DAILY IN THIS ISSUE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 DAY FOUR • THURSDAY 1ST MARCH By Paul Rasmussen N okia CEO Stephen Elop provided insight into where the company is focusing its efforts based around local awareness, location services and monetising the ecosystem. Cont. on P4 f Elop outlines future with three-tiered focus By Tim Ferguson T he CEOs of Nokia, HTC and Foursquare debated what the future holds for Windows Phone at Congress yesterday, with all expressing support for the platform – to differing degrees. “What we’re seeing is a very, very steady growth and adoption,” said Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO, who shocked the mobile industry a year ago by announcing a tie-up with Microsoft to migrate Nokia’s smartphone portfolio to Windows Phone. Nokia launched its latest Windows Phone device, the Lumia 610, at Congress this week. Elop said consumers have been responding well to the Windows Phone platform allied to the Nokia hardware. “They will look at it and say ‘wow, this is a different point of view.’ So our focus is getting those devices in people’s hands,” he said. The Nokia chief added that operators are also keen on the Nokia- Windows Phone approach. “With the operators, we’re saying here’s the next generation of products and the generation after that and the ideas for the future. As people see the whole context of what’s happening, they get very enthusiastic.” Peter Chou, CEO of HTC, which produces phones running Windows Phone as well as Android, said he believes Windows Phone has what it takes to catch up with Android and iOS, as it provides a “very good experience.” “Of course over the last couple of years we got a little slower demand but with the new Windows we are seeing a lot of positive signs. It will not be like [Microsoft in] the PC market share, but I believe it will be a strong third operating system,” he continued. Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley said there has been good feedback about Windows Phone from users, adding that another strong ecosystem would be welcomed. Nokia, HTC, Foursquare debate Windows Phone future By Steve Costello H ans Vestberg, CEO of number one infrastructure vendor Ericsson, used his Mobile World Live keynote last night to outline the importance of technology in enabling the “networked society.” In a presentation which was rich with visual concepts of a connected future, Vestberg described progress in the industry in recent years as “mind boggling.” The executive noted that there are still many areas of growth. Citing the fact that smartphone penetration globally is around 10 percent, he argued: “You can say two things. One, that’s quick growth of 10 percent. Two, you can also say, that’s 90 percent to go.” Vestberg reiterated the company’s forecast that by 2020 there will be 50 billion connected devices, noting that this will transform the world. “As we all know, when one person gets connected, their life changes. When everything connects, the world changes. And we are in the midst of this as an industry,” he said. Vestberg was joined on stage by Johan Wibergh, EVP and head of business unit networks, who noted: “Our job is really to support the operators, to create the best networks so that operators can differentiate and can deliver the services that customers expect.” The network head noted three areas of focus needed to deliver high-quality connectivity: optimising the macro network, to get the best capacity and coverage from resources; adding to and improving the density of the network to get “cheap and effective” coverage where possible; and adding small cells, to improve coverage in areas of high traffic density. When identifying areas for future growth, Vestberg said: “I think the next big thing will be en terprises transforming their businesses by using these types of tools. And we are going to be there to support that.” Ericsson outlines vision for connected future “When one person gets connected, their life changes. When everything connects, the world changes” FC BARCELONA SIGNS FOR MOBILE WORLD CAPITAL FOOTBALL CLUB PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR INITIATIVE PAGE 4 ISIS CONFIDENT ON NFC HANDSETS US OPERATORS READY FOR COMPATIBLE DEVICES PAGE 11 FOURSQUARE REVEALS FUTURE VISION LOCATION-BASED CHECK-IN SERVICE PLANS TO TAKE PASSIVE AWARENESS BEYOND MOBILES PAGE 14 BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Thursday 1st March MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS DAILY 2012 | www.mobileworldcongress.com PAGE 1
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DAILY
IN THIS ISSUE
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012
DAY FOUR • T H U R S D AY 1 S T M A R C H
By Paul Rasmussen
Nokia CEO Stephen Elopprovided insight intowhere the company is
focusing its efforts based aroundlocal awareness, locationservices and monetising theecosystem.
Cont. on P4 f
Elop outlinesfuture withthree-tieredfocus
By Tim Ferguson
The CEOs of Nokia, HTC andFoursquare debated whatthe future holds for Windows
Phone at Congress yesterday, withall expressing support for theplatform – to differing degrees.
“What we’re seeing is a very, verysteady growth and adoption,” saidStephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO, whoshocked the mobile industry a yearago by announcing a tie-up withMicrosoft to migrate Nokia’ssmartphone portfolio to WindowsPhone. Nokia launched its latestWindows Phone device, the Lumia610, at Congress this week.
Elop said consumers have beenresponding well to the WindowsPhone platform allied to the Nokiahardware. “They will look at it andsay ‘wow, this is a different point ofview.’ So our focus is getting thosedevices in people’s hands,” he said.
The Nokia chief added thatoperators are also keen on the Nokia-Windows Phone approach. “With the
operators, we’re saying here’s thenext generation of products and thegeneration after that and the ideas forthe future. As people see the wholecontext of what’s happening, theyget very enthusiastic.”
Peter Chou, CEO of HTC, whichproduces phones running WindowsPhone as well as Android, said hebelieves Windows Phone has whatit takes to catch up with Androidand iOS, as it provides a “very good experience.”
“Of course over the last coupleof years we got a little slowerdemand but with the new Windowswe are seeing a lot of positivesigns. It will not be like [Microsoftin] the PC market share, but Ibelieve it will be a strong thirdoperating system,” he continued.
Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowleysaid there has been good feedbackabout Windows Phone from users,adding that another strongecosystem would be welcomed.
Nokia, HTC, Foursquare debateWindows Phone future
By Steve Costello
Hans Vestberg, CEO ofnumber one infrastructurevendor Ericsson, used his
Mobile World Live keynote lastnight to outline the importance oftechnology in enabling the“networked society.”
In a presentation which was richwith visual concepts of a connectedfuture, Vestberg described progressin the industry in recent years as“mind boggling.”
The executive noted that thereare still many areas of growth.Citing the fact that smartphonepenetration globally is around 10percent, he argued: “You can say
two things. One, that’s quick growthof 10 percent. Two, you can alsosay, that’s 90 percent to go.”
Vestberg reiterated thecompany’s forecast that by 2020there will be 50 billion connecteddevices, noting that this willtransform the world. “As we allknow, when one person getsconnected, their life changes. Wheneverything connects, the worldchanges. And we are in the midst ofthis as an industry,” he said.
Vestberg was joined on stage byJohan Wibergh, EVP and head ofbusiness unit networks, who noted:“Our job is really to support theoperators, to create the bestnetworks so that operators can
differentiate and can deliver theservices that customers expect.”
The network head noted threeareas of focus needed to deliverhigh-quality connectivity:optimising the macro network, toget the best capacity and coveragefrom resources; adding to andimproving the density of thenetwork to get “cheap andeffective” coverage wherepossible; and adding small cells, toimprove coverage in areas of hightraffic density.
When identifying areas for futuregrowth, Vestberg said: “I think thenext big thing will be enterprisestransforming their businesses byusing these types of tools. And weare going to be there to support that.”
Ericssonoutlines visionfor connectedfuture
“When one persongets connected, theirlife changes. Wheneverything connects,the world changes”
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ISIS CONFIDENT ON NFC HANDSETSUS OPERATORS READY FOR COMPATIBLE DEVICES PAGE 11
FOURSQUARE REVEALS FUTURE VISIONLOCATION-BASED CHECK-IN SERVICE PLANS TO TAKE PASSIVEAWARENESS BEYOND MOBILES PAGE 14
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j NOKIA Cont. from P1Speaking during Wednesday’s
keynote session, Elop said today’sattention on apps with global appealwould be driven by emergingmarkets to become more locallyfocused. Location services basedupon horizontal platforms wouldalso come to the forefront, togetherwith enabling app developers to takeadvantage from the monetisation ofthe mobile ecosystem.“The apps we see now, we believe,
will shift to being more focused onperson-to-person (P2P) at a localawareness level,” said Elop.“Emerging markets will be the driverin this change, and the distribution of
apps will be achieved by P2P sharing.But we need to help with the creationof a sustainable app ecosystem.”Moving on to location services, the
Nokia CEO said that it would look tocontribute its technology to existinghorizontal platforms. “We are dailyfaced with three questions: what,who and where? The search enginesanswer the first, social networksprovide the second, and our goal is torespond to the ‘where’ question.”“We can take our location
platform much further with, forexample, augmented reality.” Recognising the importance of
the app developer community, Elopsaid the company aimed to make
investments so that those closelyinvolved with the ecosystem couldmonetise their work. “We have provided billing systems
to 150 operators in 40 countries, andapp developers using operatorbilling see a 5x increase in consumerpurchasing as against using creditcards. We have a clear approach toboosting this ecosystem by enablingrevenue sharing for operators andapp developers.”Elop added that he wanted Nokia
to be a disruptive force with thecreation of a third ecosystem,adding that shipments of the newLumia handset were alreadyexceeding expectations in the US.
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By Anne Morris
Telenor has set a target ofachieving 10 percent of itsrevenue in Asia from mobile
financial services in the near term,“and I’m convinced we’ll get there,”said Telenor EVP Kristin SkogenLund during her keynote speech atMobile World Congress yesterday.In Pakistan, for example, the
operator believes it has found aformula that is not only helping theunbanked but is driving revenueand reducing churn at Telenor.Skogen Lund said Easypaisa, the
mobile payments service launchedin Pakistan together with TameerMicro Finance Bank in 2009, is now
the operator’s flagship mobilefinancial service and is seeingdouble-digit growth month onmonth. Last year, more than 30million Easypaisa transactions tookplace, involving a transactionvolume of US$700 million. However, although Telenor has
been able to buy Tameer, theregulatory aspect will varyconsiderably country by country: “InPakistan we have a majority stake inTameer bank, but we know we willhave to sort this out in differentways,” she said. “In some countrieswe are not allowed to own a bank.”
Skogen Lund said operators have a“phenomenal opportunity” to providebanking services to the unbanked: in
Pakistan, around 85 percent of theadult population do not have accessto basic financial services such asmicro loans. Now, Telenor has around17,000-18,000 Easypaisa outlets inthe country, compared to just 9,000banking outlets. Skogen Lund addedthat the simple structure of theservice also means “we can operateour service at about five percent ofwhat a bank can do.”Additional advantages are that
transactions take place instantly,and the Easypaisa resellers areopen at all hours of the day, unlikebanks. Recognising the social-economic benefits of such aservice, the Melinda and Bill GatesFoundation also provided a grant ofUS$6.5 million last year to extend itto rural communities. The Norwegian operator is also
working on other types of mobilefinancial services, including theTap2Pay NFC trial in Norway andthe mobile wallet joint ventures inSweden and Denmark.
Telenor setsambitious targetsfor mobile money
By Ian Volans
FC Barcelona has launched aglobal search for mobileapplications that enhance the
experience of watching or followingfootball matches. The news broke ata press conference yesterday wherethe city’s football club, one of theworld’s leading sporting brands,announced its support for theMobile World Capital initiative.Mobile app developers worldwide
have been invited to submitproposals through a special websiteat www.fcbapps.com. Ideas will bereviewed by a panel of experts andwinning applications will be grantedan official licence by the club.
Successful developers will also besupported in commercialising theirapps and given access to the twomillion supporters who interact withthe club through social networks. The club is also supporting the
Mobile World Capital’s “MobileEntrepreneurship Competition”programme which is charged withpromoting mobile start-up creationand relocation in Barcelona. "Whentwo important brands meet, it’s awin-win situation," said SandroRosell, president of FC Barcelona. “Barça’s commitment to new
technologies in recent times has beenclear, but we believe there is still along way to go,” said Rosell. “Today’sinitiative will allow us to offer our
members and fans better servicesthrough mobile applications,” he said.Dídac Lee, director responsible for
new technologies at FC Barcelona,highlighted the potential of mobileapps when he said, “There are noborders in the virtual world. It’seasier to sell an app to a supporter inChina than it is to sell a physicalproduct.”He also revealed that the club has
entered into an agreement with theR&D division of Telefonica toidentify solutions to enhance 3Gmobile coverage and capacity onmatch days within the Camp NouStadium. “We want to have the firststadium in the world to solve thisproblem,” said Lee.
FCBarcelonasigns forMobileWorldCapital
Nokia’s 808 PureView device –unveiled on the opening day of theshow – has been crowned the Best‘In-Show’ Device at this year’sCongress. A panel of judgesdeclared the Symbian-poweredhandset – featuring an astonishing41 megapixel camera sensor – thewinner in what was a close runcontest focusing on handsets,devices and tablets launched thisweek (HTC’s new One range wasalso highly commended). Otherdevices that made the shortlistincluded Huawei’s Ascend D quad-core smartphone, Asus’ PadFoneand Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1.Judges included analysts andjournalists from IDC, CCS Insight,Nomura, Ovum, Mobile ChoiceMagazine, Canalys, PCMag, RethinkWireless and CBS Interactive. Nokiahas promised that similartechnology powering the PureViewcamera will make its way toWindows Phone devices in future.
