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Mobile World Congress - Barcelona 2012 - Day 1 highlights

mp_odini| March 16, 2012
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what I have seen and heard on the floor … day 1

 

  • GSMA Mobile :
    • 6.6B mobile connections ww, 1B broadband with 36% growth
    • 2011, mobile industry =$ 1.5T, $189M Capex => focus of GSMA: LTE, NFC, RCS, Connected Life
    • By 2015: 9.1B mobile connections, 3.2B broadband, 320M LTE, 1.5B SIM-based-NFC handset
    • Apps, HTML5 :
      • Telefonica Digital and Mozilla announce “OWD” (open Web Device) alliance to create an HTML5 platform to deliver services to smartphones at a low price point. A prototype is available based on Qualcomm, Mozilla, Telefonica.
      • RCS (Rich Communication Services) launches a brand “Joyn” with same look and feel which operators are planning to launch in 2012 (Orange/VF spain, operators in France, Germany, Italy, South Korea). An android beta is available at MWC, and on VF Spain Android Store – www.gsma.com/rcs
      • FT.com (financial time) shared that they now have 15% of their subscriptions via mobile, either HTML5 web app or android app
      • Jamspot launches Appbuilder to enable anyone to build apps on any OS/device in minutes
  • M2M News:
    • GSMA Connected House with Vodafone, AT&T, KT, QualComm, Intel, Accenture, Ericsson, BMW, Nissan, Gemalto etc
      • Demos of embedded SIM mgt from Gemalto, G&D, Vodafone
      • QualComm 2Net demo (Gwy + SaaS back end: SIM mgt, Device mgt, data collection/API)
      • AT&T Digital life demo , sold as SW , SaaS
      • Accenture telematics assurance solution (SaaS back end, android or custom client)
      • Ericsson Social web of things with metering, telematics, home monitoring etc and facebook integration
      • KT home gateway and devices
      • BMW Connected Drive, Nissan Leaf electric car
      • Vodafone telematics, metering/Iskra, connected home with Intel/Kontron Gwy, SIM mgt, et
    • GSMA announces that M2M connections will be 24B by 2020, generating $4.5
    • Ford launches its connected car SYNC feature in Europe with family car BMAX. Emergency & services via the customer’s mobile phone, to provide an affordable connectivity. Service already available in the US. Targeting 13M by 2015
    • Orange and Sorin (medical company) to launch connected pacemaker in Europe and US this summer
    • Orange will also launch the Qualcomm Life mhealth 2Net connectivity service in Europe (home Gwy 2Net + SaaS connectivity back end
    • Ericsson shows its Social Web of Things with facebook integration – and some cool demo with LEGO Mindstorm robot
    • NEC and Transatel (large MVNE) form alliance for M2M in Europ
    • Novatel launches new portfolio of MT devices with Telematics insurance, fleet managemen
    • AT&T offers single SIM access to a global platform  for device manufacturer
    • Wyless M2M provider selects ww location provider Locaid for m2M location
    • Gemalto advanced wless connectivity guarantee 100% on activation and download over NFC, M2M and LTE
  • New Smartphone announcements:
    • Huawei and its Ascend quad core processor, targeting 60M devices in 2012 versus 20M in 2011 !
    • Orange and its Intel Atom Z240 processor, to be launched in France and UK this summer. Smartphone penetration for Orange in Europe is 50%
    • Sony who completed its purchase of Ericsson handset business last week ($1B) announce new Xperia devices with 1GHz dual core processor, HDMI/NFC, Android 2.3/4 and access to music and video unlimited Sony Entertainment Network
    • Huawei and its ‘one smartphone’ Android 4.0 portfolio. One X, largest, is a 1.5GHz quad core NVidia processor
  • LTE news:
    • Telefonica covers FIRA with the 1st LTE 2.6GHz trial, delivered by ALU, with Samsung Galaxy 8.9 LTE tablets. 30 users per Cell with average speed of 30Mb/s, 10 times more than the 3G. theoretical speed are 100Mb/s downlink and 40-60Mb/s uplink
    • Wifi offload, Hetnet (heterogeneous portfolio)
      • HetNets are more than small cells. The development of HetNets will take in self-organizing network (SON) capabilities, interference management techniques, new backhaul technologies, and operators' network management systems. Standardisation being done within 3GPP and IEEE.
      • Cisco: Cisco strong push on wifi for mobile operators : mobile packet core ASR5000 providing handoff between Wi-Fi, femtocells, 3G, and 4G, Cisco cleanAir to clean wifi spectrum and improve QoS of carrier wifi, VideoStream over wifi improved etc - Cisco has deployed 12M wifi access points and is becoming one of the champions of small cells and wifi offload - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns524/ns673/solution_overview_c22-642482.html
      • Ericsson whose mobile market share increased from 32 to 38%, launches pico base station with integrated wifi access to its Hetnet portfolio. They had announced the acquisition of wifi vendor BelAir last week
      • ALU lightradio wifi to provide seamless handover 3G,4G,wifi : Secure wifi service Gwy 7750, 5780 dynamic service controller (new) and optional wifi on lightradio small cell (femto, metro)
      • The Smallcell forum and OMA have signed an agreement to provide APIs for the small cell environment

 if you want to read some more, GSMA published daily newspaper:

http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com/show-daily/?elq=35986cc55c924301ba60431ebe056612

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