Social Networking Via Mobile..
.... is the fastest growing mobile app business. Fastcomm uses a hybrid of API’s and third parties to build a rich understanding of consumer behaviour.
Mobile Commerce
Fastcomm plays at the very limit of M-Commerce capabilities by redefining merchant and consumer relationships.
Location Based Services
Gartner expects the total user base of consumer location-based services to reach 1.4 billion users by 2014. This allows companies like Fastcomm to deliver rich features taking into account the user's location, personal preference, gender, age, profession, intention, thus offering a far more more-intelligent user experience than basic location services can.
The Internet of Things
Chips are embedded in nearly everything today allowing companies to meter and monitor processes. Fastcomm have invested in this trend, building groundbreaking software and hardware in the M2M segment.
Big Data
The cloud has lead to a proliferation of Big Data. Advanced data analytic solutions are needed to go beyond ‘slice and dice’ to make sense of this data.
Smartphones
Smartphones represent only 12 percent of total global handsets in use today, but they represent over 82 percent of total global handset traffic. In 2011, the typical smartphone generated 35 times more mobile data traffic (150 MB per month) than the typical basic-feature cell phone (which generated only 4.3 MB per month of mobile data traffic – Cisco
Mobile Traffic through 2016 - Cisco
● Over 100 million smartphone users will belong to the “gigabyte club” (over 1 GB per month) by 2012. ● The number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the world’s population in 2012. ● The average mobile connection speed will surpass 1 Mbps in 2014. . ● Tablets will exceed 10 percent of global mobile data traffic in 2016.
Mobile video
Two-thirds of the world’s mobile data traffic will be video by 2016. Mobile video will increase 25-fold between 2011 and 2016, accounting for over 70 percent of total mobile data traffic by the end of the forecast period - Cisco