By Paul Rasmussen
The technologicalrequirements to successfullydeploy and operate LTE
networks have been outlined in abriefing from the Next GenerationMobile Network (NGMN) group. The industry body said that the
top issues facing operators were toresolve global roaming by the use ofmultiband/multimode devices, andthe convergence of networkmanagement systems. Commenting on the global
roaming concern, Yuhong Huang,deputy general manager ChinaMobile research institute, said thatthe scarcity of spectrum had led toLTE being given a large variety ofbands in different regions.“Development of devices that areable to support these frequencybands and in addition multipletechnologies is a prerequisite forglobal roaming, but it is a challengeto implement more than 10 LTEbands in current products,” saidYuhong Huang. In an effort to crack this issue, the
NGMN has launched itsmultiband/multimode project thatinvolves the major chipset anddevice vendors so as to enableeffective knowledge transfer. “It isthe goal of this project to reducecomplexity through an effectiveuser equipment (UE) platform. Thiswill be a prerequisite for improvedend-user experience and mandatoryto allow for global LTE roaming,”added the China Telecom GM. Devising a plan to reduce the
complexity and integration costsassociated with networkmanagement was presented byKlaus-Jürgen Krath, senior vicepresident radio networks, DeutscheTelekom. “Operators face challengestoday of having to manage a varietyof network and service productioninfrastructures, from mobile andfixed network environments up toconverged networks and servicesacross many regions. This has anenormous impact on networkoperations, and is being targeted bythe NGMN with its Next GenerationConverged OperationsRequirements (NGCOR) project.” Krath said that the NGMN had
provided detailed operationsrequirements to all the leading telcoand IT vendors and involvedorganisations, and had askedoperators and industrystakeholders to support theNGCOR effort. “The deploymentwill be driven by operators puttingthe requirements in upcomingtenders.”
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QTEL GROUP | MOBILE MONEY
Building the CustomerExperience into thenew wave of MobileMoney Services
Dr. Nasser Marafih, Chief Executive Officer, Qtel Group
Growth of the Mobile Money marketsince 2008 has been driven by boththe rapid availability of mobile
services, and the continuing growth in mobilepenetration, particularly in developingcountries. As the technology and servicesevolve, we are beginning to realise the truepotential for the service in not onlygenerating new revenue opportunities, butpotentially fundamentally changing the waypeople save, shop and send money aroundthe world. However, it is essential that we recognise
our responsibility in delivering a seamless,secure customer experience with theintroduction of these services. For manycustomers – particularly in these unsettledeconomic times – how their money ismanaged is the most important customerservice question. With more than 4.3 billion people currently
using a mobile phone and fewer than 2 billionpeople operating a bank account, there is aclear and urgent market for mobile moneyservices. In emerging markets, the majority ofpeople are “under-banked” or “unbanked,”with little or no access to bank services. In Indonesia, for example, there are
approximately 160 million mobile phonecustomers, compared to 40 million bankingcustomers. Relative income levels, regulatoryhistory and even geography have all played arole in preventing or discouraging peoplefrom opening an account – in many ruralcommunities the sheer distance to the nearestbank is a disincentive. Mobile wallet services offer a convenient
and secure way to help bridge this divide,enabling people to make transactions in a
safe and secure way, as well as over distance.This convenient way of transferring moneyenriches lives and helps people to start theirown businesses and support their familiesoverseas. However, it is important that – in the rush
to fill this obvious need in the market – theappropriate steps are taken to ensure acustomer-rich experience from the outset.There is a significant need to educate
customers about the new and accessibleways to manage money via mobiletechnology. There are a diverse range ofmobile money services that can beintroduced – person-to-person transfers,mBanking, mPayments – and we need tointroduce these to our customers in a clear,comprehensible format. It is important toremember that, for many people within the“under-banked” sector, the range of optionscan be as intimidating as they areencouraging. We need to ensure that thecustomer experience reduces the “fearfactor” of managing money via a mobile.Our ability to build trust in our customer
base will determine how successful we are asan industry in the long run. Convincingpeople to trust you with their money,especially when you are not a bank, is achallenging proposition. One of the biggest barriers is entering
markets with established traditionalremittance methods, where there is a need tochange customer usage and habits that haveevolved over decades of reliance upon whatare now out-dated practices. In this case, themarketing approach will be not only aboutcreating awareness and developing pricingplans, but will also include education andtraining materials and activities. Quality of service is obviously essential, as
is the strength of the brand in the countrieswhere mobile money services are beingintroduced.
Partnerships play a key role. To providesolutions for Mobile Money, we need to workwith major players in the financial andremittance businesses - devicemanufacturers, communications companies,financial institutes and merchants - to createfavourable conditions for our mMoneyservices in developing markets. There needs to be an open and
interoperable ecosystem, where differentcompanies can contribute their corecompetencies to successfully introducingmobile financial services and bringing aboutthe culture change necessary to make them asustainable success. The work the GSMA is doing in this area is
essential, and as an industry we need to findnew ways to collaborate and connect with therelevant institutions. It is worth rememberingthat the flow of finance around the world isnot a closed loop system – we need to ensurethat our own systems reflect this. Regulators and monetary authorities, such
as central banks, telecom regulators andgovernments, also have a role to play in this.In many developing markets, there is little orno specific regulation regarding mobile orelectronic money in place. Extensive work isrequired to engage with regulators for the
creation of a regulatory framework thatenables us to propose a simple customerjourney. When we developed our Mobile Money
solution, our aim was to provide a highlysecured service in full compliance with ourlocal regulatory agency, while optimisingsynergies between different operatingcompanies. To achieve this, we built acentralised solution that incorporates a walletsolution with the necessary tools to ensurefull compliance of the service withregulations.For international remittances, we have
connected our platform to a hub solution thatprovides access to several remittancescorridors in South East Asia and the Indiansubcontinent that are relevant to ourcustomers.We are taking the lessons learned from this
implementation seriously, and forging aheadwith Mobile Money developments in ouroperating areas, mindfully aware of the needto balance the lure of the frontier with buildingcapacity for this innovative service across ourfootprint. We are optimistic about the evolvingecosystem, and believe this sector will play ahuge role in enriching people’s livesthroughout the developing world.
One of the most exciting digitalfutures for the telecommunicationssector is the developing field ofmobile money. “With more than 4.3 billion people currently using a
mobile phone and fewer than 2 billion people operating abank account, there is a clear and urgent market formobile money services. In emerging markets, the majorityof people are ‘under-banked’ or ‘unbanked,’ with little orno access to bank services.”
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Smart UK ProjectwinnerThe search for the UK’s MostInnovative Mobile Company,reported earlier this week inMobile World Daily came toan end last night. The winnerwas DataWind who havedeveloped and aremanufacturing the UbiSlate -a 7-inch Android poweredtablet that retails for just $35.The company is aiming to‘break the price barrier forcomputing and internetaccess’ and make digitalconnectivity affordable,especially in emergingmarkets around the world. Itsonboard proprietaryUbiSurfer web browser alsoincreases data speeds by upto 30 times. The other threefinalists were blippar, P2i andQRpedia.
Remote access forAndroid phonesRealVNC’s remote accesstechnology has beenintegrated in Sony MobileCommunication’s Android-based Xperia smartphones,enabling them to connect tovehicle infotainment systemsso that drivers can accesstheir smartphoneapplications safely from thedashboard display. VNCAutomotive can automaticallydetect, access and controlvirtually any mobile device ordesktop computer from avehicle’s touch-screen orfixed input devices such assteering wheel switches andhead unit buttons andmenus.
First applicationpartners Easy-to-use phone vendorDoro has revealed furtherdetails of its mobileapplication partners andsenior content strategy. TheSwedish company revealed itsfirst smart devices andmobile application strategyyesterday along with its newmobile interface - the DoroExperience. Part of this newdevelopment is the DoroSelection – which provides arecommended choice ofapplications and content forthe senior mobile user.euronews is one of Doro’sfirst applications and offers alive feed covering the latestbreaking news and headlinesin eleven languagesincluding, Itailan, Spanish,French, German, Russian,Portugese, Arabic andPersian.
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By Ian Volans
Understanding the businessgoals and objectives, andbuilding a step-by-step
mobility roadmap that can fulfil thebusiness objectives, are key steps toexploiting Bring Your Own Device –BYOD – to promote workforceproductivity.In advance of speaking in
Congress, Fernando Alvarez Tabio,VP Mobility Solutions Practiceleader at Capgemini, told MobileWorld Daily, “The challenge is toleverage the advantages to boostproductivity while addressing risks
and concerns around security,confidentiality, privacy, trust andso on.” The starting point for enterprise
mobility is an excellentunderstanding of the informationflows within the organisation. Bylistening to and understanding theneeds of the workforce, applicationscan be developed to ease pain pointswithin the enterprise processes. “The great promise of enterprise
mobility can be lost if the end userneeds are ignored,” said Alvarez.“Following appropriate user interfaceprinciples is necessary for useradoption. Mobile devices are
personal devices, which become anintegral part of the user’s 24x7 lifeexperience. Information architectureinterface design needs specialconsideration in the mobile world.”On the security threat, Alvarez
commented, “Security is a veryimportant consideration for endusers, enterprise employees andmanagement. A well-managedsecure ecosystem will facilitate amuch faster adoption of mobility.”He counsels enterprises to be
proactively vigilant and adopt astrategic mindset towards security.This approach needs to embraceprudent policies, governancestructure, a good understanding ofthreats involved, and oversight ofinfrastructural and application-levelactivities. “Enterprises will need toadopt a suitable devicemanagement program to tackle the‘Bring Your Own Device’challenge,” said Alvarez.
Boosting workforceproductivity with BYOD
By Ken Wieland
Network operators need notbecome a ‘dumb pipe’ for so-called over-the-top (OTT)
players. So says Neil Montefiore,(pictured) StarHub CEO, who pointsout other routes for operators to take.“One option is for operators tobecome an OTT player itself, toaugment its various services,” he says.“Another way is to form partnershipswith the OTT players. The closerelationship that operators have withcustomers would allow them toprovide more value as well as a wideroffering of content.”And with the latest generation of
policy controllers surrounding PCRF(policy and charging rules function),operators can also become ‘smart’pipes and not dumb ones. PCRF, saysMontefiore, can enable operators toensure the best experience for speedand latency sensitive applications. “As the access channels become
faster [with LTE], and mediaconsumption becomes very easyover the Internet, we expect to seemore OTT players in the marketlooking to cooperate withoperators,” adds the StarHub CEO.
StarHub CEO:keep OTToptions open
By Ian Volans
Having unveiled the Eluga(pictured) as its firstsmartphone targeted at
international markets on the eve ofCongress, Panasonic unveiled asecond smartphone here inBarcelona.Toshiya Matsumura, general
manager, Panasonic MobileBusiness in Europe, described thenew Eluga Power as the “smallest 5-inch smartphone.” Incorporatingthin-frame technology, the devicemeasures just 69 mm wide, makingit compact enough to use single-handed. The company sees this as a
practical advantage over the 5.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Note, whichmeasures 83 mm wide.Based on a Qualcomm
Snapdragon dual-core processorrunning Android 4.0 (Ice CreamSandwich), the Eluga Power offers1080p full HD video capability.Panasonic’s Swipe and Sharefunctionality allows users towirelessly ‘throw’ pictures fromtheir phone to DLNA-compatibleTVs, or stream movies from theirphone to a TV. The company seesthe Eluga range as smart Internetdevices designed to act as hubs tointerconnect a variety of otherdevices: the Eluga name is derived
from the phrase ‘elegant user-oriented gateway’. Panasonic joins Fujitsu among
Japanese mobile phonemanufacturers who see
smartphones as a route todiversifying out of their slow-growing home market. ToshiyaMatsumura said that even thoughsmartphone penetration hadreached 33 percent in Europe, thecontinent still represented a growthopportunity while adopting a globalproduct strategy offered thepotential of scale that cannot beachieved through a focus on Japan. Other features common to Eluga
devices include NFC, superfastcharging and water- and dust-proofing to the international IP57standard.The company has also
announced an updated range ofEasy Use Mobile Phones designedfor seniors and children. Threenew devices will be available fromJuly featuring 1.8 inch screenswith large fonts, large contouredkeys and hearing aidcompatibility.
Panasonic unveils secondsmartphone for assaulton global market
By Tim Ferguson
Operators will be able toexpand into new areas asconnected devices become
increasingly central to people’slives - but they need to be agile inorder to exploit theseopportunities, warns TelefonicaDigital director of global partnersand devices, Steve Alder.In an interview with Mobile
World Daily, Alder, who spoke in the
‘Consumer Devices: Riding the NextWave of Smart Devices’ session atCongress on Wednesday, saidoperators will increasingly be ableto become involved in new valuechains, such as financial services,eHealth or cloud computing.“As operators we have a key asset
in terms of the relationship with thecustomer (both from a billingperspective and in terms of brandtrust) and we need to make themost of this relationship to unlockthe revenue opportunitiespresented by new digital services,”Alder said.The main challenge associated
with these new revenueopportunities is keeping up withtechnological developments. “If wedon’t keep up with the pace ofinnovation we will quickly loserelevance to the customer and thenultimately our place in the valuechain,” Alder said.Operators are already becoming
marginalised by other technologyplayers with over-the-top servicessuch as Viber and WhatsApp, whichtarget core elements of operators’businesses. With barriers to entry solow for other players, operators needto be “much more nimble and agileto stay relevant,” according to Alder.Telefonica Digital was set up with
the aim of achieving rapidinnovation and has an openapproach to partnerships witheverything from start-ups to globalhandset makers. “We recognise thatinnovation can come fromanywhere and we need to embraceit and work with it when we see it,”Alder said.He added that operators need to
embrace opportunities presentedby Internet technologies if they areto “out-innovate” online and appdevelopers. “Telcos need to realisethat there are no longer any sacredcows in this space and everything ispotentially up for grabs,” he said.
