Mobile is taking hold as users’ prime source of connection and, as a result, the main platform for innovation in services and applications. This year, IDATE has chosen to inventory the biggest challenges that the telecoms, IT, internet and media sectors are facing, taking the inexorable rise of mobile as our common thread.

1. Plenary Sessions - Global Introduction
Mobility reloaded
You ain’t seen nothing yet!
François BARRAULT, Chairman, IDATE
Yves GASSOT, Deputy CEO, IDATE
19 November 2014

2. Why Mobility is so important?
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The Game changers / Digital gold mines
Mobility
Big Data Cloud
DigiWorld Chronicle
Dec. 2013 Sprint Nextel launches a 20 billion USD takeover bid for T-Mobile US
Jan. 2014 South Korean government kicks off a more than 1 billion EUR plan for
rolling out a 5G mobile system by 2020
Feb. 2014 Facebook announces the takeover of WhatsApp, the IM app for
smartphones for 19 billion USD
June 2014 Vivendi, Altice and Numericable sign the final merger agreement for SFR
and Numericable
July 2014 The European Commission greenlights Telefónica Deutschland’s (O2)
takeover of KPN subsidiary E-Plus
Aug. 2014 Iliad (Free) offers 15 billion USD for 56.6% of T-Mobile US
Sept. 2014 Release of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+
Oct. 2014 China’s Lenovo buys Google’s Motorola de smartphone division for 2.91
billion USD

3. Mobility changes access
LTE delivers x10Mbps whereas FTTH enables x100Mbps, but …
> FTTH and LTE subscribers worldwide
Million
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0
2013 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18
million
FTTH LTE
Source: IDATE in World FTTx market and World LTE market (database), 2014
> High speed mobile and LTE …
1. Traffic from wireless and mobile devices
will exceed traffic from wireline devices by 2018
2. Main Internet driver in emerging markets
3. Biggest client of fibre networks in “mature”
markets
4. Many big issues remain for telcos: capex,
spectrum, consolidation, quadruple play,
tiered pricing…

4. Mobility changes usage
Prevalence of wireless-mobile usage
> Fixed and mobile Internet users worldwide > Mobile traffic outlook
Million
1. Globally, mobile data traffic will increase
11x between 2013 and 2018
2. Global mobile data traffic will grow three
times faster than fixed IP traffic from 2013 to
2018
3. 50% of all mobile traffic will be video by 2020
Source: Cisco
4,000
3,500
3,000
2,500
2,000
2013 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18
million
Fixed Internet Mobile Internet
Source: IDATE in World Internet Services market (Database), 2014

5. Towards a new Mobility
Everything becomes mobile
a new world of innovation
Connected
cars
Wearables
Smart
Home
Connected devices
Retail Smartphones, Tablets…
Animals
Health
Smart Fitness
toys
Smart
Grid

6. Where does Europe fit in?
-
Asian domination
> Mobile devices
European working to capitalise on its strengths
European challenges
> Telecoms
> IoT (including Robotic)
> Verticals (including Contents)
US domination -
> Mobile devices,
OS,
> Applications

7. IDATE and the DigiWorld Institute

8. Annual program for the DigiWorld Institute
DigiWorld
Clubs
DigiWorld
Events
DigiWorld
Publishing
DigiWorld
Collaborative
Research (4)
Club
in Paris
(monthly)
Club
in London
(monthly)
Club
in Brussels
(monthly)
Conferences
in Paris
Transatlantic Dialogue
in New York
DigiWorld
Summit 2014
Catalogue of
Research
Programmes
DigiWorld Economic
Journal
(Communications & Strategies)
Internet of things
(Paris)
Smart Cities
(Paris)
Telecom US
(Brussels)
TV & Video
Networks
(Paris)
DigiWorld
Yearbook

9. The 1st edition of the
DigiWorld Yearbook
dedicated to Africa and
Middle East
DigiWorld Yearbook series
The 14th edition of the
DigiWorld Yearbook
presented in London,
Brussels and Paris
Africa & Middle East

10. DigiWorld Institute Members

11. #DWS14