Global Mobile Roaming

Published: February 2007

Global Mobile Roaming examines the changing dynamics of today's global mobile roaming market - Includes Forecasts To 2011

Global Mobile Roaming examines the key issues surrounding the current roaming market and the likely future development, providing a unique blend of high-level market overviews, detailed profiles and case studies, plus unique market forecasts to 2011.

Key coverage

Roaming market forecasts to 2011 - unique forecasts to 2011 for the entire roaming market, including roaming subscribers, roaming traffic and roaming revenue
Global market overview - gain a thorough understanding of the current and future status of the global mobile roaming market for voice and data services
Alliance profiles - detailed analysis of all the major regional and global roaming alliances, including details of membership and structure, branding and the current service offerings of each alliance
Tariff and services analysis - overview of roaming traffic management, outbound and inbound and detailed analysis of how operators are incorporating non-voice services into their roaming strategies
Exclusive industry survey - contains results from an exclusive industry survey in addition to Informa Telecoms & Media’s own forecasts for the global roaming market.

4 new chapters

Regulation
Global Mobile Roaming reviews the current status of the EC proposals for the regulation of roaming tariffs in 25 EU nations.
Wholesale market
Detailed analysis on the inter-operator tariff regime and pricing principles of the wholesale side of roaming agreements, and its role in the establishment of retail roaming prices.
Prepaid roaming
This chapter reviews the current status of prepaid roaming, hindrances to take-up, recharge options while travelling abroad and which platforms are most commonly deployed to enable prepaid roaming.
Future of roaming
Review of the changing environment of roaming from an international mobile service to the provision of seamless connectivity for all telephony services within domestic and across international borders, and the changing role of existing players in the roaming value chain, including how mobile operators are among those best placed to take advantage of these new opportunities.

Forecasts

Forecasts include:

Outbound retail roaming revenues by region*
Inbound wholesale (IOT) roaming revenues by region
Roaming subscribers by region
Outbound roaming traffic by destination
Inbound roaming traffic by region
Roaming revenues as % of total revenues by region
Voice and data roaming revenue splits by region

*Western Europe, central and Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Middle East, Africa

Key issues addressed

What is the future for the European alliances?
What is the focus of the Asian alliances?
What alliance activity is happening in the rest of the world?
How will alliances change the face of roaming?
What is the impact of not being an alliance member?
How significant is SS7-based steering of roamers?
How quickly is inbound roamer steering expected to be implemented?
What does the EC regulatory proposal mean for European and non-European operators?
What new initiatives are being seen in roaming tariffs?
What level of usage is from prepaid roaming?
What level of IOT reduction is expected to meet consumer tariff expectations?
What services are being offered to increase roaming revenue opportunities?
How are operators integrating WiFi into their roaming strategies?
How large is the threat of VoIP to roaming revenues?
How is the roaming business model changing?

Countries/Sectors/Companies covered

Who should read this report?

Operators
Assess the future size of the roaming market by subscribers revenues and traffic in your region and globally

Evaluate the benefits of joining an alliance and discover how it can differentiate your service offering

WiFi Operators
Evaluate the role you can play as an alternative provider of roaming services

Assess the potential demand for alternative roaming solutions from consumers Discover how you can work with operators to complement their roaming offering

Consultants, analysts and venture capitalists
Provides unbiased, reasoned hard facts free from industry hype

Provide clients with clear business intelligence to support recommendations and investment