Operatoragility key toremainingrelevant
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Aircom and Ascomink agreementAscom Network Testing hassigned an agreement withAircom International underwhich Aircom will use AscomNetwork Testing’s drive testanalysis solution to validateand report key performanceindicators to meet servicedeliverables for Aircom’smobile operator customers.Aircom will use TEMSDiscovery for indoor test postprocessing, drive test analysis,and LTE network diagnostics.
Mobile communityserviceAtchik-Realtime together withMTS, one of India's fastestgrowing mobile operators, hasannounced the launch of “RockOn”, a mobile community andentertainment service,targeted at MTS India’s rapidlygrowing youth subscriber base.Backed by Atchik-Realtime'scommunity management teamand technologies, MTS chosethe solution for its proven trackrecord of boosting ARPU andincreasing end-userinteractions.
Customer servicereleaseConvergys has announced theworldwide availability of itslatest release of ConvergysCRM, powered by MicrosoftDynamics CRM 2011.Convergys CRM 2.0, part ofthe Convergys Smart Suite,will allow communication andutilities providers totransform their business witha comprehensive BusinessSupport System (BSS) thatimproves the billingprocesses, customer service,and time-to-market for newrevenue-generating services.
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By Ian Channing
Qualcomm yesterdaylaunched a major newinitiative aimed at the
European mobile developmentcommunity. According to DrAnatassia Lauterbach, SVP, GlobalOperations, Qualcomm Europe, theinitiative, dubbed Mobile Digerati,is designed “to bring togetherdevelopers and companies fromEurope and European outlets of bigcompanies from around the worldto work together on the Europeanexperience”. Lauterbach makes the very valid
point that although the mobileindustry is global, the userexperience is local and it is only byunderstanding the cultural andworking differences that the needs ofthe consumer can be met.Qualcomm already partners withEuropean companies, but MobileDigerati will go further by promotingcompetitions for mobile developersacross the whole of Europe. The firstof these will launch in April inRussia, running through toSeptember, and the next will runfrom June to November in Turkey.There will also be Mobile Digeratievents in three European cities.Talking to European operators,
Qualcomm has identified the keyareas which are of most importanceto European mobile subscribers.There are communications: IM,email, video, social networking,music, gaming and local content-location based services for example.Qualcomm is looking to work withEuropean companies using itssilicon and software expertise toenable them to develop solutionswhich will enhance the customerexperience in these key areas. “We design our silicon from
scratch and we optimise our siliconarchitecture with hardware andsoftware and the more we knowabout local hardware and the morewe know about what is required inservices then the better we are inthe whole value chain,” commentsLauterbach. “Europe is a hugemarket, 900 million users, and thecustomer experience is European, itis local. We are getting more andmore involved with operators to tryand understand what are therequirements, what are thedemands from the userperspective? We are a B2Bcompany but we are going towardsthe B2B2C space but ultimately it isabout the human being. That iswhat is real.”
QualcommlaunchesMobileDigeratiinitiative
By Tim Ferguson
The music industry needs to tapinto the unique capabilities ofmobile technology to drive the
uptake of mobile music services,according to Axel Dauchez,(pictured) CEO of online and mobilemusic service Deezer.In an interview with Mobile
World Daily, Dauchez, who spoke inthe “Media & Entertainment: TheFuture of Mobile Music” session atCongress yesterday, said use ofNFC and geolocation could be usedto differentiate mobile musicservices and add an extra dimensionthat would attract users.Dauchez added that more
mobile-focused marketing wouldalso boost uptake, with band apps,
QR codes and SMS marketingproviding additional means tointeract with music consumers.Another area that could be better
exploited, according to Dauchez, ispayment. With a significantproportion of the world’spopulation not having a bankaccount, developing a globalpayment model for mobile musicwould allow music services toexpand in developing countries.Mobile technology could also
play a role in making digital musicmore profitable due to its potentialto increase reach. “Mobiletechnology enables artists andlabels to target not only the localscene, but a truly international baseof fans,” Dauchez said.Mobile operators can also play a
role by improving access andvisibility of mobile music services.Deezer is already distributed onOrange, Belgacom and EverythingEverywhere networks and is innegotiations with 10 other operators.
Mobile capabilities toboost mobile music
By Tim Ferguson
Networks need to becomemore flexible in the waythey allocate capacity as the
constant arrival of new devices,services and applications causeabrupt changes to traffic patternson mobile networks.That’s according to 3GPP chair
and CTO for Industry Environmentfor Nokia Siemens Networks, BalazsBertenyi, (pictured) who toldMobile World Daily that the static
way in which network capacity isallocated at individual base stations,in parts of the core network or inoptical or IP transport networks,needs to change to cope withchanging demands.Bertenyi, who is due to speak in
the ‘Technology Evolution:Network Operations Evolution’session at Congress today, saidnetworks need to become moreself-aware so they can provide thebest user experience and change
dynamically depending on demand. “Means for being able to
dynamically move availablecapacity within the network isbecoming essential so the networkcan be adapted in real time to thedemands placed on it,” he said,adding that 3GPP standards alreadysupport this.Operators also need to become
more efficient in terms of hownetwork resources are used, energyefficiency and automating commonnetwork processes.And as the world’s economy
begins to depend more on digitaltransactions, operators will need toimprove their understanding oftraffic flow to tap into new revenuestreams, according to Bertenyi.“Applications generating the
traffic are largely unaware of theunderlying network technology.Hence the burden of optimising thetraffic to the varying networkconditions will inevitably fall to thenetwork operators,” he said.
Networkflexibilitykey forchangingmobiledemands
By Paul Rasmussen
Employees using their ownhandsets for work purposesare a growing security worry
for corporate IT staff, claims,Srinivas Krishnamurti, VMwaredirector for mobile solutions CTOoffice. As the mobile world increasingly
mimics the PC in terms of securitythreats, Krishnamurti believes that alarger concern is the increasingtrend by workers to use their own
handsets to connect to corporateresources, such as email. “This move towards ‘Bring Your
Own Device’ (BYOD) means thatemployees can accidentallydownload confidential informationonto their personal device and thensync it to the cloud,” says theVMware exec. “There are someenterprises which have beentracking this area for a while, butothers who are just starting to rampup initiatives internally. I think thereis a growing need for more
awareness so companies really startto monitor mobile devicesconnected to corporate resources.” However, Krishnamurti believes
BYOD is happening, regardless ofwhat companies might think, andpresents challenges many ITdepartments have yet to fullyunderstand. “The blurred lines brought about
by BYOD include the liability forlost information, accidental sharingof corporate information withpersonal accounts and accidentaldeletion of personal information byan enterprise,” said the VMwaredirector. “These challenges bring upa number of security issues, butthey also make for frustratedemployees. We've heard stories ofenterprises having to deletepersonal information, such as
family pictures from devices, due tothe possibility of a device beingcompromised.” To resolve this conflict,
Krishnamurti suggests companiesshould encourage employees to usetheir own handsets, but create asecure environment on thesedevices so that corporateinformation can be secured andmanaged appropriately. “Enterprises should embrace
mobile technologies and learn fromtheir employees to ensure there iscomplete separation of personaland corporate data. Each party canthen customise the experience asthey see fit,” concludesKrishnamurti, who presentedMobile Enterprise: MaximisingWorkforce Productivity in the Ageof Consumerisation on Tuesday.
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By Tim Ferguson
There has been much talk ofthe potential of the BRICmarkets (Brazil, Russia, India
and China) but for Latin Americanoperator group America Movil,Brazil is the place to be.In an exclusive interview with
Mobile World Daily, America MovilVAS and international roamingdirector, Marco Quatorze,(pictured) said the “exponentialdemand for data services”, interestin mobile-based financial servicesand the opportunity for operators toplay a role in over-the-top services,means Brazil has huge potential asa market beyond organic growth.America Movil expects data
traffic in Brazil to grow by morethan 100 percent per annum overthe next few years while a recentsurvey found that 52 percent ofBrazilians who access the Internetdo so exclusively through theirmobile devices.With a significant proportion of
the Brazilian population not usingbanks, using mobile to providefinancial services such as prepaidstored value and mobile walletservices has “very goodpotential”, according to Quatorze,who spoke during the ‘RegionalFocus: BRICS & The Challenges ofInnovation’ session at Congresson Wednesday. He said the distribution of
mobiles, the always-connectednature of mobile devices along with
the security provided by the SIMcard, “can transform the mobiledevice into one of the preferredways of payment in Brazil.”Brazil does present challenges,
however. The territorial expanse ofBrazil means that it’s difficult tobalance network investment in theprice-sensitive market. “Profitabilityof data services is one of our mainconcerns at this moment,”Quatorze said.Meanwhile, huge urban areas
such as Sao Paulo and Rio deJaneiro present difficult capacityplanning challenges. “Sales ofhandsets are much faster than theinstallation of the network, so weneed to anticipate. And forecastingis never an easy task,” he said.As an emerging country, Brazil
also has a significant diversity ofcustomers from high-end consumersto those who have trouble charging aphone due to a lack of access toelectricity. This diversity requires aflexible approach, so differentsegments are catered for.Government can play a role in
helping operators in markets likeBrazil. America Movil believes areview of taxes and facilitating accessto spectrum are two ways thegovernment can help. Taxes ontechnical equipment and end userservices are high in Brazil, while alack of spectrum in urban areas limitspotential to improve services.
NEWS
Spam protectionAdaptiveMobile has enhancedits Network ProtectionPlatform+ (NPP+) withimproved spam and rogue appprotection. Release 4.1includes the ability toautomatically update securitysignatures from theAdaptiveMobile SecurityCentre, allowing operators toproactively protectsubscribers rather thanrelying on them to reportproblems. Release 4.1 of theAdaptiveMobile NPP+ collectsinformation from a variety ofNPP installations, includingnetwork honeypots andsuspicious sources as well asdata from global customersand operators across theworld, augmented bysubscriber reports from itsown SpamGuard app. This isthen analysed in real time andreleased as updated mobilesecurity signatures which areautomatically distributed tooperators, delivering insightand protection to reducechurn from defrauded orfrustrated subscribers,protecting revenue streams.
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LTE is set to break down thebarriers at the services layer,enabling operators to deliver
a raft of IP-based services in a moreintegrated way, said Telus CTOIbrahim Gedeon.“The ability to leverage LTE is an
opportunity that operators shouldtake advantage of by designing IPas a services layer and not just astransport,” said Gedeon.In order to fully exploit the
opportunities this will bring, it willbe crucial for operators tosimultaneously embrace acollaborative approach with newpartners, Gedeon told MobileWorld Daily. “The advancement of broadband
technologies and collaborativebusiness environments hasincreased the opportunity to addvalue to the end customer,” he said.“The ability to identify andmonetise the value has brokendown barriers with non-traditionalpartners like Skype and Emergis.”Gedeon said Canadian operator
Telus considers LTE to be the firstwireless IP technology to transformthe core and the services layer.
The challenge, he said, will be tobuild smarter networks that willenable these services. “Telus investedin open APIs five years ago and this isthe path forward to expose NGNcapabilities along with on-linecharging and identity,” he added. “Wewill continue to find partners that fitour capabilities across the spectrum ofdevices, software apps, and retailers.”Gedeon said network operators
will continue to deploy moreinfrastructure in the coming year.“But beyond just popular accesstechnologies lie more sophisticated,intelligent infrastructure systemsusing policy, on-line charging,subscriber management and RCS,”he added.
Telus: LTE opens doorto greater collaboration
By Ian Channing
Mobile technology ishaving, and will continueto have, a massive impact
on the retail business according toMike Wehrs, CEO of barcode firmScanbuy.
“Mobile enables retailers toconnect with consumers anywhereat any time, allowing them toinfluence a purchase decision. Italso allows retailers to offercustomers real-time savingsthrough special offers,” Wehrs told
Mobile World Daily ahead of hisconference appearance here atCongress this week. Wehrs said more and more
consumers are using smartphonesto do price comparisons and makepurchases whilst shopping, andretailers are paying far moreattention to the mobile consumerbehaviour. The challenge is keepingup with the mobile consumer andensuring a quality user experience. Mobile operators can do more to
help the retail sector, said Wehrs,by equipping their phones withtechnology that promotes mobileshopping and consumer interaction.Technologies such as QR codes andNFC, which turn the smartphoneinto a mobile wallet, will also have akey role to play in the future.
Scanbuyaims tomobilisethe retailbusiness
By Ken Wielands
Consumers are beginning towarm to mobile advertising.At least that is the view of
Alex Moukas, co-founder and CEO ofVelti, a provider of mobile marketingand advertising technology for avariety of companies (includingmobile operators), who pointed to anuptick in ad click-through rates andmobile redemption rates of couponsand loyalty vouchers.
