Mobile Converged Devices: Enabling IMS, SIP, UMA & VCC services

New for 2007 this report provides you with a technology roadmap towards full mobile converged services integration and deployment, including analysis of the mobile converged devices market through detailed forecasts of key market segments.

Key Coverage

• Identify the technology choices being made and when these devices will be in the mobile converged devices market
• Assess the impact of convergence on the fixed and mobile telecoms industries
• Trace the potential landscape of Fixed Mobile Convergence market and the market place for different competing technologies
• Evaluate the business case for deploying IETF SIP, 3GPP SIP and enabled services
• Gain an insight into today’s latest technologies including PoC, MIM&Presence, Mobile VoIP, and video sharing services and enabling devices.

Market Data

• Understand the technology choices and in-market dates of mobile converged devices.
• Identify how operators may use these devices in their strategies
• Evaluate the dynamics and competition within the Mobile Converged Devices market place
• Discover the Mobile Converged Devices value chain through an in-depth analysis of different segments and links
• Assess the opportunities and challenges facing the key enabling technologies of the mobile converged devices market
• Trace the significant market developments, analyse partnership opportunities with device manufacturers and understand major competitors’ strategies
• Gain insightful, expert commentary on the state of the converging telecommunications and media industries and weigh up the likely development in the mobile converged devices market

Forecasts

• Users of different converged services by region, including:
  • FMC and VCC/IMS vs UMA vs proprietary technologies
• Users of SIP by region including IETF/SIP and 3GPP/SIP
• IP multimedia and mobile converged devices sales by technology by region
  • UMA
  • VCC
  • Proprietary technologies
  • SIP IETF
  • SIP 3GPP
• Sales of 3GPP devices by service type including IMS PoC, Advanced MIM, IMS video sharing, IMS mobile VoIP
• Sales of WLAN and WiMAX enabled handsets by region
• Global handsets sales by technology (2.5G, 3G, 3.5G+) and by feature set (i.e. basic, low-feature, feature-rich, smartphones)

Key Issues Addressed

• What drives the adoption of Mobile Converged Devices?
• What is the current status of convergence?
• What types of device are likely to evolve to form the Mobile Converged Device segment?
• How will convergence affect business models and how will value chains evolve?
• How will the evolution of hardware and software impact on Mobile Converged Devices?
• What are the Mobile Converged Device strategies for traditional mobile handset vendors?
• What are the Mobile Converged Device strategies for other actors (IT device vendors, consumer electronics vendors etc)?
• Why are some device vendors promoting Mobile Converged Devices?
• Who will benefit most from deploying Mobile Converged Devices and services; mobile operators, fixed operators or new entrants?
• What are the opportunities and challenges, costs and benefits for other players in the industry value chain?
• How will Mobile Converged Device costs evolve over time?
• When will Mobile Converged Devices become widely used?
• How will Mobile Converged Device battery life be improved?
• What challenges does convergence place on device software?

Chapter 1: Executive Summary

Chapter 2: Effect of convergence on the mobile handset market

Introduction to telecommunications convergence

The current mobile market landscape

Benefits and costs of deploying IMS over mobile networks

Mobile IMS services vs open internet

Enhanced user experience vs user education

Mobile Converged Devices: a new mobile handset segment

General overview of the mobile telecoms evolution

New ways of segmenting the market

The mobile converged devices by segment and positioning

The role of SIP in the mobile handset market

Introduction

How open is SIP?

3GPP SIP

How 3GPP SIP differs from the IETF approach

What are the stakes?

SIP in the Mobile Market

Enabling technologies for FMC and the role of IMS

Overview of FMC

The progressive approach in building full FMC services

FMC Value proposition to operators and consumers

The business case of different FMC flavours and time to market

Operators strategies in Fixed Mobile Convergence

UMA case study

Overview

UMA and SIP, complementary or competing technologies?

