NEW YORK, April 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
Mobile Billing Evolution 2011-2016
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The billing function in the mobile telecoms sector is experiencing a transformation from a back office function to a key customer interfacing component of business support systems (BSS). Driven by the changing mobile data/voice model and the shift to next generation networks (NGN), billing vendors are under pressure to provide increasingly complex billing models, yet maintain a simplistic customer interface. The evolution of the mobile industry has rendered a traditional billing models and billing systems untenable, making it critical for operators and service providers to embrace the new billing solutions. Visiongain believes that next generation billing solutions offer an opportunity to save OpEx, but a potentially massive CapEx is required to replace legacy systems.
Our latest report Mobile Billing Evolution 2011-2016 offers a comprehensive analysis of the global billing markets with regional breakdown. It also analyses the leading vendors and service providers who are using new mobile billing solutions to increase their market dominance.
Visiongain research shows that current market worth of the global mobile telecoms billing market is $6.75 billion in Q1 2011, but that strong, sustained growth in this market over the five years to 2016 will see the market transformed.
Containing 70 charts, tables and figures this report is the essential information source on the international mobile telecoms billing market.
Who needs to read this report?
• Billing System Vendors;
• Tier 1 and 2 Carriers;
• Mobile Service Providers;
• MVNOs
• App Store Operators;
• Mobile Content Developers;
• Interconnection Providers;
• Mobile Device Vendors; and
• Financial Institutions.
This report covers all significant markets around the world and provides a regional analysis based on our extensive research. Anyone with an interest in the telecoms billing industry will gain valuable information and insight from this new study by visiongain, which analyses one of the most important submarkets of the Telecoms industry.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary
