Research and Markets: The Future of Prepaid Wireless Reports Brings you Coverage of Hybrid Plans Deployed in 2010

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/b88054/the_future_of_prep) has announced the addition of the "The Future of Prepaid Wireless" report to their offering.

Introduction

Wireless operators around the globe are taking a keen interest in expanding prepaid services to accommodate a growing number of customer demands. Ovum interviewed 19 operators in three regions to understand their evolving strategies towards prepaid wireless services.

Features and benefits

• Understand how operators strategy towards prepaid is evolving
• Learn how and to what effect operators are using more sophisticated customer segmentation to optimize a broader range of prepaid services and devices
• Gain insight into operators' timing and plans for upgrading OSS/BSS systems to more rapidly respond to new prepaid charging needs

Highlights

• 14 of 19 operators interviewed are looking to expand postpaid services to prepaid customers, or have begun doing so. Another eight of 17 operators said moving prepaid customers to postpaid behavior was driving the need for hybrid service models
• Eight of 17 of the operators we interviewed are currently offering high-demand consumer devices to their prepaid customers
• A third of operators said time to market was one of the biggest technical challenges they face in implementing prepaid service strategies within their OSS/BSS system. Eight out of fourteen operators said they are already in the process of implementing OSS/BSS changes to accommodate new prepaid service capabilities and features.

Your key questions answered

• How are the characteristics of prepaid mobile services changing and what are the differences among regions and individual operators?
• How are hybrid services being used by operators to fulfull new prepaid service objectives and needs?
• What types of segmentation and loyalty strategies are being employed by operators to serve their prepaid customer base?
• What types of OSS/BSS challenges do mobile operators face in executing new prepaid strategies and objectives?

Key Topics Covered:

• SUMMARY
• HISTORY OF PREPAID WIRELESS AROUND THE GLOBE
• Most wireless customers worldwide are prepaid customers
• Operators are moving away from prepaid-to-postpaid migration strategies
• NEW CUSTOMER DEMANDS ARE DRIVING OPERATORS TO EXPAND PREPAID SERVICES AND FEATURES
• Prepaid approaches and motivations vary by region and by operator
• Customers want more from prepaid wireless
• OPERATORS TAKE A HYBRID APPROACH TO PREPAID
• Hybrid plans come in many forms
• Customer choice, cost control, and loyalty are driving the shift towards hybrid service models
• Operators move up-market with bundled prepaid services, and down-market with session-based plans
• Hybrid plans deployed in 2010
• PREPAID SEGMENTATION AND LOYALTY GETS STRATEGIC
• Operators employ more sophisticated customer segmentation strategies
• Operators segment prepaid customers by usage type, age, and revenue
• Loyalty is a critical component of successful prepaid strategies
• Operators in North America and Asia-Pacific take a different approach to encouraging loyalty
• PREPAID PRESENTS UNIQUE SERVICE DELIVERY CHALLENGES
• Prepaid services present charging system challenges
• Implementing new prepaid strategies means upgrading current OSS/BSS systems for many operators
• Migration, integration, speed to market, and flexibility top operators' list of challenges for current OSS/BSS implementations
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Source: Ovum