Category: Telecommunications & Wireless
Telecommunications & Wireless market research reports by IDC
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The Opportunity for 5G Fixed Wireless Access in Europe
The Opportunity for 5G Fixed Wireless Access in Europe This IDC Market Perspective examines the impact of 5G on FWA, and it analyzes the resulting opportunity for market expansion. Mobile networks have been used for home broadband services for over a decade, on a small scale. But now, 5G technologie ... Read More
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South Africa Telecom Services Market Forecast, 2021–2026
South Africa Telecom Services Market Forecast, 2021–2026 This IDC Market Forecast examines the outlook for the South African telecommunications market for 2021–2026. It analyzes spending on consumer and enterprise fixed and mobile services (voice and data) and on Pay TV services. The study discusses ... Read More
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Is a New Era Upon Us for Space Management?
Is a New Era Upon Us for Space Management? This IDC Market Perspective assesses how organizations are currently engaging and strategizing around digital transformation (DX) for space management. The assessment looks at the direct and indirect value-added pathways of space management to improve on re ... Read More
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Digital Life: European Mobile Cloud Gaming in the 5G Context
Digital Life: European Mobile Cloud Gaming in the 5G Context This IDC Market Perspective describes the opportunity of the cloud gaming industry for telecom operators in Europe and how 5G can drive that opportunity. Options for telecom operators to capture this opportunity are described, as well as b ... Read More
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India Proposes Changes to Its Telecom Policy
India Proposes Changes to Its Telecom Policy This IDC Market Note discusses India's draft Telecommunication Bill 2022, which aims to update the extant regulatory framework to keep up with the technological advancements and address the challenges facing the sector. The reform is needed because the th ... Read More
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Consumer Payments in the Age of Economic Change
Consumer Payments in the Age of Economic Change This IDC Perspective highlights how inflation and increasing interest rates have become factors in the global economy for the first time in the era of digital payments. Consumers are shifting their purchasing behavior and, by extension, their payment b ... Read More
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Conversational AI and the Future of IVR
Conversational AI and the Future of IVR This IDC Perspective examines the future of interactive voice response (IVR) given the growing interest in and adoption of conversational AI solutions for functions such as customer service, sales, and even help desk operations. The document also makes recomme ... Read More
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Western Europe 4G/5G Mobile Private Network Adoption, Revenue, and Connections Forecast, 2022–2026
Western Europe 4G/5G Mobile Private Network Adoption, Revenue, and Connections Forecast, 2022–2026 This IDC Market Forecast discusses the prospects of the MPN market in Western Europe. It presents key trends that will shape the market over the next five years. It features five-year forecasts for man ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: The Role of Private LTE/5G Wireless Networks in an Enterprise's Connectedness Strategy
IDC PlanScape: The Role of Private LTE/5G Wireless Networks in an Enterprise's Connectedness Strategy This IDC PlanScape outlines the links between private LTE/5G technology and an organization's FoConn strategy. It will provide guidance for enterprises regarding why the private LTE/5G market is imp ... Read More
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Update on 5G Non-Terrestrial Networking
Update on 5G Non-Terrestrial Networking This IDC Market Perspective provides an update of satellite 5G non-terrestrial networking (NTN). 5G NTN is a promising and highly advanced class of communications configurations that will start with digital transparent processors and expand to fully regenerati ... Read More
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The Path to 5G Advanced and IMT-2030
The Path to 5G Advanced and IMT-2030 In this IDC Market Perspective, as 5G nonstandalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) deployments progress, standard bodies, such as the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and international partners, are moving along at a brisk pace in identifying a string of in ... Read More
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5G Accelerating the Future of Mobility
5G Accelerating the Future of Mobility This IDC Market Perspective investigates the impact and ramifications of how 5G connectivity is accelerating several new mobility initiatives such as AV, connected digital infotainment systems, V2X, and other connected car use cases to understand better the upc ... Read More
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T-Mobile 3Q22 Earnings: Subscriber and Service Revenue Growth Offset Weakness in Wireless Equipment
