IDC: Service Providers Could Earn More From Mobility
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Few service providers are stepping forward to assist businesses with mobile services, according to an IDC survey.
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HONG KONG -- Consumers have been promised a lot from the high-speed 3G (third generation) cellular networks being rolled out around the world, but is there much in it for businesses?
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Indian outsourcers already have a large share of outsourced application development and maintenance and are dominant in business process outsourcing. The country is now targeting a larger share of the market for remote infrastructure management services (IMS), and is planning to more than double revenue from these services to $15 billion by 2013.IMS involves managing an enterprise&#8217;s core IT systems, including hardware, software, connectivity and people. The IMS industry is moving towards a remote delivery model where services are increasing delivered from low-cost locations by service providers and wholly-owned services subsidiaries of user companies, according to a report released Thursday by India&#8217;s National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom).Customers in the US and Europe are increasingly willing to outsource IMS to offshore locations, because the data does not move out of the home countries, and is only managed remotely, said Siddharth Pai, a partner at sourcing consultancy firm,Technology Partners International (TPI) in Houston, Texas.In India, IMS business is going both to Indian outsourcers, and the Indian operations of large IT services companies, Pai said. Because of the large staff component involved in IMS, there are cost benefits in outsourcing IMS to low-cost, offshore locations like India, he added.Research done by management consultancy firm McKinsey for Nasscom, suggests that the IMS business could generate between 325,000 to 375,000 jobs in India by 2013, as 70 to 75 percent of the roles in IMS can be moved offshore.Low-cost locations, including India, have so far captured a mere $6 to 7 billion&#160;of the IMS opportunity.Indian outsourcers have so far learned to price their services on the basis of staff time utilized. They now have to learn more sophisticated pricing that takes into account other parameters like amount of computing power being managed, if they are not to risk losing money in the business, Pai said.
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Mobile e-mail device for business travelers extending its reach.
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NEW YORK - These days, technology providers take nothing for granted, especially their customers: There are plenty of stories of providers going to extraordinary lengths to win and keep customers.
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A group of major wireless operators, device and infrastructure vendors Tuesday released a proposed specification that the group claims will enable devices to seamlessly transition between cellular and wireless data networks.
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A trio of vendors are adding or extending their wireless products for location services and tracking.
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Here's how the FCC's auction of large chunks of wireless spectrum could change the nature of mobility.
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Users are beginning to show interest in new 3G (third-generation) higher-speed mobile phones after operators, particularly in Europe, spent lavishly to market the new service in the run-up to the crucial holiday buying season.ADVERTISEMENTReducing the Total Cost of OwnershipLearn how to reduce the total coast of ownership in enterprise data management in this case study.
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Developers can earn money by accepting AdSense advertisements for mobile devices.
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Location-based services are trying to revamp the Web experience to be less cumbersome on mobile devices.
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Wireless broadband gets a boost with optimized EV-DO installations in several regions.
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In many poor and emerging countries, the lack of banking infrastructure but widespread use of mobile phones has created a business opportunity that network operators are keen to exploit.
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When 3G, or "third generation" technology becomes more widespread in the United States the feature that appears most likely to excite consumers will be the enhanced ability to use their mobile devices to get directions and navigate.
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Not bad out of 21 Over the past few weeks, weâve been looking at the various rationales as to why people might want to collaborate, or access applications, when they are mobile. But just how much of a concern is it to the corporation itself? According to a recent Reg reader poll, the answer is "quite a lot". Indeed, initiatives for mobile and remote access ranked third out of a total of 21 potential activities, with 60 per cent of respondents saying their organisations were planning to roll out such technologies within the next six months. Ranking above mobility were only infrastructure optimisation and custom app development.â¦
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Mobile operators, content providers and other participants at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment trade show this weekÂ in San FranciscoÂ will be gearing up for an expected boom in mobile multimedia in the U.S.
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Don't expect new mobile phone services based on the Internet Protocol to become nearly as prevalent as those running over PCs. That's the view of Hamid Akhavan, CEO of T-Mobile International AG &amp; Co. KG, one of Europe's largest mobile phone operators.