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US Wireless Market Update
                           Q3 2012




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US Mobile Data Market Update Q3 2012
 Summary

 The US mobile data market grew 3% Q/Q and 17% Y/Y to reach $19.9B in Q3 2012. Data is now almost 43% of the US mobile industry service
 revenues. For the year 2012, the market is on track for mobile data revenues in the US market to reach our initial estimate of $80 billion.
 Largely due to the strong postpaid performance by Verizon, the US operators added a net of 2.4M new subscribers. Sprint and T-Mobile saw
 further postpaid declines. For T-Mobile, Q3 marked the nine straight quarters of postpaid losses.
 The quarter also saw a couple of block-buster operator M&As that took many in the industry by surprise. T-Mobile found a soul mate in
 MetroPCS while Softbank showed up at the altar for Sprint. Once the mergers are executed, Sprint is likely to emerge as the stronger of the
 two.
 The two horse OS race got a new participant entry last month – Windows 8. Microsoft and its partners launched a worldwide campaign for a
 chance to compete. Microsoft also made a splash with the first computing device in its history – Surface. Both got a mixed reception from the
 market. We will find out how consumers will react in the Q4 numbers. Of all the OEMs, Q4 will be the most critical for Nokia who is running
 out of runway in its turnaround effort.
 Despite setbacks in the IP battles, Samsung continued its march of being the undisputed unit leader in mobile device space. After displacing
 Nokia in Q1 2012, it continued to dominate in units shipped in Q3 2012. However, Apple dominates both the smartphone revenues and more
 importantly just crushes the competition on device profits. It has only 6% of the global unit shipment share but over 70% profit share. In
 tablets, Apple completely dominates the landscape in both shipments and revenue. In fact, 95% of the profits in the tablet segment go to
 Apple with the remaining ecosystem fighting for the crumbs. Apple has the complete stronghold on the supply chain and has sucked out the
 oxygen from the OEM world.
 Amazon hasn’t been shy about its ambitions in the mobile space. While the world awaits an Amazon smartphone, the company launched a
 slew of tablets to compete primarily with Google though its eyes are on Apple. Apple also launched iPad mini a mid-tier tablet to ward of
 threats coming from the bottom tier of the market.
 As we mentioned it in our last update, smartphones are now past the 50% mark in the US and continue to sell at a brisk pace accounting for
 over 75% of the devices sold in Q3 2012.
 While the US penetration of smartphones is over 50% as we reported last quarter, the 50% of the sub base is concentrated in only 30% of the
 households thus leaving plenty of growth left in the marketplace.
 In terms of Y/Y growth, Connected Devices segment grew 19%, Prepaid 10%, Wholesale 6%, and Postpaid was flat. The connected devices
 segment picked up some growth after two straight quarters of sub-5% performance growth (Q/Q).
 Verizon and AT&T maintained their top positions in the global rankings by mobile data revenues. A survey of the entire ecosystem shows that
 the US companies dominate the top 5 rankings of profit share. China Mobile leads the industry with Apple, Verizon, AT&T, and NTT DoCoMo
 completing the rankings.


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US Mobile Data Market Update Q3 2012
 Postpaid Doldrums and evolution of metrics – ARPU to ARPA to AMPA
 The US market has added roughly 400K postpaid subs in the last two quarters. Verizon has added 2.4M, AT&T 400K, and Sprint and T-Mobile have lost a million
 each. Clearly, Verizon’s performance is far superior to its competitor and its relentless focus on postpaid has yielded significant benefits. Typically, the postpaid
 ARPU is roughly 2-3 times that of a prepaid subscriber. So, while other operators have been adding prepaid subs, the improvement to the bottom line has been
 tepid especially for Sprint and T-Mobile. Sprint’s losses have been primarily due to the bleeding of the Nextel customers. The iDEN network should turn off
 sometime next year and the continuous loss of overall postpaid subs might stop. T-Mobile faces a deeper challenge. Its net-revenue has declined in every quarter
 since Q4 2008, which is 15 straight quarters of revenue decline. In fact, its current revenue levels is at the Q2 2006 levels – that was six years ago. Though the
 company has done a terrific job upgrading the network to HSPA+ and doing blocking and tackling until it upgrades to LTE to come at par with its peers, the
 continuous bleeding of the postpaid subs needs a new strategy. Metro PCS helps gain new subs and spectrum but doesn’t help with postpaid. In fact, one can
 expect that the churn will rise as consumers migrate from Metro to T-Mobile. 2013 will be a critical transition year for the company as it tries to compete with its
 larger competitors. Just being a “value” provider is the race to the bottom.
 We have been advocating shared data plans to create more consumer demand for over two years. When I talked to CNBC earlier this year (Jan), I said that in all
 likelihood the family data plans will be introduced in the US market in 2012. I discussed this more with Bloomberg and USA Today and suggested that most likely
 Verizon will launch them first. Verizon and AT&T launched the shared data plans this summer with AT&T getting the benefit of launching it second. New types of
 plans also evolved the decades-old operator metric of ARPU to ARPA (Average Revenue Per Account) given that we are seeing a strong influx of multiple devices
 per individual/household. Verizon was first to transition and we expect others might introduce new matrices to measure progress and performance. AMPA
 (Average Margin Per Account) will also become an important metric in the coming days, first internally, and then for the markets.

