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 —Emily Nagle Green, Yankee Group president and CEO Yankee Group - the global connectivity experts - embraces "Living in a Digital World"- the exciting theme for the ITU Forum, one which encapsulates how information and communications technologies (ICTs) are impacting and shaping our lifestyles. Yankee Group research provides unique insights into the three primary elements of the Digital World. |
| Digital Lifestyle | Digital Ecosystem | Digital Society |
Digital Lifestyle
How current and future lifestyles are shaped by ICTs. The focus of this domain is on the demand side of the ICT sector, examining market trends, user behaviour and consumer preferences. Yankee Group conducts extensive demand side research related to both the business and consumer markets for ICTs, and emerging markets for new digital lifestyles, workstyles and the disruptive technologies that will transform them. The following links provide access to selected reports leveraging this demand side research.
- Broadband
Video: Bridging the PC/TV Divide
This Yankee Group Report examines the technology bridging the gap between broadband delivered video and the TV - Ultra
Mobile Tablet PCs Go Mainstream
Ultra mobile tablet PCs are poised for robust growth and mainstream adoption thanks to their light, flexible form factor and advanced remote access and graphic capabilities. - Googling
for Mobile Search
The mobile search playing field is much more fragmented and complicated than the online search market, with no front-runners yet and a viable business model on hold until carriers, marketers and consumers are primed for mobile advertising.
Digital Ecosystems
The digital ecosystem is composed of many different kinds of companies which interlink, cooperate and compete to provide equipment, services and applications to users. The global connectivity revolution driving the digital lifestyle, and Yankee Group research provides insight and counsel to the supply side of the industry – the builders, operators and vendors of connectivity solutions. The focus of this domain is on and on the development of efficient business models.
- Exploring
IPTV Lifecycle and Operational Costs
Service providers have already spent billions upgrading their networks, but installing and supporting IPTV service will cost them billions more. This Yankee Group Report lays out per-subscriber costs for operational service within the first year. - Data
Mediation Will Play a Key Role in Next-Generation IMS Architecture
IMS architecture is fueling the importance of data mediation platforms. Active or real-time mediation platforms are the need of the hour. Yankee Group forecasts a modest 10.1% increase in the global data mediation market CAGR between 2006 and 2010. - Marketing
and Sales Effectiveness Vendors Gain Momentum Using the Business Web
Implementing an MSE vendor yields strong improvements in sales effectiveness. New SaaS applications offer low TCO, easier integration and new multimedia collaborative technologies.
Digital Society
In our digital world, we are all obliged to share and harmoniously coexist, therefore we need policy oversight and independent regulation to help our world function. This domain looks at the challenges in maintaining a transparent regulatory environment and on building an information society for all. Yankee Group provides a complete set of regulatory dashboards and the following links provide access to a sample of publications reporting on the key policy issues that govern the digital society.
- Licensing in the Era of Convergence
This Global Wireless Interconnection Regulatory Dashboard Quarterly Summary examines licensing models adopted by communications regulators in response to technological and market convergence. - Bitstream Access Regulation Around the World
Yankee Group examines the approach of different regulators in considering the regulation or mandated provision of wholesale line rental and naked DSL access - Exploring VoIP Licensing Models
This Global VoIP Regulatory Dashboard Quarterly Summary provides a review of licensing arrangements for VoIP providers across multiple nations.
Yankee Group analysts are participating in the following sessions during the ITU Forum on the theme of "Living in a Digital World:"
Wednesday, December 6
DE-10 : Business models that deliver
Wednesday, 06 Dec 2006, 14:30 - 16:00, Forum Room 1
Ms Caroline Ashley, Senior Analyst, Yankee Group, United Kingdom
DL-R : The connected workforce
Wednesday, 06 Dec 2006, 16:30 - 18:00, Forum Room 2
Ms Camille Mendler, Vice President, Telecommunications Strategies International,
Yankee Group, United Kingdom
Please visit Yankee Group on the show floor - Stand number: 7002.07
Register for ITU Telecom World 2006 today!