Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Smartphones
How to exploit How to exploit mobile data while mobile data while ensuring ensuring profitability? profitability?
What are the What are the optimal go-tooptimal go-tomarket strategies market strategies for dongles vs. for dongles vs. smartphones? smartphones?
Which emerging Which emerging consumer trends consumer trends in pricing and in pricing and packaging? packaging?
Provide transparency about mobile data costs and potential levers to reduce them as a key enabler to profitability Review innovative packaging schemes (pricing, branding, bundling, differentiation) Discuss potential customer management and migration approaches to generate value
Dongles
Profit will mostly be earned in mobile data domain Wireless industry EBITDA1 USD billions
267
273
278
283
59
6% 56 61 65
71
29
2004 05 06 07 08 09E 10E 11E 2012E 27 Voice revenues stagnating, only growth in data Industry revenue by category USD billions
144 16 155 22 159
27
31
37
44
52
27 09E
24 10E
21 11E
18 2012E
2008
165
33
171
38
179
44
103 3 101
115 6 109
129 10 119
+35%
128
133
132
132
133
135
Summary Future profitability of a carrier will largely depend on its ability to gain and defend mobile broadband market share EBITDA projection does not reflect ~ USD 80 billion investment for network upgrades and LTE deployment
2004
05
06
07
08
09E
10E
11E
2012E
1 Does not include M2M, m-commerce, mobile advertising SOURCE: Yankee Group; Goldman Sachs; McKinsey 2
2 3 4 5
What is the best positioning strategy (substitution vs. complementarity)? What pricing schemes are being successful? Should I bundle Mobile and Fix Broadband? How? What are the best practices in migrating customers to more profitable pricing plans?
6 How to use Smartphone data pricing to sustain ARPU? 7 How to bundle VAS/Apps? 8 What is the potential of CLM?
ESTIMATES
CAGR
3.5
2.5
-27% p.a.
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
1 In fact, network costs are the most important profitability driver of mobile data offers, in particular for high usage offers
Post paid high usage offers monthly costs Monthly cost per client, basis points
100
70 30
Total costs
Network costs
Other costs
Cost per MB
100%
100%
Western EU operator
CLIENT EXAMPLE
3G network rollout plan optimizing CAPEX Outputs 1 Business case by region for each of the mobile BB technology options
Region 3 Region 2 Region 1
e.g., 3G/2.5 G coverage
Data Years Revenues OPEX SAC CAPEX NPV Total NPV Post-paid contracts only Pre-paid + Post-paid contracts 2.009 2.010 2.011 2.009 2.010 2.011 22.233.493.461 66.700.480.382 88.933.973.843 27.841.277.500 83.523.832.501 111.365.110.002 7.489.010.509 22.467.031.528 29.956.042.037 7.977.377.682 23.932.133.047 31.909.510.730 2.445.018.788 6.376.747.422 7.224.584.640 2.294.111.859 5.983.173.608 6.778.682.184 112.632.973.200 112.632.973.200 46.649.418.262 123.755.380.715 123.755.380.715
123 17
Full 3G coverage
3G/2.5G coverage
Emerging weak fixed In South Africa, Vodacom and mobile players winning over fixed with MBB In Ukraine, operators launching aggressive USB offer for substitution, even on CDMA In Tanzania, MBB as main internet access technology
Market maturity
+
Mature
Developing In Russia, fixed BB high-speed only in some high-end areas: mobile in others/rural In Brazil, aggressive MBB marketing by mobile only players leveraging 2.5 assets In Czech Rep., mobile BB growing but often complementary to fixed In Turkey, incumbent catching up in highspeed DSL diffusion, substitution becoming more selective
In all West Europe countries, offer sophistication for complementary usage: Bundles Pre-paid and low usage offers F/M integration for offloading capacity
3 Our pricing benchmark reveals increasing innovation in mobile data pricing schemes
Scheme 1 2 3 4
M I -2 4.1 /1 3 .12- 0 0 22 0 10 -67 7 94 B L 8 /A
Dongles
Smartphones
Examples
Flat rate (volume) Unlimited flat (volume/time) Fixed/WiFi bundle Voice bundle Usage-based QoS based Pay-as-you-go Prepaid voucher Off-peak HW subsidy Roaming plan Daily/weekly rate Service specific (e.g. Facebook)