E1. Next Generations Billing: A Key to Successful Revenue Realisation
E2. Migration to Next Generation Billing Offers Proven Return on Investments
E3. Billing Market Growth and Developments
E4. Key Findings of the Report
Chapter 1: Understanding the Mobile Telecoms Billing Evolution
1.1 Analysing Mobile telecoms billing
1.1.1 Definition
1.1.2 Mobile Telecoms Billing Platforms Defined
1.1.3 Next Generation Billing Systems are Driving Investments in Integrated OSS/BSS
1.1.3.1 Defining OSS and BSS
1.2 Business Case for Mobile Telecoms Billing
1.2.1 The Traditional Model
1.2.3 Convergent Billing Models
1.2.4 Increasing Complexity within the Billing Function
1.2.5 Key Partners
1.2.6 Real-time Rating and Charging
1.3 Drivers and Restraints for Mobile Billing
1.3.1 Market Drivers
1.3.1.1 The Evolution of Mobile Telecoms Billing Systems
1.4.1.2 Controlling Increasing Product Complexity
1.3.1.3 Controlling Increasing Pricing Complexity
1.3.2 Market Restraints
1.4 The Aim of this Report
1.4.1 Key Questions Answered by the Report
1.5 Report Structure
1.6 Report Scope
1.7 Target Audience
Chapter 2: The Mobile Telecoms Billing Market
2.1 Next Gen BSS Offers Innovative Billing Solutions
2.1.1 The Role of BSS in an Operator's Network
2.1.2 Next Generation Charging and Next Generation OSS
2.1.3 IMS's Importance to the Mobile Telecoms Service Provider and their OSS/BSS Vendors
2.1.3.1 IMS Seamlessly Converging Architectures in NGN Networks
2.1.3.2 IPDR in the Billing Model
2.1.3.3 Implementation of IMS will Change the Nature of Network Billing
2.2 The Key Telecoms Billing Themes
2.3 Mobile Operator Billing Market by Revenue Stream
2.4 Mobile Telecoms Billing Market Share
2.5 Simplifying Configuration in Complex Billing Environments
2.6 Billing Mediation Platforms
2.6.1 The Role of a Billing System as a Mediator
2.6.2 The Additional Uses of Mediation Data
2.7 Telecoms Rating
2.6 Analysis of the Market's Leading Vendors
2.7 Who are the successful SME's Telecoms Billing Vendors?
2.8 Vendor Analysis
2.8.1 Comverse
2.8.1.1 Comverse's Convergent Billing Solution
2.8.1.2 Comverse Seek to Unify Customer Management across Channels
2.8.2 Amdocs
2.8.3 Oracle
2.8.3.1 Oracle Acquisition of eServGlobal
2.8.4 SAP
2.8.4.1 SAP's Highdeal Acquisition
2.8.4.2 SAP's Next Generation Telecoms Billing Aspirations
2.8.4.3 SAP Billing for Telecommunications Early Adopters
2.8.4.4 SAP's Financial Stability
2.8.4.5 SWOT Analysis for SAP
2.8.5 Shaftsbury Systems eBillz
2.8.5.1 eBillz Key Features
2.8.5.2 Customer Centric Business Model
2.8.5.3 SWOT Analysis for eBillz
2.8.6 CSG Systems
2.8.6.2 Intec Telecom
2.9 Innovations to Enable Business Flexibility in Billing
2.10 How Billing Platforms Plug Revenue Leakages
2.11 Roaming and VAS are Key Targets for Revenue Assurance
2.11.1 Backfill from Legacy Systems
2.11.2 Revenue Realisation and Unbilled Revenue
2.12 Approaches for NGN Billing Evolution
2.12.2 Flat Rate Billing Strategy
2.12.3 Volume-Based Billing Strategy
2.12.4 Content-Based Billing
2.13 MVNO Billing
2.15 Credit Control
2.16 Mobile Streams' Innovative Payment Options
Chapter 3: Barriers and Challenges
3.1 Legacy System Transformation Costs
3.1.1 Billing Environment Overhaul Considerations
3.2 What are the challenges to implementation?
3.2.1 Operator Challenges
3.2.2 Three Key Considerations in Billing Transformation
3.2.3 Focus on Financial Performance is Key Transformation
3.3 Barriers to BSS Transformation
3.3.1 Internal Corporate Culture Change
3.3.2 Pre-paid and Post Paid Service Inequalities
3.4 Convergent Billing: The Characteristics and Attitudes of Next Generation Billing
3.3.1 Open Architecture
3.4 Key Aspects to Consider before Switching to Convergent Billing
3.4.1 Support for Numerous Business Models
3.4.2 Reducing the Time-to-Market
3.4.3 Speed is Key for Greenfield Operators
3.4.4 The Ability to Apply Associations and Rules
3.5 The Phenomenon of Bill Shock
Chapter 4: Market and Opportunities
4.1 The Global Mobile Billing Market
4.2 Breakdown by World Geographic Region
4.2.1 World Mobile Billing Market Analysis
