Business Intelligence about future mobile domination

an outline of how mobile devices are waging the battle for the living room:

• Substitution: In a recent in-depth research, BI found that mobile video is mostly complementary to traditional TV viewing. Mobile video is additive, creating more opportunities for watching video — whether it's watching a sitcom on your smartphone during a train commute, or viewing a Netflix movie at home in bed.
• Source: The ability to relay high-quality video (including online video and games) wirelessly places mobile in competition with a whole galaxy of devices. Wireless TV connections are becoming increasingly common, and with them, the ability to bring smartphones and tablets more easily into the mix.
• Selection: When hand-held mini-tablets and smartphones are able to send signals to audiovisual equipment and home theaters, consumers gain more flexibility with a remote control based on a smartphone or tablet. Many apps, with attractive displays and intuitive touch-screen interfaces, are being developed for TV. As Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes recently said, competition in the TV interface space is heating up, and we're going to see "as many interfaces as you can get."
• Synchronization: In the US, 85% of U.S. tablet owners use their tablet while watching TV. In order to leverage the second screen as a companion to what's happening on the TV, media companies must successfully migrate consumers from self-initiated use of the second screen to a programmed experience.

 Emerging market carriers hold the keys to two important aspects of the mobile business — network effects and billing. Billing is a challenge in emerging markets. Credit card penetration is low. Only carriers have the reach, systems, and technologies to draw payments from prepaid and postpaid mobile consumers.

Follow the rollout of low-cost smartphones and tablets: Since many devices in these markets are purchased for prepaid plans without the help of carrier subsidies, price cuts instantly make tablets and smartphones more accessible to consumers

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bii-report-the-massive-mobile-explosion-in-bric-countries-explained-2012-12#ixzz2H2axbbjG