 Messaging Decline
 Most western markets have seen the net revenue in the messaging segment decline. The US market has resisted the decline thus far. In Q3 2012, for the first
 time, there was a decline in both the total number of messages as well as the total messaging revenue in the market. It might be early to say if the decline has
 begun or the market segment will sputter along before the decline takes place. As we had outlined in our fourth wave paper, once the market segment reaches
 the 70-90% penetration mark, the decline begins and we might be seeing the start of the decline in messaging revenue. The decline is primarily due to the rise in
 IP messaging and operators have been slow to evolve their strategies in the segment.

 Operator’s Dilemma (And Opportunity): The Fourth Wave
 In our paper “Operator’s Dilemma (and opportunity): The Fourth Wave” earlier this year, I proposed that we need a new framework to think about the next
 generation of revenue opportunities. The fourth curve opportunities are massive but require a different skillset and strategic approach that the past three curves.
 We are starting to see operators becoming more focused and aggressive. It is being widely adopted in the operator community around the world and some
 operators have started to break out the 4th wave revenues in their financials. We will have more discussion about how things are shaping up in future research
 papers.
 AT&T has been better prepared in the US market and has embraced the ride on the fourth curve. It is investing in the areas of Digital Life, Mobile Premise
 Solutions, Mobile Payments, and Connected Vehicles. We discussed the subject at length in our recently concluded annual thought-leadership summit – Mobile
 Future Forward.
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US Mobile Data Market Update Q3 2012
 Operator M&A – The Rule of Three Strikes Back
 Just when you thought the prospects of any major operator M&A slowed down due to the impending US election, T-Mobile announced its acquisition of Metro PCS
 giving it more spectrum, access to public markets, a good chunk of subscriber base to become a more competitive number 4. Sprint and Softbank followed the
 announcement with an absolutely brilliant maneuver. Sun Tzu would have been proud. It provides Sprint access to capital, economies of scale, and becomes a
 much stronger number 3, and a global telecom player with scale and ambition. There have been some interesting twists and turns but as we have stated before,
 the US market competitive equilibrium will be complete when Sprint and T-Mobile get together at some point down the road. As outlined in our research paper on
 the subject, market forces find their way to get to 3 dominant operators that compete for attention and revenues, rest becomes noise. While the regulators might
 scoff at the idea, the inevitable market forces will find their way around.
 Connected Devices
 In Q3 2012, we released some research around connected devices. If we just look at the active connected devices which can connect to the Internet directly either
 by wireless or wired means, either using cellular or WLAN, the total number of connected devices in the globe just crossed the 10 billion mark which means that
 the connected device to human ratio is now 1.3.
 •      70% of the connected devices use some form of wireless connection.
 •      In the US, roughly 80% of the devices use some form of wireless connection.
 •      For the US Household survey, we asked 1014 HHs about the number of connected devices in their households.
 •      The average number of devices/HH was 5.
 •      Over 6% of the HHs had 15 or more devices.
 •      Splitting the respondents by gender, the results were about the same.
 •      Splitting the respondents by age group, the 65+ age demographics had the highest number of devices/HH followed by the 18-24 age group.
 •      The Northeast region of the US had the highest number of devices/HH.
 •      Suburban HH had the highest number of devices/HH.
 •      More details available here.
 Device ecosystem
 Windows 8 arrival – Sept was a big month in Microsoft’s attempt to regain its lost mobile decade. It went from a dominant position to virtually zilch coinciding with
 the remarkable ascend of iOS and Android. To make any device sell – one needs good and competitive device, distribution channel and marketing muscle, and
 brand loyalty. I think Windows 8 is genuinely good, is different, and for the first time can stand with its peers (obviously it needs to build a robust apps portfolio and
 a stronger developer ecosystem).
 In the past, while operators, OEMs, and Microsoft announced significant advertising spend, it had almost negligible impact on sales. The actual $ amount spend
 was tepid, operators didn’t want to be guinea pigs just to prop up a third ecosystem. With Windows 8, things might get better. We can see many more awareness
 campaigns, more OEMs are launching some quality devices, and operators are warming up to the idea as well. The brand loyalty index for Microsoft Mobile is fairly
 low and it will take a heavy lift and a few billion dollars of advertising spend to move the needle. The good news is that the devices are shipping and it is not
 thanksgiving yet.
 However, Nokia, once propped at every Windows Phone rally isn’t getting any special love from Microsoft anymore (in public) and it has become one of the many
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US Mobile Data Market Update Q3 2012
 However, Nokia, once propped at every Windows Phone rally isn’t getting any special love from Microsoft anymore (in public) and it has become one of the many
 OEMs on the conveyer belt. Its ability to differentiate itself enough in Q4 will decide its 2013.
 Last week, Qualcomm eclipsed Intel in market cap marking another milestone in the progression of the mobile ecosystem.

