The report provides a global view of LTE vs. WiMAX focusing on several
key areas: Spectrum Licensing Landscape, Standards Battle, Market Size and
Trends, Vendor Landscape, and Operator Landscape. For each of these areas, this
report presents the relevant market developments and facts behind the deployment
of LTE and WiMAX, and discusses the key factors that will impact the success of
each of these technology options. Each section concludes with a ‘Face-Off’ Table
that summarizes these factors, providing a score for each of these key success
factors, and totaling these scores to provide an overall indication of the
winner in each of the five major areas assessed.
This report examines the technical and market dilemmas faced by operators
and vendors in their migration to LTE, examining the LTE business case
in the context of a converging communications world. The report looks at
the risks associated with the upgrade to a totally new technology and the
progress made by the principal vendors and standards bodies involved.
This report presents an in-depth analysis of the user-generated content
transition to mobile. The technology and market drivers fuelling the development,
deployment and uptake of phone-based UGC services are discussed, and the
challenges and opportunities which this new market presents to operators,
services providers and platform vendors are examined. The regulation and
privacy issues which arise when UGC goes mobile are also investigated,
and the potential revenue models are scrutinized.
Broadband wireless access (BWA) operators have proliferated in recent years.
Yet, to date, few have reached the kind of scale that would make them a
serious threat to their wire-line competitors. Rather, they are seen by
many as niche players, who are willing to work the stony soil of the marginal
areas, where others are unwilling to venture. This study provides a detailed
analysis of this quantitative and qualitative research, comprising 60 pages
of data analysis along with in-depth profiles for 50 selected BWA operators
from around the world.
Annual shipments of GPS-enabled phones will grow rapidly over the period
2008-2012. This report predicts that by 2012, GPS phones will account for
37% of all shipments (535 million).The number of users of mobile location
services accessed via GPS phones is also expected to grow strongly. Furthermore,
this report predicts that by 2012 the worldwide user base of the most popular
location-enabled services, navigation and mobile social networking, will
reach 150 and 127 million respectively. This growth in the availability
of handset location information (LI) raises many questions about the degree
to which users can be protected from potential abuses of their LI.
Integrating additional radio hardware is impractical beyond a point because
it increases the handset size, complexity and price. The attraction of
Software Defined Radio (SDR) is its ability to support multiple waveforms
by re-using the same hardware while changing its parameters in software.
This has enormous benefits for handset size, cost, development cycle, upgrade
and interoperability. SDR-enabled phones will also ease the challenges
presented by limited spectrum availability and act the prefect device compliment
to the network-agnostic approach of IMS.
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