Fixed-mobile Convergence (FMC) Carrier Trends, Status and Services

Dittberner Associates
April 1, 2006
230 Pages - SKU: BCEQ1327341
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The objectives of this initial study are to answer the following questions regarding the convergence of fixed and mobile communications (FMC):
  • How and to what extent FMC could impact carrier’s competitiveness, market position and financial performance?
  • Will this impact differ depending on whether a carrier has strong market positions in both fixed and mobile telephony?
  • How will mobile-only carriers compete against full service carriers offering FMC services?
  • Does FMC correspond to a real market demand, or is it primarily a strategy for carriers to add more value and fight new competition, or both?
  • Is FMC primarily a strategy to integrate separate network infrastructures (“siloed networks”), and improve carriers’ operational performance (Opex, Capex, time to market, etc.)?
  • Will carriers be able to derive sizable incremental revenue from services associated with FMC?
  • Which carriers are best positioned to take advantage of FMC opportunities?
  • In which countries FMC is likely to take off first?
  • What is the current status of FMC deployments? What FMC solutions/services have already been implemented?
This first report comprises three parts:

1. An analysis of the strategic framework pertaining to FMC, including:
  • Development trends of fixed, and mobile communications,
  • Major carriers’ involvement and market positions in fixed and mobile telephony, and potential impact of FMC on their business,
  • Factors related to the marketing of FMC services,
2. A status report on FMC activities and initiatives of 21 major networks operators around the world. Each case study presents the carrier’s involvement in wireline and wireless mobile network services, and its current FMC/IMS activities, and corresponding development plans (trials/deployments, alliances, etc.).

3. A carrier business case, related to a large ILEC with a major cellular mobile telephony business, covering the impact of incremental revenue, OPEX, CAPEX on income, cash flow and ROI. The business case uses a model, which is part of the report, allowing users to test their own assumptions, and develop extensive sensitivity analyses.

Scope of analyses

Countries

The statistical analyses in this project are based on the 31 countries that had more than 10 million cellular mobile subscribers at the end of 2004. These countries, listed below, represented at the end of 2005 nearly 87% of the world’s total estimated number of mobile subscribers (approximately 2 billion). These 31 countries also accounted for 86.7% of the world’s total main access lines at the end of 2004. The analyses based on this sample of countries, are therefore quite representative of the entire world telecommunications industry.

Americas
  • Argentina
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Colombia
  • Mexico
  • United States
Europe
  • Czech Republic
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Spain
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
Asia, Pacific & Africa
  • Australia
  • China
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Malaysia
  • Philippines
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Turkey
  • South Africa


 

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