 Surface, mini, and the tablet market
 Apple launched the iPad mini for some of the same principles that Microsoft launched Surface. It is better to be cannibalized by self than by the enemy. Microsoft
 saw the notebook market shrink and needed a product to stem the bleeding while Apple saw Amazon and Google attack the bottom tier with a different model that
 poses a credible threat. Tablet market is indeed fundamentally altering computing in many ways. The changing landscape of computing also has impact on the
 ecosystem and the application development environment. Developers flock to platform reach, ease of access to the marketplace, and the basic economics of a
 viable business model. Windows a percentage of computing platform is shrinking which threats not only the platform but also Microsoft’s other software franchises.
 Surface is classic blocking and tackling to provide a jolt to the shifting ecosystem. With iPad mini, Apple is attempting to lock the mid-top tier of the tablet market
 and daring its competitors to just play in the bottom tier that leaves no profit on the hardware and revenue stream from services for a very select few.
 Apple is getting a lot of grief for its maps app. While the strategic decision to take control of a key application was spot on, it faltered on communications. The half-
 baked endeavor was nowhere close to being the “best mapping app.”

 Infrastructure segment faces a tough road ahead
 The infrastructure segment of the wireless industry is facing turbulent and interesting times. The business model for many vendors hasn’t evolved much in the last
 few years and some of the disruptive forces are bound to have a deep impact on the segment. ALU is facing serious headwinds and will need to figure out its
 strategic options going forward. Ericsson’s margins are under pressure but more interestingly its services and support revenue exceeded its hardware revenue for
 the first time. Huawei and ZTE reported decline in revenues but they are making gains in the infrastructure markets outside US and in handsets in the US market.
 Until Premier Xi Jinping and President Obama sort out their geopolitical differences, the Chinese vendors remain shutout of the US infrastructure market.

 What to expect in the coming months?
 All this has setup an absolutely fascinating 2013 in the communication/computing industry. Convergence is everywhere and is leading to a fundamental reset of the
 value chains and ecosystems. Players who firmly attach themselves to the 4th wave will reap benefits while the ones who miss it will see their fortunes dwindle.
 As usual, we will be keeping a very close eye on the micro- and macro-trends and reporting on the market on a regular basis in various private and public settings.
 Against this backdrop, the analysis of the Q3 2012 US wireless data market is:




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US Mobile Data Market Update Q3 2012
Service Revenues
•     The US Wireless data service revenues grew 3% Q/Q and 17% Y/Y to $19.9B in Q3 2012. For the year 2012, we are forecasting that mobile data
      revenues in the US market will reach $80 billion.
•     Verizon and AT&T dominated the quarter accounting for 69% of the mobile data services revenue and had 66% of the subscription base.
•     Verizon and AT&T maintained its #1 & #2 mobile data revenue ranking in Q3 2012. Sprint and T-Mobile maintained their #5 and #9 rank in the top 10
      mobile data operators list for Q3 2012.
ARPU
•     The Overall ARPU declined by $0.15. Average voice ARPU declined by $0.58 while the average data ARPU grew by $0.43 or 2% Q/Q.
•     The average industry percentage contribution of data to overall ARPU is now at the 43% mark in Q3 2012 and is likely to exceed the 50% mark early
      next year. All the top three US operators are around the 45% mark with Verizon leading the trio. (For reference, all three major Japanese operators
      are now over the 60% mark).
Subscribers
•     The US operators added 400K postpaid subs and over 2.4M total. It was the lowest net-adds quarter in the US mobile history (barring the early days
      of tepid growth)
•     T-Mobile’s postpaid woes continued for the ninth straight quarter.
•     Verizon led the market with 1.7M net-adds followed by AT&T at 678K, and T-Mobile at 160K. Sprint returned to the negative net-add territory after
      nine straight quarters of positive growth.
•     For the twelfth straight quarter, AT&T reported more net-adds from connected devices than postpaid subs.
Applications and Services
•     Q3 2012 data suggests that the messaging revenues in the US market might have peaked. For the first time both the overall messaging volume and
      the revenues declined Q/Q. The task to prolong the access revenue curve and investment in the fourth curve has become all the more urgent.
•     The market is finally starting to see activity in the mobile commerce and payment services as well as in various industry verticals like healthcare,
      retail, and education.
•     Q3 2012 again saw tremendous activity in the mobile commerce and payments space with a lot of announcements from the operators, Internet
      players, and startups as well as the retailers and the ecommerce players. All are vying for a piece of the mobile wallet. Much more to come in the
      next 12 months. On the retail side, Starbucks is a player to watch as it tries to become a more active participant in the digital ecosystem.




