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Mobile Megatrends Steve Ives CEO Taptu Ltd MoMo Ukraine September 2006. BEST WIRELESS APPLICATION DEVELOPER. Background. Steve Ives Founder of Taptu Ltd, August 2005 VP Business Development Qualcomm 2004-05 Qualcomm acquired Trigenix for $36m October 2004
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Mobile Megatrends Steve Ives CEO Taptu Ltd MoMo Ukraine September 2006
BEST WIRELESS APPLICATION DEVELOPER Background • Steve Ives • Founder of Taptu Ltd, August 2005 • VP Business Development Qualcomm 2004-05 • Qualcomm acquired Trigenix for $36m October 2004 • Founder and CEO of Trigenix Ltd 2000 - 2004 • Trigenix awarded ‘Best Wireless Application Developer’ 3GSM 2003 • 3 previous successful Cambridge-based startups • MBA Wharton School, MA Cambridge Univ.
Megatrends • Silicon • Bandwidth • 4G • Tariffs • Ubiquitous WiFi • Mobile Internet take-off • Music • Search (content discovery)
Silicon Silicon 1 GHz, 7.2Mbps 6 MP, 4m tri/s 30 fps VGA rec/play 225 MHz, 7.2/1.8Mbps 4 MP, 100k tri/s 30 fps QVGA rec/play 150 MHz, 7.2/0.384Mbps 2 MP, 50k tri/s 15 fps QCIF rec/play 150 MHz, 384 Kps 2 MP, 50k tri/s 15 fps QCIF play (6225)
Bandwidth 4G (OFDM) 10 Mbps 3.5G (HSDPA) 1 Mbps 3G (W-CDMA) 100 Kbps 2.5G (GPRS) 2G (GSM) 10 Kbps 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008
4G Intel OFDM (WiMax, WiBro) Qualcomm OFDM (Flarion, Flow-OFDM) MNO OFDM (NTT DoCoMo etc)
Tariffs 100 2.5G tariff$10 per Mbyte 10 3G tariff $1 per Mbyte $ per Mbyte 4G tariff $? per Mbyte 1 Cellular 0.1 WiFi 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008
Mobile Internet take-off BBC WAP traffic (number of requests) by year
Music 1,000 $7002003 Costof 1 GB flashcard $4002004 $1002005 100 $352006 10 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008
G Search (content discovery) taptu.com/xhome Settings Go to Taptu UK? Beyonce Search
Conclusion • Relentless reduction in cost of wireless bandwidth and storage is driving take-off of mobile internet • ‘Free’ WiFi hotspots will accelerate shift to data-centric mobile world • Will be driven by music and news first, other services following • Ability to discover services and content becomes crucial, placing mobile search at centre stage