“Mobile redemption is continuingto grow at approximately 16 percentin the UK and 17 percent in the US,”said Moukas. “Also, over 80 percentof consumers in the US and over 70percent of those in the UK said theywould pass along promotional offersif they were incentivised.”Publishers and developers are
looking for new ways to monetisetheir content and applications,added Moukas, and this is pushingdemand for mobile advertising.
But challenges still remain, saidthe Velti chief. Addressing concernssurrounding consumer privacy isone box still unticked, and morecould be done – particularly in theUS – to drive higher consumerengagement through opt-inmarketing campaigns.
Mobile advertisingon the up, says Velti
Brazil pickof theBRICs forAmericaMovil
The Vodafone Foundation, working with Telecom Sans Frontiere, hasdeployed its Instant Network in Kaikor in the drought-stricken north ofKenya. The Instant Network base station, designed and manufactured byHuawei, comes in three large suitcases and can be deployed in 40 minutes.It provides GSM coverage over a radius of three miles and offers voice, dataand SMS services. The only mobile coverage previously available required amile walk up a steep hill, and even then reception was chancy. The InstantNetwork is used by Kenyan Red Cross aid workers in Kaikor and also bylocal residents. Within days of the base station being set up the networkwas handling 8,000 calls a day.
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Mobile HorizonRoamware Mobile Horizon is a5-phase roadmap for mobileoperator services through 2020.The company detailed itstechnology direction, includingthe launch of a Carrier ServicesCloud that provides a full andintegrated suite of capabilitiesto mobile operators includingroaming & local services, fraudprevention, management andcustomer experiencemanagement (CEM) to name a few.
Etisalat selectsJasper Wireless Etisalat has selected JasperWireless to wirelessly connectmachine-to-machine (M2M)and consumer electronicsdevices across Etisalat'smobile network properties.Etisalat will use the JasperWireless platform to acceleratemarket entry of new categoriesof connected devices on itsnetwork and profitably connectand manage a range ofembedded wireless devices.Jasper Wireless' abilityextends to a variety of M2Mconnections and supportsEtisalat's work in verticalmarkets, such as constructionand infrastructure, retail, andoil and gas.
Green energy fortelecomsUrban Green Energy (UGE) islaunching Fusion, a hybridrenewable energy solutiondesigned specifically fortelecom stations. The newFusion system significantlylowers the operating costs atoff-grid telecom sites andbenefits the environment at thesame time by reducing telecomtower dependency on dieselgenerators. Fusion is designedto integrate seamlessly intoexisting off-grid telecomstations, which currently runprimarily on diesel generators.The complete Fusion systemcombines UGE's advanced windturbines, an array of solarpanels, and an advancedcontrol system, into adependable, low-maintenancesystem which supplies freeenergy twenty-four hours a day.
NEWS IN BRIEF...
By Richard Handford
Yesterday’s conference saw alively debate betweenparticipants on whether
business models for mobile healthstack up in emerging markets. “It’s a business and has to be a
profitable business. At the sametime we have to be sensitive.Customers expect affordablemhealth services,” said ManojKohli, CEO International & JointMD, Bharti Airtel, during the panelsession. If a service only costs theconsumer 10 US cents that sum hasto be split between doctors andother service providers as well asmobile operators, said Kohli. “Ithink it’s possible .If we make high-volume mass-market services thenall partners will make money.”Tim Wood, Director, Mobile Health
Innovation, Grameen Foundation,agreed the mass market is importantbut said mobile health services insome sub-Saharan countries serviceswere not sustainable.Alternatively, governments will
see sufficient benefits from mhealthto invest in it. Wood said that wasnot yet the case. He said healthministries were “very far” fromspending US$2 on a messagingcampaign rather than the sameamount on conventional treatment. “I think it can be done. Working
closely with ministries is one way toit,” commented Debra Sloane,Director, Global Public SectorHealthcarre, Cisco, on how to makethe mhealth business sustainable. Finding the incentives to invest
are also important. As Dirk Roets,GEO, GeoMed, pointed out: “Thebigger picture is that the people whowill benefit most from the systemdon’t have the money to pay for it.” Mobile operators also need to be
more responsive, regardless ofquestions of scale, to setting upservices. “There are real barriers,real basic things. It shouldn’t be hardto roll out services but it took a yearto get a shortcode from an operator,”said Gustav Praekelt, founder andCEO, Praekelt Foundation.
Do thenumberswork formobilehealth?
The GSMA, organiser of theMobile World Congress, isset to record its second
consecutive year of recordattendances for the event. “The 2012 Mobile World
Congress was a phenomenalsuccess, by any measure,” saidJohn Hoffman, CEO of GSMALtd. “The record numbers thatattended this year’s eventunderscore how central mobile is
to the lives of people around theworld.” As well as keynote speakers from
across the mobile value chain, thisyear’s event included tracksdedicated to apps, cloudcomputing, embedded mobile,advertising, health, money, andOSS/BSS. The GSMA’s MinisterialProgramme also saw recordnumbers of attendees, withgovernment delegations from 140countries and internationalorganisations meeting in Barcelona.More details were also provided onthe Mobile World Capital
programme, including theformation of the Mobile WorldCapital Foundation. And MobileWorld Live TV also returned,beamed across the city andstreaming live keynotes fromEricsson, Facebook, Ford andGoogle.Next year’s event will be held at a
new venue, Fira de Barcelona GranVia, from 25-28 February 2013. “Welook forward to returning to the citynext year and starting a newchapter of the Mobile WorldCongress in the Gran Via,” Hoffmanconcluded.
GSMAheraldsanotherrecord yearfor MWC
By Richard Handford
Dominique Descolas, Veolia’sdirector of Digital Systems,told an audience at this
week’s NFC Seminar he was eager totell mobile operators about hisexperience with deploying NFC inthe French city of Nice.Veolia implemented the radio
technology in the city’s publictransport infrastructure so thattravellers can access travelinformation and validate ticketing viatheir mobile handsets. Following the Nice scheme, the
company plans to launch a commercialpilot in the public transport sector ofgreater Paris in the first quarter of 2012,according to Descolas. Veolia has worked with Orange,
SFR, Bouygues Telecom and NRJMobile in France. Descolas said he iseager to support other mobileoperators in their NFC plans.Meanwhile, Alberto Jimenez,
Citigroup’s director of global mobilesolutions, was looking at NFCadoption differently. He said therewas a common misconception thatNFC’s challenges lay on the supplyside, for instance in devices and POSinfrastructure. In fact Jimenez says the challenges
for NFC lie on the demand side,including: lack of compelling valueproposition; a perception that thecurrent payment set-up works fine;and too many small/new playersoffering value-added services and alack of aggregation. Moreover,Jimenez argued in favour of an
aggregator which could pull togethera number of mobile wallets.Certainly there is a need for
collaboration between players in theNFC ecosystem. A Booz studycommissioned by the GSMA aimedto put a figure on the socio-economicbenefits of NFC. Among its findings,the study said there was a greatervalue from the industry workingtogether rather than a morefragmented, individualistic scenario. The service value per wallet was
US$114 in a fragmented marketagainst US$128 in a collaborativeset-up. The percentage ofsmartphones with active NFC wasalso higher with a collaborative set-up: 89 percent against 79 percentwith the more fragmented approach,according to the Booz study.
Veolia: gearing up for next NFC launch
By Richard Handford
The partners behind USmobile payment venture Isishave made a “significant
commitment” to deliver the NFChandsets for its launch later thisyear, according to Michael Abbott,Isis’ CEO, speaking at yesterday’skeynote session on financialservices in a mobile world.The m-payment venture is
backed by the three largest USmobile operators – AT&T, Verizon
Wireless and T-Mobile USA – whoprovision their own handsets,although their availability is vital forIsis’ plans. The venture is due tolaunch in mid-2012 in Salt LakeCity, Utah, and Austin, Texas.Availability of handsets has
traditionally been seen as abottleneck for NFC-based services,hence the interest in Isis’ supplyline. The venture will be one of themost closely watched of NFC-based mobile payment launches. Abbott was asked about NFC
handsets during the panel sessionfollowing his own presentation inwhich he talked about the potential ofmobile wallets to replace their physicalcounterparts, providing they offerinteroperability, privacy and simplicity.Afterwards, when quizzed whether
the mobile industry will see “scoresof NFC handsets this year,” he gavethe answer about a “significantcommitment” from partners. Thatinitial commitment, he said, “will bethe start of it and you will see scoresof them [handsets] over time”.
Isis: partners making “significantcommitment” on NFC handsets
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Wi-Fi outpacescellularResearch conducted byMobidia Technology andInforma Telecoms & Mediainto smartphone usage havefound that total data usage onsmartphones is much higherthan generally reportedthroughout the industry. Infact, the conclusions showthat Wi-Fi data consumptionsexceeds cellular by a factor oftwo-to-one and that Wi-Fiaccounted for 70 percent ofall smartphone-originatedtraffic within the sampleduser base. Across the globalsmartphone user basesampled, 91 percent ofsmartphone subscribers useWi-Fi for data usagepurposes.
ZTE signs EgyptiandealZTE Corporation and EtisalatMisr have reached anagreement to expand theEgyptian operator’s networkas part of 2012 expansionplans to meet forecastcapacity requirements. Thiscontract is the second phaseof the Etisalat Misr wirelessnetwork expansion plan,agreed by both corporations,covering the supply,installation andimplementation of SDR UMTSequipment and BSS solutionson a turnkey basis. The planis expected to expand to coverfurther infrastructuredevelopment, which is amajor focus area for bothcorporations in 2012.
Security for thecloudSymantec has announced thegeneral availability ofSymantec O3 Cloud Identityand Access Control.Symantec O3 will providethree layers of protection forthe cloud: access control,information security andinformation management.The newly available SymantecO3 Cloud Identity and AccessControl provides companieswith a single, secure accesspoint to cloud applicationsand services. In addition,Symantec has formed apartnership withsalesforce.com to deliverSymantec O3 for Salesforce, asingle sign on, accessmanagement and strongauthentication application,built on Force.com,salesforce.com’s socialenterprise platform.
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By Anne Morris
The potential to embedmobile communicationsservices in cars is huge, but
one leading car manufacturer saysthere are still a number ofchallenges that need to be resolvedto unlock the full potential of thismarket. Michael Würtenberger, BMW VP
for ConnectedDrive andInfotainment, has called for mobilenetwork operators (MNOs) to leavebehind “well-known strategies” assoon as possible, such as SIM-lockand high roaming charges. “MNOs have to redefine their
business models and their roleinternally,” said Würtenberger. Hewelcomed moves such as theGSMA Connected Car Forum tobring MNOs and OEMs closertogether, but stresses that MNOsstill have their work cut out. “TheOEMs are ready, even today, toface all the challenges mentioned,”he added.According to Würtenberger,
customers should be allowed to
change their mobile provider atany time during the lifetime of acar, and he has also called forfurther progress with thestandardisation of the embeddedSIM (eSIM). Roaming costs are also still too
high: “In the M2M sector andbetween international operatingcompanies, roaming is notacceptable any more,” he said. “Itblocks economic growth andspreading of services.”Other challenges highlighted
by Würtenberger includeensuring national networkcoverage to enable services suchas eCall, allowing the selection ofthe mobile operator with the bestcoverage at a given time, as wellas embedding customerconnectivity. Embedded mobile technology is
high on the agenda at BMW: itsConnectedDrive service is nowavailable in nine countries, and thecompany is planning a worldwiderollout of ConnectedDrive in 38countries by 2015.Würtenberger added that
services from BMW in the next yearwill include an advanced Internetbrowser, personal entertainmentsolutions, server-based hybridoffboard-navigation (backend), e-navigation, features and messagedictation. Next year, he expects embedded
mobile to have an impact on cloudservices and online entertainment,driven by the smartphonecommunity.
BMW calls on operators to redefineembedded mobile business models
By Matt Ablott
Anew report has highlightedhow providing mobileconnectivity to women
living on less than US$2 a daycould bring substantial economicand healthcare benefits to theemerging world. The new GSMAstudy claims to be the first tosurvey “the wants, needs,aspirations and mobile uses” ofwomen living at the so-called baseof the pyramid, or BoP.
Among the top findings in thestudy were: 77 percent of BoPwomen have made a mobile phonecall, but only 37 percent have sentan SMS, regardless of literacylevels; 73 percent expressed aninterest in using mobile solutionsfor entrepreneurship to helpsupport their families; and 84percent wanted better healthcareinformation – but only 39 percentexpressed a specific interest inreceiving information via theirphone.
The research was conducted inpartnership with the AustralianAgency for InternationalDevelopment (AusAID) and theUnited States Agency forInternational Development(USAID), with primary researchundertaken by TNS."Critical to eliminating the mobile
phone gender gap is discovering theprofitable business models – basedin part on this new research – formobile operators for servingwomen who live on less than US$2per day,” said Maura O’Neill of theUSAID. The GSMA mWomen Programme
commissioned multi-countryresearch and primary fieldwork wasconducted with more than 2,500 BoPwomen in Egypt, India, Papua NewGuinea and Uganda, with secondaryresearch contributions from otherparts of the developing world.