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US Mobile Data Market Update Q3 2012
Handsets
•     Smartphones continued to be sold at a brisk pace accounting to almost 80% of the devices sold in Q3 2012 with Android dominating though iPhone leads in
      revenue and mindshare.
•     Samsung now leads in every major unit sale category both on the world stage as well as in the US. However, profits are a different equation where Apple
      overshadows its rivals like Gulliver on the Lilliput land.
•     While it is fairly clear that Windows will acquire the #3 spot behind iOS and Android, the journey to a substantial and competitive market share is still ways off. It
      renewed its entry into the battlefield with Windows 8 last quarter.
•     Apple’s iPhone sales improved marginally in Q3 but the OEM was more plagued by the supply-chain constraints than demand.
•     US continues to sell over 40% of the world’s smartphone every quarter thus making it the most attractive market for OEMs.
•     AT&T continues to dominate the connected devices segment with over 46% market share.
•     Verizon continues to sell more LTE smartphones as its LTE sub tally rose to 15M making it the leading LTE operator in the world. AT&T’s and Sprint’s LTE rollouts
      are gathering steam. T-Mobile announced that it is putting the cash and spectrum it got from AT&T to good use and deploying LTE by 2013. Expect the “fastest
      network” marketing to continue for at least another seven quarters. Verizon reported that 35% of its total data traffic is on the LTE network now.
•     There is always a beauty contest amongst operators as to who sold more iPhones. AT&T again bested its rivals by selling roughly 48% of the iPhones in the US.
Mobile Data Growth
•     The overall data consumption in the US market in 2012 is expected to exceed 2000 Petabytes or 2 Exabytes. The smartphone data consumption at some
      operators is averaging close to 900 MB/mo. Some devices are averaging close to 2 GB/mo. As we move into 1GB range along with the family data plans kicking
      in, you can expect the data tiers to get bigger both in GBs and dollar amount.
•     The Signaling traffic has increased 3x.
•     Mobile data traffic growth is likely to slow down to roughly 80% after doubling for the last five years. Voice traffic will dip below 10% of the overall traffic in 2012.
•     While the spectrum debate rages on, in addition to the network and backhaul upgrades, policy management and data offload have emerged as top two solutions
      that operators deploying around the world. Signaling management solutions like Diameter routing are also getting good traction. However, a long-term video
      solution is still elusive. As we have been saying in our Yottabyte series of research papers, a comprehensive solution strategy is needed to effectively manage
      margins/bit.

Your feedback is always welcome.
Chetan Sharma
We will be keeping a close eye on the trends in the wireless data sector in our blog, twitter feeds, future research reports, and articles. The next US Wireless Data Market
update will be released in Feb 2013. The next Global Wireless Data Market update will be issued in Mar 2013.
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Disclaimer: Some of the companies mentioned in this paper are our clients.
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US Wireless Data Services Revenue




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US - Segment Growth Rates




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US Wireless Carriers: ARPU Trends




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US Wireless Carriers: Data Revenue
Trends




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US Wireless Carriers: Data ARPU Trends




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US Wireless Carriers: Data ARPU Trends




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US Market: Carrier Marketshare (Q3 12)




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The rise of the 4th Wave Revenues



                                                                                                                                           Extend the Peak
                                                                                        Revenue Growth Curves
                                                       Delay the Decline                                                                            Move up the value chain in VAS
              © Chetan Sharma Consulting, 2012
Net Revenue




                                                                                Voice
                                                                                                                                                                      Digital Lifestyle Solution Provider
                                                                                                                         Access
                                                                                                Messaging

                                                                                                                                                                                 Enabler

                                                                                                                                                             VAS/OTT



                                                                                                                                                                                Utility



                                                                                    Subscriber Penetration




                                                                                        Source: Operator’s Dilemma (And Opportunity): The 4th Wave
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AT&T’s 4th wave investments




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Connected World (Global)




WWAN
WLAN
Wired




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Connected World (US)



                                                                                 80% Mobile




WWAN
WLAN
Wired




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US: Connected HouseHold




                                                            Average # of devices/HH = 5




                                                                                                             N = 1014
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Revenue from New Subscriptions dips
below 5%




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US Wireless Carriers: Net Adds Share




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Postpaid Net-adds of top 4 US operators




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AT&T – Connected Devices Still Driving
Growth




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Connected Device Growth




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Connected Devices: Overall growth




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Smartphone growth continues unabated




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Smartphones Rule




                                                                                    2012 figures are for Q3 2012

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Samsung on top of the hill in market
share




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Apple and Samsung control 50% of the
unit smartphone sales




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US Tablet Market




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US Companies dominate mobile
industry profits




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SMS Growth – US




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US Mobile Data Traffic continues to
grow at a rapid pace




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Data traffic dominates total traffic




