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$7 Billion
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15th April 2003 |
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Global Revenues by Wireless Games Segment (2003 - 2008)
US and Europe : Strategy Analytics released a new report, "Download Platforms to Drive $7 Billion Wireless Games Opportunity." This report advises wireless operators to leverage their billing assets in order to develop both retail and wholesale games download strategies, and maximize gaming returns. Senior Analyst, Nitesh Patel, suggests, "Carriers can capitalize on their pre-eminence within the service delivery chain if they develop flexible tariff approaches which smoothly pass significant proportions of revenue back to IP owners, games developers and publishers. In both of these respects, carriers' investment and choice of charging platforms will prove crucial determinants of success." By 2008, Wireless games will generate revenues in excess of $7 Billion, with downloadable Java and BREW games both offering the greatest potential for growth. The emphasis on browser-based games and text games will fade from the games developer community and consumers horizons, as users become seduced by branded downloadable games that are available for their multimedia handsets. David Kerr, Vice President of the Strategy Analytics Global Wireless Practice, adds, "Decisions to develop both retail and wholesale strategies for games is a key turning point in the industry. These decisions will enable operators to focus on increasing sales from their own brand of retail games services, while allowing them to use their billing platforms as a strategic asset to earn revenues from the wider growth of the games market." |
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Leading
Philippine operator Smart Communications and Nokia Networks announced
the successful completion of the first EDGE call in the country. |
US
and Europe : Strategy Analytics released a new report, "Download
Platforms to Drive $7 Billion Wireless Games Opportunity." This report
advises wireless operators to leverage their billing assets in order to
develop both retail and wholesale games download strategies, and maximize
gaming returns. |
Hutchison
3G ( Australia ) will launch 3G in Sydney and Melbourne this week after
laying out A$3 Billion. |
Hutchison
3G Austria - under the brand name "3" - is launching its mobile
multimedia services. |
The
AlphaCell M5 can be specifically adapted for entertainment and gaming.
It features a large 65,000 colour screen, a powerful 144Mhz processor
and four programmable soft keys and micro-joystick located around the
screen. |
WLAN
will establish itself as the dominant mobile wireless infrastructure within
the next five years at 3G’s expense according to a report published
by Berlin based market researcher Metrinomics. |
The
GSM Association - representing the interests of more than 550 global mobile
network operators from 194 countries – today welcomed this week’s
announcement by the Brazilian regulator, Anatel reaffirming its decision
to maintain 1.9GHz frequency band for third generation use. |
Narus,
the convergent mediation performance leader, today announced its FastStart
Programme. The FastStart Programme is a complete package of software and
services that allows mobile operators to “test-drive” and
deploy new instantaneous data services in weeks with their existing network
infrastructure. |
The
WLAN industry will continue to experience stellar growth as deployments
in several key markets take place," predicts Edward A. Rerisi, ABI
Director of Research. |
KDDI
and its sister company Okinawa Cellular has hit 7 million 3G mobile phone
subscribers this month. |
Novatel
Wireless and Sprint announced availability of MobileScape(TM), a wireless
business process application and payment processing system designed for
business critical transactions in the mobile workforce technology market.
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Hutchison
3G in the UK ( 3 UK ), the first 3G operator to commercially launch 3G
in Europe during March 2003, has reduced the price of its 3G handsets
and extended the introductory 50% discount offer by another month which
will now terminate at end of April, 2003. |
Wavecom
SA announced that it will supply TCL Mobile Communication with the core
wireless technology for TCL's S320 and S500 mobile telephones, which will
be the focus of an important marketing campaign. |
Subex
Systems, the Bangalore, India-based Telecom Software Products company
announced that it has won an order from Total Access Communication (TAC),
Thailand, to deploy its flagship Fraud Management System, Ranger™.
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For
now, Cellcom has decided to follow the market and not publish the 3G tender,”
Cellcom CTO Lipa Ogman told “Globes” in an exclusive interview. |
Five
leading mobile operators in the region announced today that they have
teamed up to form the Asia Mobility Initiative (AMI), Asia's first initiative
which aims to enhance mobile users' experience, especially in the area
of mobile data. |
PT.