New report calls forbusiness models toconnect women in thedeveloping world
By Richard Handford
Orange is to offer itssubscribers in emergingmarkets access to Visa
prepaid accounts following anagreement between the twocompanies. The offer applies tocustomers of Orange Money, them-payment service for users inAfrica and the Middle East. Theoperator plans to offer Visapayment capability to OrangeMoney subscribers in selectmarkets by the end of 2012.The credit card giant launched
its prepaid service in October2011 to boost mobile moneyservices in emerging markets byenabling account holders to makeP2P payments, retail and e-commerce purchases atmerchants where Visa issupported, and withdraw cash atVisa-backed ATMs.The Orange-Visa alliance follows
another deal announced earlier inthe week by Visa to work on mobilepayments with Vodafone.
Orange andVisa link onmobile money
By Ken Wieland
Huawei Device and IBMGlobal Business Services(China) announced a ‘smart
mobile office’ partnership Mondayat Mobile World Congress. Availablefor the China market, the solutioncomprises tablets from HuaweiDevice and business consultancyexpertise from IBM. Huawei alsoprovides cloud-based appmanagement and back-officeintegration, enabling companyemployees to access variousbusiness applications – includingenterprise resource planning (ERP),customer relationship management(CRM) and supply chainmanagement (SCM) – from theirtablet device. Huawei also offers acustomised UI (user interface). “We believe this collaboration
builds on the strength of two greatcompanies and will address thechanging needs of the workforcewithin enterprises,” said Wan Biao,CEO of Huawei Device, in aprepared statement.Initially, the solution is targeted at
three industry sectors: consumergoods, energy and retail. According tofigures from Gartner, the need fortablet-based office solutions isgrowing. The advisory firm says 80percent of large corporations intendtheir employees to use tablets by 2013.
Huawei andIBM join forcesfor smartmobile office
By Ian Channing
The Qtel Group hashighlighted some of thecommunity benefit services
it is launching in its key markets.These include mHealth(personalised alerts andinformation related to exercise and
diet), mMoney and mWomen (lifeenhancing services targetingwomen). Special mention was madeof the work of Tunisiana withEdupartage.com, a socialeducational network, which haslaunched an American-Englishtraining service via mobile phonesin Tunisia.
The Qtel Group also announced aframe agreement with ZTE whichwill make available new networksolutions, including the latestinnovations in WCDMA and LTEtechnology, across Qtel Groupoperations in the Middle East,North Africa and Asia. Meanwhilein a strong show of support forincreased economic developmentin its key markets, Qtel Groupsigned an agreement with theWorld Economic Forum tochampion its upcoming regionalmeeting taking place in Istanbul,Turkey in June of this year.
Qtel works withthe community
“In the M2M sector and betweeninternationaloperatingcompanies, roamingis not acceptableany more. It blockseconomic growthand spreading ofservices.”
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By Tim Ferguson
AT&T is paving the way fordevelopers to build appsoptimised for its network
and cloud infrastructure. “Thechanges that are occurring arecreating a lot of complexity fordevelopers as they look to optimiseapplications on next-generationnetworks. Our view is that we needto think differently about how wearchitect the network,” said AT&TSVP, App & SVC Services, JonSummers, at Congress Tuesday.Summers outlined how the US
operator is using web APIs to exposethe capabilities of its network – suchas messaging and billing – to
developers, allowing them to addfunctionality to their apps. “[With] the platforms that we
open, our goal will be to deliverthose capabilities from the AT&Tcloud enabled on the AT&Tnetwork so that users can takeadvantage of inherent reliability,security and capabilities that arepulled through when they build ontop of the AT&T network,” he said.AT&T is also providing tools for
app developers such as itsrecently launched ApplicationResource Optimizer, which allowsdevelopers to monitor how theirapps are using device andnetwork resources and how theycan be improved.
AT&T exposing networkto help app developers
By Tim Ferguson
Amid the debate aboutwhether native or HTML5web will win the battle of the
apps, another approach wasproposed at Congress on Tuesday. Scott Jenson, creative director for
innovation consulting companyFrog, envisages the nativefunctionality of mobile devices -such as RFID, GPS, Bluetooth andWi-Fi - being automated to provideusers with services they needwithout going through the processof installing apps.RFID could automatically
provide information about a filmposter or how much ketchup is leftin a bottle, while GPS could be usedto provide information aboutpeople playing on a tennis court or
when the next bus is due. Bluetoothor Wi-Fi could access a restaurantmenu or control a jukebox.“These are all examples of
different technologies that are inuse in phones today that each wantme to interact with them. And thisis a new style of interaction. It’s notgoing to replace native apps but inmany ways I think it will supersedeapps,” Jenson said.Jenson called this “just-in-time
interaction”, something that appscurrently don’t offer in such an instantway. “It’s much more ‘I don’t know
what I want, I’m going to use it andthen lose it’ type interaction. I needinstantaneous functionality,” he said.Jenson said this approach will
become more attractive as people tireof “app glut” - constantlydownloading and managing apps - thedeclining size of devices and the lossof screen interfaces which will meanother forms of interaction are needed.“We want to see the future but
we’re being blinded by theparadigm of today. If we don’tknow what we want, we won’t getit,” he concluded.
“Just-in-time interaction”to challenge native and web apps
By Steve Costello
The emergence of third-partymessaging services“provides an opportunity, as
opposed to a threat,” to theoperator community, according toAlec Saunders, VP of developerrelations and ecosystemdevelopment at RIM (pictured).“The consumer appetite for data-
driven messaging services is drivingsubscriber uptake of data packagesand higher-end smartphones,ultimately benefiting operators’own bottom-line,” he told MobileWorld Daily.The executive noted that
consumers are increasinglydemanding a richer mobilecommunications experience.“Ultimately, we believe that it willbe consumer choice which willdrive mobile usage habits, andintegrating a strong social elementwhich stimulates engagement andinteraction will play a key rolewithin this.”Saunders said that RCS-e is an
“interesting development” in theevolution of the industry as a whole.“RCS-e represents an opportunity foroperators to evolve their traditionalmessaging business which has beensuch a strong revenue generator forthem for many years.”
RIM has opened BBM to third-party developers, enabling them tocreate apps which include socialnetworking features powered by theservice. Saunders said that there arealmost 600 BBM Connected Appswhich have collectively seen 148million downloads since launch,delivering “richer, more integrateduser experience which is drivinguptake, discoverability andinteraction.”
RIM: messaging apps anopportunity, not threat
By Steve Costello
Nokia said that it had thismonth reached themilestone of 13 million daily
app downloads from its Nokia Store.The company noted especially
strong growth from feature phoneusers, with owners of devices usingits Series 40 handset platformgenerating a 250 percent increasein downloads in a year: thesedevices now account for more than30 percent of the daily total.
With Nokia now using Microsoft’sWindows Phone as its smartphoneplatform of choice, it was noted thatthe number of apps in the WindowsPhone Marketplace has grown by 300percent in the past 12 months: it nowhouses 65,000 titles “and counting.”Nokia said it has “expanded the
range of revenue tools availableto help developers be successful,”
for example adding in-apppurchase capabilities for Series 40and Qt developers. Also noted were new partnerships
with brands Kraft and Red Bull, andvideo-on-demand companyVoddler. “Our partners arerecognising the opportunities withNokia to reach all consumers in allmarkets,” the Finnish vendor said.
Nokia Store hits 13Mdaily download mark
By Tim Ferguson
The GameTanium Mobilegame platform has beenlaunched for Android Tablets
at Congress.The service provides users with
unlimited access to a catalogue of
mobile games, in return for asubscription fee.GameTanium maker Exent also
announced that Indian operatorTata Docomo will use itstechnology to launch a mobilesubscription service to Indianconsumers for the first time.
GameTanium Mobile landson Android tablets
By Tim Ferguson
Foursquare CEO DennisCrowley revealed his vision forthe future of the location-
based check-in and recommendationservice at Congress yesterday.The company is working on ways
of using customers’ data toautomatically alert them of places
and events in their vicinity thatthey’re likely to be interested in.“It’s taking all the data we have
and trying to make people passivelyaware of all the things that aregoing on without having to be in theapp all the time,” Crowley said.“We’re enabling people to cut
through this data stream in a waythat I don’t think anyone has donebefore,” he continued.The recently launched Radar
feature within the Foursquare appalready provides a basic version ofthis functionality, but Crowley seesit migrating to interfaces beyondphones, such as head-up displays.
“It’s not science fiction. This iswhere Foursquare is going and thisis a space where we’re really goingto dominate,” Crowley said.
Foursquare recently passed the15 million mark of people that havechecked in using its service, with1.5 billion check-ins having beenmade. “This is a big deal. This isgenerating a lot of interesting datapoints that allow us to do verysophisticated things,” theFoursquare chief added.
Foursquareplans to takepassiveawarenessbeyondmobiles
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By Ian Channing
The rapid uptake ofsmartphones has driven amassive increase in mobile
data, putting heavy strain on mobilenetworks. This problem will beexacerbated when LTE comes fullyon stream, creating even greatercapacity issues for operators.Mobile operators are looking toincrease network capacity andcoverage through the deployment ofthousands, and eventually millions,of small cells at street level. Thesheer number of small cells createsits own problems – how do yousuccessfully backhaul the traffic? Fibre-optic cabling is not
practical and extremely expensive,whilst normal microwavecommunications requires a line ofsight between antennas. Theanswer, according to Adiv Nativ,vice president of marketing andbusiness development at Israelicompany Radwin, is non-line of sitecommunications (NLOS). Because the small cells will be
deployed at street level, probably
utilising lamp posts and other streetfurniture, there will be numerousfixed and moving obstacles which willimpede direct line of sightcommunications. The Radwinsolution claims to utilise sophisticatedaggregation techniques to overcomethe problems of multipath fading,ensuring a consistent and high levelof communications. “Our technology is real non-line
of sight, very predictable andreliable, which is what operatorsneed in the rapidly changingenvironment at street level. Wedon’t do best path as most radiosystems do, we collect the energyfrom 30, 40 or even 50 paths andleverage these to produce onestrong accumulated signal.Equalisation of these paths is thekey and this is our specialisation,”comments Nativ. At Congress it was announced
that Spanish service providerIberbanda has deployed theRADWIN 2000 point-to-point 5.xGHz systems to drive high-capacityaccess services initially in Galiciaand Navarra.
Radwin pushesnon-line of sight kit
By Tim Ferguson
Flexible screen technologies,m-commerce and“contextual networks” will be
the big growth areas for the mobileindustry in the coming years. That’saccording to general partner andco-founder of BlueRun Ventures,John Malloy, (pictured) who spokeat the ‘Mobile Innovation: A Visionof 2022’ panel at Mobile WorldCongress this week.In an exclusive interview with
Mobile World Daily, Malloy, saidflexible screen technology will leadto a range of new form factors fortablets and mobile devices whileinteraction tech such as theiPhone’s Siri will change the waypeople interact with their mobiles.Malloy also thinks m-commerce
has huge potential for growth andcould make up more than half ofonline commerce by the end of thedecade, with the one-clicktransaction model being adopted forpurchases made on mobile devices.He added that the adoption of
smartphones and cloud-based
services will see the development ofcontextual networks that pushrelevant data and experiences to users.“The social graph of today will
look fairly static and generic whencompared with these pervasive andpredictive networks of the future.Users will seamlessly anddynamically shift between deep-focused communities versus thewide and shallow communities oftoday,” he said. Malloy said the mobile industry
can prepare for these developmentsby embracing the change andunderstanding core strengths.“Recognise that incumbents inInternet services, media andenterprise software also face valuechain disruptions. Choose yourpartners and competitors wisely.Make decisions,” he said.And there will be challenges.
Operators need to organise theirbusiness so they can bringinnovations to customers quickly.“Yes, the scale of their businessesand nature of regulated marketsadd barriers, but new solutions canbe found,” Malloy said.
BlueRunVenturespredictsmobilegrowthareas
By Tim Ferguson
Mobile operators shouldmake their networks moreintelligent if they’re to help
drive and support the uptake ofmobile cloud technology.CTO for Telecommunications at
IBM Global Business Services,Malcolm Nicholas (pic tured) toldMobile World Daily that althoughincreasing mobile capacity is one wayto support mobile cloud services,IBM is looking at another approach.“We think that by adding
computing capabilities to each layerof the network, including the radioaccess network that are thenmanaged as a distributed cloudcomputing platform, optimisationcan be made more effective forlonger,” he said.This approach won’t negate the
need for more network capacity butmeans data can be processed where itis most cost effective to do so, loweringthe costs of mobile cloud services andimproving user experience.“We think this will become
particularly relevant as mobile cloudusers are joined by billions of machinesconnecting to the network,” saidNicholas, who spoke in the “MobileCloud: Contending for Content”session at Congress this week.
Nicholas feels that smarternetworks have the potential toimprove the quality of mobile cloudservices and digital content delivery.This, in turn, will drive new mobilecloud services. “What those mobilecloud services will be is just as hardto say now as it was to predict thefirst applications for PCs back in1981 or apps for smartphones in2007, unfortunately,” he said.