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  • 1. US Wireless Market Update Q3 2012 Research. Technology. Strategy. Intellectual Property. Thought Leadership Summits. http://www.chetansharma.com 1 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is prohibited. 8/2012
  • 2. US Mobile Data Market Update Q3 2012 Summary The US mobile data market grew 3% Q/Q and 17% Y/Y to reach $19.9B in Q3 2012. Data is now almost 43% of the US mobile industry service revenues. For the year 2012, the market is on track for mobile data revenues in the US market to reach our initial estimate of $80 billion. Largely due to the strong postpaid performance by Verizon, the US operators added a net of 2.4M new subscribers. Sprint and T-Mobile saw further postpaid declines. For T-Mobile, Q3 marked the nine straight quarters of postpaid losses. The quarter also saw a couple of block-buster operator M&As that took many in the industry by surprise. T-Mobile found a soul mate in MetroPCS while Softbank showed up at the altar for Sprint. Once the mergers are executed, Sprint is likely to emerge as the stronger of the two. The two horse OS race got a new participant entry last month – Windows 8. Microsoft and its partners launched a worldwide campaign for a chance to compete. Microsoft also made a splash with the first computing device in its history – Surface. Both got a mixed reception from the market. We will find out how consumers will react in the Q4 numbers. Of all the OEMs, Q4 will be the most critical for Nokia who is running out of runway in its turnaround effort. Despite setbacks in the IP battles, Samsung continued its march of being the undisputed unit leader in mobile device space. After displacing Nokia in Q1 2012, it continued to dominate in units shipped in Q3 2012. However, Apple dominates both the smartphone revenues and more importantly just crushes the competition on device profits. It has only 6% of the global unit shipment share but over 70% profit share. In tablets, Apple completely dominates the landscape in both shipments and revenue. In fact, 95% of the profits in the tablet segment go to Apple with the remaining ecosystem fighting for the crumbs. Apple has the complete stronghold on the supply chain and has sucked out the oxygen from the OEM world. Amazon hasn’t been shy about its ambitions in the mobile space. While the world awaits an Amazon smartphone, the company launched a slew of tablets to compete primarily with Google though its eyes are on Apple. Apple also launched iPad mini a mid-tier tablet to ward of threats coming from the bottom tier of the market. As we mentioned it in our last update, smartphones are now past the 50% mark in the US and continue to sell at a brisk pace accounting for over 75% of the devices sold in Q3 2012. While the US penetration of smartphones is over 50% as we reported last quarter, the 50% of the sub base is concentrated in only 30% of the households thus leaving plenty of growth left in the marketplace. In terms of Y/Y growth, Connected Devices segment grew 19%, Prepaid 10%, Wholesale 6%, and Postpaid was flat. The connected devices segment picked up some growth after two straight quarters of sub-5% performance growth (Q/Q). Verizon and AT&T maintained their top positions in the global rankings by mobile data revenues. A survey of the entire ecosystem shows that the US companies dominate the top 5 rankings of profit share. China Mobile leads the industry with Apple, Verizon, AT&T, and NTT DoCoMo completing the rankings. http://www.chetansharma.com 2 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 3. US Mobile Data Market Update Q3 2012 Postpaid Doldrums and evolution of metrics – ARPU to ARPA to AMPA The US market has added roughly 400K postpaid subs in the last two quarters. Verizon has added 2.4M, AT&T 400K, and Sprint and T-Mobile have lost a million each. Clearly, Verizon’s performance is far superior to its competitor and its relentless focus on postpaid has yielded significant benefits. Typically, the postpaid ARPU is roughly 2-3 times that of a prepaid subscriber. So, while other operators have been adding prepaid subs, the improvement to the bottom line has been tepid especially for Sprint and T-Mobile. Sprint’s losses have been primarily due to the bleeding of the Nextel customers. The iDEN network should turn off sometime next year and the continuous loss of overall postpaid subs might stop. T-Mobile faces a deeper challenge. Its net-revenue has declined in every quarter since Q4 2008, which is 15 straight quarters of revenue decline. In fact, its current revenue levels is at the Q2 2006 levels – that was six years ago. Though the company has done a terrific job upgrading the network to HSPA+ and doing blocking and tackling until it upgrades to LTE to come at par with its peers, the continuous bleeding of the postpaid subs needs a new strategy. Metro PCS helps gain new subs and spectrum but doesn’t help with postpaid. In fact, one can expect that the churn will rise as consumers migrate from Metro to T-Mobile. 2013 will be a critical transition year for the company as it tries to compete with its larger competitors. Just being a “value” provider is the race to the bottom. We have been advocating shared data plans to create more consumer demand for over two years. When I talked to CNBC earlier this year (Jan), I said that in all likelihood the family data plans will be introduced in the US market in 2012. I discussed this more with Bloomberg and USA Today and suggested that most likely Verizon will launch them first. Verizon and AT&T launched the shared data plans this summer with AT&T getting the benefit of launching it second. New types of plans also evolved the decades-old operator metric of ARPU to ARPA (Average Revenue Per Account) given that we are seeing a strong influx of multiple devices per individual/household. Verizon was first to transition and we expect others might introduce new matrices to measure progress and performance. AMPA (Average Margin Per Account) will also become an important metric in the coming days, first internally, and then for the markets. Messaging Decline Most western markets have seen the net revenue in the messaging segment