Research Overview
Expanding Portfolios and VoIP Migration Aid Participants in Combating Market Stagnation
As market prices decline and demand slows down, wholesale long distance voice service providers are expanding and diversifying product portfolios by offering assorted services such as hosted IP telephony and residential broadband voice services. This move is furthered by a large-scale migration to converged voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) networks. These networks enable increased generation of traffic by supporting voice, video, data, and multimedia services. The ensuing rise in revenues is further enhanced by low network maintenance and management costs.
This Frost & Sullivan research service offers comprehensive information on the North American wholesale long distance voice service markets, which is in the process of migrating to VoIP. The study is segmented into the wholesale long distance voice, hosted IP telephony, and residential VoIP services. It also includes vital data on time division multiplexing (TDM) and VoIP infrastructure. The research service examines market drivers and restraints and provides strategic recommendations to help diversify product portfolios, expand customer bases, and improve profitability.
Escalating Mobile Communications Drive Growth for Wholesale Voice Carriers
The rapidly mounting number of mobile subscribers is expected to foster growth of total long distance traffic, voice services and over time replace wireline communications. "As mobile carriers merge to gain economies of scale and improve their competitive positioning, wholesale providers with strong ties with mobile wireless carriers could gain a substantial market share," says the analyst of this research. "In turn, they must offer differentiating capabilities to their mobile partners including roaming, economical peering arrangements, and support for multimedia services."
Diversification Key to Reviving Falling Market Revenues
As revenues begin to exhibit a downward trend, participants are looking toward newer products and services to retain market share and grow. Options such as hosted IP telephony and residential VoIP services on a wholesale and retail basis are being considered. Retail services such as calling cards and VoIP virtual private network (VPN) services are being offered increasingly and aid in enlarging customer reach.
"End-user demand for advanced services and applications is expected to drive growth further," says the analyst. "The increased demands on retail providers with limited in-house capabilities are likely to compel them to seek partnerships with wholesale providers offering features in addition to transport and termination services."
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Up-to-date Analysis of Market Potential Enables Timely Business Strategy Evaluation
Our in-depth analysis of wholesale long distance voice service demand and price trends points to limited growth opportunities and suggests that market participants seek to diversify their product portfolio. The study discusses the market benefits and industrial challenges participants are likely to face while undertaking product diversification and differentiation.
A Fresh Perspective on VoIP and its Impact on the Market
This research service discusses adoption of VoIP technologies as a major industry trend that is likely to have a substantial impact on the wholesale long distance voice service markets. The study looks at VoIP impact both on demand for wholesale voice services and provider infrastructure and offers some projections of VoIP deployment in retail and wholesale services.
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