Vodafone Broadband 5 GB (UK) H3G 3 Data Flat (Austria) TMN (Portugal) Vodafone (Spain) MTS Super Onliner (Russia) Orange (Spain)
T mobile (Austria) O2 (Germany) Mobistar (Belgium) T-mobile (UK) Vodafone Internet Night (Italy)
Most sophi sticated co untri es Most frequent p ricing schemes Emergin g pricing schemes
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Pricing schemes 1 F lat rates volume 2 Unlimited 3 F ixed/WiFi Bundle 4 Voice Bundle 5 Usage-based 6 QoS based 7 Pay as you go 8 Prepaid voucher 9 Off-peak 10 HW subsidy 11 Roaming 12 Daily/weekly rate 13 Service specific 14 F lat rates time 15 Group plans 16 Sessions 17 T op-up bonus 18 Speed based
Austria
Belgium France
Italy
Poland
Portugal Russia
Spain
Sweden UK
Orange (UK) Vodafone (across Europe) A1 Mobilkom (Austria) T-Mobile (UK) Orange (France) Wind (Italy) Vodafone (Greece) Orange (UK) Vodafone WebSessions National (Germany) O2 Pay and Go (UK) Telenor (Sweden) NTT docomo (Japan)
SOURCE: Tariff Consul tancy, Apr 2 010; companies websites; team analysi s
13
14 Flat rate (time) 15 Group plans 16 Session based 17 Top-up bonus 18 Speed based 19 Flat rate/ usage based hybrid
3 In UK, introduction of low priced prepaid offers increased net additions significantly
In H1 2008, UK operators reduced prepaid MBB price British pounds and number of prepaid gross adds more than tripled in 3 months Number of gross adds, 2008
x%
Prepaid Postpaid Share of prepaid in total gross adds
32,000 101,000
685,000
Before revision
After revision
Apr
May
Jun
Recently launched prepaid offers from other operators across the world
10
3 More sophisticated data pricing plans combine the advantages of usage-based and flatrate offers
"Pake-hodai double" combines usage based and flatrate pricing
EXAMPLE JAPAN
Flatrate at low data usage at 3 EUR/month Usage based pricing above a certain threshold Flatrate at high data usage depending on access mode: 34 EUR/month for provider's portal i-mode and i-mode mail 47 EUR/month for i-mode Full Browser 106 EUR/month for access via PC
Gives subscriber sense of cost control linked to flatrates Market insights indicate that pay-as-you-go rate less visible than the two flat rates Scheme stimulating elasticity by inciting subscribers to reach the unlimited threshold
11
3 Italy has experienced high consumer acceptance of data pricing per hour
Mobile broadband offer Usage need Allowance Mega unlimited Mega 100 ore Mega 50 ore Wind easy internet Price EUR per month 20
ITALY
Unlimited (10 GB FUP)2 100 hours1 of usage 50 hours1 of usage Pay per use (per hour)
15
People dont understand the amount of data they need per week or month; they feel reassured when you talk about hours We introduced two hourbased packages and an unlimited with FUP2 for the heavy users This was real product innovation in the market; all other players rapidly followed Wind Italy, Head of mobile BB
12
1 Counted at billing periods of 15 minutes 2 Speed slow-down after threshold SOURCE: Web sites; interviews, April 2010
3 Vodafone Spain offers unlimited mobile internet packages, which only slows down your connection in case of network congestion
SPAIN
Unlimited Internet Contigo Speed is reduced only in case of network congestion Price: 39 / month Traffic: Unlimited Speed: Maximum speed up to 21.6 Mbps, the first 4 GB Voice: None
Unlimited Internet Contigo+ Voice Price: 49 / mont Traffic: Unlimited Speed: Maximum speed up to 21.6 Mbps, the first 4 GB Voice: Flat Rate to landlines (1000min/month)
Contigo Internet Gold Price: 49 / month Traffic: Unlimited, including VoIP traffic Speed: Maximum speed up to 21.6 Mbps, the first 10 GB Voice: None
Vodafone also has a 1GB package at 32 / month with speed reduction down to 128kbps after 1 GB usage
13
3 Maxis in Malaysia follows a more targeted communication strategy for the heavy users of mobile broadband
Maxis USB modems covered with cool sleeves targeting the youth in the country
Maxis organizes music fests and distributes small gifts (e.g., goodie bags) to its young customers
SOURCE: Web search; McKinsey analysis 14
