Mobile Broadband Access at Home: The Business Case for Femtocells, UMA and IMS/VCC Dual Mode Solutions

Operators are seeking new business opportunities while trying to control CAPEX and OPEX costs. Femtocell solutions could enable better traffic balancing between fixed and mobile networks which likely to lead to significant savings in RAN while enabling operators to enhance the user experience of their subscribers by offering better coverage and increased capacity in the home environment.

This report will allow you to assess the technical and strategic challenges facing this market and evaluate the most successful technology and implementations to develop your business strategies effectively.

• Mobile broadband networks and coverage issues mainly at home
• Traffic dimensioning between fixed and mobile networks
• Femtocell solutions for enabling value added services
• CAPEX and OPEX analysis
• Femtocell solutions, technology issues and challenges

• What is the business case for homezone approach including femtocell and dual mode solutions?
• What is the value proposition to consumers and how mobile operators are likely to package the homezone offer with other services?
• What is the roadmap for standardisation processes
• Femtocell solutions: the integrated approach vs the standalone; who are the winners?
• What is the level of engagement of different players in the value chain including hybrid operators, pure mobile operators, fixed operators, equipment manufacturers, and device vendors
• What level of saving of CAPEX/OPEX should expect and in what conditions?
• Femtocell solutions, what implementation scenario is likely to win the heart of mobile operators

• Mobile operators and mobile service providers: Evaluate the business case for FMC, mobile access at home including savings in traffic costs, increased ARPU through VAS services, OPEX and CAPEX optimisation, etc
• Fixed operators and fixed service providers: understand the opportunities and challenges in the mobile market
• Vendors (ODMs, OEMs, etc): Understand the economics of Femtocell, UMA and VCC deployment, evaluate opportunities including product differentiation and potential service offerings. Assess the technical and strategic challenges facing this market, assess the most successful technology and implementations, and build their strategies accordingly.
• New entrants and start-ups: position yourself in the new value - chain fine-tuning your products and services to the Mobile access at home market.

Infrastructure vendors:

NSN, Ericsson, AlcaLu, Motorola, ZTE, Airvana, NEC, SERCOM, Sonus Networks

Femtocell device vendors:

IP Access, Ubiquisys, Aricent, Continuous Computing, RadioFrame, Motorola, LGC, Pirelli, Genband, Kineto Wireless, Sagem, Nokia, Sagem, Tatara systems, UTStarcom, NEC

Operators:

T-Mobile, O2, Orange, Sprint-Nextel, NTT DoCoMo, TeliaSonera, Softbank, TIM, Vodafone, Mobilekom Austria, BHARTI, BT, Bouygues Telecom, and others (Orascom, PCCW, Rogers Wireless, Sasktel, Unwired)