decline. The US market has resisted the decline thus far. In Q3 2012, for the first time, there was a decline in both the total number of messages as well as the total messaging revenue in the market. It might be early to say if the decline has begun or the market segment will sputter along before the decline takes place. As we had outlined in our fourth wave paper, once the market segment reaches the 70-90% penetration mark, the decline begins and we might be seeing the start of the decline in messaging revenue. The decline is primarily due to the rise in IP messaging and operators have been slow to evolve their strategies in the segment. Operator’s Dilemma (And Opportunity): The Fourth Wave In our paper “Operator’s Dilemma (and opportunity): The Fourth Wave” earlier this year, I proposed that we need a new framework to think about the next generation of revenue opportunities. The fourth curve opportunities are massive but require a different skillset and strategic approach that the past three curves. We are starting to see operators becoming more focused and aggressive. It is being widely adopted in the operator community around the world and some operators have started to break out the 4th wave revenues in their financials. We will have more discussion about how things are shaping up in future research papers. AT&T has been better prepared in the US market and has embraced the ride on the fourth curve. It is investing in the areas of Digital Life, Mobile Premise Solutions, Mobile Payments, and Connected Vehicles. We discussed the subject at length in our recently concluded annual thought-leadership summit – Mobile Future Forward. http://www.chetansharma.com 3 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 4. US Mobile Data Market Update Q3 2012 Operator M&A – The Rule of Three Strikes Back Just when you thought the prospects of any major operator M&A slowed down due to the impending US election, T-Mobile announced its acquisition of Metro PCS giving it more spectrum, access to public markets, a good chunk of subscriber base to become a more competitive number 4. Sprint and Softbank followed the announcement with an absolutely brilliant maneuver. Sun Tzu would have been proud. It provides Sprint access to capital, economies of scale, and becomes a much stronger number 3, and a global telecom player with scale and ambition. There have been some interesting twists and turns but as we have stated before, the US market competitive equilibrium will be complete when Sprint and T-Mobile get together at some point down the road. As outlined in our research paper on the subject, market forces find their way to get to 3 dominant operators that compete for attention and revenues, rest becomes noise. While the regulators might scoff at the idea, the inevitable market forces will find their way around. Connected Devices In Q3 2012, we released some research around connected devices. If we just look at the active connected devices which can connect to the Internet directly either by wireless or wired means, either using cellular or WLAN, the total number of connected devices in the globe just crossed the 10 billion mark which means that the connected device to human ratio is now 1.3. • 70% of the connected devices use some form of wireless connection. • In the US, roughly 80% of the devices use some form of wireless connection. • For the US Household survey, we asked 1014 HHs about the number of connected devices in their households. • The average number of devices/HH was 5. • Over 6% of the HHs had 15 or more devices. • Splitting the respondents by gender, the results were about the same. • Splitting the respondents by age group, the 65+ age demographics had the highest number of devices/HH followed by the 18-24 age group. • The Northeast region of the US had the highest number of devices/HH. • Suburban HH had the highest number of devices/HH. • More details available here. Device ecosystem Windows 8 arrival – Sept was a big month in Microsoft’s attempt to regain its lost mobile decade. It went from a dominant position to virtually zilch coinciding with the remarkable ascend of iOS and Android. To make any device sell – one needs good and competitive device, distribution channel and marketing muscle, and brand loyalty. I think Windows 8 is genuinely good, is different, and for the first time can stand with its peers (obviously it needs to build a robust apps portfolio and a stronger developer ecosystem). In the past, while operators, OEMs, and Microsoft announced significant advertising spend, it had almost negligible impact on sales. The actual $ amount spend was tepid, operators didn’t want to be guinea pigs just to prop up a third ecosystem. With Windows 8, things might get better. We can see many more awareness campaigns, more OEMs are launching some quality devices, and operators are warming up to the idea as well. The brand loyalty index for Microsoft Mobile is fairly low and it will take a heavy lift and a few billion dollars of advertising spend to move the needle. The good news is that the devices are shipping and it is not thanksgiving yet. However, Nokia, once propped at every Windows Phone rally isn’t getting any special love from Microsoft anymore (in public) and it has become one of the many OEMs on the conveyer belt. Its ability to differentiate itself enough in Q4 4 decide Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012 http://www.chetansharma.com will © its 2013.
