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CAMPBELL, California, May 5, 2009—Communications market research firm Infonetics Research today released a new RCS Market Outlook report, which tracks Rich Communication Suite service revenue, subscribers, mobile phones and user clients. Highlights from the market research report follow.
“In a world where mobile communications is quickly evolving, operators worldwide need to continue driving voice and data usage while enriching the communications experience. RCS aims to unify the communications experience by integrating presence, voice, chat, and multimedia services seamlessly to the user. It is an attractive opportunity considering the total available market of 1 billion worldwide 3G subscribers that will exist in 2010. However, the success of RCS hinges on a number of factors, including operators achieving service interoperability and native integration of RCS in mobile devices. If done right, though, service providers will be able to tap into increased revenue streams from services and applications, particularly mobile broadband, text messaging, and data services.”
Diane Myers, Directing Analyst, Service Provider VoIP and IMS, Infonetics Research
MARKET RESEARCH REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
- By 2010, the first full year of RCS availability, Infonetics forecasts there will be 1.3 million RCS subscribers, mostly in Western Europe, the rest in Asia Pacific
- RCS subscriber growth is expected to ramp quickly across Europe and Asia, and spread to North America and Central/Latin America by 2013 as RCS becomes more widely available on 3G devices and mobile operators achieve interoperability
- The core feature sets of RCS include enriched calling (sharing videos, images, and other multimedia during a voice call), enhanced messaging (e.g., multimedia, chat, and file transfer messaging), and the enhanced phonebook, which adds service capabilities to the mobile phone network address book, or NAB
- The network address book will play a pivotal role in the success of RCS; future capabilities such as auto-populating from diverse sources (LinkedIn, Facebook, MS Outlook, etc.) will enable increased communications across multiple media
REPORT SYNOPSIS
Infonetics' RCS Market Outlook report provides worldwide and regional forecasts through 2013 and analysis for RCS service provider revenue and average revenue per user (ARPU), RCS subscribers, RCS mobile phones, and RCS user clients.
The RCS report includes top takeaways, market drivers and challenges, an RCS case study, and customizable pivot tables allowing for ad hoc data comparisons and analysis in tables and charts.
Download a complimentary brief report, Integrating Communications with RCS, from an Infonetics Continuous Research Service (CRS), from the GSMA website: http://www.gsmworld.com/our-work/mobile_lifestyle/rcs/resources
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