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From Triple-Plap To Quad-Play: Strategies, Business Models, And Best Practices
Pyramid Research, Inc., Sep 2007, Pages: 100

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Section 1: The demise of pure play and the necessity of triple play

1.1 Options to fill the gap in the portfolio: build, acquire, or partner
1.2 The irrelevance of the “subscriber” and the advent of the RGU

Section 2: Multi-play positioning and pricing strategies

2.1 Discounts reign supreme
2.2 More than a single-bill proposal, quad play is about richer service combinations Country snapshot — Why Canada is one of the world’s leading triple-play markets
2.3 The flip side of discounts: potentially declining revenue
2.4 Revenue preservation through multi-play works better for some than others
2.5 Using “free” services to drive growth
2.6 Providing value beyond price
2.7 Can operators charge a premium for VoIP?
2.8 Multi-play offerings lacking TV will be a difficult sell in medium term
2.9 A segmented approach can extend the reach of triple play
2.10 The future of multi-play: from bundled services to blended services

Section 3: Service bundling and the challenge of regulations

Country snapshot — Brazil: service providers adjust to the challenge of regulating multi-plays
Country snapshot — Mexico: a convergence agreement and asymmetric regulations

Section 4: Measuring the bottom line: triple play will drive margins for some players only

4.1 Bundles are good for cable
4.2 Multi-play not as good for telcos, but they still need it
4.3 For satellite and mobile players, multi-play will hurt margins
4.4 Pure integrated players (FastWeb/Free Telecom) see high margins

Section 5: Bundled services forecasts

Section 6: Carrier multi-play profiles: positioning, pricing, performance

BSkyB: Using triple play to protect core TV business
A mix of technologies enables triple play
Triple play with free voice and broadband
Responding to competitive pressures
Triple play helps ARPU
Lessons learned

Clearwire: Looking to partnerships to push WiMAX-based triple play
Triple play enabled by partnerships in the works
Discounts in exchange for customer agreements
Competitive prices but less value
An increase in ARPU
Quad play on the horizon with additional partnerships

Comcast: Pushing large bundled discounts, seeing top-line and bottom-line success
All-cable triple play
More aggressive on discounts
Triple play driving broadband growth?
Number one in triple-play market share
Comcast quad play: beyond the bundle
Lessons learned

NET Serviços: Using triple play to drive broadband share in Brazil
The first Brazilian player to offer triple play
Pricing: 20 package combinations
Competitive against telco/DTH bundles
Using triple play to drive broadband market share

Verizon Communications (US) — Triple play to protect voice, pushing fiber
A PSTN-inspired triple-play package
No major discounts here
Priced at the same level as cable, but not as discounted
Triple-play market share could be better
Lessons learned

Virgin Media: Facing a challenging triple-play environment, and quad-play uptake is still slow
Early to the quad-play game
Insistent on discounting
Protecting the landline business
An increasingly competitive market for multi-play
Rising triple-play penetration but flat revenue
More mobile customers under contract
Lessons learned

Vodafone Arcor: A mobile operator gets into DSL to maintain revenue share
Bundled service offers led by substitution
Mobile quad play opportunities: mobile TV and femtocells
Lessons learned

VTR: A tiered approach to service bundles — one size doesn’t fit all
Three tiers of triple play
Competitive pricing
Number one in triple play
Quad-play opportunities?
Lessons learned