4.2.2 North America
4.2.2.1 The Status of the North American Mobile Billing Market
4.2.2.2 The Shift from Post-paid to Pre-paid in the US Market
4.2.3 Europe
4.2.3.1 The Innovative European Market
4.2.3.2 Company Study: Comarch
4.2.3.3 Peer-to-peer VoIP Site Fring Using Comarch's Billing Cloud
4.2.3.4 The Billing Cloud and SaaS
4.2.3.5 The UK Market
4.2.3.5.1 The UK Market Tackling Revenue Leakage
4.2.4 Asia Pacific
4.2.4 Asian Billing Market Analysis
4.2.5 South America
4.2.5.1 South American Mobile Billing Market Analysis
4.2.5.2 Billing 4G - LTE and WiMAX in South America
4.2.5 Australia and New Zealand
4.2.5.1 SAP Strong in Australia and NZ
4.2.5.2 Oracle Buying Telecom Billing Technology from Australian Company
4.2.6 Africa
4.2.6.1 African Mobile Billing Market Analysis
4.2.6.2 Choice of Billing System is Critical for many African Operators
4.2.7 RoW
4.3 New Billing Models Need to Consider Apps Market
4.4 The Cloud Computing Opportunity
4.4.1 Rating within Cloud Operator's Systems
4.4.2 XAAS Billing Attributes for Effective Use with Cloud Computing
4.4.3 Patents Show Trends and Innovators in Next Generation Billing
4.5 Mobile Payments
4.5.1 The Mobile Payment Service Provider Model
4.5.2 Tier 1 Operators Entering the Market
4.5.2.1 o2
4.5.2.2 Everything Everywhere
4.5.3 Revenue Leakage in Mobile Payments
4.6 Apps Billing is Critical for the Mobile Industry
4.6.1 Aggregators
4.6.1.1 Zong
4.6.1.1 Boku
4.6.2 Collaborations with Tier 1 Operators
4.7 Customer-centric Billing Attitudes
4.8 AT&T and the 'all-you-can-eat' Model of Mobile Billing
4.9 Where is the Data Usage Greatest in this Model?
4.9.1 Smartphone Growth Catalyses the Data Issue
4.10 Convergence and Consolidation Opportunities
4.11 The Role of a Rating Engine in the Process
4.12 A Typical Scenario for Unified Charging and Billing
4.13 Billing Software Solutions are Reducing Operational Expenses for Carriers
4.14 Number of Communications Users and Communication Use Continues to Rise Worldwide
Chapter 5: Forecasts
5.1 Market Forecast Statistics
5.2 Back End Investment Pull Through from 2012 Onwards
5.3 The Future of the Post-paid, Pre-paid Relationship in the Mobile Sector
5.3.1 Smartphone's Move to Pre-paid
5.4.1 Hybrid Billing Models are becoming the Norm
5.4.2 Hybrid Billing Models Aid Customer Retention
5.5 Pre-Paid Billing Model Market Growth from 2011 to 2016
Chapter 6: Conclusion
6.1 The Evolution or Revolution of Mobile Telecoms Billing
6.2 Convergence is a Critical Consideration
6.2 SWOT Analysis of the Global Mobile Telecoms Billing Market
6.3 Relationship with the Customers
6.4 The Aims of Vendors Going Forward
Appendix A: Directory of Terms Used in Mobile Telecoms Billing
Appendix B: Methodology
B1.Secondary Research Methods
B2. Primary Research Methods
B3. Market Forecasting
Appendix C: About Visiongain
Appendix D: Visiongain Report Evaluation Form
Tables, Charts and Figures
Fig 1.1 - The Telecoms Billing Process
Fig 1.2 - The Telecoms Billing System Breakdown
Table 1.3 - OSS/BSS Application Areas Breakdown
Table 1.4 - Key Partners Function in any Mobile Telecoms Billing Project
Table 1.5 - Primary Drivers for the Evolution of Mobile Telecoms Billing Systems
Table 1.6 - Primary Restraints on the Mobile Telecoms Billing Market
Table 1.7 - Key Questions Answered in the Report
Table 1.8 - Structure of the Report
Table 2.1 - Key BSS requirements in an Operators Network
Table 2.2 - Benefits of Converged BSS in an Operators Network
Chart 2.3 - Billing Market Breakdown by Revenue Stream 2011
Chart 2.4 - Post-paid Mobile Sector Growth Rates 2011-2016
Chart 2.5 - Mobile Telecoms Billing Market Share by Company 2011
Table 2.6 - Different Legacy Billing System Types and their Capabilities
Table 2.7 - Mediation Platform Tasks
Table 2.8 - Mediation Software Additional Operations
Table 2.9 - The Different Types of Data Used by Rating Systems
Table 2.10 - Top Billing Vendors by Customer Base, Area of Speciality and 2010 Revenue
Table 2.11 - Successful SME Billing Vendors by Customer Base, Area of Speciality and 2010 Revenue