IBM: Mobile cloudwill prosper onintelligent networks
NEWS
Multi-technologySON platformCelcite ManagementSoluutions has launchediCOPS as part of its COPS-SONplatform. iCOPS covers alltechnologies, including LTE,and is a powerful web enabledportal that provides wirelessnetworks operators with abroad and intuitive view of theentire radio network. iCOPSand COPS-SON use Celcite’sAutomatic IntelligentCorrelation (AICTM) enginethat enables a wirelessnetwork operators national,regional and other networkexecutives to view the rootcause for the worst performingnetwork elements, analysemultiple network issues, andseparate RF from operationalissues automatically.
Telecom serverbladeEmerson Network Power isdemonstrating anAdvancedTCA (ATCA )-basedtelecom server blade whichpromises to enable networkoperators to gain the cost andefficiency benefits of‘workload consolidation’ withsimpler and faster networksecurity. Through workloadconsolidation, implementedon the latest Intelarchitecture processors,operators will be able tomake efficient use of networkinfrastructure and reducecommissioning and operatingexpenses, at the same timeas expanding networkcapacity to handle consumerdemand for multimedia andother rich content types.
RCS as a serviceSynchronica has launchedSynchronica RCS as aService, a ‘pay as you grow’solution for mobile operatorswishing to roll out a fast andcost effective RCS (RichCommunications Suite)service. By usingSynchronica’s hosted RCSservice, mobile operators canavoid the need to implementtheir own, costly IMS corenetwork and can insteadundertake a more cost-effective and accelerated rollout to subscribers. It alsoallows groups of mobileoperators in one country tobenefit from a ‘joined up’ RCSexperience, irrespectivewhether they have alldeployed an IMS core, bylaunching their servicessimultaneously to enablecross-network messagingbetween subscribers.
NEWS IN BRIEF...
By Ken Wieland
In a bid to increase data roamingtraffic, Orange has announced itwill extend roaming offers already
available in some countries to otherparts of its European footprint by theend of 2012. “There is still fear amongcustomers about the bill,” VincentBrunet, Executive Vice President ofConsumer Mobile Services at Orange,told Mobile World Daily. “In somecountries, customers are turning thedata functionality off.”The operator’s ‘roaming bundle’
offer, already available in Spain,Belgium and Romania, is to bemade available in France, Polandand the UK. Targeted at occasionaland light users, the bundle –comprising a daily package of voice,SMSs and data – will be priceddifferently in different markets. InFrance, from June onwards, userswill pay around €5 for a dailyallowance of ten minutes’ voice, tentexts and 10MB data.A ‘rest of world’ alert and cap for
Orange customers travellingoutside Europe is to be madeavailable across eight Europeancountries. When outside the EU,Orange customers are alerted whentheir data bill exceeds a pre-determined level. The service isalready available in Poland,
Belgium and France. In France, thealert is set at €100 and customersare cut off from their dataconnection when the bill hits €130.Unlike in the EU, where a monthlycap is mandated at €50, there is noregulation on roaming tariffs forworld travel. Brunet maintains that Orange is
responding to consumer researchand competitive pressures. There isgrowing regulatory pressure,however, to reduce EU roamingtariffs and make them moretransparent. The EuropeanCommission has drafted newroaming regulation, scheduled forimplementation in the summer. Aretail price cap on roaming data(€0.90 per MB), never beforemandated, is among the proposals.“Pressure on price should come fromcompetition and not regulation,” saysBrunet. “We are always worriedwhen retail pricing is regulated.”
Orangetackles“fear” ofroaming
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FEATURE | SPECTRUM
Spectrum: The Lifeblood of theMobile Industry
Michael O’Hara, Chief Marketing Officer, GSMA
Operators continue to invest innetwork upgrades to maximise thecapacity of their networks. Clearly,
additional spectrum will also be required tosupport this explosive traffic growth, and torealise the promise of the totally ConnectedLife and the Connected Economy. The futureof mobile depends on operators havingtimely and reasonable access to thenecessary spectrum resource. The WorldRadiocommunication Conference (WRC)provides a critical mechanism through whichthe mobile industry can gain access to theadditional harmonised spectrum it requires.
The WRC is treaty-level negotiation heldevery three to four years, under the auspices ofthe International Telecommunication Union(ITU), with the current WRC-12 having takenplace from January 23 to February 17, 2012.As a global organisation, the ITU plays a keyrole in establishing a framework for the use ofradio spectrum on a global scale. It does thisby helping to ensure that radio interferencebetween countries is minimised and bypromoting harmonisation of spectrum and
equipment standards to generate economies ofscale that drive down equipment costs andfacilitate international roaming.
The ITU has supported the development ofnext-generation mobile technologies underthe umbrella of its IMT (International MobileTelecommunications) family of standards.IMT, as defined by the ITU, is a set ofstandards that extends beyond the GSMfamily of mobile technologies such as EDGE,UMTS, HSPA, TD-SCDMA and LTE, andincludes technologies such as CDMA2000,DECT and WiMAX.
At WRC-12, governments representingmore than 150 countries recognised thecritical role that spectrum plays in bringingthe enabling power of IMT to citizens aroundthe world. Under the leadership of ChairmanTariq Al Awadhi, WRC-12 called on the nextWRC in 2015 to secure additional spectrumfor IMT. The ITU will soon launch anintensive multi-year work programme to
study options for additional IMT spectrum fordecision at WRC-15. By identifyingworldwide spectrum bands for IMT use, theITU is further driving economies of scale forIMT technologies.
The importance of IMT to continuedeconomic growth and development,particularly in emerging economies, is welldocumented. IMT will be the main way ofaccessing the Internet in many markets.Today there are more than 1.7 billion IMTconnections around the world, and by 2015,this number will more than double to over 3.6billion connections. As such, it is critical thatthe ITU take the necessary steps to continueencouraging IMT development anddeployment.
Mobile users in some countries are justbeginning to reap the benefits of the DigitalDividend spectrum (700/800 MHz UHFspectrum) that WRC-07 identified for IMT.Almost all IMT spectrum identified at
previous WRCs is either heavily used (3Gcore bands) or currently being awarded (2.6GHz extension bands). While this willcontinue to drive economies of scale for IMTand address short-term spectrum needs,more harmonised spectrum will be needed toensure that the enabling power of MobileBroadband reaches its full potential.
The GSMA is extremely pleased that manycountries have recognised the need to securethe future of Mobile Broadband and alongwith our members we stand committed to thesuccess of the ITU’s work. Spectrum is thelifeblood of the mobile industry, and bytaking action now to secure additionalspectrum, mobile operators will be betterpositioned to meet the mobile data needs ofbillions of consumers well into the future. Welook forward to working with governmentsand regulators to identify the spectrumneeded to deliver the vision of providing lowcost, ubiquitous broadband all over the world.
Mobile data traffic has been growingexponentially, spurred by theproliferation of smartphones, tabletsand the widespread usage of mobileapplications. With the nextgeneration of Mobile Broadbandnetworks providing higher speed andlower latency, the range ofapplications and devices will increaseand produce a corresponding increasein demand. According to a recentstudy by Cisco, global mobile datatraffic is set to grow from 0.6 exabytesper month in 2011 to 10.8 exabytesper month in 2016, a staggeringincrease of 1,700 per cent! The studyalso noted that by 2016, 60 per cent ofmobile users, or 3 billion people, willbelong to the “Gigabyte Club”,generating more than one gigabyteof mobile data traffic every month.
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Brazilian connections grew almost 20percent year-on-year with all themarket’s major operators recording
double-digit growth. 3G connectionsaccounted for 17 percent of the Braziliantotal at year-end, slightly ahead of the 15percent regional average.
Mobile penetration stands at 125 percent.The north of the country - including Rio deJaneiro - reached 113 percent penetration inQ4 2011, compared to 131 percent in themid-west and south and 142 percent in thestate of Sao Paulo. Overall, the north region,as segmented by the regulator, comprised120 million connections by year-end, almosthalf of the country's total connections andtwice that of the two other sub-regions.However, as is the case in other BRICcountries, multiple SIM ownership is inflatingpenetration rates and diluting real growth.
The market is led by Telefonica’s Vivowhich had 72 million connections at the endof the year, giving it a 29 percent share,followed by Telecom Italia’s TIM Brasil (64million/26 percent), America Movil’s Claro(60 million/25 percent) and Oi, the mobilearm of Brazil’s fixed-line incumbent Telemar
Norte Leste (45 million/18 percent).Although there are a number of smaller andregional operators in the market, these ‘bigfour’ account for 98 percent of the country’smobile subscriber base.
Operators are investing in 3G networkdeployments throughout the country, withVivo's 3G coverage reaching 2,516municipalities in 2011 (of which 1,310 wereadded last year) giving it 82 percent 3Gpopulation coverage. Meanwhile, TIM claims67 percent 3G coverage of the urbanpopulation with 3G services present in 488cities. Similarly, Claro claimed to haveincreased its 3G footprint in Q4 2011 (withoutproviding specific figures) while upgrading itsnetwork to HSPA+, which has beeninstrumental in its 9.1 percent year-on-yeargrowth in data ARPU. Overall, suchinvestments in data networks will help theBRIC countries overtake the US in terms oftotal mobile revenue in 2012, by which timewe expect them to account for over 40 percentof total revenue in the developing world.
At Telefonica Group, the organic revenuecontribution from its Latin American divisionincreased by 5 percentage points between Q3
2010 and Q3 2011, offsetting the decliningcontributions from its Spanish (-2.1pp) andEuropean (-0.2pp) units. According to theoperator, this was due in part to the “highrates of growth driven by a favourableeconomic context and acceleration in theadoption of new services” in Brazil.
Telefonica’s Vivo added almost 3 millionmobile net additions in Q3, up 72 percentyear-on-year and 50 percent on the previousquarter. The operator has been pursuing thehigher-value market segments and claims a37 percent share of Brazil’s contract-basedmobile subscribers, and 43 percent in mobilebroadband. This focus saw ARPU at Vivo rise3 percent year-on-year to US$13.21 in Q3.
The Brazilian regulator has been able tosupport growth in the market via severalspectrum auctions in recent years. The mostrecent swathe – largely spectrum left overfrom previous tenders - was sold off inDecember 2011 and netted the governmentBRL237.8 million (US$132 million). TIMBrasil secured nine blocks of spectrum in the1800MHz band for BRL109.3 million, with Oiacquiring four blocks in the same band forBRL110.6 million. Sercomtel spent BRL3million on a single block of 1800MHzspectrum while Claro secured a block in the800MHz band for BRL14.5 million.
Meanwhile, the government is gearing upto auction-off 4G-suitable spectrum later thisyear. Auctions for spectrum at 2.5GHz(suitable for LTE) and 450MHz are due tobegin in April, while 3.5GHz fixed-wirelessspectrum auctions are due to follow. Muchsought-after 700MHz spectrum could also besold before year-end.
In recent years, the main operators have allmoved to merge their mobile and fixed-linebusinesses to provide integratedfixed/mobile service offerings. Telefonicabought out its former partner in Vivo,Portugal Telecom, in 2010 partly in order tomore closely integrate the unit with its localfixed arm, Telesp. Meanwhile, America Movilbrought Claro and its fixed-line arm,Embratel, under one roof last year andrecently added cable firm Net Servicos deComunicacao to its Brazilian portfolio.Telecom Italia acquired the long-distancefibre player, Intelig, in 2009.
However, the fixed businesses of theforeign-owned operators continue to trail thatof Oi, which remains Brazil’s largest fixed-lineprovider by some distance. Oi hasconcentrated in recent years on integratingits 2008 acquisition of rival fixed-line firmBrasil Telecom, with all its services – bothmobile and fixed - now under the Oi brand.
Brazil reached almost 250 million mobile connections by year-end 2011,according to Wireless intelligence data, accounting for over a third of totalconnections in the Americas region. It is now a larger market than Mexico,Argentina and Colombia combined.
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Brazil mobile connections, Q4 2011
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Network shutdowns to reshape Indian mobile market
Matt Ablott, Senior Editorial Analyst, Wireless Intelligencewww.wirelessintelligence.com
Since Q1 2008, 120 networks havelaunched across India’s 22 circles,including most of the start-up networks
using the 2G licences issued undercontroversial circumstances by the office ofdisgraced former telecoms minister, A Raja.
Among incumbent operators, six launchednetworks in additional circles during thisperiod: Aircel (14 circles), Idea Cellular (11),MTS (21), Tata Docomo (three), Vodafone(seven) and Loop Mobile (12), while four newoperators have launched: Etisalat’s CheersMobile (15), Telenor’s Uninor (15), S Tel (five)and Videocon Mobile (17). Several of thesenew operators now face having to shut downwithin the next four months following theSupreme Court’s ruling - unless they are ableto buy-back licences in the court-orderedreauction of the cancelled licences.
These network launches have helped themarket triple in size since 2008 with annualconnections growth peaking in 2009 (51percent year-on-year), before slowingdramatically last year.
Total Indian mobile connections passed900 million in January and are expected toreach 1 billion by year-end. However, thelarge share of inactive SIM cards in thecountry’s installed base shows that real
penetration (on an active users basis) will bythis stage stand at 58 percent rather than thecurrent projection of 82 percent.