UMA state of deployment and market place

UMA Evolution

UMA advantages and drawbacks

VCC case study

Overview

VCC vs UMA

Market opportunities for VCC

Chapter 3: The new telecommunications industry value chain

The fixed and mobile telecoms value chains

Fixed telecoms value chain analysis

Mobile telecoms value chain analysis

The impact of convergence on the fixed and mobile value chains

Convergence of the fixed and mobile telecoms value chains

Fixed Mobile Substitution

The reaction of fixed operators and fixed mobile convergence

Increasing competition between Mobile Network Operators

The Fixed Mobile telecoms value chain

Convergence of the Mobile telecoms and media value chains

Advances in device technology

Open access to Internet

The Mobile Media value chain

The Converged telecoms and media value chain

The Expansion of the value chain

New entrants from Fixed Telecoms (Apple, Cisco, Avaya, HP)

New entrants from media and hybridisation (Yahoo!, Google, Youtube, eBay, Skype)

New relationships within the value chain

Regulation of convergence

Areas of influence in the new value chain

The importance of brand

Device branding

Operator vs device vendor branding: who controls the user experience?

Content branding

Converged devices distribution

Operators response to convergence

Fixed and mobile operators positioning in the new telecoms environment

Consolidation

Restructuring

Device vendors increasingly involved in content

Music

Search and discovery

VoIP,

Web2.0

Opportunities for IT device vendors and new entrants

Chapter 4: Mobile Converged Devices, market and trends

Overview and business model

The commercial reality of Mobile Converged Devices

Mobile converged device use case, drivers and risks

Business use case

Consumer use case

Operator drivers

Device vendor drivers

Mobile Converged device roadmaps

Strategic migration of subscribers towards convergence

Market Forecasts

Forecast methodology

Converged service subscribers by technology and by region

Total FMC Subscribers

UMA subscribers

IMS VCC subscribers

Proprietary technology users

SIP user forecasts

IETF SIP users

3GPP SIP users

Converged device forecasts by technology and by region

Global handset sales by technology and by feature set

WiFi enabled handset sales

Mobile converged device sales by technology

Total FMC device sales

UMA device sales

IMS VCC device sales

Proprietary technology device sales

Total SIP device forecasts

IETF SIP device sales

3GPP SIP device sales

3GPP SIP device sales by service type

IMS PoC

Advanced Mobile instant messaging

Mobile Video sharing

Mobile VoIP

Chapter 5: Vendor strategies

Market overview

Device vendor case studies

Segmentation and product portfolio

Partnerships and alliances

Convergence strategy

Mobile handset vendors

Nokia

Motorola

Samsung

Sony-Ericsson

LG Electronics

RIM

HTC

Palm

IT device vendors

HP

Cisco

Microsoft

New entrants

Skype

e28

Gupp

Consumer electronics vendors

Apple

Sony

Chapter 6: Enabling Software clients and platforms

Introduction

Mobile software clients for FMC

Overview

Market Dynamics

SIP and IMS software clients: opportunities and challenges

Why handset manufacturers are slow in adopting IMS and SIP?

Opportunities and challenges for software client platform developers

IMS and SIP Support by Open OS vendors

Plug-in vs native integration

Symbian and series 60

Microsoft Windows Mobile

Java Support

IMS Services API (JSR-281)

SIP API for J2ME (JSR-180)

Presence and Instant Messaging API (JSR186 and JSR187)

Web Services Specification, JSR 172

Open source SIP: a threat to IMS?

Open Source SIP clients

The threat to IMS

Chapter 7: Mobile Converged Devices: Enabling wireless and chipset technologies

Introduction

MCDs and hardware requirements

The role of mobile and wireless broadband technologies

Evolution and context in the mobile converged devices market

WLAN enabled handsets

Introduction

IEEE 802.11b

IEEE 802.11a

IEEE 802.11g

IEEE 802.11n

Analysis of enabling technologies and challenges

WLAN in the mobile handset and FMC markets and forecasts

Wi-MAX handsets:

Overview of the WiMAX market and Challenges in the handset market

Market forecasts for Mobile WiMAX devices and opportunities

Multi-mode chipset Market

Overview and context of dualmode chipsets

The role of Dual-processor architecture

Inter-processor and inter-baseband communications

Different solutions for different wireless and mobile technologies

Multiple IPC ports architecture vs. . multiport architecture

Multi-radio access and multi-radio single-chips

Mobile handsets increasingly embedding multiple radio access technologies

Multi-radio in single-chip evolution

Market Dynamics around mobile converged chipsets.

Texas Instruments

Qualcomm

NXP

Contents correct at time of printing