DoCoMo derives a nine per cent cut from content providers' revenues for this service. Those content providers who have managed to strike deals with mobile networks have generally made one-off licencing deals with individual operators, without any...
According to Frost & Sullivan, the lower barriers to entry of public internet-based IP VPNs, secured by technologies like Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and IPSec, mean that revenues for service providers will continue to march on despite tough...
In the fixed world, many service providers have ignored their responsibilities in protecting content and many have taken a short-term view on illegal file sharing as a means to generating extra traffic.
Just as the traditional mobile quickly became pretty much unavoidable and indispensable, M2M has the potential to go the same way, according to the Cellular M2M: Generating Profits from Business Opportunities report.
The antiquated nature of the IT operation is a large contributor to the fact the airline's spend on IT and telecommunications sits at around four per cent of revenues compared with an average among regional competitors of two per cent.
In contrast Gartner predicts that by the end of 2006, almost half of Western Europe's IPTV subscribers will be based in France - a total of 1.7 million generating revenues of €141m. As a result, carriers' IPTV revenues in Western Europe will grow...