Payments the biggest breakthrough in the mobile industry for 2013?

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By Ivory King January 08, 2013

The growth of mobile has now reached the point where it is inextricable from the larger digital economy. For 2013, mobile payments should be one of the biggest breakthroughs in the field.

With the number of mobile subscriptions fast approaching the human population in 2013, mobile is becoming a mainstream driver of business productivity and social interaction. The next generation of faster network speeds is making mobile broadband more available in order to further this growth and consumption of data. The Mobile Industry Predictions Survey from tech and strategy consulting firm Chetan Sharma asked app developers, startup entrepreneurs, and infrastructure, device and mobile operator industry players about the most notable relevant events that occurred last year or can be expected to arise in the year to come. Among these predictions, the biggest breakthrough for mobile is expected to be in payments.
Mobile payments are expected to be disrupted…
Nearly 35 percent of respondents believe that mobile payments will be a breakthrough category in 2013. Besides the expected impact of payments, 31 percent believe that cloud services be the biggest breakthrough in mobile this year. Nearly 30 percent support mobile commerce, 27 percent are for big data, and connected services have about 26 percent of the vote. Expanding the outlook from breakthroughs to newsworthy developments, most plan to follow the continued growth of global mobile data. Other hot topics are the continued competition between Google and Apple, as well as mobile devices’ (both tablets and smartphones) growing dominance in computing.
…And to be most likely dominated by financial corporations rather than tech companies
Industry leaders overwhelmingly expect financial companies such as VISA to dominate mobile payments in growing numbers; from 30 percent in 2011 to 39 percent in 2013. Nobody else came close in presence than that, but PayPal has 13 percent support for presence in 2013. There are many others that are expected to have a small presence in the new year for mobile payments: operators like Isis, startups, and Google. Amazon and Apple did not have any impact on this area in 2011, but entered the scene in 2012 and are both expected to grow this influence this year, though they only have 11 and 6 percent of support from those surveyed, respectively.

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The success of IPTVs keep television relevant with connected content

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Par Ivory King 07 août 2012

Most Americans watch traditional TV, but connected TV purchases are rising. This could increase content consumption but will influence the industry with its increased bandwidth demands.

Despite its veteran status, television still is the main platform for watching content. Americans watch one screen or another for 35 hours each week, 94 percent of which is on a traditional TV. Though much of TV distribution is broadcast or cable, Internet Protocol television - IPTV - is influencing growth in viewing options while still reinforcing the TV’s position as main video device. These devices play regular programming and also connect to home broadband to stream video services from Netflix, Amazon, etc. The spread of IPTV is unique compared to other devices, since its expanded features are built into devices that people have and continued to purchase. As of February of this year, 10.4 percent of homes had an IPTV, up from 4.7 percent at the same time in 2011.
Connected TVs reinforce the television screen…
Instead of cannibalizing another device’s market share, IPTV increases the feature set of traditional TV sets, driving purchases within the category, as Nielsen’s reports. So while television usage remains strong, connected TVs support usage and increase the adoption of streaming features. This directly opposes the trends seen in once essential stand-alone devices; VCR and DVD player sales decreased over the same period. DVRs, however, are now found in 44 percent of homes, so the category of set-top boxes may not yet be a maximized category.
… And make bandwidth a priority for the media industry
Trend confirmation can already be seen from industry support - IP-based devices for watching video are currently being prioritized by media companies. Time Warner Cable is deploying new gateway DVR devices, and increase support to more connected devices, such as IPTVs and video game consoles. This initial move may indicate the next struggle in TV broadcast - the demand for bandwidth will increase dramatically with higher penetration of connected TVs. ValueMarkconsiders the possibility of Google’s ISP offering, which will surpass speeds of 1GBPS. This and other future entries into the industry could finally offer consumers a viable media offering that competes with traditional telecoms.

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Big files, Fast Internet? Lion download speeds

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | July 20, 2011, 3:17pm PDT

Summary

No one with a slow Internet connection is going to relish downloading Mac OS X Lion’s 4GBs, but if you have the pipes, the downloads seem to be working quite well.

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My buddy Jason Perlow had a bad day. When he tried to download Mac OS X Lion’s 4GBs, he ran into an hour-and-a-half of online road-block. When the download finally did start though, he was able to download it, thanks to his 100Mbps Verizon Optimum Online Ultra connection in about half-an-hour.

So, which can you expect? An hour and a half of freeze or a relatively fast download? I say “relatively” fast because in a perfect world 4GBs on a 100Mbps connection should take about five minutes. To find out what other people were seeing, I did an informal, totally unscientific survey of my high-tech friends on Google+ and Twitter to see what their experiences were like.

And, the answer, if you’re lucky enough to have a real broadband connection, is: Fast.

One friend reported that “I must have gotten lucky. My download took less than 30 minutes on FiOS. Install, likewise, was half an hour. The entire process was far less painful than anything I’d experienced before. And that, frankly, is surprising…because I was expecting more snafus since Lion’s been positioned as a major upgrade.” FiOS, a fibre optic Internet service offer from Verizon speed ranges from 15Mbps to 150Mbps. He was running at 50Mbps.

Others, running everything from AT&T Uverse a DSL Internet service at 12Mbps tocable service users in the 15 to 100Mbps range saw download times ranging from 40 minutes to the guy with the 100Mbps connection who downloaded it in five minutes.

Me? I did it in 12-minutes with my newly configured Charter Ultra60 connection.

So, what does this mean?

Well, it seems to me that Akamai, the content delivery network (CDN) behind the Mac OS X Lion roll out, is doing a good job.

Akamai did its CDN magic by hosting Lion on over a thousand servers in multiple Internet backbone and end-user ISPs. In the case of Lion, Akamai preloaded mirrored copies of Lion. Thus when you bought Lion, your data request was sent to “closest,” in terms of distance, network load, and latency, Akamai server.

So why did Jason run into trouble? He thinks it was because Akamai’s distributed, front-end IP load-balanced methodology ran out of slots. I strongly suspect though that the blame goes to Apple’s datacenters.

In the Akamai model, no stream can start until its servers have been given the OK from the authorizing site. In this case, that would have been Apple and that sounds to me like exactly what happened.

All that said, this only really matters if you’re like me and my friends who have a fast broadband connection in the first place. Many of you, most of you, don’t.

According to Akamai’s State of the Internet report for the last reported quarter of 2010 in the United States only 34% of users have “high broadband connectivity.” That includes 27% of connections between 5 Mbps to 10 Mbps and only 7% reaching above 10 Mbps. That’s lousy.

Even at a 10Mbps connection, if all goes well, you’re looking at just under an hour to download Lion.

Now, I’m a big believer in cloud computing and devices that rely on them, like the Chromebook, but then I have the bandwidth to use them. I think Apple was premature in releasing Lion as a download only upgrade. For all too many users in 2011, a DVD would have been the better option for Lion. Going online for it should have been left as an option for those who are lucky enough to have serious broadband in our homes and offices.

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