The Industry's Leading Analytical Service
Launched in 1995, World Cellular Information Service (WCIS) is the cellular
world's benchmark source of accurate, robust data and forecasts.
The service combines live, intelligently sourced data from leading mobile
industry players with an unrivaled analyst support service. WCIS tracks global
mobile subscriptions, KPIs, financial and operational indicators via an
advanced online interface.
WCIS is core to the strategic work flow of many leading players in the mobile
space. These organizations use the service to size and segment their markets;
tracking investment opportunities, market behaviour, service take-up and
competitive threats.
Use WCIS to track:
- Historical and forecast subscriptions
- Historical data and 5-year forecasts of subscriptions, market share and
penetration are by geography, operator and technology
- Key performance indicators
- Metrics available by operator and subscription type: ARPU, churn,
minutes of use, operator traffic, operator revenues, EBITDA, EBITDA margin,
capex, capex per net addition, capex per subscription, opex, SAC,
disconnections, gross additions.
- Networks and suppliers
- Data on all global in-service, discontinued and pending network
deployments including: Component suppliers, technology, features, launch
date, suppliers and operational status
- Handsets and devices
- A complete database of device specifications, features and market
status, including: Manufacturer, market status, technology, features,
dimensions, form factor, operating system and browser. Five-year terminal
sales and market share by region, geography and technology
- Operator ownership
- Ownership details including direct and indirect investments, ownership
and investment status.
- Country and operator profiles
- Top level summary charts and tables for every global operator including:
Forecast subscriptions, prepaid/postpaid split, ownership, licenses, network
deployments and KPIs, summary KPIs by country
- More than metrics
- In addition to core metrics, WCIS also includes access to comprehensive
decision-support analysis . Insight Reports are designed to provide a
market-oriented snapshot of specific topic and its likely development. The
service also includes an archive of our analysts conference presentations
and quarterly PowerPoint regional trend presentations.
Analyst Support when you need it
WCIS includes an unlimited Analyst Support component to maximize the decision
making value of the service. Use the support service to clarify a source of
data, query our methodology or to simply get advice on how to best manipulate
and extract data.
Why Choose WCIS?
Authoritative
WCIS provides one-click access to the most comprehensive mobile tracking tool
available. Because the service is a fully relational database at its core, you
can perform advanced comparative queries, build a custom research view or
drill down to a specific segment.
Robust
We believe that forecasts should be prepared as part of a collaborative,
integrated process involving both quantitative and qualitative analysis. Our
dedicated forecasting team collaborates closely with our analysts in designing
the data models and market mind-maps which support our forecasts.
Connected
Our metrics and forecasts are robust because our analysts are experienced and
well connected. We continue to resist the trend to outsource data collection -
the quality of our service provider relationships is just too important. Our
in-market analysts are based in nine research offices enabling us to
understand local market dynamics
Additional Metrics
A subscription to WCIS also includes access to the following Excel data sets:
- Subscription forecast interactive tool
- Interactive charts and tables of forecasts for mobile subscriptions,
unique mobile users, prepaid and postpaid subscription forecasts and handset
sales volumes
- Mobile revenue forecast
- Interactive charts and tables of forecasts for revenues and ARPU,
showing splits of total, voice and data
- 3G subscriptions
- Interactive charts and tables of CDMA 2000 1xEV-DO and WCDMA
subscription data
- HSPA subscriptions
- Interactive charts and tables of HSPA subscriptions
- Mobile broadband pricing
- Contract and Pay-as-you-go broadband tariffs and charges including per MN
- iPhone database
- iPhone operator KPI comparisons, iPhone and iPad sales volumes, device
pricing and availability and key milestones
- Connectivity Monitor: Smartphone and portable broadband
- Infrastructure vendor contracts
- Network equipment contract information
- WiMAX data
- Details of WiMAX licences, equipment contracts, deployments and
subscriptions
- Base station and population coverage
- Number of basestations deployed and coverage of market population
- Global networks and suppliers export
- Full export of mobile switching centre and basestation equipment
supplier information
- Spectrum holdings and licence auctions
- Frequencies licenced to network operators and licence auction details
- Mobile data deployments
- Details of deployments of GPRS, EDGE, EV-DO and HSPA equipment
- Mobile number portability
- Availability of mobile number portability and fixed to mobile number
portability by market
- Device forecasts summary charts
- Interactive charts and tables of device forecasts
- Ownership and investors
- Ownership and investors information in Excel format
Additional Data Packages
WCIS is available with the following supplementary data packages:
- World Cellular Data Metrics.
- Tracking mobile data usage and take-up including data subscribers,
deployments, revenues, mobile broadband usage and SMS/MMS traffic
- World Cellular Handset Tracker.
- A monitoring service for global handset availability including
technology, form factor, prices and full specifications
- World Telecoms Financial Benchmarks.
- A new service tracking detailed financial and operational KPIs for 40 of
the largest global operators - covering mobile, fixed and mobile & fixed
businesses.
- World Cellular Investors.
- Details proportionate subscription data for the world's largest 40
mobile operating groups.