Telecommunications

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The Global Consumer Mobile Internet Services Market Could Be Worth More than $66 Billion Annually.

The $66 billion figure—which represents only service provider revenue—is a conservative estimate because it refers only to access. It excludes mobile messaging applications and all other transaction-oriented services such as ringtone purchases or music downloads. In other words, it excludes all revenue from the billions of transactions consumers would generate if they had ubiquitous mobile internet access. Now let’s look at the additional revenue-generating services.

Revenue-Generating Services for Carriers Worldwide

[Source: Yankee Group Report, The Next Trillion Dollars from the Anywhere Network, July 17, 2007]

Interested in Finding Out How to Tap that Revenue?
Through our nearly 40-year history, we've used our relationships, research and analysis in the telecommunications sector to identify the issues most critical to companies like yours. We’ve dedicated ourselves to providing our clients with valuable, actionable solutions surrounding these three core issues:

  1. The evolution of infrastructure value creation: Costly, closed service delivery architectures need to be open and efficient to remain competitive.
  2. Empowering the Anywhere Consumer™: Successful players in the telecom space will empower consumers' service personalization interests.
  3. Transform or die: The imperative to produce and innovate on the fly is driving enterprises to opportunistically develop new conduits to employees, customers and partners. Choosing the right technology, the right supplier, at the right time is critical.

Yankee Group Is for You
Whether you are looking to:

  • Gain strategic infrastructure investment advice that pragmatically addresses supply and demand opportunities and threats worldwide
  • Identify and target the Anywhere Consumer by tailoring investments to enable personalized services and create sustainable competitive advantage
  • Navigate the ebbs and flows of demand trends, supplier choice and financial realities across service architectures

Yankee Group delivers the experience, research, data and consulting expertise to help you create an actionable strategy for these challenges and the many others still to come.

Yankee Group is the only research firm exclusively focused on connectivity change and how it specifically affects the telecommunications sector. We provide carriers, service providers, enterprises and equipment vendors with insight into telecom and its outside influencers, such as software and business services, consumer electronics, and media and entertainment. And we give our clients the best tools to navigate the global connectivity revolution.

Do You Have a Unique Business Need that Requires an Immediate Solution?
Yankee Group Consulting delivers game-changing advice for leaders seizing growth in the anywhere-connected world. We address the growth, business model, market, product and network strategy challenges and opportunities that senior business and functional executives face. Recent projects include:

  • For one of the largest telecommunications providers in the world, Yankee Group predicted potential M&A scenarios and advised our client on how to tackle the opportunities and challenges they might face.
  • For many leading WiMAX vendors across the globe, Yankee Group has uncovered significant regional opportunities and helped our clients overcome the barriers of entering new markets.
  • For the leading US cable TV provider, Yankee Group helped position the company to regain competitive advantage and reverse declining market share.

Apply to Participate in Our Machine-to-Machine Beta Program
As the available market for handset-based services reaches saturation and voice revenue falls, the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market demonstrates a path to growth. We help position your company to take advantage of this opportunity whether you’re an operator, equipment manufacturer, application provider or other player in the value chain.

The Yankee Group M2M Index is based upon market survey data that we collect through our proprietary surveys, monitors and forecasts to ensure that this Tool delivers what is most important to M2M vendors, carriers and others; whether you are in the market today or considering points of entry.

We are now accepting applications from companies interested in beta testing our new M2M Index product. Yankee Group will review the application form and contact you to discuss the M2M Index and opportunities for involvement.

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Mobile marketing is a complex sector. Emerging platforms, lack of visibility around measurement and performance, many players from various sectors, a multitude of mobile channels/platforms, and fragmented technologies make it difficult to make informed decisions.

Yankee Group developed the Mobile Marketing Index (MoMaX). MoMaX is a quantitative tool designed for advertisers, agencies, media buyers and carriers for the evaluation of mobile marketing platforms. It delivers analysis specific to your mobile marketing objectives. MoMaX outputs an interactive scorecard that explains the most effective mobile medium based upon the individual requirements of your campaign and client.

We are now accepting applications from companies interested in beta testing our new product. Yankee Group will review the application form and contact you to discuss MoMaX and opportunities for involvement.

Research Highlights

Upcoming Research

  • Consumer Behavior Highlights New Service Opportunities
  • Making TV Work in a Mobile Environment
  • Home Security, Automation, Surveillance
  • Subscriber Data Management Provides Key to Anywhere
  • BPO to Emerging Markets
  • Global Operators and the Systems Integration Route
  • Business Continuity Through Virtualization for the SMB
  • Open Platform Implications for the Mobile Enterprise
  • Will Enterprises Trust Cloud-Based Computing?

Events

Upcoming Events
ITU Telecom Asia
September 2 - 5, 2008
Bangkok
 
WiMAX World Americas
September 30 - October 2, 2008
Chicago
 
Mobile Internet World Conference & Expo
October 21 - 23, 2008
Boston
 
Mobile Transactions: The Next Wave of Mobile Commerce
Webinar replay
 
From Gorillas to Guerillas: How IPTV Changes Everything Webinar replay
 
Past Events
Telco 2.0
April 17, 2008
London
 
 
Yankee Group Breakfast
April 24, 2008
Energy Clinic, Water Zone
London
 
Yankee Group Breakfast
May 6, 2008
Hudson Hotel
New York City
 
ITU Telecom Africa
May 12 - 15, 2008
Cairo
 
Mobile Internet World EMEA
May 19 - 20, 2008
Munich
 
WiMAX World Europe & MEA
May 19 - 21, 2008
Munich
 

What Can You Do Right Now?

Relevant Publications

Link Data and Tools
  • Link Data: Global Mobile Forecast
  • Link Data: Global Consumer Forecast, December 2007
  • Link Data: Asia-Pacific Consumer, December 2007
  • Global VoIP Regulatory Dashboard
  • Link Data: Global Mobile Forecast
  • Link Data: Global Consumer Forecast, December 2007
  • Link Data: Asia-Pacific Consumer, December 2007
Surveys
 

 


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