The Yankee Group has issued its 2013 predictions for the mobility market. The research house expects the players to begin to take calculated risks and position themselves for long-term success. Next year will mark the arrival of several trends that until now had been only anticipated.Yankee Group's 2013 mobility predictions are:

1. Operators will lose $1 billion per month in voice/messaging revenue.



2. All mobile operators will be either digital lifestyle providers or value bit providers.



3. Small cells will stumble.



4. At least one operator will launch a turbo-boosting service.



5. Google will start subsidizing mobile payments credit/debit card transaction fees.



6. A cloud-based mobile payment system will see a significant data breach.



7. More than 50% of companies will look to the cloud for their mobile app deployments.



8. Microsoft's Windows Store will abandon the 70-30 split and registration fees.



9. Android smartphone market share will decline in the United States.



10. MVNOs will feel the squeeze as operators get serious about M2M.