“Consumers, having gained knowledge and experience with in-vehicle navigation and entertainment or convenience systems are now at a point where they are savvy enough to understand and appreciate the value of vehicle tracking, parental control and monitoring, theft recovery and remote control for door locks, ignition and vehicle alarms. Telcontar’s Televoke Universal Telematics Server (UTS) has emerged as the clear leader in providing back end services for most leading solution providers because they have a solid, highly functional system that can scale easily and is cost effective to operate,” said Frank Viquez, author of the Allied study.

“This groundbreaking study from Allied Business Intelligence is the first we are aware of that focuses on the consumer aftermarket for telematics products,” states Eric Carlson, President and CEO of Telcontar. “We are obviously pleased that it confirms our confidence that the market is taking off, and that we are well positioned to grow as it does. In particular, we are pleased that the areas we have invested heavily in, such as automated notification, voice user and installer interfaces, and automated customer support are proving highly successful and are clear differentiators for Telcontar.”

The Allied study states that a key to profitability and long-term success in consumer telematics will be feature and support automation, as well as system scalability. The Telcontar UTS provides just that – an automated user notification system for monitoring and control, enabling Telcontar to provide full telematics services to customers, while maintaining access to a call center for use in emergencies such as recovery of a stolen vehicle. The solution is highly scalable, helping customers generate revenue more quickly, more efficiently and more effectively. The study forecasts a compound annual growth rate of more than 60% through 2008, resulting in total market size of more than $120M for that year.