DigiWorld Summit 2014

18/19/20 NOVEMBER
LE CORUM MONPELLIER FRANCE

Mobility reloaded

We ain’t seen nothing yet!

If the cloud, big data and the Internet of things are clearly the major disruptions looming on the horizon, the momentum today lies in the mantra: mobility first!

What began with the swift commercial success of 4G is segueing into the spectacular technological leaps expected from LTE-advanced and, beyond that, the prospect of 5G, the widespread adoption of software-driven networking (SDN)… All of which raise a number of key questions: What pricing structure and revenue streams for telcos in an all IP world? What forms of consolidation will become ubiquitous? Will mobile systems become fibre networks’ main clients?

But questions also linger over the accelerated pace of the migration from the fixed to the mobile Internet, spurred by the massive popularity of smartphones and tablets, coupled with the surge of emerging economies: What new functionalities, applications and behaviours will ubiquitous mobility usher in? How will this affect today’s business models and the balance of power between the top online platforms?

A great many stakeholders are being affected by these massive changes in the landscape, which we have chosen to explore from three angles:
• How revenue is progressing for mobile operators and other players, from M2M to the Internet of things and beyond;
• How the massively mobile Internet will affect the advertising ecosystem;
• How TV industry players are positioning themselves now that video accounts for an increasingly large share of mobile traffic.

Last but not least, we need to examine whether this new decade of mobile-driven innovation and transformation will give European players the chance to get back in the game, and back on top.