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Wireless Telecommunications Services The wireless telecommunications services industry includes about 600 companies with combined annual revenue of over $110 billion. Major companies include the four national wireless carriers: Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile. The industry is highly concentrated: the four national carriers earn about 85 percent of industry revenue.
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
Demand for wireless services is driven by consumer income. The profitability of individual companies depends on marketing and technological skill. Large companies have advantages in marketing and in delivering a comprehensive array of services nationally. Small companies can compete effectively by delivering economically attractive service packages tailored to niche groups regionally. The industry is capital intensive: average annual revenue per employee is about $350,000.
PRODUCTS, OPERATIONS & TECHNOLOGY
Major services provided include voice telephony (ordinary cell phone service); messaging (voice, text, image, and video); Internet access; music and video distribution; and ring tone distribution. Voice telephony accounts for about 80 percent of industry revenue, with the remaining 20 percent coming mainly from message and roaming charges.
Cellular communications networks consist of a series of low power base transceiver stations (BTS) interconnected through a regional base station controller (BSC) to a mobile switching center (MSC). The BTS, or cellular tower, consists of a set of antennae mounted on a tall structure or tower with a large two-way radio. The BTS communicates with mobile phones and devices in its geographic area, or cell. The BSC, which controls communications with ...
Published By: First Research, Inc.
Date Published: Apr 2008 * * * * * * World Next-Generation Mobile Software Market This World Next-Generation Mobile Software Market Insight details the various types of software developed for wireless devices, services, and networks. This study includes the segmentation of the mobile software market into four segments, Operating Systems, Application Execution Environment, Mobile Device Management, and the User Interface and Application layer. This Market Insight on the global Mobile Software market includes revenues for the total market and the aforementioned four market sub segments. It is the conclusion of Frost & Sullivan that the global Mobile Software market will see rapid revenue growth over the forecast period, and will outpace the growth of the greater global total software market.Published By: Frost & Sullivan
Date Published: Apr 2008 * * * * * *
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