500 MB internet package at 9,99TL (5,99 TL for the first six months) with a 24-month contract Free 10 hours Wi-Fi/ month Additional 500 MB data upto 2GB is at 7 TL/month Excess usage fee after 2GB is 0,05 TL/MB ADSL ownership required Mobile operators charge ~30 TL for 1 GB and 10 TL for 100 MB (mostly advertised for handsets)
15
Scenario A: Bundle ADSL + MBB with a discount in the upfront fee Scenario B: Bundle ADSL + MBB with hard discount
In addition to the offer in the base case, the incumbent bundles MBB to ADSL customers with a discount in the upfront fee
Lower cannibalization of ADSL ADSL market share increases Increase in MBB share
In addition to the base case, the incumbent bundles MBB to ADSL customers with a 20% discount in the bundle
Much lower cannibalization of ADSL Increase in ADSL share Significant increase in the number of MBB customers, although at a smaller ARPU Higher ADSL cannibalization Larger MBB market but at a significant lower ARPU
All operators reduce MBB prices to the implied level in scenario B No cross selling of ADSL+MBB
16
Everywhere
Fixed access
23
35
40
61
48
57
86
Price evolution indexed to standalone fixed access (premium product of fixed access)
17
WHAT ARE THE BEST PRACTICES IN MIGRATING CUSTOMERS TO MORE PROFITABLE PRICING PLANS?
5 Making switch to UBP is difficult, but global examples from wireless and wireline suggest customers accept change if done right
Guiding principles Description Wireless Austria Condition customers Wireline
Start by introducing FUP/AUP Use soft caps not hard caps, i.e., penalize by reducing speed Communicate to customers early and clearly Highlight benefits of UBP Offer open and transparent bandwidth usage reports
Educate customers
Introduce pricing changes with other events such as new speed offering or new device launch
18
6 Smartphone diffusion further stressing the network and putting an end to unlimited data pricing: the AT&T example
2% of smartphone customers use 40% of the overall data bandwidth Percent 2 Monthly usage Over 2GB/month and 40% of network capacity Between 200MB and 2GB Data Pro Data Plus leading AT&T to introduce new tiered pricing Price USD 15 (+15)
Example of usage
33
25 (+10)
2 GB (+1 GB)
1,000 e-mails 150 e-mails with attachment 400 web pages 50 pictures 20 minutes of streaming video 10,000 e-mails 1,500 e-mails with attachment 4,000 web pages 500 pictures 200 minutes of streaming video Managing usage Customer text notification on data usage Data usage monitoring application on iphone and other devices Data calculator on AT&T website
19
6 Leveraging mobile data may offer MNOs opportunity to introduce flat rate bundles to increase/preserve current ARPU levels
Tiered bundle offers New MoU Bundle 4 (given mins) Bundle 3 New ARPU Bundle 3 Increase in ARPU possible due to increase in voice minutes and addition of mobile data Current ARPU Example offers
ILLUSTRATIVE
ARPU MoU Potential revenue gain
Post-paid
2,000 minutes (all networks) + 2GB mobile data @ 29 1,000 minutes (all networks) + 1GB mobile data @ 23 10 top-up: 250 minutes (all networks) + 500 MB mobile data 20 top-up: 500 minutes (all networks) + 1 GB mobile data
Pre-paid
Bundle 1
Customer distribution
MNOs may preserve current price levels (or adjust for inflation) through adding more mobile data capacity (quota)
Note: Assuming customers will have adequate handsets and will value using mobile data SOURCE: McKinsey analysis 20
6 Looking forward, pricing experience in fixed could suggest a possible way forward for smartphone pricing strategy
In fixed, incumbents successfully applied smart pricing techniques to react to value erosion Launching flat voice offers
Give discount today to protect ARPU tomorrow and stop erosion Defend from F/M substitution Use data as lever to protect voice Obfuscate voice and data through a unique flat bundle (where possible)
Avoid visible give-away of data access value for smartphone users Where voice bundles are already a market standard, bundle with data packages If possible, avoid transparency of the voice vs. data components to protect value of data from comparability vs. aggressive players
