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Visions and business opportunities for wireless and mobile communications. Index. Introduction Speed Ventures Strategy Processes: VC corporation Breedlab Program Speed Ventures’s Vision . Mission – The VC Corporation.
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Visions and business opportunities for wireless and mobile communications
Index • Introduction • Speed Ventures Strategy • Processes: VC corporation • Breedlab Program • Speed Ventures’s Vision
Mission – The VC Corporation To create leading edge companies within focused high growth areas in close co-operation with the industry
Speed Ventures’ Co-operation R&D/ Innovation Centers R&D/ Innovation Centers R&D/ Innovation Centers Sales & Marketing Sales & Marketing Sales & Marketing Investments/ Product Development BREEDLABs Pro Active Deal s. Evaluation CO-INVESTMENTs; JVs Incubation Acceleration/ Roll-out Investments/ Product Development TRADE SALES Exit Investments/ Product Development
Tech. innovation: enterpreneur, univ, res. center Sonera:customer and industry knowledge Speed:business building skill An idea is born with the entrepreneur ... Seed ofan idea
Tech. innovation: enterpreneur, univ, res. center Sonera:customer and industry knowledge Speed:business building skill ... or Internal or within Breedlab Seed ofan idea
Entreprenour: technical innovation Buildinga company Seed financing Customers Strategy Create Business plan Sonera:customer and industry knowledge Buildinga product Prototype Competitiveanalysis Breedlab Speed:business building skill Seedfinancing Building in steps Seed ofan idea
Summing up -Speed characteristics • Early stage investments • Active ownership • Industrial partnerships • IP telecom focus • Pro-active deal sourcing • Process driven methodology
Important trends in the Telecom market • Telecom goes IP (access agnostic) • Mobile Networks will open up
IP/Telecom AAA servers Diameter IP mediation IP Billing MIP HA/FA SIP Presence DNS Levels 4-7 Levels 1-3 Phone number Billing CDR Roamingfees SS7 Call setup IN HLR/VLR SMS Broad band Cellular Networks Wireless Lans Modem/ ISDN Digital TV, Power..... Lans 1_ Telecom goes IP Network Intelligence IP Highway
Speed Ventures cases in this area Next generation communication products based on SIP to the Internet and wireless market; Internet infrastructure solutions and services that take advantage of the Mobile IP standard switch cluster products insuring availability, scalability and security to network infrastructure;
2_ Mobile Networks Will Open Up • Existing Revenue Stream are not sufficient to generate a good ROI (ARPU down to €35.6 per month in 2003) • Need to finance Huge Investments (€ 260 bn in UMTS network and license costs across Europe) • Voice traffic far from finance the investments • Developing new services and applications critical success factor • Limited experience in service creation • Maximize Capacity Utilization (mainly in the off-peak hours) Source: UMTS Report: an investment prespective by Durlacher Research ltd., Edvitech Parners Oy
Bob’s Friend Bob What is the Telecom Industry Vision ? Game Parking Tickets Voice PC Any Content Phones Laptop Any Device PDAs Gaming Device GPRS DSL 3G Wlan PC Any Network
Content /Service Content and Service distributors Billing & Payment Users Users Access Distributor Network What is the situation today? Low billing and authentication relationship with user No standard proprietary interfaces trust relationship only with the operator Roaming access difficult No interconnection between different type of network Network under utilized
Content /Service Content and Service distributors Billing & Payment Users Users Access Distributor Network Where are the opportunities ? New content and services Enabling services and technology Define new business models and new revenue models Any services and content, anywhere, anytime in any device Access Anywhere Enabling access services and technology Whole network sales Enablers Enablers
Content /Service Enablers Distributors Billing & Payment ID Billing & payment Users Users Access Enablers Network Future Scenario • Clearly defined interfaces based on industry standards • Interaction between players that shares functions in trusted networks • Examples of standards: • Parlay, SIP, MIP, ENUM, Diameter, Jalda
Investment opportunities • IP Billing/Charging • AAA and profiling (identity) • Access enablers (roaming technologies) • Value-added Services enabler (aggregators)