Table 2.12 - Products Retained by Oracle from the eServGlobal's Catalogue
Table 2.13 - SAP Financial Figures for Q4 2010
Table 2.14 - SWOT Analysis of SAP Telecommunications Billing
Chart 2.15 - eBillz Customer Base Increase
Table 2.16 - SWOT Analysis for eBillz
Fig 2.17 - CGS Financial Figures 2010
Chart 2.18 - Unbilled Mobile Operator Revenue in 2010
Chart 2.19 - Unbilled Mobile Operator Revenue in 2016
Figure 2.20 - The Content Based Billing Ecosystem for Mobile Telecoms Operators
Table 2.21 - Two Stages of Credit Control in Mobile Billing
Table 3.1 - Operator Requirements from the Vendor
Figure 3.2 - Operator Challenges
Table 3.3 - Three Key Perspectives to be considered for Billing Evolution
Table 3.4 - Three Key Perspectives to be considered for Convergent Billing
Chart 3.5 - Size of Mobile Bill Increase 2010
Table 4.1 - Global Market Forecast by World Region 2011-2016
Chart 4.2 - Global Market Size Forecast 2011-2016
Chart 4.3 - Global Market AGR Forecast 2012-2016 (AGR %)
Chart 4.4 - Global Billing Market by Geographical Region in 2011 (Share %)
Chart 4.5 - Global Billing Market by Geographical Region in 2016 (Share %)
Table 4.6 - North America Market Size Forecast 2011-2016 ($, millions)
Chart 4.7 - North America Market Size Forecast 2011-2016 ($, millions)
Chart 4.8 - North America AGR Forecast 2012-2016 (AGR %)
Table 4.9 - Europe Market Size Forecast 2011-2016 ($, millions)
Chart 4.10 - Europe Market Size Forecast 2011-2016 ($, millions)
Chart 4.11 - European AGR Forecast 2012-2016 (AGR %)
Table 4.12 - Asia Pac Market Size Forecast 2011-2016 ($, millions)
Chart 4.13 - Asia Pac Market Size Forecast 2011-2016 ($, millions)
Chart 4.14 - European AGR Forecast 2012-2016 (AGR %)
Table 4.15 - South America Market Size Forecast 2011-2016 ($, millions)
Chart 4.16 - South America Market Size Forecast 2011-2016 ($, millions)
Chart 4.17 - South America AGR Forecast 2012-2016 (AGR %)
Table 4.18 - Australia and New Zealand Market Size Forecast 2011-2016 ($, millions)
Chart 4.19 - Australia and New Zealand Market Size Forecast 2011-2016 ($, millions)
Chart 4.20 - Australia and New Zealand AGR Forecast 2012-2016
(AGR %)
Chart 4.21 SAP Revenue Increase (AGR, %)
Table 4.22 - Africa Market Size Forecast 2011-2016 ($, millions)
Table 4.23 - Africa Market Size Forecast 2011-2016 ($, millions)
Chart 4.24 - Africa AGR Forecast 2012-2016
Table 4.25 - RoW Market Size Forecast 2011-2016 ($, millions)
Table 4.26 - RoW Market Size Forecast 2011-2016 ($, millions)
Chart 4.27 - RoW AGR Forecast 2012-2016
Chart 4.28 - Cloud Computing Operator Investments 2012-2016
Chart 4.29 - Top Companies Registering Cloud Computing Related Patents in the US 2006-2011
Table 4.30 - Main Mobile Payments Models in Use
Chart 4.31 - The Four Mobile Payment Models in Use for Service Providers
Chart 4.32 - Data Usage by Increasingly Heavy User Groups (MB used per Month)
Figure 4.33 - Post-paid Requirements vs Pre-Paid Requirements
Figure 4.34 - The Rating Engine in the Billing Process
Chart 5.1- Pre-Paid, Post-Paid and Hybrid Market Share 2011-2016 (%)
Chart 6.1- Mobile Telecoms Billing SWOT Analysis
Companies Listed
Adobe
Alcatel-Lucent
Alepo
Amazon
Amdocs
Apple
Aradial Technologies
AT&T
BBC
BilltoMobile
Boku
BSkyB
BT
Cablevision
China Telecom
China Unicom
Cisco
Cofetel
Comarch
Comverse
Convergys
Crestel
CSG Systems
Deutsche Telecom
DirecTV
Dynasoft
eBillz
Ericsson
eServGlobal
ESPN
France Telecom
Freeside
Grupo Clarin
GSM Association
HTC
IBW
Intec Telecom Systems
ITV
Juniper Networks
LHS Telecom
Logisense
Microsoft
NBC
Neuf Cegetel
Nokia-Siemens
Noos-Numericable
NTL Telewest
NTT DoCoMo
o2
O2
Oi
Oracle
Orga Systems
Paytracker
Plink
P-rd
Primus
Project Canvas
Qwest
Redknee
Reggefiber
Rogers
SAP
SK Telecom
Sky TV
Sprint
Suntec
Tele 2
Telecom Italia
Telefonica
Telemar
Telenet
Telenor
Televisa
Telia Sonera
Time Warmer
Tiscali
TiVo
T-Mobile
Top Up TV
TV Globo
TWC Media Sales
Verizon
Videotron
Virgin Media
Vivo Participacoes SA
Vodafone
Vodafone
VSNL
Yahoo!
Zong
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