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Data Roaming

出版商 IDATE
出版日期 2008年10月 商品編碼 69100
內容資訊 英文 60 pages
價格
本報告書已不再販售

本報告已在2011年11月23日停止出版。

目錄

Abstract

This report presents the trends of the emerging market of international roaming for data services on GSM / 3G mobile networks, the services and tariffs offered by European operatorsand their evolution. It also analyses the technology involved to provide data roaming services and the relations between the different players: mobile network operators, international transit carriers and clearing houses.

Key questions

  • What is data roaming? How is it implemented?
  • How does 3GSM roaming compare with WI-FI roaming?
  • What are the main categories of usage of data roaming?
  • Which services can drive the development of the market?
  • What are the challenges for optimizing data roaming operation?
  • What solutions do international transit carriers and clearing houses offer?
  • What is the strategy of the players?

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. International Roaming: a description

  • 2.1. Definition
  • 2.2. Features of International Roaming
  • 2.3. Technical elements of International Roaming
    • 2.3.1. GSM / UMTS networks
    • 2.3.2. Devices
    • 2.3.3. International Roaming mechanisms
    • 2.3.4. Inter-operator interconnection
  • 2.4. Commercial elements of roaming
    • 2.4.1. Roaming subscriptions parameters
    • 2.4.2. Roaming agreements
    • 2.4.3. Inter-Operator Tariffs and Transferred Account Protocol
    • 2.4.4. Retail roaming tariffs
    • 2.4.5. Inter-operator billing and Data clearing
    • 2.4.6. Inter-operator financial settlement and clearing
  • 2.5. Data services availability when roaming
  • 2.6. Other forms of international roaming
    • 2.6.1. Inter-standard roaming
    • 2.6.2. Satellite Mobile Networks
    • 2.6.3. Wi-Fi roaming
    • 2.6.4. SIM swapping

3. Strategy an key issues for mobile operators

  • 3.1. Technical and operational issues
    • 3.1.1. Manage growing complexity of roaming agreements
    • 3.1.2. Ensure end-to-end interoperability and QoS
  • 3.2. Marketing and commercial issues
    • 3.2.1. Improve service / tariff perception
    • 3.2.2. Generate usage with new services
  • 3.3. European regulatory issues
  • 3.4. Evolution of data roaming tariffs and service bundles

4. Data roaming market

  • 4.1. Market context: networks, devices and subscriptions
  • 4.2. Usage of International Roaming
  • 4.3. Usage of data roaming
  • 4.4. Market estimates and forecasts
  • 4.5. Economical and commercial importance of data roaming

5. Case studies: Mobile Network Operators

  • 5.1. Orange Group
  • 5.2. Orange France - Business Customers
  • 5.3. SFR (France)
  • 5.4. O2 (United Kingdom)
  • 5.5. Vodafone Italy
  • 5.6. Hutchinson 3G - United Kingdom
  • 5.7. Base - Belgium (KPN Group)
  • 5.8. Wind - Italy
  • 5.9. Bouygues telecom - France
  • 5.10. Tele2Tango - Luxemburg

6. Case studies: Transit carriers / Clearing Houses

  • 6.1. Belgacom International Carrier Services
  • 6.2. Syniverse
  • 6.3. France Telecom International Wholesale Services

7. Annexes

  • 7.1. General architecture of GSM / UMTS networks
  • 7.2. Protocols used in GSM / UMTS networks

List of tables and figures

  • Table 1: Simplified matrix of service compatibility
  • Table 2: Architecture of the IPX
  • Table 3: Comparison of GSM / 3G roaming and Wi-Fi roaming
  • Table 4: Intra-European retail data roaming rates
  • Table 5: Typical bandwidth requirements for various mobile applications
  • Table 6: Commercial deployment of GPRS and 3G networks
  • Table 7: Forecast of subscribers, 3G subscribers and average spending in EU27
  • Table 8: European statistics concerning International Roaming
  • Table 9: Preference for Mobile Data Services, consumer market
  • Table 10: Forecast of data roaming revenues and traffic evolution (intra-Europe)
  • Table 11: Forecast of SMS roaming revenues and traffic evolution (intra-Europe)
  • Table 12: Forecast of Total Data roaming revenues evolution (intra-Europe)
  • Table 13: Major providers of roaming transit and clearing
  • Figure 1 : Comparison of direct interconnection and transit models
  • Figure 2: Architecture of the GRX
  • Figure 3 : Logical architecture of the IPX
  • Figure 4 : GSM / 3G coverage
  • Figure 5: European retail roaming prices per SMS (April - September 2007)
  • Figure 6: Retail Data roaming rates per MByte (April - September 2007)
  • Figure 7: Evolution of wholesale tariffs for France (average price per minute for roaming-In)
  • Figure 8: Eurotariff: no impact on roaming traffic? (evolution of French roaming traffic)
  • Figure 9 : Commercial deployment of 3G networks
  • Figure 10 : Commercial deployment of HSDPA
  • Figure 11 : 3G and 3.5 handset sales forecasts, million units
  • Figure 12: Roaming Out revenue break-out: Spain
  • Figure 13: SMS compared to voice (Roaming-Out traffic statistics, Portugal)
  • Figure 14: Forecast for data roaming per Mbyte tariff (intra-Europe)
  • Figure 15: Forecast of data roaming traffic evolution (intra-Europe) -Base 100 in 2007
  • Figure 16: Forecast of data roaming revenues evolution (intra-Europe) - Base 100 in 2007
  • Figure 17: Alternative scenarios for data roaming revenues evolution (intra-Europe)
  • Figure 18: Forecast for SMS roaming tariff (intra-Europe)
  • Figure 19: Forecasts for SMS data roaming (intra-Europe) - Base 100 in 2007
  • Figure 20: Forecast of Total Data roaming revenues evolution (intra-Europe)
  • Figure 21 : Overview of the GPRS architecture
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