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UAE, Dubai - 28 July 2010
Arthur D. Little: m-payments in M-BRIC to reach approximately USD 60bn by 2015
The time is right for service providers to enter M-BRIC m-payment markets, according to a recent study by global management consultancy Arthur D. Little. While only 32 million people in M-BRIC currently use mobile financial services, Arthur D. Little projects that this number will increase to 290 million users by 2015.
According to ‘M-Payments in M-BRIC’, mobile financial services are currently experiencing a global surge. While every second person owns a mobile device in M-BRIC countries, 70% of their population is currently excluded from the banking sector. As such, there is great potential for new entrants to actively shape the local m-payment market.
UK, London - 27 May 2010
DRM must evolve to satisfy needs of both content owners and end users or face abandonment, says Arthur D. Little
Arthur D. Little's new report, "Untying the Gordian Knot", examines the current state of play in Digital Rights Management (DRM) and concludes that systems must evolve to deliver both acceptable content protection for owners and maximum interoperability for users, otherwise DRM may be abandoned altogether.
While DRM has been used since the early days of digital content distribution, it has long been a source of controversy, with complex proprietary systems creating integration headaches for manufacturers and distributors, and preventing end users from legitimately sharing content across different devices and platforms. The rise of digital piracy can even be part-blamed on the inflexibility of traditional DRM systems, with users resorting to file sharing as not only the cheapest, but also easiest way of accessing and sharing content.
France, Paris - 13 April 2010
European mobile operator revenues can stabilize from 2010 onwards driven by growth in mobile data according to joint report from Arthur D. Little and Exane BNP Paribas
Mobile Internet: blessing or curse?” predicts improvement in mobile industry performance driven by accelerating smartphone penetration and control of CAPEX over the mid-term
- Key Points:
- Mobile internet revenue growth could stabilize operators’ revenues from late 2010 fuelled by accelerating smartphone and mobile broadband markets
- Operators need to encourage a more balanced smartphone market to ease the pressure on margins
- Despite expected huge traffic growth, CAPEX should remain under control in the mid-term thanks to HSPA+ technologies and traffic offload to fixed-line networks
UK, London - 31 March 2010
Central and Eastern European telecom operators take bold approach in broadband market and beyond, Arthur D. Little finds
- While DSL has been the dominant fixed broadband technology in the EU, the CEE experience has confirmed that other technologies, such as WiFi, LAN, and FTTx, may better fit local markets
- Spectrum licenses represent major opportunity for new players to enter the market, and for current players to expand their service offerings
- Pay TV and telecom operators are reacting to increasing competition by expanding their services and diversifying revenues
Arthur D. Little’s new report, “Space for Creativity: Innovative Solutions in Central and Eastern European Telecommunications", has revealed that operators in CEE have often deployed new innovative technologies earlier and faster than their Western counterparts. This bold approach has driven growth in the broadband market, contributed to the ascendancy of mobile telecommunications, and effaced the line between telecom companies and TV operators.
UK, London - 02 March 2010
Arthur D. Little: Cost Reduction in the Telecom Industry
Report warns: Operators must act to escape from the low-profit spiral
The European telecoms industry is at risk of becoming a low profit business. The new study "Cost Reduction in the Telecom Industry" from the management consultancy Arthur D. Little warns that cost management must become an even stronger focus for wireless and wireline operators.
UK, London - 08 December 2009
IPTV growth hinges on an open standard
New report urges telecoms players to work collectively to develop an interoperable, affordable, and innovation-friendly global IPTV standard
With the telecoms industry looking to IPTV as its golden ticket to finance large-scale fibre-optic broadband roll-out, a new study by management consultancy Arthur D. Little warns that without a single, global IPTV standard, the industry’s silver bullet could fail to deliver.
