For pioneering Internet players, it’s the platform that allows them to relentlessly innovate, challenging the status quo and inventing new markets as they go.
Needless to say, old media firms have seen the writing on the wall and are devoting serious money to work out how they can compete or work with their new bedfellowes.
Makers of TV boxes, games consoles and other consumer electronics, meanwhile, hope that Internet connectivity will breathe new life into their devices and transform them from mere box-sellers to digital service providers.
Broadband is even more crucial to the world’s network operators, which hope to counter the slowdown or decline of their telephony businesses and find new opportunities in TV and media markets.
Last but definitely not least, presidents, prime ministers and other world leaders are convinced that superfast broadband will revitalize their ailing economies and drive future growth.
Somewhere in the middle, these players are colliding, converging and consolidating. And that’s where the Broadband & Internet IC sits.
The IC encompasses all of these trends, providing timely analysis of market-changing events, profiling key players and countries, and tracking key performance indicators across the sector.
But while the Internet has knocked down more than a few boundaries between markets, we recognise that differences between countries and cultures remain.
Alongside in-depth coverage of Google, Apple and other Silicon Valley giants, we identify and analyse the most promising local digital media players and opportunities in developed and developing markets across the globe.
The evolution of music, video and other media are covered as a matter of course, but we also devote equal time and effort to exploring new business models, such as cloud computing, open APIs and behavioural advertising.
Likewise, our network operator coverage spans an unrivalled number of countries and operators, in order to help you gain a deep understanding of the factors determining broadband success or failure.
Regular topics include the commercial and regulatory questions posed by the move to next-generation access networks, operators’ need to evolve their wholesale strategies, and the challenge of driving broadband take-up in emerging markets.
Finally, we harness Informa’s extensive knowledge of the broadband, Internet, TV and mobile device markets to produce balanced and insightful analysis of the nascent market for the ‘connected home’.
Key to understanding this new area is our ability to form an accurate picture of how the Internet firms, network operators and consumer electronics firms will cooperate and compete to secure their place in the value chain.
All in all, the Broadband & Internet IC provides a complete view of the trends driving the fast-moving high-speed Internet market.
For more information and to arrange for free access to the Intelligence Centre, click here or call us on +44(0)20 7017 5537.
