arthur D. Little. more
Telcos Failing to Capitalise on Mobile Web 2.0
Telecoms companies are failing to make the most of the growing popularity of the online information-sharing services of "Web 2.0", according to new research by global consultancy Arthur D. Little. more
Related Tags: skype, walled-garden
HSPA to Dominate Mobile Broadband while WiMax goes Niche
With over 93 commercial networks in operation, HSPA is likely to account for the majority of investment in global mobile broadband networks over the next five years, finds a new study by Arthur D. Little. By comparison mobile WiMax will be a niche technology within the overall global mobile broadband wireless access market, likely to account for at most 15% of this network equipment market and perhaps 10% of mobile broadband wireless subscribers by 2011-2012. more
Related Tags: mobile-wimax, capex, hsupa, hspa, lte, radio-access-network, wimax,