Global - Analysis - Telecoms developments - Strategic overview

Synopsis

Archived report. This report was archived in 2006 and has not been updated. As interesting developments are now well and truly underway, it is good to have a strategic look at them. Key developments involve triple play business models. VoIP will be the key element in such packages, but it is broadband TV that makes the product viable. Wireless broadband offers new opportunities where mobile data has failed, as well as in niche markets in competition with DSL. This report provides a high level analysis and overview of these developments.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. A rapidly changing global telecoms market
  • 2.1 Electronic consumption becomes an economic driver
  • 2.2 Incumbents clash with their governments
  • 2.3 Pro-active telcos can stay ahead of regulations
  • 2.4 Governments will continue to lead telecoms policies
  • 2.5 Lack of policies = lack of innovation
  • 2.6 Facilities based competition is the way to go
  • 2.7 Infrastructure duopolies look like the best option
  • 2.8 Unbundling does lead to infrastructure roll out
  • 2.9 Telcos that fail to change will go under
  • 2.10 Developing world still a long way to go
  • 2.11 Key trends and developments
• 3. Telcos still don’t seem to get it
  • 3.1 Innovation and monopolies don’t match
  • 3.2 Digging their own graves
  • 3.3 Chairing an IMS conference
  • 3.4 And the world keeps bypassing the telcos
  • 3.5 The need to change from a retail to a wholesale model
  • 3.6 We can’t see the business model
• 4. Infrastructure developments
  • 4.1 Fibre-to-the-home (FttH) infrastructure
  • 4.2 IP-based developments
• 5. Rapidly changing voice market
  • 5.1 Milking the voice market
  • 5.2 Mobile merging with wireless
  • 5.3 Fixed-Mobile Conversion (FMC)
  • 5.4 Financial outlook for the telco industry
• 6. Broadband market
  • 6.1 Broadband: a technology concept
  • 6.2 Wireless broadband
  • 6.3 Broadband over Powerlines (BPL)
  • 6.4 Developments will be non-linear
• 7. Broadband based video communications
  • 7.1 Tele-presence
  • 7.2 Tribes, clans and communities
  • 7.3 Broadcasting over IP (BoIP)
  • 7.4 IPTV
  • 7.5 Hollywood coming to the party
  • 7.6 The digital divide
• 8. Broadcasting based developments
  • 8.1 Traditional broadcasting
  • 8.2 Digital TV
  • 8.3 Home media centres
  • 8.4 DOCSIS 3.0
• 9. Mobility markets
  • 9.1 Mobile telecoms
  • 9.2 Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
  • 9.3 Wireless mobility
  • 9.4 Companies rolling out 802.16e
  • 9.5 HSDPA and IMS
  • 9.6 Fixed-mobile convergence
• 10. Related Reports