SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 12, 2006 - Depending largely on the cellular operators’ actions, the US Location-Based Services (LBS) business market is forecast to grow to from 582,000 to 1.1 million subscribed devices by the end of 2010, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com).

Location-enabled enterprise applications constitute a small but important segment of the market for mobile IT applications, the high-tech market research firm says. Applications for this technology include fleet management/dispatch, workforce and sales force management, as well as a variety of public sector location applications.

“The forecast for enterprise location-enabled applications using handsets depends on how carriers and applications vendors sort out how they will market these applications and how to structure the billing relationship,” says Allyn Hall, a Director with In-Stat. “In addition, the availability of handsets that are compatible with location based services is a key factor that depends on marketing and expenditure decisions by carriers.”

Recent research by In-Stat found the following:

The largest market is legacy black box applications, which use vehicle-mounted devices.

The use of cellular handsets equipped with Assisted-Global Position System (A-GPS) chipsets is an emerging market.

Until mid-2005, only Nextel provided handsets that provide an application execution environment (Java) and GPS data to the applications.
Recent In-Stat research, Location-Enabled Services in the Enterprise (#IN0602898MBM), covers the US location-enabled enterprise wireless application markets. It includes a focus on the migration of location-enabled enterprise applications to mobile handsets. The research also contains optimistic and pessimistic subscriber forecasts through 2010. It examines the strategies of carriers offering these services, analyzes the marketplace, and assesses the development of the technology. For coverage of the LBS market in the Asia Pacific region please see: Location-Based Services in Asia/Pacific: http://www.instat.com/catalog/Wcatalogue.asp?id=236.

Location-Enabled Services in the Enterprise is part of In-Stat's Mobile Business Service which delivers a comprehensive view of the US business market for mobile wireless services through timely and actionable analysis of strategic trends, technology developments, regulatory issues, end-user preferences, and corporate purchasing patterns. It analyzes the US market for wireless data and productivity services on an overall basis and within industry verticals. Coverage includes messaging, mobile e-mail, remote access and data connectivity, PIM, WLAN, location-based services, and wireless telemetry. It also provides dynamic data files which provide economic analysis of spending on voice and data services by vertical market and size of business.

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