List of exhibits

Exhibit 1: Service providers’ strategic options for filling gaps
Exhibit 2: Impact of multi-play approach on Capex, Opex, revenue, and control
Exhibit 3: Sample approaches to building bundles
Exhibit 4: Triple-play bundle discounts
Exhibit 5: Triple-play penetration of households in selected markets
Exhibit 6: Canada key player presence by segment
Exhibit 7: Canada: Bell Canada and Rogers triple-play packaging
Exhibit 8: Subscriber market shares of Vodafone Italy and its competitors
Exhibit 9: Revenue market shares of Vodafone Italy and its competitors
Exhibit 10: Belgacom’s multi-play combinations provide a glimpse of PSTN’s inevitable demise
Exhibit 11: Service bundle regulation in sample markets
Exhibit 12: How Brazilian telcos do TV
Exhibit 13: Multi-play providers’ EBITDA margins
Exhibit 14: Telenet’s monthly ARPU and RGU per subscriber
Exhibit 15: Rogers’ EBITDA margin for consolidated business and for wireless and cable/telecom segments
Exhibit 16: The triple-play effect on Belgacom’s and Telefónica Chile’s fixed-line EBITDA margins
Exhibit 17: Triple-play provider Opex-to-revenue ratios
Exhibit 18: Global triple-play subscribers by region
Exhibit 19: Breakdown of Sky’s subscriptions at the end of June 2007
Exhibit 20: Prices of Sky’s bundles
Exhibit 21: Sky’s baseline triple play compared with most similar packages of BT and Virgin Media
Exhibit 22: Sky’s highest-tiered triple play compared with Virgin Media’s most similar package
Exhibit 23: Sky’s share of UK pay-TV market vs. its share of UK TV market including free satellite services
Exhibit 24: Net additions to Sky’s TV subscriber base
Exhibit 25: Evolution of Sky’s triple-play base and RGU per subscriber
Exhibit 26: Sky’s monthly ARPU
Exhibit 27: Triple-play market shares in the UK
Exhibit 28: Sources of Clearwire’s customer base as of March 2007
Exhibit 29: Clearwire’s broadband and bundle pricing
Exhibit 30: US broadband prices per download speed (US$ per Mbps)
Exhibit 31: Breakdown of Comcast’s subscription base, 2Q2007
Exhibit 32: Comcast bundle price vs. sum of parts
Exhibit 33: Comcast and AT&T pricing and discounts on bundles
Exhibit 34: Comcast’s video, Internet, and phone revenues
Exhibit 35: Comcast’s Internet, phone, video, and total ARPS
Exhibit 36: Comcast’s total RGUs, customer relationships, and RGUs per customer
Exhibit 37: Comcast’s triple-play subscribers and market share
Exhibit 38: Breakdown of NET Serviços’ 3.8m subscriptions as of 2Q2007
Exhibit 39: Price of NET Combo bundles vs. the sum of the services’ stand-alone prices, with percent savings
Exhibit 40: Price comparison of NET bundles vs. the stand-alone services
Exhibit 41: Savings from bundling with NET and Telefónica
Exhibit 42: RGUs increase since the launch of triple-play services
Exhibit 43: Subscriber growth since triple-play launch
Exhibit 44: NET’s financial results, same-quarter comparisons (1Q2006 vs. 1Q2007, 2Q2006 vs. 2Q2007)
Exhibit 45: Brazil’s broadband market
Exhibit 46: Brazil’s pay-TV market
Exhibit 47: Breakdown of Verizon’s 112m subscriptions as of 1Q2007
Exhibit 48: Price of Verizon Freedom bundles vs. the sum of the services’ stand-alone prices, with percent savings
Exhibit 49: Savings from bundling: Verizon vs. Comcast
Exhibit 50: Verizon’s residential PSTN lines in service
Exhibit 51: Verizon’s triple-play market share
Exhibit 52: Breakdown of Virgin Media’s 15.2m subscriptions at the end of June 2007
Exhibit 53: Price of Virgin Media’s bundles vs. the sum of the services’ stand-alone prices, with percent savings
Exhibit 54: Comparison of triple-play packages offered by Virgin Media, BT, and Sky
Exhibit 55: Virgin Media’s net additions for landline, television, and broadband
Exhibit 56: Virgin Media’s broadband and pay-TV market shares
Exhibit 57: Virgin Media’s unique customer relationships and RGU per customer
Exhibit 58: Vodafone’s bundles — the mobile pure-play way
Exhibit 59: Triple-play bundles in Germany
Exhibit 60: Price of Arcor/Vodafone bundles vs. the sum of the services’ stand-alone prices, with percent savings
Exhibit 61: Vodafone’s market share continues to decline in Germany
Exhibit 62: Vodafone retained the top spot in terms of revenue
Exhibit 63: VTR’s triple-play packages
Exhibit 64: Pricing and savings from VTR’s triple-play bundles
Exhibit 65: Comparison of VTR and Telefónica Chile triple-play pricing
Exhibit 66: VTR’s number of customer relations and RGU per unique customer
Exhibit 67: VTR’s number of double- and triple-play subscribers


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