By Henky Agusleo, Vertical Manager, and Neeraj Arora, Director, IBSG Service Provider – 
Singapore
A rapidly expanding, tech-savvy middle class is driving an explosion of connected mobile devices, with close to a billion smartphones and tablets in the world today. These users are looking for new cloud-based “Connected Life” experiences from their mobile devices, creating tremendous opportunities for service providers (SPs). The key is in mobile cloud. The Cisco® Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) projects a direct worldwide mobile-cloud service opportunity of more than $60 billion by 2016, with an additional cloud pull-through market of $335 billion.
But so far, service providers have not taken the lead in offering cloud-based Connected Life services. That claim belongs to over-the-top (OTT) application developers, content providers, and device manufacturers, such as Google and Apple, who have moved quickly to take the high ground in this market.
OTTs Have First-Mover Advantage
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Tags: app stores, Big Data, Cisco, cloud ecosystem, Connected Life, Content delivery networks, data center, First-mover, IBSG, innovation, market capitalization, mobile cloud, mobile cloud opportunity, over-the-top (OTT), pricing, Service Provider, Smartphones, Tablets, thin-client devices, virtualization, wi-fi
