3G the stepping stones to WiMax deployment

September 4, 2005

Research and Markets has announced the addition of 2005-2006 - Australia - Mobile Data and Contents Markets to their offering.

Cellular mobile networks have been built for voice services and even more importantly have been finetuned over the years for efficient and effective voice transmission. While technologies such as GSM and CDMA allow, in principle, for a large range of mobile data services, these networks can never be optimized for that. Voice will remain the killer application for mobile with some data services included as support services and niche market services. It is predicted that 3G, i-Mode and EVDO are just stepping stones to a deployment of WiMax in late 2007.

Other topics include:

-- Forecasts and Market issues
-- SMS, Premium SMS, MMS, Mobile TV
-- M Commerce and Micro payments
-- Prepaid electronic payment services
-- GPRS, Push-to-Talk, USSD, WAP, EDGE
-- CDMA2000 1x, EC-DO, I Mode, Blackberry
-- RFID, Location services, telemetry
-- Private and Trunked Mobile Radio
-- Mobile Content

The unprecedented boom in SMS resulted in the arrival of service providers such as BlueSkyFrog, Mobile Messenger, Communicator, Red Oxygen and permission based content providers such as Coca Cola and Pepsi. While the content market for mobile operators has never taken off, the real game seems to be strategic positioning for the wireless broadband market.