Depending on regulation
21
7 Orange France offers service specific bundles: TV, football, music, and mobile cinema
FRANCE
Voice advantage in the evening and on week-ends, unlimited SMS Unlimited mobile browsing, however email usage not included, fair-use cap1 at 500 MB Free content to be chosen from either mobile TV, football, music or mobile cinema Discount for web subscription to reduce acquisition costs linked to other channels
1 The operator has the right to limit the access when monthly usage exceeds the cap Source: Company Web site, August 2010
Flat fee including unlimited national and international calls and SMS Unlimited mobile internet, e-mail and access to WiFi hotspots, fair-use cap1 at 1 GB Unlimited mobile TV Free content to be chosen from either navigation, football, music or mobile cinema Highest service level with yearly new handset and device insurance
22
8 Small number of customers, driving significant share of traffic, already destroying value for MNOs DISGUISED CLIENT EXAMPLE
5% of data users generating 80% traffic Distribution of data users1 and traffic Mobile B2C data users and traffic Sep 2009 1,280 67 9 (100%) 5% 18%
74
can destroy ~25% of total value Life time value of data plan subs EUR millions
100
(100%)
-26%
23%
82%
0.6
1 Wireless subscribers with more than 100kB monthly mobile data traffic 23
Flat contact policy without differentiation among cluster of users Limited number of campaigns (~20 per month) with poor possibility to test-and-learn on small targets and new products No monitoring of campaigns results and manual management of reporting 2-month lead-time from design of campaign to results monitoring Only SMS-push campaigns
Contact policy differentiated for users (animation) and non-users (recruiting) 50-100 campaigns per month, with possibility to select micro-targets and a broad range of products to optimize ROI Structured monitoring on campaigns redemptions with automatic monitoring tools to build ROI ranking of campaigns Flexible and just-in-time process (2-3 weeks ?) Exploit all channels (Teleselling, IVR outbound, Inbound, etc.)
24
Increased redemption of factor 10x to 100x through Better targeting Channels improvement through direct call to action Fit between offer and channel
EXAMPLES
Sample analysis
2 Adoption of true digital content services still trailing messaging
% of respondents, post -paid users only, (N = 980) Mobile data service SMS Take pictures Listen to music MMS Buy ringtones, games MSN Watch video Watch TV Search / browse internet Send emails Social Networking Maps Shopping Aware Considered Tried Use 76% 77% 75% 47% 51% 46% 53% 64% 38% 41% 47% 52% 48% XX%
PRE-PAID Conversion rate
Perform promotions on high yield devices Drive yield through efficient devices and high APRU data plans through subsidies, promotions and sales rep tactics Cross-sell/up-sell Highlight data VAS, tailored to specific device Migrate customers from lower to higher yield devices/data plans Show customers actual usage to avoid downgrading to lower data plan Highlight benefits of data VAS Perform microsegmentation based on usage patterns and demographic/behavioral analysis Increase penetration through a variety of targeted levers, e.g., improved cross-sell and upsell, pricing and yield management Address opportunities to maximize Internet penetration for 2nd SIM cards Define clear business model and role in the ecosystem Analyze quality & breadth of apps portfolio (e.g., number of apps by category, exclusive games, integration with social networks) Identify opportunities to enhance current portfolio through partnerships and better monetization models Create microsegmented offers to rapidly drive penetration in geographic areas underserved by fixed broadband, incl. targeted pricing and channel strategies Identify specific opportunities for fixed-mobile convergence and create partnerships to address them Identify opportunities to reduce network congestion based on analysis of traffic (incl. geographic distribution) Apply best practices to reduce network congestion (e.g., off-peak downloads, caching of content, innovative pricing models)
