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IBM Tivoli Division
Mobile service providers face challenging times in middle of next decade, iSuppli study says
2008-07-09 13:37:12
El Segundo, California, USA, July 8, 2008 — The gloomy findings of a mobile social networking study have been released in a White Paper by its authors, iSuppli Corp. In it they predict that the Technology, Media, and Telecoms (TMT) business will undergo a fundamental transformation during the next 10 years, courtesy of the coming wireless social networking revolution. Because of this, iSuppli Corp. believes, content providers, advertisers, telcos and electronics suppliers — must transform their business strategies as well if they want to maintain their relevance in the coming years.
Said Derek Lidow, president and chief executive officer at iSuppli, “The shifts will impact most value-chain participants, and will be highly interrelated." With today’s TMT business representing 5% of global Gross Domestic Product, these industry realignments will have impacts far beyond the value chain itself. Major findings of this study include:
· Within 10 years, Social Networking + Me (SME), primarily driven by wireless devices, will become ‘must-have’ applications and devices for global consumers.
· Although there have not been any successful implementations of wireless social networking to date, the widespread adoption of mobile Internet devices like the iPhone will spur an entirely new generation of wireless social networking businesses and business models starting in 2009.
· Many wireless service providers will face very challenging times in the middle years of next decade as intense battles break out against alternate providers of wireless access over who controls the distribution of all the content and services that will be enabled, and will be highly sought after by wireless subscribers.
· By 2020, there will be close to 7 billion wireless accounts, with many individuals having more than one account, and with wireless communication devices being the primary communication, service and content delivery channel for virtually all users.
· Basic wireless social networking service could be provided for a global average of around $15.30 per month per user, using constant 2007 U.S. dollars.
iSuppli has summarized the findings from
its wireless social networking study in a new whitepaper, entitled: Social
Networking Wireless Social Networking Revolution Set to Reshape Global Tech
Industry.
www.isuppli.com
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