Global Mobile Value-added Services (VAS) Market 20142018
Global Mobile Value-added Services (VAS) Market 2014-2018 is the latest addition to Sandlerresearch.org industry research reports collection. Mobile VAS can be defined as beneficial mobile services that are offered by mobile service providers apart from the voice communication services. Traditionally, mobile service providers have been offering only voice communication services; however, the rapid advancements in technology have led to the evolution of other mobile services beyond the voice communication services to include a large number of non-core services. In other words, VAS add more value to the core mobile services, thereby enabling mobile subscribers to use cellphones and tablets for several non-voice purposes such as sending short message service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS), and pictures; accessing the internet for reading news headlines and astrology, retrieving flight information, listening to music, and playing online games; and for m-commerce and mobile banking. Analysts forecast the Global Mobile Value-added Services market to grow at a CAGR of 10.62 percent over the period 2013-2018. Covered in this Report This report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the Global Mobile VAS market for the period 2014-2018. To calculate the market size, the report considers the following aspects:
Revenue generated from mobile VAS apart from voice communication services Revenue generated from mobile messaging services and mobile internet services In mobile messaging, revenue generated from SMS and MMS; in mobile SMS, revenue from application-to-person (A2P), person-to-application (P2A), and person-to-person (P2P) SMS In mobile internet services, revenue generated from the mobile email and instant messaging (IM) services, mobile application, mobile advertising, mobile music, mobile games, mobile commerce, mobile location-based services (LBS), mobile video, mobile images, mobile publication and learning, mobile infotainment, mobile social networking, mobile governance, and mobile health services Revenue generated from telecom technologies such as 2G, Edge, 3G, and long-term evolution (LTE) Revenue share of the stakeholders in the Global Mobile VAS market In mobile commerce, revenue generated from mobile banking, payments using mobile devices, and mobile billing services In mobile music, revenue generated from ringtones, ring back tone (RBT), reverse RBT, social RBT, ad RBT, and voice presence mobile ringtone; it also includes revenue generated from music streaming and music download through mobile devices