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The Future of Prepaid Wireless
Ovum, Jan 2011, Pages: 22
Introduction
Wireless operators around the globe are taking a keen interest in expanding prepaid services to accommodate a growing number of customer demands. Ovum interviewed 19 operators in three regions to understand their evolving strategies towards prepaid wireless services.
Features and benefits
- Understand how operators strategy towards prepaid is evolving
- Learn how and to what effect operators are using more sophisticated customer segmentation to optimize a broader range of prepaid services and devices
- Gain insight into operators' timing and plans for upgrading OSS/BSS systems to more rapidly respond to new prepaid charging needs
Highlights
- 14 of 19 operators interviewed are looking to expand postpaid services to prepaid customers, or have begun doing so. Another eight of 17 operators said moving prepaid customers to postpaid behavior was driving the need for hybrid service models
- Eight of 17 of the operators we interviewed are currently offering high-demand consumer devices to their prepaid customers
- A third of operators said time to market was one of the biggest technical challenges they face in implementing prepaid service strategies within their OSS/BSS system. Eight out of fourteen operators said they are already in the process of implementing OSS/BSS changes to accommodate new prepaid service capabilities and features.
Your key questions answered
- How are the characteristics of prepaid mobile services changing and what are the differences among regions and individual operators?
- How are hybrid services being used by operators to fulfull new prepaid service objectives and needs?
- What types of segmentation and loyalty strategies are being employed by operators to serve their prepaid customer base?
- What types of OSS/BSS challenges do mobile operators face in executing new prepaid strategies and objectives?
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