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Market Research Report
Broadband via Satellite: Europe & North Africa Outlook for the Residential Market (2nd Edition)
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IDATE |
| Published |
October, 2009 |
Product code |
86467 |
| Content info |
50 pages |
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Broadband via Satellite: Europe & North Africa Outlook for the Residential Market (2nd Edition) published by IDATE in October, 2009. This report consists of 50 pages and the price starts from US $ 4060.
Abstract
Potential of hybrid networks compared to terrestrial networks
This report explores the various initiatives aimed at developing hybrid
satellite networks in Europe, involving both the space segment and a
terrestrial segment of repeaters that are compatible with the satellite
network. The award of two pan-European licences is expected to spur the
development of mobile TV services, as well as mobile telephony and broadband
solutions.
Key Questions
- What potential do these hybrid networks have?
- What is CGC/DVB-SH technology that makes it possible to develop this type
of network?
- How do these hybrid networks work?
- Which players will rely on these hybrid networks?
- What strategies are chipset/device manufacturers employing, and what
agreements have already been announced?
- What services will these players offer? Where is the added value?
- How do these players plan on positioning themselves with respect to mobile
operators: as partners or rivals?
Methodology- Economic Modelling
Economic modelling of the cost of deploying a mobile network in a rural zone.
- Goal: to achieve a theoretical assessment of the incremental
investment needed to cover an additional block of the population, when
coverage exceeds 70%, for different wireless technologies and in different
frequency bands (UMTS/HSPA - 2100 MHz, LTE - 2600 MHz or 800 MHz).
- Two cost elements factored in: density of the deployed radio
network; upgrade of the backhaul network needed for routing mobile traffic.
- Results: an assessment of the average rollout cost per-subscriber
in France and in Italy, which have different geographical population
distribution curves which means a big difference in the cost of covering the
last 10% of the population.
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
- 6.1.2. Alternative technologies: Wi-Fi, etc.
- Fixed and mobile WiMAX: 3G competitor and complement
- 6.1.3. Upcoming 3G developments
- 6.1.4. Government PMR networks
- 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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