Once confined to their respective core business areas, these players are now all competing with one another in the internet access, voice, TV and mobile services markets.
As a result, with competition increasing and once novelty solutions becoming commonplace as providers are all tending to offer consumers more or less the same services, innovation has become both a central challenge and a strategic necessity for differentiating the offers, increasing ARPU and securing subscriber loyalty.
This report provides a detailed look at innovative bundles, whether true combinations of the quadruple play's elements or more add-ons to a core service such as television, internet or mobile access. For each bundle, we offer one or several case studies, along with an assessment of market expectations for the service, the keys to its success, its potential for differentiation, its current popularity and its development prospects.
The report is structured around three main themes:
- technological innovation (fixed-mobile convergence offers, digital home),
- innovation through range strategies (bundles, innovative services),
- innovation through pricing strategies.
Innovations in Bundles in brief
- Innovation through access convergence
- Innovation in range strategies
- Innovation in pricing strategies
- New innovative services
- Innovative bundles
- Major trends of the demand
- Winning strategies
Countries
- Austria
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Spain
- The Netherlands
- The UK
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- USA
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- Japan
- South Korea
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Key questions
- What innovations are we seeing in bundles?
- Which innovations enable operators to increase their market share and/or ARPU, and to secure subscriber loyalty?
- What are the market's expectations in terms of innovation?
- What are the winning range strategies?
- What pricing strategies make it possible to increase market share?
Who should read this report?
Telecom operators (fixed, integrated, mobile)
- Understand strategic positioning and marketing mix for the quadruple play market's different types of provider
- Pinpoint the keys to success in the main innovative offers
ISPs
- Analyse the innovative offers marketed by ISPs, in terms of services and pricing model
- Assess the stakes and challenges that the quadruple play represents
Equipment suppliers
- Identify the players present in the convergent device market and their strategies
- Assess investment opportunities
Market analysts
- Analyse the state of competition over innovative service bundles
- Understand the strategic shifts in the quadruple play ecosystem