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March 2013

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Telecom Capital Investment 2013 to 2030 will be $9.5 Trillion

March 15, 2013

If one assumes a global requirement to invest $57 trillion in non-telecom infrastructure between 2013 and 2030, about 60 percent more than was invested in global infrastructure in the most recent 18 years, there are some rather obvious conclusions for telecom investment.

Competition for capital roads, power, bridges and other infrastructure will be severe. The telecom itself will need to invest about $9.5 trillion between 2013 and 2030, McKinsey Group estimates.

Given debt loads most countries face, it is not likely there will be too much extra funding available to help service providers create all that new infrastructure. So the growing trend of serious regulator thinking about how to create incentives for investment is not misplaced.

Source: IPCarrier

Report: Global VoIP, IMS Equipment Sales Post First Annual Gain in 3 Years

March 1, 2013

Global sales of VoIP (Voice over IP) and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) equipment rose for the first time in three years in 2012, increasing 9% year-to-year, according to Infonetics Research. A strong 4Q, particularly for IMS equipment, fueled the annual rise.

Global sales of carrier voice over IP (VoIP) and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) equipment topped $800 million in 4Q12, thanks to a strong core of IMS, voice application servers, and softswitches.

Other key takeaways from Infonetics’ fourth quarter and year-end, “Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers” report include:

  • IMS equipment sales made up just over 40% of total VoIP and IMS revenue in 2012, offsetting overall declines in legacy softswitch and trunk media gateways
  • Though softswitches continue to decline on an annual basis, some operators are replacing early generation softswitches with new ones, opting not to switch to IMS
  • For the full year, the Caribbean and Latin America region (CALA) posted the strongest growth of all regions, spiking 37%
  • Huawei solidified its position atop the VoIP and IMS market share leaderboard in 2012, with around 1/5 of the global market; Alcatel-Lucent leapfrogged GENBAND to seize the #2 spot
  • Standout vendors in terms of sequential revenue growth in 2012 include Alcatel-Lucent, BroadSoft, Ericsson, Huawei, Mavenir, Nokia Siemens Networks, and ZTE, all benefiting from the expansion of IMS networks

“As we predicted, after three years of annual declines, the carrier VoIP and IMS equipment market turned the corner in 2012,” commented Diane Myers, Infonetics’ principal analyst for VoIP, UC, and IMS.