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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
In-Stat Reports Wireless Location Services for Businesses Could Top One Million Subscribers by 2010
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-- April 12, 2006-- Depending largely on the cellular operators' actions, the U.S. Location-Based Services (LBS) business market is forecast to grow to from 582,000 to 1.1 million subscribed devices by the end of 2010, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). Location-enabled enterprise applications constitute a small but important segment of the market for mobile IT applications, the high-tech market research firm says. Applications for this technology include fleet management/dispatch, workforce and sales force management, as well as a variety of public sector location applications.
"The forecast for enterprise location-enabled applications using handsets depends on how carriers and applications vendors sort out how they will market these applications and how to structure the billing relationship," said Allyn Hall, a director with In-Stat. "In addition, the availability of handsets that are compatible with location-based services is a key factor that depends on marketing and expenditure decisions by carriers."
Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
The largest market is legacy black box applications, which use vehicle-mounted devices.
The use of cellular handsets equipped with Assisted-Global Position System (A-GPS) chipsets is an emerging market.
Until mid-2005, only Nextel provided handsets that provide an application execution environment (Java) and GPS data to the applications.
The research, "Location-Enabled Services in the Enterprise" (#IN0602898MBM), covers the U.S. location-enabled enterprise wireless application markets. It includes a focus on the migration of location-enabled enterprise applications to mobile handsets. The research also contains optimistic and pessimistic subscriber forecasts through 2010. It examines the strategies of carriers offering these services, analyzes the marketplace and assesses the development of the technology. For coverage of the LBS market in the Asia Pacific region, please see: Location-Based Services in Asia/Pacific: http://www.instat.com/catalog/Wcatalogue.asp?id=236.
For more information on this research, please visit: http://www.instat.com/catalog/Wcatalogue.asp?id=229 or contact Tina Sheltra at 480-609-4531 or tina.sheltra@reedbusiness.com. The report price is $3,495.
Location-Enabled Services in the Enterprise is part of In-Stat's Mobile Business Service which delivers a comprehensive view of the U.S. business market for mobile wireless services through timely and actionable analysis of strategic trends, technology developments, regulatory issues, end-user preferences and corporate purchasing patterns. It analyzes the U.S. market for wireless data and productivity services on an overall basis and within industry verticals. Coverage includes messaging, mobile e-mail, remote access and data connectivity, PIM, WLAN, location-based services and wireless telemetry. It also provides dynamic data files which provide economic analysis of spending on voice and data services by vertical market and size of business.
About In-Stat
In-Stat (www.in-stat.com) is the leading provider of actionable research, market analysis and forecasts of advanced communications services, infrastructure, end-user devices and semiconductors. Our insights are derived from both a deep technology understanding and comprehensive research, which examines each segment of the value chain for each market. Technology vendors, service providers, technology professionals and market specialists, worldwide, rely on In-Stat's tenured, experienced staff and in-depth research to support critical business, product and technology decisions.
In-Stat is a strategic segment of the $9 billion Reed Elsevier global information network, with access to an expansive worldwide electronic network, extensive technology databases and well-informed personnel. As a member of Reed Business Information, In-Stat is a division of the largest business-to-business publisher in the United States
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