  • 5. US Mobile Data Market Update Q3 2012 However, Nokia, once propped at every Windows Phone rally isn’t getting any special love from Microsoft anymore (in public) and it has become one of the many OEMs on the conveyer belt. Its ability to differentiate itself enough in Q4 will decide its 2013. Last week, Qualcomm eclipsed Intel in market cap marking another milestone in the progression of the mobile ecosystem. Surface, mini, and the tablet market Apple launched the iPad mini for some of the same principles that Microsoft launched Surface. It is better to be cannibalized by self than by the enemy. Microsoft saw the notebook market shrink and needed a product to stem the bleeding while Apple saw Amazon and Google attack the bottom tier with a different model that poses a credible threat. Tablet market is indeed fundamentally altering computing in many ways. The changing landscape of computing also has impact on the ecosystem and the application development environment. Developers flock to platform reach, ease of access to the marketplace, and the basic economics of a viable business model. Windows a percentage of computing platform is shrinking which threats not only the platform but also Microsoft’s other software franchises. Surface is classic blocking and tackling to provide a jolt to the shifting ecosystem. With iPad mini, Apple is attempting to lock the mid-top tier of the tablet market and daring its competitors to just play in the bottom tier that leaves no profit on the hardware and revenue stream from services for a very select few. Apple is getting a lot of grief for its maps app. While the strategic decision to take control of a key application was spot on, it faltered on communications. The half- baked endeavor was nowhere close to being the “best mapping app.” Infrastructure segment faces a tough road ahead The infrastructure segment of the wireless industry is facing turbulent and interesting times. The business model for many vendors hasn’t evolved much in the last few years and some of the disruptive forces are bound to have a deep impact on the segment. ALU is facing serious headwinds and will need to figure out its strategic options going forward. Ericsson’s margins are under pressure but more interestingly its services and support revenue exceeded its hardware revenue for the first time. Huawei and ZTE reported decline in revenues but they are making gains in the infrastructure markets outside US and in handsets in the US market. Until Premier Xi Jinping and President Obama sort out their geopolitical differences, the Chinese vendors remain shutout of the US infrastructure market. What to expect in the coming months? All this has setup an absolutely fascinating 2013 in the communication/computing industry. Convergence is everywhere and is leading to a fundamental reset of the value chains and ecosystems. Players who firmly attach themselves to the 4th wave will reap benefits while the ones who miss it will see their fortunes dwindle. As usual, we will be keeping a very close eye on the micro- and macro-trends and reporting on the market on a regular basis in various private and public settings. Against this backdrop, the analysis of the Q3 2012 US wireless data market is: http://www.chetansharma.com 5 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 6. US Mobile Data Market Update Q3 2012 Service Revenues • The US Wireless data service revenues grew 3% Q/Q and 17% Y/Y to $19.9B in Q3 2012. For the year 2012, we are forecasting that mobile data revenues in the US market will reach $80 billion. • Verizon and AT&T dominated the quarter accounting for 69% of the mobile data services revenue and had 66% of the subscription base. • Verizon and AT&T maintained its #1 & #2 mobile data revenue ranking in Q3 2012. Sprint and T-Mobile maintained their #5 and #9 rank in the top 10 mobile data operators list for Q3 2012. ARPU • The Overall ARPU declined by $0.15. Average voice ARPU declined by $0.58 while the average data ARPU grew by $0.43 or 2% Q/Q. • The average industry percentage contribution of data to overall ARPU is now at the 43% mark in Q3 2012 and is likely to exceed the 50% mark early next year. All the top three US operators are around the 45% mark with Verizon leading the trio. (For reference, all three major Japanese operators are now over the 60% mark). Subscribers • The US operators added 400K postpaid subs and over 2.4M total. It was the lowest net-adds quarter in the US mobile history (barring the early days of tepid growth) • T-Mobile’s postpaid woes continued for the ninth straight quarter. • Verizon led the market with 1.7M net-adds followed by AT&T at 678K, and T-Mobile at 160K. Sprint returned to the negative net-add territory after nine straight quarters of positive growth. • For the twelfth straight quarter, AT&T reported more net-adds from connected devices than postpaid subs. Applications and Services • Q3 2012 data suggests that the messaging revenues in the US market might have peaked. For the first time both the overall messaging volume and the revenues declined Q/Q. The task to prolong the access revenue curve and investment in the fourth curve has become all the more urgent. • The market is finally starting to see activity in the mobile commerce and payment services as well as in various industry verticals like healthcare, retail, and education. • Q3 2012 again saw tremendous activity in the mobile commerce and payments space with a lot of announcements from the operators, Internet players, and startups as well as the retailers and the ecommerce players. All are vying for a piece of the mobile wallet. Much more to come in the next 12 months. On the retail side, Starbucks is a player to watch as it tries to become a more active participant in the digital ecosystem. http://www.chetansharma.com 6 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 7. US Mobile Data Market Update Q3 2012 Handsets • Smartphones continued to be sold at a brisk pace accounting to almost 80% of the devices sold in Q3 2012 with Android dominating though iPhone leads in revenue and mindshare. • Samsung now leads in every major unit sale category both on the world stage as well as in the US. However, profits are a different equation where Apple overshadows its rivals like Gulliver on the Lilliput land. • While it is fairly clear that Windows will acquire the #3 spot behind iOS and Android, the journey to a substantial and competitive market share is still ways off. It renewed its entry into the battlefield with Windows 8 last quarter. • Apple’s iPhone sales improved marginally in Q3 but the OEM was more plagued by the supply-chain constraints than demand. • US continues to sell over 40% of the world’s smartphone every quarter thus making it the most attractive market for OEMs. • AT&T continues to dominate the connected devices segment with over 46% market share. • Verizon continues to sell more LTE smartphones as its LTE sub tally rose to 