Saudi Arabia, Dubai - 04 November 2009
Arthur D. Little & Dubai Internet City urge MENA telecoms operators to consider the business case for carbon management
Report reveals operators could gain competitive advantage by addressing carbon emissions
Telecom operators in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have yet to fully realize how energy and carbon management will impact their future growth, according to a report released today by global management consultancy Arthur D. Little and Dubai Internet City, the region’s largest managed ICT cluster.
UK, London - 17 June 2009
Arthur D Little Study: Online Gambling – Perspectives on the European Games of a Chance Market
Huge growth potential for established telcos
An increasing number of European countries are putting aside their past reticence and preparing for a controlled opening of their markets to online gambling. The ever increasing number of surfers in countries where there is no online gambling are taking advantage of the offers of foreign websites. This is causing some countries to lose millions in taxes, whilst at the same time undermining the state's gambling monopoly. According to specialists at management consultancy Arthur D. Little, the market will increase over the next three years from the current 5 to a total of 8 billion euro. “Recently established telecom providers with their fixed client base are opening up interesting perspectives - not only for the generation of new turnover and income in a largely saturated market, but also to position themselves amongst the competition,” says Klaus von den Hoff, Director of Arthur D. Little's Telecoms, Information, Media and Entertainment (TIME) Practice. In co-operation with leading European companies in the telecommunications sector, the consulting teams at Arthur D. Little have worked out the essential factors for a successful market entrance. They have identified three crucial parameters for success: range of game offering, positioning in the value-added chain and overcoming some key challenges.
Switzerland, Zürich - 24 April 2009
Arthur D. Little sees mobile payments surging ahead with distinct opportunities in developed and emerging markets
- Arthur D. Little forecasts global m-payment transaction volume to reach approximately USD 250 billion by 2012, an increase of 68% p.a
- M-payment transaction volume in developed markets is expected to grow at 56% p.a., representing 35% of the total transaction volume in 2012, compared to emerging markets with a 76% p.a. growth, accounting for 65% of the total volume in the same year
- M-payments are unlikely to substitute existing payment systems in developed markets
- Despite the current hype, Arthur D. Little does not expect to see a massive Near-Field-Communication (NFC) adoption in a majority of developed countries until 2011 at the earliest
- In emerging countries, Arthur D. Little expects m-payments to become the first widespread cashless payment system
In the last five years, markets with mobile payment offers have matured with a variety of players entering the industry value chain and new services being launched. Initially, there was a race to enter the market and a strong rivalry between different technological propositions that would facilitate mobile transaction channels. Today, we observe that, in many national markets, only one or two dominant mobile payment platforms (e.g. the paybox platform in Austria) have prevailed, and key issues now being addressed include cross border interoperability and standardization. While the prevailing financial crisis poses challenges to value chain players, we still believe that m-payment services will significantly develop over the coming years with the rise of mobile internet, the continuous improvement of mobile handsets and the younger generation’s preference for mobile services.
Austria, Vienna - 17 March 2009
Arthur D. Little projects worldwide mobile TV subscribers to increase from 40 to 140 million by 2011
- Broadcast mobile TV has disappointed so far: while 40 million users worldwide watch mobile TV, this is only about 1% of mobile phone users. Additionally, many services are offered free of charge or as part of a high value service package so that direct revenues generated by broadcast mobile TV are low
- But broadcast mobile TV can help mobile operators to offset the commoditization of voice and data access services. The industry is continuing to improve broadcast mobile TV business models and work on launching next generation satellite/terrestrial mobile TV networks
- Arthur D. Little therefore expects subscriber figures to increase to about 140 million by 2011.
Approximately 40 million users watch mobile TV based on broadcast networks, in addition to those watching mobile TV streams via 3G networks - but this is well below initial projections and only about 1% of all mobile phone users. Even the business models in markets with sizeable numbers of broadcast mobile TV subscribers - such as Japan with 18 million, South Korea with 17 million or Italy with well over 1 million - have not yet become viable commercial success stories. However, mobile operators remain interested in promoting the service as it can support customer acquisition and retention, and can be used to promote high value "flat-rate packages".