A new report from Paul Budde Communication (an independent telecommunications research and consultancy company based in Australia) was released today. The report, Global Telecoms Analyses and Forecasts for 2006 and Beyond takes a look at the telecom industry and comes with several interesting observations.

Budde believes that incumbents will continue to dominate the industry, and that we will see a series of “very interesting” mergers and acquisitions in the period 2005-2008.

Check out a more detailed article on the matter here.