97 97 97 95 95 92 89 87 93 93 88 79 82
83 72 69 59 54 49 42 36 48 44 36 31 29
77 62 57 42 39 29 24 19 27 22 18 14 13
59 48 43 20 20 13 13 12 10
9 8 7 6
For pre-paid users usage is lower than for post-paid users, however conversion rates are quite similar Despite high awareness, trial rates continue to be very low across the board. e.g. only 1 prepaid user in 10 has tried to use the mobile internet
Work ing Draft - Last Modified 24/ 03/ 2010 12: 17: 09 PM P rinted 11/02/ 2010 13:00: 29
Q72 - For each of the following mobile serv ic es, please choose one of the following statements: (1) I have not heard of this serv ice, (2) I am aware of this serv ice but have nev er considered using it, (3) I have considere d using this service on my phone but have not yet tried it, (4) I have tried this service on my phone but rarely use it, or (5) I use this service regularly (e.g. few times a month) on my phone SOURCE: LatAm mobile panel 2010 McKinsey & Company | 6
2-3x expansion of intense users YoY Growth of intense users to 40-50% of user base Double Internet penetration on 2nd SIM 10-20% of all data revenue from apps
Handsets
The consumer market can be segmented based on the appetite for different content/services
Segment Web socials Share of co nsumers* % Attitude toward content/services 28
More techies and fashion Younger than average Traditional usage of devices (TV,
fixed phone, etc.) Low penetration of entertainment content (e.g., pay-TV) driven
Work ing Draf t -Last Modified 08/ 05/2010 07: 36:11
Conservative professionals
20
Utilizing mostly e-mails/calend ars Adverse to web social networking Keen about Web social networking Appetite for music, video, games Low utilization of fixed/home services High usage of Web search, news,
e-commerce Low interest for entertainment mail, calendar)
13
12
11
Slightly older than average Somehow biased toward fixed Mostly female Mostly male
Housewives
11
Rejection of professional services (e Neutral about other content/services Appetite for gambling and Very low interest for Web social
networking and professional services ringtones/logos
Frivolous
* France, Germany, U.K., Spain Sources: Segmentation deriv ed from Telecom Customer Insight Survey, 2008
45
Aggregation
Partnership with xx for vast majority of content and The company gets x% of revenue share from the partner Billing is done through a company billing system
Portal content applications
TBD
Startpage:
Download section:
Applications Wallpapers Music Ringtones
Would you recommend the portal? % of mobile portal users1 - May 2009 Very likely Very unlikely Neutral
1 Based on surveys among x-y subscribers using internet on their mobile SOURCE: Company website, interviews, Up-To-Data panelJune 2009 McKinsey & Company | 21
SPO- TF N386-20090206
? ? ?
Promote higher ARPU products (e.g., roaming) Cross- sel l v oice and WLAN t o maxi mi se ov erall li fecycle val ue Target f or VAS
W ork ing Dr aft - La st Mo d ified 06 /02 /20 0 9 0 9:0 2:0 0
Contr ol & upsell Upsel l to retai n D rive for profitability Seek out & pr omote
P in te d 7 /2 /2 0 09 01 : 46 :3 3 r
Pus h dif ferentiated pricing (e.g., cheap off- peak , best effort speeds, li mited hours per day) Enc ourage hi gher use on profitable products
? ?
Seek out more users (e.g., seni or managers, second card while roami ng) Cros s-sel l v oic e and W LAN to maximi se overall lifecycl e value
Short-term
Data traffic can also be peakier than voice, with peak hour happening later at night
0 24:00
56
25
Contacts
Gloria Macias-Lizaso Miranda
Partner in the Madrid office Telephone: +34 (91) 346 58 35 E-mail: Gloria_Macias@mckinsey.com
Yavuz Demirci
Associate Partner in the Istanbul office Telephone: +90 (212) 339 4925 E-mail: Yavuz_Demirci@mckinsey.com
Piero Trivellato
Associate Partner in the Milan office Telephone: +39 (02) 72406-469 E-mail: Piero_Trivellato@mckinsey.com
26
Have a question for the presenters? Type it by pressing the Submit question button We will answer as many as time permits
27