According to the latest WirelessIntelligence data, total Indian mobileconnections grew by 19 percent year-on-yearin 2011, less than half the 48 percent averagegrowth recorded over the previous threeyears. Total yearly net additions in 2011declined to 141 million from 227 million ayear earlier. The slowdown was even morepronounced in Q4 2011, where quarterly netadditions were recorded at 20 million,compared to 60 million a year earlier.
“This is evidence that India’s market sizehas been inflated and its growth opportunitieslargely diluted, and thus the next step forregulators and operators is to re-install aclimate of confidence in the market tostimulate much needed investment,” said JossGillet, senior analyst at Wireless Intelligence.“This daunting task has been kicked-off byoperators which are slowly easing the long-lasting price wars which have brought mobiletariffs and ARPU in the country down to thelowest levels in the world.”
A number of factors have triggered thisslowdown, including regulatory uncertaintyahead of the finalisation of the ‘New Telecom
Policy’ announced in the wake of the licensingscandal; the DoT’s intention to delink futurespectrum allocations from operator subscriberbases; delays in the allocation of additionalnumbering resources; and rule changesintroduced by operators regarding the activityperiod allowed for prepaid users.
Previously, users would see their servicesterminated if they had not recharged theirprepaid cards or placed/received a call withina period of 180 days. Late last year, bothBharti Airtel and Vodafone reduced thisperiod to 60 days while state-owned BSNLreduced it to 90 days last month. Airtel statedthat this change was necessary in order tofree up unused numbering allocations for newcustomers given the overall country-wideshortage. These changes are expected tohave a negative effect on connections growthover the coming quarters.
The slowdown has seen many operatorsbegin to report negative net additions. In Q42011, Tata Docomo recorded a 5.3 milliondecline in connections compared to previousquarter, while new entrants Videocon Mobileat (-826,398) and Ping Mobile (-32,461) alsosaw declines.
Meanwhile, the Telecoms RegulatoryAuthority of India (TRAI) has identified thatalmost 30 percent of the estimated currenttotal of 900 million mobile connections incountry are inactive, putting the total numberof ‘active’ connections at about 650 million.
According to the TRAI, rural penetration inIndia only increased by 17 percentage pointsbetween 2009-11 to 36 percent, while urbanpenetration has increased by 58 percentagepoints to 161 percent over the same period.
“This is a clear indicator that urban areashave been at the centre of competitive effortsfrom mobile operators and that demand inrural areas – which to date represent only onethird of the country's total connections – isstill largely untapped,” adds Gillet. “However,market uncertainty will remain for some time- or until market consolidation hasmaterialised. The recent disruption broughtby the cancellation of 122 licences will pusha number of operators to exit the marketwhile the government’s ‘New Telecom Policy’– currently scheduled to be published in mid-2012 – will install new rules surroundingM&A, taxes, licence conditions and spectrumallocations.”
The shock decision this month by India’s Supreme Court to order thecancellation of 122 regional mobile licences could impact almost 10 percentof the country’s mobile users, according to Wireless Intelligence. The licencecancellations will serve to put the brakes on growth in the world’s second-largest mobile market, which is already slowing following regulatoryuncertainty in the wake of the so-called ‘2G licensing scam.'
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India net additions, annual, 2001–2011
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Radical new pricingstrategies required tosupport future mobilegrowth in Africa
Africa was the fastest-growing mobileregion in the world in Q3 2011, growingconnections by 19 percent year-on-year
(to 620 million) and overtaking the Americasduring the quarter to become the world'ssecond-largest mobile region after Asia-Pacific.There were 26 million new Africanconnections (net) added in the third-quarter.
Pricing wars have been affectingconnections growth in several Africanmarkets, including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzaniaand Egypt. This phenomenon is exacerbatedby the dominance of prepaid users -accounting for 97 percent of the region'sconnections - who are susceptible to pricingfluctuations and more likely to churn.
In Kenya, Airtel (Bharti) has reduced its per-minute voice calls from KES6 (US$0.06) to aslow as KES1 and has been offering free datamodems since taking over the country's second-largest network. Rival yu (Essar Telecom)responded by introducing modems priced atKES2,599 (US$26.5) with two months freeunlimited browsing while market-leaderSafaricom had to reduce the price of on-networkSMS to KES1 from KES3.5. Consequently, Airtelmanaged to double its customer base in 12months at the expense of its competitors butwas also strongly criticised by Safaricom, whichasked the regulator (CCK) to set a minimumthreshold for prices. The market leader warnedthat such low prices are not sustainable andcould cost the industry some KES20-26 billion(US$270 million) in lost revenue.
There is a similar mobile price warunderway in Uganda where the regulatorrecently backtracked on plans to establish afloor price for on-net calls at UGX92
(US$0.03) per minute and limit pricepromotions. This has allowed the country'snumber-three player Warid Telecom, forexample, to cut voice prices to just UGX60per minute for on-net calls and UGX180 perminute off-net. Rival UT Mobile has alsorecently introduced unlimited on-net calls forUGX500 (US$0.19) per day. One player in themarket that has spoken out against theUgandan price war is MTN, the marketleader, which recently increased both its on-net and off-net tariffs.
Amid intense competition, customers' pricesensitivity is also a growth hurdle for Orange inEgypt which, earlier this year, stated that lowerARPU levels are due to tariff inelasticity,aggressive promotions and the addition of new"bottom of the pyramid" customers. Thecontrast between Africa and other emergingmobile markets is aptly demonstrated by recentfigures from Bharti, which entered 15 Africanmarkets following its acquisition of Zain Africalast year. The operator said that in 2010 itsAfrican subscribers were averaging 112 voiceminutes-of-use (MoU) per month andgenerating US$7 per month (ARPU). Thiscompared to 454 MoU and US$5 ARPU inIndia. The operator described India as a "highusage, low pricing model" compared to the "lowusage, high pricing model(s)" seen in Africa.
The Kenyan market also serves as a usefulexample of the impact of mobile-specifictaxation in Africa on price-sensitive demand.A recent study commissioned by the GSMA(conducted by Deloitte) found that mobilehandset sales in the country soared by 200percent following the government's 2009decision to slash the 16 percent VAT leviedon handset sales, with mobile penetrationrising from 50 percent to 70 percent over thesame period. This suggests that taxation is akey contributor to the total cost of mobileownership (TCMO) in low-income Africanmarkets. Indeed, the research found thattaxation as a proportion of the TCMO inKenya has fallen from 25 percent to 17percent over the last five years as the taxburden has been reduced.
However, the study found that this trend isnot being replicated elsewhere in Africa withusers in Gabon paying 80 percent tax onhandset purchases, followed by Niger at 65percent; and Congo Brazzaville, theDemocratic Republic of Congo, Guinea,Madagascar and Rwanda all paying morethan 40 percent. It notes that in severalAfrican markets, users are paying twice asmuch tax as they were four years ago.
A new type of African mobile tax emergingis the so-called 'Surtax on InternationalInbound Call Termination' (SIIT), whichcentrally fixes the prices that operators cancharge when terminating international inboundcalls. The GSMA/Deloitte research found thatwhere the SIIT has been imposed, the level of
inbound international traffic has fallen andprices of outbound calls have increased due tothe reciprocation of higher termination pricesby operators in other African countries. Forexample, in Congo Brazzaville, the price ofinbound traffic has risen by 111 percent andoperators report that inbound traffic fell by 36percent between May 2009 (when the tax wasintroduced) and May 2011. There were similartrends identified in Gabon, Senegal and Ghana.
To date, 3G only represents 10 percent ofAfrica's total connections base, whichhighlights a substantial potential for growththat will only be fulfilled if pricing modelsare rationalised and if investors areconfident that they will generate short-termreturn on investments.
Africa overtook the Americas tobecome the world’s second-largestmobile market at the end of 2011,according to Wireless Intelligence,but the region remains highlydependent on prepaid voice incomeand is characterised by pricing wars,low usage and the relatively highcost of device ownership.
ANALYSIS | AFRICA
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Africa mobile connections, Q3 2011
Source: Wireless Intelligence
Africa World
Connections (million) 620 5,883
Net Additions (million) 26 167
% Connections
Prepaid 97% 74%
Contract 3% 26%
2G 90% 74%
3G 10% 26%
Growth (Connections)Quarterly 4% 3%
Annual 19% 14%
Market Penetration 63% 85%
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A new consumer survey,commissioned by ComptelCorporation, the leading vendor ofCustomer Engagement software,has revealed that two-thirds ofconsumers feel neglected by theirmobile operators and that almosthalf are likely to churn within thenext two years as a result. Thesurvey also reveals howconsumers in United Kingdom,France, Germany and the UnitedStates would be more loyal and
willing to spend more, if operatorsengaged with them more.Comptel offers solutions which
combine the ability to collect a largeamount of data, make sense of themthrough advanced analytics, and takeengaging action through policycontrol, charging or service fulfilment.
For a copy of the researchresults, please visit Comptel(www.comptel.com) at booth#1C06.
Survey Reveals CustomersNeed More Love FromTheir Mobile Operators
Fujitsu is showing the new quad-core ‘superphone’ with ultra-fastOS, along with the world's thinnest6.7mm waterproof Smartphone,and much more. You will be able totouch and try all the incredible newSmartphones and tablets by Fujitsu
at the Fujitsu stand. While you'rethere, experience Fujitsu featureslike waterproof performance foryourself. Fujitsu is the oneSmartphone maker with verticallyintegrated manufacturing, a globalICT presence and comprehensive
expertise ranging fromsupercomputers to tablet PCs.
Come and visit our stand at‘Courtyard CY15’ or contact usvia the Fujitsu website(www.fujitsu.com)
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JDSU introducesPacketPortalTM, an industry firstusing a revolutionary cloudapproach to intelligencecollection. By decoupling datacapture and filtering frommanagement and analysis, JDSUis able to dramatically reduce thecost, size and complexity ofinformation collection bringingunprecedented and massive scale.Now service providers, no longer
limited by information blindspots,can address the issues of drivingcosts down, maximizing thecustomer experience anddelivering exciting new tailoredservices. Powered by an openvalue-creating platform combinedwith a comprehensive partnermodel, PacketPortal delivers theright intelligence at the right timeto any business, monitoring ormanagement application.
PacketPortal now lets you seethe network the way yourcustomers experience it.
Visit the JDSU Booth in Hall 1,stand 1G63 to find out moreabout the unique PacketPortalsolution or visit www.jdsu.com
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RedefiningCustomer,Content &NetworkIntelligence
EXHIBITOR NEWS
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Compact, Low LossSwitching for High Linearity2G/3G/4G ApplicationsThe RFMD® family of high-
power discrete switch products,which are available in SPDT, SP3T,and SP4T type architectures, aretailored to address coexistenceissues in WiFi, BT, GPS, and LTEbands that require extremely highlinearity. These switches have verylow current consumption makingthem ideal for use in battery-powered cellular devices wheretalk time and standby time arecritically important. Other possibleapplications for these switchesinclude antenna tuning andcellular band switching. TheRF1602 is an SPDT switchdesigned for use in SV-LTE,
WCDMA, and CDMA applications;the RF1603A is an SP3T switchideally suited for use in multi-modeGSM/EDGE/WCDMA/CDMA/LTEapplications; the RF1604 is anSP4T switch is also suitable for usein multi-mode GSM/EDGE/WCDMAapplications, as well as LTE, andcellular infrastructureapplications.
For further information or torequest a meeting with RFMD atMWC, contact us [email protected]
NXP Software is bringing a smileto visitors’ faces with its real-lifedemonstrations of its LifeVibesproducts. Visitors to its stand (Hall 1,A15) can try out video and voicesolutions designed to wowconsumers in today’s multi-screen,multi-tasking world. You can playwith the latest LifeVibes videosoftware. It’s a combined videoplayer and social control panel that
lets you watch videos, talk onFacebook Chat, tweet and browse allat the same time. Or why not hearhow LifeVibes VoiceExperience andHD Voice make voice calling crystalclear – even with all the noise ofMWC in the background? And toshare the fun, you can capture andupload a smile to Facebook withLifeVibes fast, intuitive media editingand trimming software.
Smile! Experience a“wow” moment withLifeVibes software
Wi-Ex, a leading provider ofconsumer and commercialmobile signal boosters for thehome and office, is showcasing itszBoost European product lineincluding the zBoost-ONE UMTS3G Signal Booster and zBoost forhome and office.
zBoost eliminates mobile phonenotspots by increasing the mobilesignal indoors and eliminatingdropped calls. With zBoost, userscan take full advantage of voice,data and Internet services on theiriPhone, Blackberry, DROID,smartphone and other connected
devices including iPad and tabletsincluding 3G high-speed data andvideo, instant messaging, picturesand more at home and in theoffice.
