For Consumer Product Strategy Professionals (Length: 19 pages)

January 18, 2008

Mobile IM Adoption Forecast Europe: 2007 To 2013

by Niek van Veen

with Michelle de Lussanet, Charles S. Golvin, Lauriane Camus

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

European mobile operators are launching mobile IM services, with mixed results among the different operators. But by the end of 2013, as many as 24% of mobile consumers will be using mobile IM services. To achieve that number, mobile operators have to get over their fear of brand erosion and SMS revenue cannibalization. Product managers will need to work on device usability, enable SMS interoperability, provide flat-fee IM packages, and market IM services by using Social Computing energy. In the long run, IM and presence services will integrate better with handsets' native applications and other services.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemInstant Messaging Goes Mobile

itemOperators' Fears Are Unfounded: The Real Opportunity Of Mobile IM

itemEighty Million European Mobile Consumers Will Use Mobile IM By 2013

Recommendations

itemWhat Operators Can Do To Drive Mobile IM Adoption

WHAT IT MEANS

itemFlat-Fee Messaging Will Become The Default

itemSupplemental Material

We interviewed the following companies for this report: Colibria, IXI, Microsoft, NeuStar, Orange, and Swisscom.

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Industry: Consumer Technology Adoption, Consumer Telecommunications, eBusiness/eCommerce, The Mobile Channel
Special Feature: Forecasts
Geography: Europe

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