Telkom, Indonesia’s largest telecommunications operator, has selected
a Motorola CDMA2000 1X system to bring 3G wireless services to the ten
provinces of Sumatra. Sumatra is one of the largest islands and one of
the fastest growing areas in Indonesia. |
Openet
Telecom announced that Edge Wireless will deploy FusionWorks Mediation,
Openet's convergent mediation platform, to support the rollout of new
2.5G and 3G services to its subscriber base. |
See
it, feel it, hear it. With 3D stereo sound, built-in VGA camera, vibration
capabilities, unique disco lights, color screen and the ability to create
your own musical ring tunes, the tri-band Motorola E390 delivers a sensory
overload. |
ADVFN,
the UK's number one stocks and shares Web site, is providing live stocks
and shares information to investors on the move. The first advertiser
of this new service is Intel. |
The
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS virus outbreak has forced the
event organizers of the TD-SCDMA conference in Beijing this week to cancel. |
Visa
International, Nippon Shinpan, OMC Card and AEON Credit today announced
the start of a pilot program, together with NTT DoCoMo, Inc., to test
a service for making credit card payments at bricks and mortar merchants
via DoCoMo 504i and 504iS series mobile phones, which are equipped with
infrared transmission (IrDA) ports. |
Ericsson
has been chosen by América Móvil as main supplier for the
Core Infrastructure and one of the principal suppliers for the Radio Infrastructure
for a GSM and EDGE Network to complement the existing TDMA network of
its Brazilian subsidiary Telecom Americas. |
The
development follows a European wide agreement to distribute the games
via retail packs announced today between Digital Bridges, a world leader
in mobile entertainment solutions and Namco Europe |
SM
increased its digital cellular subscriber base in the Americas by 54%
in 2002, the largest percentage gain of any wireless technology in the
region. In Latin America, GSM increased its subscriber base by 90% in
2002, largely in the second half of the year when several new GSM networks
were commercially launched. |
All
four of the 3G licence holders in Sweden has applied for a 2 or 3 year
delay to the full rollout of 3G in Sweden. This is based on problems getting
approval for the siting of telecom masts and the scarcity of the handsets. |
The
number of NTT DoCoMo 3G FOMA subscribers increased to 320,000 subscribers
up to March 2003. This means that DoCoMo hit the targets they had previously
stated. |
The
multimedia composer and transaction engine made available by Liquid Air
Lab, combined with the mBill billing platform, enabled mBill to integrate
an existing SMS chat application with a multimedia messaging component.
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n
top of all the other challenges facing MMS before it can become the success
that the mobile operators are hoping for and boost non-voice revenues
to new heights - one issue stands out that is crucial for the content
providers before they even think about publishing and selling content
via MMS - Digital Rights Management (DRM) |
Response
to Californian Congressman Darrell Issa’s letter to the Honorable
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence from Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM
Association and Member of its Board. |
LG
will launch a rotational camera-fitted GPRS phone on the Italian market,
the largest in Europe. The camera phone model is fitted with 65,000 -color
TFD-LCD and 40 poly and intended for export to Europe. |
All
European telcos can learn valuable lessons from i-mode and Vodafone live!,
according to a new brief by Forrester Research. Europe's i-mode gets the
services right and the marketing wrong, while Vodafone live! does the
opposite. |
The
PA-Manager allows operators to enforce the priority access policy at cell
level without compromising Quality-of-User Experience (QoE) for all other
services sharing the same media space, and also to monitor application
performance on a cell-by-cell basis. |
To
their disappointment, some operators now find it nearly impossible to
recover their investments and most have delayed their plans to deploy
3G, according to a new study by research firm Allied Business Intelligence
(ABI). |
DTAC
announced cooperation with world’s leader in mobile communications
Nokia to strengthen its position as the leading wireless data services
provider. |
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