Cellular M2M Market - Global Forecast to 2020

Increase in consumer’s enthusiasm in wireless connectivity and decreasing costs of connectivity solutions is fueling the growth of the cellular Machine to Machine (M2M) Value Added Services (VAS) market.
The cellular M2M Value Added Services market size is estimated to grow from USD 3.22 billion in 2015 to USD 11.50 billion in 2020, at a CAGR of 29.0%. The cellular M2M Value Added Services market is driven by factors, such as growing consumer’s enthusiasm in wireless connectivity solutions, increase in penetration of smartphones in small and large enterprises, need for effective mechanism to address vulnerabilities and risks, and increased need of regulations in the cellular M2M Value Added Services market.
The PointofSales (POS) applications in the cellular sector are witnessing a remarkable growth attributed to the increased need for M2M Value Added Services applications in the retail sector.
The POS applications are estimated to witness the highest growth rate duing the forecast period. Furthermore, due to increase in Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trends and greater investment in IT infrastructure by retail enterprises to provide a unified view of the inventory and streamline and secure financial transactions, POS applications are expected to gain traction and grow at the highest CAGR in the next five years.
In the process of determining and verifying the market size for several segments and sub-segments gathered through secondary research, extensive primary interviews were conducted with key people. Break-up of profile of primary participants is given below as:
‧ By Company Type: Tier 1 – 30 %, Tier 2 – 40% and Tier 3 – 30%
‧ By Designation: C level – 72%, Director level – 8%, Others – 20%
‧ By Region: North America – 47%, Europe – 29%, APAC – 14%, RoW – 10%
The cellular M2M market offers tremendous upcoming opportunites for growth in the next five years due to increase in the BYOD penetration in most of the industry verticals, and growth in online data sharing among digital devices.
The various key vendors and service providers profiled in the report are as follows:
1. AT&T Inc.
2. Verizon Communications
3. Vodafone Group plc
4. China Mobile Ltd
5. Amdocs, Inc.
6. Others
The report will help the market leaders/new entrants in this market in the following ways:
1. This report segments the cellular M2M market comprehensively and provides the closest approximations of the revenue numbers for the overall market and the subsegments across different verticals and regions.
2. The report helps stakeholders to understand the pulse of the market and provides them information on key market drivers, restraints, challenges, and opportunities.
3. This report will help stakeholders to better understand the competitors and gain more insights to better their position in the business. The competitive landscape section includes competitor ecosystem, new product develpoments, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION 14
1.1 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 14
1.2 MARKET DEFINITION 14
1.3 MARKET SCOPE 15
1.3.1 MARKETS COVERED 15
1.3.2 YEARS CONSIDERED FOR THE STUDY 16
1.4 LIMITATIONS 16
1.5 CURRENCY 16
1.6 STAKEHOLDERS 16
2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 17
2.1 INTRODUCTION 17
2.2 RESEARCH DATA 18
2.2.1 SECONDARY DATA 18
2.2.1.1 Key data from secondary sources 18
2.2.2 PRIMARY DATA 18
2.2.2.1 Key data from primary sources 19
2.2.2.2 Key industry insights 20
2.2.2.3 Breakdown of primary interviews: by company type, designation, and region 20
2.3 MARKET SIZE ESTIMATION 21
2.3.1 BOTTOM-UP APPROACH 21
2.3.2 TOP-DOWN APPROACH 22
2.4 MARKET BREAKDOWN AND DATA TRIANGULATION 23
2.5 RESEARCH ASSUMPTIONS 24
3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 25