T-Mobile 3Q22 Earnings: Subscriber and Service Revenue Growth Offset Weakness in Wireless Equipment This IDC Market Note examines T-Mobile's quarterly results discussed in the company's 3Q22 earnings announcement on October 27, 2022. In this document, IDC analyzes T-Mobile's operating metrics and ov ... Read More
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Comcast, Charter, and Altice: Continuing Declines in Bundling Lead to New Strategies
Comcast, Charter, and Altice: Continuing Declines in Bundling Lead to New Strategies This IDC Market Note discusses recent announcements by select cable service providers in the United States. It summarizes IDC's opinion on market changes and dynamics that are impacting the multiplay bundling market ... Read More
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5G Operational Readiness: The Network Data Analytics Function, Network Slicing, and Network Data Monetization
5G Operational Readiness: The Network Data Analytics Function, Network Slicing, and Network Data Monetization This IDC Market Perspective explains why the NWDAF is so essential to the nascent network API data strategy that many communications SPs are planning to implement as part of their 5G SA netw ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: UC&C Practices to Enable Hybrid Work
IDC PeerScape: UC&C Practices to Enable Hybrid Work This IDC PeerScape analyzes organizations' challenges and best practices in implementing UC&C tools for hybrid work."UC&C is no longer a second-string system that merely complements business operations; it has rather moved to the center as ... Read More
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5G Wireless Networks Status in Canada, 2022
5G Wireless Networks Status in Canada, 2022 This IDC Market Perspective provides an update on the status of next-generation wireless 5G networks and service rollouts, enterprise adoption, and use cases in Canada in 2022. Although Canada's largest wireless providers boast commercial launches of stand ... Read More
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AI/ML in 5G RAN and Core
AI/ML in 5G RAN and Core This IDC Market Perspective focuses on the use of AI and ML in the development and operations of the 5G RAN including O-RAN and the 5G core. The cellular industry began working with AI/ML four to five years ago, starting with 4G long-term evolution (LTE) and has developed a ... Read More
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Vodafone Idea Sells Stake to the Government of India
Vodafone Idea Sells Stake to the Government of India Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL), India's third largest communications SP (CSP) recently sold a large equity stake to the government of India. At first glance, this looks to be an extremely regressive move, but in reality, there was no other choice ava ... Read More
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Smart Cities Connect, Fall 2022
Smart Cities Connect, Fall 2022 This IDC Market Note investigates the relevant news, announcements, and themes from the 2022 Smart Cities Connect (SCC) event held in Washington, D.C., as part of IDC's role to better understand and track the future of Smart City initiatives undertaken by municipaliti ... Read More
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MVNO 3Q22 Earnings Analysis: Boost Mobile Finally Joins the Cable MVNOs in Adding Subscribers
MVNO 3Q22 Earnings Analysis: Boost Mobile Finally Joins the Cable MVNOs in Adding Subscribers This IDC Market Note examines the 3Q22 earnings from the three U.S. cable companies that offer mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services as well as DISH Network's Boost Mobile MVNO business that was r ... Read More
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Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Prospects for the Golden Band 7–20GHz
Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Prospects for the Golden Band 7–20GHz In this Market Note, we review the prospects of new spectrum bands in the golden band 7–20GHz for 5G new radio (NR) by looking at the radio frequency propagation, coverage, and power requirements for the FR1 (sub-7GHz bands) and FR ... Read More
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IBM Security Services
IBM Security Services This IDC Vendor Profile highlights IBM's approach to security services and a broad range of security services and software solutions delivered to federal organizations. Please Note: Extended description available upon request. ... Read More
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Canadian Communications Service Providers and Hyperscaler Partnerships: Challenges and Opportunities
Canadian Communications Service Providers and Hyperscaler Partnerships: Challenges and Opportunities This IDC Market Perspective explores the partner alliances that have occurred in the Canadian market between Canada's three largest communications service providers (comm SPs) — Bell Canada, Telus, a ... Read More
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Worldwide Telecom Network Functions Virtualization Software (VNF and NFVI) Forecast, 2022–2026
Worldwide Telecom Network Functions Virtualization Software (VNF and NFVI) Forecast, 2022–2026 This IDC study presents the worldwide market forecast for telecom network functions virtualization software (VNF and NFVI) for the 2021–2026 period."Adoption of cloud-native network functions (CNFs) are sl ... Read More
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