Broadband via Satellite: Europe & North Africa Outlook for the Residential Market (2nd Edition)

Table of Contents

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2. METHODOLOGY

3. MOBILE SATELLITE SERVICES

• 3.1. Mobile satellite services (MSS)
• 3.2. Frequency bands used
• 3.3. Emergence of new applications
  • Military and government activities
• 3.4. Mobile satellite operators and the development of mobile Internet
  • Mobile Internet applications
  • Where they are used
  • Growing use of smartphones
  • Outlook up to 2013
• 3.5. Launch of mobile TV offers
  • DVB-H versus T-DMB: Europeans divided
  • Mobile TV stalled in France
• 3.6. MSS sector: technological shift tied to hybridisation

4. CGC AND DVB-SH TECHNOLOGIES

• 4.1. Characteristics
  • How they work
  • MSS/CGC networks
  • MSS/CGC network variation developed by Alcatel-Lucent: DVB-SH
• 4.2. Projects planned for North America
  • SkyTerra
  • TerreStar Networks
  • ICO Satellite Management
  • Globalstar
  • Dish Network DVB-SH trials (EchoStar)
• 4.3. Projects launched in the Asia-Pacific region
  • In Japan, S-DMB loses out to mobile free-to-air DTT
  • In South Korea, S-DMB pay-TV service in the black by 2010

5. REVIEW OF PROJECTS PLANNED IN EUROPE

• 5.1. Procedure implemented by the European Commission
  • Spectrum allocation and timetable
• 5.2. Players and projects
  • 5.2.1. Inmarsat
  • 5.2.2. Solaris Mobile
  • 5.2.3. DVB-SH trials
    • In France, SFR has tested DVB-SH in the city of Pau
    • In Italy, the RAI and 3 Italia are testing DVB-SH

6. OUTLOOK COMPARED TO TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS

• 6.1. Mobile telephony and broadband
  • 6.1.1. Review of the key features of the main mobile technologies
    • 3G/3.5G
  • 6.1.2. Alternative technologies: Wi-Fi, etc.
    • Fixed and mobile WiMAX: 3G competitor and complement
  • 6.1.3. Upcoming 3G developments
    • Principle of 4G
  • 6.1.4. Government PMR networks
    • TETRA
    • TETRAPOL
  • 6.1.5. Technological competitiveness
    • Disparate rural population density in the different countries
    • Vast disparities in mobile network coverage
    • 3G coverage in France
    • 3G coverage in Italy
    • WiMAX rollouts behind schedule
    • TETRA/TETRAPOL network coverage and interoperability
  • 6.1.6. Economic competitiveness (cost of a rural zone rollout)
• 6.2. Mobile TV
  • 6.2.1. Key features of the main mobile broadcasting technologies
  • 6.2.2. Insufficient DVB-H coverage behind the hybrid 3G broadcast/unicast solution
  • 6.2.3. Technological competitiveness
    • Possibility of terrestrial mobile network saturation
    • DVB-SH enables immediate coverage of rural areas
  • 6.2.4. Economic competitiveness
    • DVB-H VS DVB-SH network deployment costs

7. CONCLUSION

• 7.1. Competition or complementarity?
• 7.2. Development of hybrid DVB-H/DVB-SH devices: key to future success
• 7.3. Hybridisation that includes DVB-T could be detrimental to the mobile pay-TV model
• 7.4. Equipment manufacturers, mobile operators and media companies' viewpoints

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