4 PREMIUM INSIGHTS 30
4.1 ATTRACTIVE MARKET OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CELLULAR BASED M2M VAS MARKET 30
4.2 CELLULAR BASED M2M VAS MARKET 31
4.3 CELLULAR BASED M2M VAS MARKET, BY APPLICATION 31
4.4 LIFECYCLE ANALYSIS, BY REGION, 2015 32
5 MARKET OVERVIEW 33
5.1 INTRODUCTION 34
5.1.1 BY APPLICATION 34
5.1.2 BY SERVICE 34
5.1.3 BY USER TYPE 35
5.1.4 BY VERTICAL 35
5.1.5 BY REGION 36
5.2 MARKET DYNAMICS 37
5.2.1 DRIVERS 37
5.2.1.1 Consumers’ growing enthusiasm in wireless connectivity 37
5.2.1.2 Growing penetration of smartphones 38
5.2.1.3 Decreasing cost of connectivity applications 38
5.2.1.4 Increase in regulatory compliances 38
5.2.1.5 Increased traction for risk assessment and management 39
5.2.2 RESTRAINTS 40
5.2.2.1 Privacy concerns associated with private data of individuals 40
5.2.2.2 Lack of standardized system 40
5.2.3 OPPORTUNITIES 40
5.2.3.1 Growing impetus to Internet of Things (IoT) 40
5.2.3.2 Demand for unified M2M platform 41
5.2.4 CHALLENGES 41
5.2.4.1 Educating consumers about Cellular based M2M VAS applications 41
5.2.4.2 Security issues associated with cloud and mobile technologies 41
6 INDUSTRY TRENDS 43
6.1 INTRODUCTION 43
6.2 CELLULAR BASED M2M VAS MARKET: VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS 43
6.3 PORTER’S FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 44
6.3.1 THREAT OF NEW ENTRANTS 45
6.3.2 THREAT OF SUBSTITUTES 45
6.3.3 BARGAINING POWER OF SUPPLIERS 45
6.3.4 BARGAINING POWER OF BUYERS 46
6.3.5 INTENSITY OF COMPETITIVE RIVALRY 46
7 CELLULAR-BASED M2M VAS MARKET ANALYSIS, BY APPLICATION 47
7.1 INTRODUCTION 48
7.2 VIDEO SURVEILLANCE 49
7.3 FLEET MANAGEMENT 50
7.4 ASSET TRACKING 51
7.5 THEFT RECOVERY 52
7.6 POINT-OF-SALES (POS) 52
8 CELLULAR-BASED M2M VAS MARKET ANALYSIS, BY SERVICE 54
8.1 INTRODUCTION 55
8.2 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 56
8.3 MANAGED SERVICES 57
9 CELLULAR-BASED M2M VAS MARKET ANALYSIS, BY USER TYPE 59
9.1 INTRODUCTION 60
9.2 SMALL MEDIUM AND ENTERPRISES (SME) 61
9.3 LARGE ENTERPRISE 62
10 CELLULAR-BASED M2M VAS MARKET ANALYSIS, BY VERTICAL 64
10.1 INTRODUCTION 65
10.2 AUTOMOTIVE AND TRANSPORTATION 66
10.3 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS 67
10.4 ENERGY AND UTILITIES 68
10.5 HEALTHCARE 70
10.6 RETAIL 71
10.7 SECURITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY 72
10.8 OTHERS 74
11 GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS 76
11.1 INTRODUCTION 77
11.2 NORTH AMERICA 79
11.3 EUROPE 82
11.4 ASIA-PACIFIC 84
11.5 MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA 87
11.6 LATIN AMERICA 89
12 COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE 92
12.1 OVERVIEW 92
12.2 COMPETITIVE SITUATION AND TRENDS 93
12.2.1 NEW PRODUCT LAUNCHES 94
12.2.2 PARTNERSHIPS, AGREEMENTS, AND COLLABORATIONS 95
12.2.3 MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS 96
12.2.4 NEW CONTRACTS 97
13 COMPANY PROFILES 98
(Overview, Products & Services, Strategies & Insights, Developments and MnM View)*
13.1 INTRODUCTION 98
13.2 AT&T INC. 99
13.3 VERIZON COMMUNICATION INC. 102
13.4 CHINA MOBILE LIMITED 105
13.5 VODAFONE GROUP PLC. 108
13.6 AMDOCS INC. 111
13.7 AERIS COMMUNICATIONS 114
13.8 DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG 116
13.9 SPRINT CORPORATION 118
13.10 SIERRA WIRELESS 120
13.11 TELEFONICA S.A. 122
*Details on Overview, Products & Services, Strategies & Insights, Developments and MnM View might not be captured in case of unlisted companies.
14 APPENDIX 124
14.1 OTHER DEVELOPMENTS 124
14.1.1 NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS 124
14.1.2 PARTNERSHIPS, AGREEMENTS AND COLLABORATIONS 125
14.2 INDUSTRY EXCERPTS 127
14.3 DISCUSSION GUIDE 128
14.4 INTRODUCING RT: REAL-TIME MARKET INTELLIGENCE 132
14.5 AVAILABLE CUSTOMIZATIONS 133
14.6 RELATED REPORTS 134