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DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c40861) has announced the addition of "2006 Global Mobile Data - Battle Between HSDPA and WiMAX" to their offering.

Annual report contains: Mobile triple play, SMS, MMS, Mobile TV, HSDPA, IMS, Edge, WAP, GPRS, HSCSD, EV DO, iX, 4G, WiMAX, Corporate Mobile data, m-commerce, micropayments, RFID, telemetry, GPS, location services. Also contains industry analysis issues and strategies, government policies, spectrum developments.

Detailed chapters on:

--Overview and Analyses 2006

--New business models such as Triple Play

--Business issues for content providers

--Mobile data vs. wireless broadband

--Technology information

--Global overviews

--Trends and Developments

--User statistics

--Revenues and forecasts

The lack of success of new 3G services, that followed the already slow uptake of dedicated mobile data systems that were developed in the 1990s, is a clear indication that interest in traditional mobile data is still limited. WAP, GPRS, MMS, 1X and other developments over the past few years certainly have not changed the situation. Current mobile technologies are not well suited for economically viable business models for mobile data. WiMAX might challenge mobile data towards the end of the decade, but the mobile industry is trying to fight back with HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access).

The lack of suitable infrastructure has hampered the growth of mobile data. As with voice applications, the emerging nextgen (NGN) platforms are going to have a major impact. While it still needs to deliver, IMS is an example of such NGN developments. Mobile voice communications will consolidate in mature markets but continue their spectacular growth in developing countries, mainly Africa. However, mobile data, beyond SMS and particular countries such as Japan and Korea, will remain a niche market business and will grow into IP-based WiMAX services towards the end of the decade. Apart from IP Multimedia System (IMS), the main enabler is broadband. The aim is now to bundle these products into attractive triple play or quadruple play business models.

Telemetry and RFID

Automatic Data Capture (ADC) is a collective term for a group of technologies that includes Barcoding, Magnetic Stripe, Radio Frequency (RF) Tagging and Data Communication, Optical and Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (OCR, MICR), Smartcards and Vision and Voice Recognition Systems. They are an efficient form of information capture for the management of information, and information for management. This report gives a description of each of these technologies, together with the emerging RFID.

Using satellites, mobile technology allows for major navigational services, including global navigation, global positioning including GPS and GLONASS, the emerging European Galileo system, location-based services such as the 911 service in the USA, and personal navigation phones.

The main uses for mobile telemetry are presently fleet management, security and equipment monitoring. The high growth in this field is fuelled by the convergence of wireless, computing and Internet technologies, which will create a range of affordable and practical applications.

Mobile handsets

As vendors fight for market share and more bandwidth becomes available, mobile phones are incorporating a variety of new functions such as still and movie cameras, advanced messaging, access to the Internet etc. Sales of handsets slowed markedly following the industry downturn in 2001, but started to recover in early 2004, with rapid growth during the year, aided by the development of new equipment such as camera phones. This continued into early 2006. The trend here is that the mobile and wireless broadband market will be driven by the new devices that will be pushed onto the market by the vendors. Mobile operators will see their present leading position to drive this market severely curtailed. Nokia retains it dominant market share, with Samsung showing the fastest growth rate. It is expected that the IT and CE industries are going to take a more prominent role in the market of new wireless broadband devices.

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