Global Mobile Roaming: Operator Strategies and Market Trends - 3rd edition

Table of Contents

1. Executive summary

2. Market overview

• Defining mobile roaming
• Roaming market value chain
• Global roaming base
  • Global mobile subscribers: by region 2008-2013
  • Subscriber penetration levels: by region 2008-2013
  • Global mobile subscribers: by region, by technology 2008-2013
  • Global mobile roamers: by region 2008-2013
  • Global mobile roamers as % of total subscriber base 2008-2013
• Roaming traffic patterns
  • Global outbound roamers: by region 2008-2013
  • Global outbound roamers; by user segment, by region 2008-2013
• Global roaming footprint
  • Top 10 global mobile investors and operators March 2008
  • Average voice roaming footprint: by region May 2008
  • Average data roaming footprint: by region May 2008
• Contribution of roaming to overall revenues
  • Survey response: contribution of roaming to overall mobile revenue: 2007 vs. 2013
  • Survey response: contribution of IOTs to overall mobile revenue 2007 vs. 2013
  • Survey response: contribution of retail roaming revenues overall mobile revenues2007 vs. 2013

3. Regulation

• EU Roaming Regulations
  • Overview of EU regulations
  • Competitive impact of EU roaming regulations within the EU Member States
  • Summary of retail price changes for EU subscribers roaming inside the EU and outside the EU, 2006 and 2008: voice, SMS and data
    • Key findings
    • Voice
    • SMS
    • Non-messaging data
  • Impact of roaming regulations on retail tariffs: data analysis: EU to EU
    • Making a call to the home market from within the EU for EU subscribers
    • Making an outbound local call within the EU for EU subscribers
    • Receiving a call within the EU for EU subscribers
  • Impact of roaming regulations on retail tariffs: data analysis: EU to non-EU
    • Retail pricing trends: making a call to the home market from outside the EU for EU subscribers
    • Retail pricing trends: making a local call outside of the EU for EU subscribers
    • Retail pricing trends: receiving a call outside the EU for EU subscribers
  • SMS pricing trends, 2006 to 2008
    • Retail pricing trends: sending an SMS from inside the EU for EU subscribers
    • Retail pricing trends: sending an SMS from outside the EU for EU subscribers
  • Data price changes 2006 and 2008
    • Retail tariffs: Using data services within the EU for EU subscribers
    • Retail tariffs: Using data services outside the EU for EU subscribers
  • Potential EU regulation for data and SMS
    • Potential challenges for SMS and data regulations
    • Operator movements towards EU data roaming benchmarks
      • Vodafone Group
      • Mobilkom Austria
      • Telefonica O2
      • Orange
      • Others
  • Roaming regulations outside the EU
    • Middle East and North Africa
      • Background
      • Current status
      • Potential impact
    • Americas
      • Background
      • Current status
      • Potential impact

4. Pricing

• Retail pricing
  • Why retail roaming seems expensive
  • Retail pricing evolution and pricing models
    • Zoning
    • Operator examples
    • Per country
    • Operator examples
    • Preferred network
    • Operator examples
    • Per operator
    • Operator examples
    • Paid-for discounts
    • Operator examples
    • Domestic tariffs whilst roaming
    • Operator examples
    • Data bundles and per-day rates
    • Operator examples
    • Data charging by application
    • Operator examples
  • Wholesale pricing and IOTs
    • Introduction to the wholesale roaming market
    • History of the Inter-Operator Tariff
    • The different price elements of IOTs
    • SMS routing and cost elements
    • IOT trends
  • IOT discounting
    • Evolution of discounting relationships
    • Discount models
    • Example IOT discounting strategies
    • Trends in IOT discounting and steering
  • Global roaming retail price study
    • Global retail price overview
    • Americas
      • Calling home
      • SMS
      • Non-messaging data
    • Asia Pacific
      • Calling home
      • SMS
      • Non-messaging data
    • Europe
      • Calling home
      • SMS
      • Non-messaging data
    • Africa and Middle East
      • Calling home
      • SMS
      • Non-messaging data

5. Industry initiatives

• Open connectivity and roaming Hubs
  • What is open connectivity?
  • What are roaming hubs?
  • Background to roaming hubs
  • Roaming hubs project timeline
  • Business case for roaming hubs
    • Operators
    • Hub providers
  • Roaming hub providers
  • Future of roaming hubs
• NRTRDE
  • What is NRTRDE?
  • Background to NRTRDE
  • Business case for NRTRDE
  • Implementing NRTRDE
  • NRTRDE implementation levels
  • NRTRDE methods
  • NRTRDE solutions providers
    • Selected NRTRDE vendor and product overviews
  • The future of NRTRDE

6. Alliances and operator groups

• Establishing an alliance
  • Reasons to establish an alliance
  • Alliance membership
    • Worldwide alliance and group membership
    • Joining an alliance
    • Alliance structures
  • Future of alliances
    • Positive factors supporting the success of alliances
    • Negative influences undermining the success of alliances
    • Alliance trends and future movements
    • Key trends by alliance or operator group
  • Asia Mobility Initiative
    • Background
    • Current membership and structure
    • Brand and service offering
    • Performance and strategy
  • Bridge Mobile Alliance
    • Background
    • Current membership and structure
    • Brand and service offering
    • Performance and strategy
  • Conexus Mobile Alliance
    • Background
    • Current membership and structure
    • Brand and service offering
    • Performance and strategy
  • FreeMove
    • Background
    • Current membership and structure
    • Brand and service offering
    • Performance and strategy
  • Vodafone Group
    • Background
    • Current membership and structure
    • Brand and service offering
    • Performance and strategy
  • Zain One Network
    • Background
    • Current membership and structure
    • Brand and service offering
    • Performance and strategy
  • Other groups and roaming alliances
    • Telefonica
    • Starmap
    • Roaming Alianza
    • Middle East Telecom Alliance

7. Forecasts

8. Global Mobile Roaming Industry Survey 2008

*Contents correct at time of printing