Six potential new growth areas for mobile operators.

With the surge of mobile apps, costs related to network deployments and a growing initiatives to bypass or isolate mobile operators when it comes to mobile internet, it is obvious that, the struggles of mobile operators will become more intense, and various and average revenue per user (ARPU) will be in continual decline. Mobile operators can no longer rely solely on the growth of data revenue.

This means inter alia that, more value-added services are the effective way to achieve sustainable growth.

Connectikpeople.co has identified six potential new growth areas for mobile operators including: digital content, VOD, M2M, mobile money, big data monetization, advertising, and enterprise cloud solutions. 

According to ABI Research there are a range of value-added services in M2M including device and connectivity management, application development, device cloud services, data management, analytics, device design / development, and professional / consulting services. 

Its recent report provides market size and growth forecasts for the other five sectors and insights on successful mobile operators and OTT service providers.