Visit us at stand 2J29Or at www.Wi-Ex.com/MWC2012
zBoost Your MobilePhone Notspots
Polystar—first tooffer VoLTE test tool
Polystar, a leading supplier ofService Assurance, NetworkMonitoring and Test Solutions, islaunching VoLTE functionality inthe SOLVER load and feature-testing tool. Polystar is the first onthe market to address the rapidlygrowing demand for VoLTEtesting. SOLVER will provide itscustomers with the powerful toolto efficiently test voice handlingand voice quality of 4G in their labsand networks. Through thesimulation of VoLTE traffic, thefunctionality, quality and reliability
of IMS networks can be tested andverified.SOLVER is a powerful stress and
feature testing tool for SIP, PSTN,2G, 2.5G, 3G, and 4Gtelecommunications networks. Itsproven combination of ease-of-use, complexity and capacity hasbeen appreciated by vendors andoperators for nearly a decade.
February 29, 2012 – MIPI Alliancetoday announced the Low LatencyInterface (LLI) v1.0 specification formobile devices, which offers a point-to-point interconnect between theapplication processor andmodem/baseband processor. Usingthis high bandwidth interconnectenables the baseband processor toaccess the application processor’sdedicated DRAM memory forbaseband processor operation, thuseliminating a separate, dedicatedDRAM chip. Industry estimatestranslate the savings to anapproximately $2 USD reduction inthe total bill of materials for asmartphone. Board space is alsosaved, enabling mobile devicemanufacturers to reduce footprint.In addition, SoC designers canconnect multiple chips in a “daisychained” configuration, allowing the
chips to share a single memorychip. Finally, LLI leverages the MIPIAlliance M-PHYSM physical layer, ahigh bandwidth approach used forperipheral inter-chip interconnectsin mobile devices. For moreinformation, go to www.mipi.org/LLI
Hall 7, Stand 7H11 MIPI® is a registered mark ofMIPI Alliance, Inc.
MIPI® Alliance LowLatency InterfaceSpecificationEliminates MemoryChip in MobileDevices
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MACH, the leading provider ofcloud-based managedcommunication services, todayannounced that it will provide a fullportfolio of roaming services to BhartiAirtel (‘Airtel’) operations acrossAfrica. Airtel currently operates in 16countries in Africa. Reducing costsand optimising revenue arefundamental to multi-nationaltelecommunications groups – MACHoffers business intelligence, onlinereporting and budget managementtools which give a full view of roamingbusinesses and allow executivemanagement to create strategicroaming policies to achieve this. Withthe deployment of MACH’s solutions,Airtel will be able to take a top-downconsolidated view of its group-wideroaming business and determinegroup roaming strategies that willimprove competitiveness.
MACH and Bharti AirtelForm StrategicPartnership to EnhanceRoaming Business
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This session is for app developers and people implementing mobile apps and services.
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Keynote 7: Driving the Mobile Technology Evolution09:30 - 11:00 Location: Hall 5 - Auditorium 1
As mobile operators across the globe upgrade their networks to LTE,the full promise of fast and ubiquitous mobile broadband is becominga reality. However, as demand for data services continues to grow, itwill become increasingly important for operators to deploytechnologies which will not only make their networks more intelligent,but also make the best use of their spectrum allocations.
Network architectures will need to evolve to reflect both the density ofthese new networks as well as the increased capacity they will carry.The drive to scale up the deployment of LTE-enabled devices will bejust as important, while at the same time LTE Advanced looms largeon the horizon with a whole new set of questions and challenges.Which factors will determine the technology investments operatorsmake in the coming years? Can the industry do more to workcollaboratively and build greater efficiencies into the R&D andmanufacturing process? How will regulation impact the growth of themobile ecosystem?
Join some of the industry’s technology pioneers as they discuss the futureof the networks which underpin all that is mobile.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
MODERATOR:Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Even in the near future, operators will need to deliver highercapacities, new services and higher Quality of Service to thecustomer, while improving efficiency and lowering cost internally.For most operators, this revolution must be achieved by anevolution in their radio, aggregation and core networks.
Mobile operators have already started to deploy heterogeneousnetwork structures combining different generations of wirelesstechnologies, often embedded in an environment of macro-, micro-and even femto-cells. Furthermore, LTE-Advanced features, newcentralised RAN and smart network architectures are currently beingdeveloped and evaluated.
As a result, many of the elements needed to deliver a flexible,intelligent network already exist or will appear in the near future.The main challenge is to do it right - to bring the pieces of thepuzzle together in a way that supports an operator’s financial,technical and business needs throughout the evolutionary process.This session highlights how industry leaders are working towardsthis and what steps should be taken.
Embedded Mobile: The Market Opportunityin the Automotive and Utilities Sectors 11:30 - 13:00 Location: Hall 5 - Room 5
The automotive and utilities sectors, amongst others, represent strongmarket opportunities for mobile network operators and other serviceproviders. Embedding telematics into vehicles which use mobileconnectivity to deliver safety and security services, and infotainmentservices such as internet access, live traffic updates and weather reportsare becoming increasingly commonplace. Meanwhile, mobile connectivityis enabling utilities suppliers to more effectively manage the supply anddemand of consumers’ energy and water.
The market opportunity for embedded mobile in the automotiveand utilities sectors will be evaluated in this session. It will alsoexplore the types of services that can be expected in the future andthe role of the various players in the value chain in bringing thesesolutions to market, whilst addressing critical successful factors.
Mobile Money: Delivering Innovative MobilePayment Services11:30 - 13:00 Location: Hall 5 - Auditorium 3
A wide range of mobile payment products and services have beenrolled-out globally to date, largely focused on the purchase ofdigital goods and services. The mobile payments market is expectedto reach $670 billion by 2015, according to Juniper Research, andthe scope of mobile payments is broadening outside of digitalgoods and services. In light of the expected growth in mobilepayments, service providers continue to look for new ways toinnovate and utilise technology to execute payment transactionsand deliver an improved user experience.
Virtual cards enabling online payments, virtual currencies and creditcard readers are just some examples of technology innovations inmobile payments. However, delivering innovative mobile paymentservices is not just about the underlying technology; a streamlinedvalue chain and a customer-focused go-to-market strategy are alsocritical factors in delivering successful mobile payment services andgaining competitive advantage.
This session will explore the latest innovations in mobile payments.It will also address the challenges for the ecosystem as well as thecritical success factors in delivering innovative services in the highly-competitive mobile payments space.
Technology Evolution: Network OperationsEvolution
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14:30 - 16:00 Location: Hall 5 - Auditorium 2
Technology developments and business pressures are destroyingmany old barriers – between networks and IT, voice and data, fixedand mobile, telecoms and internet. This change offers operators thechance to manage their networks and services in new ways,lowering costs and opening up fresh business opportunities.
However, for operators to take full advantage of these opportunitiesrequires some radical changes throughout their business, networksand IT systems. There are considerable challenges to overcome, notleast the management of converged networks, of different wirelesstechnology generations and of an increasingly complex multi-vendorenvironment.
Based upon practical experience, this session focuses on how toevolve mobile network operations effectively. It offers delegates thechance to understand the path towards a new style of networkoperations, how to take advantage of its benefits and how to avoidthe dangers on the way.
Embedded Mobile: Consumer Electronics -The Case for Embedding Mobile Connectivity14:30 - 16:00 Location: Hall 5 - Room 5
As the demand for consumer electronics such as tablets and e-readers goes from strength to strength, mobile network operatorsmust contend with a huge increase in multimedia traffic on theirnetworks. What types of consumer electronics are expected to placethe most demands on mobile networks? What are the different usecases? How can mobile network operators best meet the growingdemand for mobile connectivity while maintaining the same Qualityof Service that consumers have come to expect from their electronicdevices?
This session will explore the landscape of embedded consumerelectronics and the business case for embedding mobile connectivityinto consumer electronics devices, and will consider the possiblealternatives.
Mobile Money: Emerging Markets - Whereare the Opportunities for Mobile Money?14:30 - 16:00 Location: Hall 5 - Auditorium 3
Several emerging markets represent strong growth opportunities formobile money due to the high numbers of unbanked and under-banked customers. Money transfers, bill payments, cashwithdrawals and forms of micro financing, often through simple butsecure SMS messaging, are just some examples of mobile moneyservices which are proving valuable to consumers in emergingmarkets, where mobile phone usage is high but where access totraditional banking services is limited.
This session will explore where opportunities exist for mobile moneyservices in emerging markets. It will discuss the role of mobilenetwork operators, financial institutions and payment providers andthe challenges in bringing mobile money services to emergingmarkets.
Conference Sessions
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Come and visit us at the GSMA Pavilion in Hall 8Collins mobile Coverage is a web based roaming coverage map
service made available through CollinsBartholomew’s partnership with the GSMA. Using the latest mapping technology,
Collins mobile Coverage combines up-to-date world base maps with unique mobile network coverage data provided by operators
from around the world. These seamless roaming coverage maps are delivered straight to network operators’ corporate web pages to help them tell their users where they can use their phones when abroad.
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3 becomes powerfulnumber-three player in Austria as marketconsolidates
Matt Ablott, Senior Editorial Analyst, Wireless Intelligencewww.wirelessintelligence.com
Austria is a highly-penetrated andfiercely competitive mobile market soconsolidation will be welcomed by the
main protagonists. Four competing networksserving a population of less than 9 million isclearly unsustainable in a market that isshifting focus from connections growth tosubscriber profitability.According to the latest Wireless
Intelligence data, Austria is approaching 150percent market penetration, making it thefourth most penetrated mobile market inWestern Europe behind only Finland,Portugal and Italy. Nevertheless, the Austrianmarket still managed to grow by 6 percentyear-on-year in Q3 in 2011 with onlyOrange’s customer base contracting slightlyfrom a year ago (by 1 percent).The market is also highly advanced with 3G
connections now accounting for half of thecountry’s total (53 percent) and three of thefour local operators having launched LTE.Almost three quarters of Austrian mobilesubscribers are also now on postpaidcontracts.Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa, owner
of 3 Austria, is to acquire 100 percent ofOrange Austria from its current ownersFrance Telecom (35 percent) and private-equity firm Mid Europa Partners (65 percent)for an enterprise value of EUR1.3 billion.However, 3 Austria will then sell on to OrangeAustria assets worth EUR390 million toTelekom Austria. These assets includeOrange’s prepaid ‘Yesss’ mobile brand, plusspectrum and base station sites.
The net consideration payable by 3Austria of EUR0.9 billion for OrangeAustria (after the sale of the assets toTelekom Austria) equates to 6.9x earnings(EBITDA). 3 is targeting cost and capexsynergies to the tune of EUR500 millionfrom the combination.As the merger involves the two smaller
players, the deal should have no problemgetting regulatory approval. The transactionmerges third-placed operator Orange andfourth-placed 3 to create a powerful numberthree behind Telekom Austria’s A1 andsecond-placed T-Mobile. According to thelatest Wireless Intelligence figures, based onQ3 data, the deal would create a combinedentity with 3.5 million mobile connectionsand a 27 percent market share.France Telecom and Mid Europa Partners
acquired 3 Austria, formerly known as One, in2007 for EUR1.4 billion, in a deal that wastouted at the time as the “largest industrialleveraged buy-out in Austria.” However,Austria is now one of several Europeanmarkets where France Telecom is disposingof assets it deems as ‘non-core.’
3 Austria switched on its first commercialLTE network in the country’s capital city,Vienna, in November. A1 and T-Mobile bothlaunched LTE in Q4 2010, also in thecapital. The new networks are now beingrolled out in other urban centres, includingGraz and Linz.Meanwhile, Telekom Austria, which has
been struggling financially, appears to be ripefor a takeover. While the Austriangovernment’s 28.4 percent 'blocking' stake inthe firm makes a hostile takeover extremelydifficult, an investment vehicle led by notableAustrian ‘corporate raider’ Ronny Pecik hassteadily built up a 15 percent stake in recentmonths and is poised to use its influence totrigger a shift in Telekom Austria’s ownershipand board make-up.Pecik is reportedly in alliance with
Orascom Telecom founder Naguib Sawirisand one suggested scenario for the group isthat they lobby Telekom Austria to align (orpossibly divest) some assets in EasternEurope to Orascom or VimpelCom,Orascom’s indirect majority parent. TelekomAustria controls a number of mobile
operators in Eastern Europe, notably inBulgaria (Mobiltel), Belarus (Velcom),Slovenia (Si.mobil), Macedonia (Vip), Croatia(VIPnet) and Serbia (Vip).In the first nine months of 2011, Telekom
Austria reported a 73.2 percent year-on-year decline in net income to EUR68.7million, while sales dropped 4.1 percent toEUR3.34 billion.Regardless of what happens to its
shareholder structure – or its EasternEuropean assets – the focus for TelekomAustria in its home market continues to be toensure its mobile unit does not cannibalise itsfixed business. Along with pricing andregulatory pressures, fixed-to-mobilesubstitution has been a major headache forthe incumbent in the year to date.
Austria is the latest mature WesternEuropean mobile market to seeconsolidation following the mergerbetween the country’s two smallestoperators, 3 and Orange, while theparent of the market leader –Telekom Austria’s A1 – is also thesubject of takeover speculation.
ANALYSIS | AUSTRIA
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Austria mobile connections, Q3 2011
Source: Wireless Intelligence
A1 Telekom T-Mobile Orange 3 (Hutchison)
Connections (million) 5.2 3.9 2.2 1.3 12.6
Market Share 41% 31% 17% 10% -
YoY growth 4% 7% -1% 27% 6%
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% 3G 51% 39% 58% 100% 53%
LTE Yes Yes No Yes -
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