White Papers
Pay-TV and the American Consumer
The behavior of the American consumer when it comes to TV viewing can be baffling, yet service providers and equipment vendors are betting billions of dollars that they can anticipate how rapidly viewers will embrace triple or quadruple play services and how stridently they will demand IPTV services. To help dispel some of that confusion, ABI Research conducted an online survey of 1002 consumers in December, 2007, aimed at discovering how Americans view their service providers, what technologies and programming they currently embrace, and their price sensitivity towards various service offerings.

What’s Not Going to Happen in 2008
In a new twist on the traditional December activity of surveying the year just past and speculating about what the new one will bring, ABI Research has released a white paper entitled "What’s Not Going to Happen in 2008."

Lots of things won't happen in 2008, of course. So ABI Research's analysts focused on several of the company's core areas of expertise, including consumer electronics, digital media, Wi-Fi, mobile handsets, wireless networks including WiMAX, telematics, automotive safety, and RFID. And by identifying over-hyped technologies that won't be next year's Big Thing, they of course shed light on what will happen as we head on through the decade.

Wireless Consumer & Business User Profiles
This White paper presents and interprets the results of a survey of 1,223 cellular customers in the United States that was conducted in March, 2007. Survey questions focused on understanding rparticipants' current patterns of wireless technology usage, their interests in purchasing additional services, and their views of new wireless technologies. Respondents were segmented by business variables such as occupation, vertical, and size of business. The paper concludes that mobile messaging is a growth area, that business customers spend more on wireless services than consumers, and that mobile customers are "moderately" interested in new mobile technologies.

Digital Content Unleashed
The Slow but Inevitable Race Toward a Friction-Free Media World.

This White paper presents and interprets the results of a survey of 1,223 cellular customers in the United States that was conducted in March, 2007. Survey questions focused on understanding rparticipants' current patterns of wireless technology usage, their interests in purchasing additional services, and their views of new wireless technologies. Respondents were segmented by business variables such as occupation, vertical, and size of business. The paper concludes that mobile messaging is a growth area, that business customers spend more on wireless services than consumers, and that mobile customers are "moderately" interested in new mobile technologies.

The RFID Opportunity Hunt:Searching for the Killer Applications
This White Paper, derived from a presentation made by Research Director Michael J. Liard in March, 2007, discusses the search for "killer apps" in RFID. It frames the discussion in terms of RFID's virtually limitless application opportunities and evolving strategies, taking into account the key roles played by ROI and TCO. It identifies a number of front runners for the title, as well as some "others that may surprise."

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Pay-TV and the American Consumer

What’s Not Going to Happen in 2008

Wireless Consumer & Business User Profiles

Digital Content Unleashed

The RFID Opportunity Hunt:Searching for the Killer Applications

The RFID Deployment Dance: RFID Infrastructure, Software, and Service Take Center Stage

What ISN’T Going to Happen in 2007

Contactless Commerce and NFC

What ISN'T Going to Happen in 2006

An Overview of the Vodafone Group

Voice over Wi-Fi

Conditional Access, Digital Assets, Rights, and Territorial Rights Management

A Primer on Real-Time Traffic Systems

RFID and the Importance of Integration and Software

ABI Research Electronic Container Tracking White Paper