15M making it the leading LTE operator in the world. AT&T’s and Sprint’s LTE rollouts are gathering steam. T-Mobile announced that it is putting the cash and spectrum it got from AT&T to good use and deploying LTE by 2013. Expect the “fastest network” marketing to continue for at least another seven quarters. Verizon reported that 35% of its total data traffic is on the LTE network now. • There is always a beauty contest amongst operators as to who sold more iPhones. AT&T again bested its rivals by selling roughly 48% of the iPhones in the US. Mobile Data Growth • The overall data consumption in the US market in 2012 is expected to exceed 2000 Petabytes or 2 Exabytes. The smartphone data consumption at some operators is averaging close to 900 MB/mo. Some devices are averaging close to 2 GB/mo. As we move into 1GB range along with the family data plans kicking in, you can expect the data tiers to get bigger both in GBs and dollar amount. • The Signaling traffic has increased 3x. • Mobile data traffic growth is likely to slow down to roughly 80% after doubling for the last five years. Voice traffic will dip below 10% of the overall traffic in 2012. • While the spectrum debate rages on, in addition to the network and backhaul upgrades, policy management and data offload have emerged as top two solutions that operators deploying around the world. Signaling management solutions like Diameter routing are also getting good traction. However, a long-term video solution is still elusive. As we have been saying in our Yottabyte series of research papers, a comprehensive solution strategy is needed to effectively manage margins/bit. Your feedback is always welcome. Chetan Sharma We will be keeping a close eye on the trends in the wireless data sector in our blog, twitter feeds, future research reports, and articles. The next US Wireless Data Market update will be released in Feb 2013. The next Global Wireless Data Market update will be issued in Mar 2013. • Disclaimer: Some of the companies mentioned in this paper are our clients. http://www.chetansharma.com 7 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 8. US Wireless Data Services Revenue http://www.chetansharma.com 8 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 9. US - Segment Growth Rates http://www.chetansharma.com 9 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 10. US Wireless Carriers: ARPU Trends http://www.chetansharma.com 10 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 11. US Wireless Carriers: Data Revenue Trends http://www.chetansharma.com 11 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 12. US Wireless Carriers: Data ARPU Trends http://www.chetansharma.com 12 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 13. US Wireless Carriers: Data ARPU Trends http://www.chetansharma.com 13 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 14. US Market: Carrier Marketshare (Q3 12) http://www.chetansharma.com 14 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 15. The rise of the 4th Wave Revenues Extend the Peak Revenue Growth Curves Delay the Decline Move up the value chain in VAS © Chetan Sharma Consulting, 2012 Net Revenue Voice Digital Lifestyle Solution Provider Access Messaging Enabler VAS/OTT Utility Subscriber Penetration Source: Operator’s Dilemma (And Opportunity): The 4th Wave http://chetansharma.com/OperatorsDilemmaFourthWave.htm http://www.chetansharma.com 15 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 16. AT&T’s 4th wave investments Source: Ralph de la Vega, AT&T, Nov 12 http://www.chetansharma.com 16 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 17. Connected World (Global) WWAN WLAN Wired http://www.chetansharma.com/connectedconsumer.htm http://www.chetansharma.com 17 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 18. Connected World (US) 80% Mobile WWAN WLAN Wired http://www.chetansharma.com/connectedconsumer.htm http://www.chetansharma.com 18 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 19. US: Connected HouseHold Average # of devices/HH = 5 N = 1014 http://www.chetansharma.com/connectedconsumer.htm http://www.chetansharma.com 19 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 20. Revenue from New Subscriptions dips below 5% http://www.chetansharma.com 20 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 21. US Wireless Carriers: Net Adds Share http://www.chetansharma.com 21 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 22. Postpaid Net-adds of top 4 US operators http://www.chetansharma.com 22 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 23. AT&T – Connected Devices Still Driving Growth http://www.chetansharma.com 23 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 24. Connected Device Growth http://www.chetansharma.com 24 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 25. Connected Devices: Overall growth http://www.chetansharma.com 25 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 26. Smartphone growth continues unabated http://www.chetansharma.com 26 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 27. Smartphones Rule 2012 figures are for Q3 2012 http://www.chetansharma.com 27 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 28. Samsung on top of the hill in market share http://www.chetansharma.com 28 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 29. Apple and Samsung control 50% of the unit smartphone sales http://www.chetansharma.com 29 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 30. US Tablet Market http://www.chetansharma.com 30 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 31. US Companies dominate mobile industry profits http://www.chetansharma.com 31 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 32. SMS Growth – US http://www.chetansharma.com 32 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 33. US Mobile Data Traffic continues to grow at a rapid pace http://www.chetansharma.com 33 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
  • 34. Data traffic dominates total traffic http://www.chetansharma.com 34 © Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Copying w/o permission is strictly prohibited. 11/2012
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