Other industry players — capitalizing on change.
The transition to data centric
business models shakes up the entire wireless ecosystem.
The
increasing cost burden of the skyrocketing data traffic opens a business
opportunity for providers of traffic management and policy control
solutions. Rewheel has been providing consulting services and modeling
tools for such industry players to help them better understand the
problems faced by their target operator customers and quantify the
tangible cost reduction benefits of their solutions.
Gaining
insights into the economics of data centric mobile operator business
models is also essential for the manufacturers of smartphones, netbooks
and tablets and in particular the makers of new generation mobile terminals and chipsets.
For example, recently Rewheel consulted a
semiconductor company that is developing special chipset technology that
allows heavily compressing the data volume and increasing quality of video
captured on smarthpones. In this particular case we developed a
comprehensive model that can quantify the costs and benefits of such
smartphone features from the mobile service provider's perspective.