Mobile Communications

The mobile communications landscape is evolving rapidly.  Global mobile voice revenues have started to fall even though total voice minutes continue to grow. The current economic climate will put further pressure on the need to differentiate under these market conditions.  Today, operators are looking to new services with a high growth potential to allow their revenues to continue to grow.  This growth comes from both users doing more with their mobiles and emerging machine-to-machine applications.

3rd generation mobile telephony continues to show excellent growth and new extensions to this technology are enabling new services to emerge.  Recent growth in sales of USB dongles for laptops and feature phones, like the iPhone, has helped to push up usage of valuable new services which promise to generate new revenue streams.  Data is the route to new growth and high-speed packet data services and internet access are doing for mobile operators what broadband did for the fixed operators only a few years ago.

But operators are facing a number of challenges.  The uptake of new services and the desire to deliver an excellent experience is forcing operators to expand their capacity rather than focus on just coverage – especially as streamed services become more and more popular.  As new mobile services start to merge with internet services, then new competitive threats are appearing in the form of Internet services giants. The new services that promise to deliver new growth are reliant on new products and technologies becoming available in the near future. 

One route to achieving the expansion of capacity in an economic manner is through the development and deployment of new “Femto” base stations.  One approach to addressing the services threat is to develop new service offerings that match the needs of mobile users excellently.  Cambridge Consultants has insight, expertise and IP that is allowing us to help our clients to compete more aggressively in these circumstances.

At the forefront of developments relevant to this market, we have assisted our clients by:

• Developing new Femtocell products for 3G (WCDMA, HSPA) and WiMAX (802.16e)
• Developing low-cost mobile solutions based on VoIP
• Developing new handsets that offer very attractive design
• Developing IC solutions for mobile communications
• Investing in our own IP to enable provision of innovative products and services. These include: VENA, CatchNet and xIDE for Interface Express

Our creativity, technical knowledge and complex systems experience will work for you to make the most of mobile communications in the future.