According to a new 2007 Industry Review study from Boonton, New Jersey-based
Insight Research Corp., the worldwide telecom industry is in
a strong growth mode, and
overall industry revenue is expected to climbs to $1.3 Trillion in 2007.
According to the study, strong growth in
wireless is leading the way as wireless service revenues are expected to grow at a compounded rate of nearly 10 percent over the next few years, while wireline service revenues grow much more modestly at two percent.
Nearly all of the growth in both sectors is expected to occur in broadband services, with wireless broadband service revenues expected to grow at a compounded rate of more than 60 percent over the forecast period, while wireline services grow at 10 percent over the same forecast horizon.
“The 2007 Industry Review states that in the growth environment set off by the rush to meet subscriber demand for broadband services, service providers are trying to create viable business models on the fly in order to deliver new types of IP-based services, including Residential Video Telephony, Fixed Mobile Convergence, File Sharing/Downloading Services, Audio/Video Streaming Services, Location-Based Services, and Presence-Based Services.
The study highlights rapidly growing industry segments such as VoIP, WiFi and WiMax, fixed-mobile convergence, IMS,
IPTV and streaming media, as well as technological innovations such as grid computing and DWDM and WDM in fiber optics.
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