Category: Telecommunications & Wireless
Telecommunications & Wireless market research reports by IDC
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Understanding Gen Z Consumers
Understanding Gen Z Consumers This IDC Market Perspective looks at the characteristics of Gen Z consumers with a specific focus on brand sentiment and behaviors around their engagement with technology."Despite being early adopters, Gen Z consumers are often critical of new technology and unsatisfied ... Read More
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U.S. Business Use Smartphone Forecast, 2024-2028
U.S. Business Use Smartphone Forecast, 2024-2028 This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for the U.S. business use smartphone shipments by operating system and user type (consumer, individual liable, and corporate liable). It is part of IDC's continuing research with respect to mobile devices ... Read More
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Cloud Provider Voice Platforms: How Businesses Are Connecting Voice with Cloud-Based Collaboration
Cloud Provider Voice Platforms: How Businesses Are Connecting Voice with Cloud-Based Collaboration This Market Perspective discusses the evolving landscape of voice communication in the business sector, focusing on the integration of voice and cloud-based collaboration. It explores various options f ... Read More
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Worldwide Mobile Phone Forecast, 2024–2028
Worldwide Mobile Phone Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for mobile phone shipments worldwide by device type. The worldwide mobile phone market will reach 1,393.2 million units shipped in 2024, up 1% from the 1,380.1 million units shipped in 2023. From there, total m ... Read More
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Worldwide Smartphone Forecast, 2024–2028
Worldwide Smartphone Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study presents the updated five-year forecast for smartphone shipments worldwide by operating system. The smartphone market will reach 1.20 billion units shipped in 2024, up 2.8% from the 1.16 billion units shipped in 2023. From there, shipments will ... Read More
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What the Vapor IO Zero Gap and Supermicro Collaboration Means for AI at the Edge
What the Vapor IO Zero Gap and Supermicro Collaboration Means for AI at the Edge This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview and analysis of a collaboration between Vapor IO — an edge platform and connectivity provider — and Supermicro — a manufacturer of high-performance servers. Called Zero G ... Read More
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Worldwide Foldable Phone Forecast, 2024–2028
Worldwide Foldable Phone Forecast, 2024–2028 This IDC study presents our updated five-year forecast for foldable phone shipments worldwide. The worldwide foldable phone market will reach 25 million devices in 2024, up 37.6% from the 18.1 million units shipped in 2023. Total foldable shipments worldw ... Read More
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A Review of EMEA Telecom Customer Experience Platforms
A Review of EMEA Telecom Customer Experience Platforms This IDC Market Perspective provides an in-depth analysis of the telecom customer experience platform, focusing on the industry's efforts to improve customer service amid revenue stagnation and technological disruption. It highlights the role of ... Read More
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Artificial Intelligence in Telecommunications — Episode AI: A New Hope
Artificial Intelligence in Telecommunications — Episode AI: A New Hope This IDC Market Perspective presents AI use cases across those telecom operating domains from around the world to provide insights to Canadian telecom service providers on the opportunities to be had from further investments in A ... Read More
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Can 5G Network Slicing Boost Consumer Market Revenues?
Can 5G Network Slicing Boost Consumer Market Revenues? This IDC Market Perspective discusses the potential of the 5G slicing feature in boosting revenues in the 5G consumer market. It provides an overview of the European telecom market, highlighting the challenges and transformations it is undergoin ... Read More
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European 5G Monetization and Adoption Strategies: Program Scope and Definitions, 2024
European 5G Monetization and Adoption Strategies: Program Scope and Definitions, 2024 This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the markets covered in IDC's European 5G Monetization and Adoption Strategies research program, analyzes various aspects of 5G strategies (including but not limited to c ... Read More
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Emerging Trends in the IoT Cellular Connectivity Market for 2024
Emerging Trends in the IoT Cellular Connectivity Market for 2024 This IDC Market Perspective examines the key trends that will impact the IoT cellular connectivity market in 2024. In an increasingly competitive field of IoT cellular connectivity providers, the important lessons learned around globa ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Generative AI Fraud Strategy
IDC PlanScape: Generative AI Fraud Strategy This IDC PlanScape looks at the most common types of GenAI-generated fraud that organizations are facing, how each is created, and steps for successfully identifying and reacting to them.“Digital fraud is nothing new. But generative AI has taken it to a wh ... Read More
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BT Outlines SMB Segmentation Approach and Go-to-Market Strategy
BT Outlines SMB Segmentation Approach and Go-to-Market Strategy This IDC Market Note explores the evolution of BT's SMB strategy as outlined by BT executives during a webinar in October 2023. Cisco explained its segmentation approach to SMB customers and outlined how it is leveraging its partner eco ... Read More
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5G Monetization Enablers: 5G Policy/PCF
5G Monetization Enablers: 5G Policy/PCF This IDC Market Perspective examines the growing importance of complex 5G policy support and enforcement and its crucial role in providing a bridge between network resources and monetization. As telcos embrace 5G core network elements, they will need to rely o ... Read More
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European Consumer Telecoms Strategies: Research Coverage and Approach
European Consumer Telecoms Strategies: Research Coverage and Approach This IDC Perspective provides an overview of the markets covered in IDC's European Consumer Telecom Strategies research program. It analyzes various aspects of consumer strategies, including connections as well as existing and new ... Read More
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Top 5 Trends in Telecommunications Digital Services and Monetization to Watch in 2024
Top 5 Trends in Telecommunications Digital Services and Monetization to Watch in 2024 This IDC Market Perspective examines the top 5 trends that will impact the global communications service provider market in 2024. These trends include the strategic imperative of generative AI (GenAI) for the telec ... Read More
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DeepTech: Technologies with Purpose in Europe
DeepTech: Technologies with Purpose in Europe This IDC Market Perspective explores the defining characteristics of DeepTech, emphasizing its research and development intensity, high complexity and its Tech4Good purpose. DeepTech, an emerging category of advanced technologies, has garnered significan ... Read More
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Emerging Trends in the U.S. Mobile Market for 2024
Emerging Trends in the U.S. Mobile Market for 2024 This IDC Market Perspective examines the key trends that will impact the U.S. mobile market in 2024. Considering these anticipated trends poised to bring about some changes in the U.S. mobile services landscape, communications SPs must adeptly navig ... Read More
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U.S. 5G Connections Forecast, 2023–2027
U.S. 5G Connections Forecast, 2023–2027 This IDC study provides the U.S. 5G connections forecast for 2023–2027.“5G became the modus operandi for the majority of mobile subscribers in the United States in 2023, though not because it was an intent-based decision, but rather the ubiquity of coverage, i ... Read More
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Worldwide Used Smartphone Forecast, 2023–2027
Worldwide Used Smartphone Forecast, 2023–2027 This IDC study provides a five-year forecast of the worldwide used smartphone market and its expansion and growth by 2027. This study provides an updated market forecast based upon changes that will impact resellers, OEM vendors, carriers, and consumers. ... Read More
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Worldwide Team Collaboration Applications Forecast, 2023–2027: The Multiplayer Workspace
Worldwide Team Collaboration Applications Forecast, 2023–2027: The Multiplayer Workspace Work is becoming more engaging, communicative, collaborative, and measurable. The intelligent collaborative workspace will evolve to become a more intuitive visual workspace, according to Wayne Kurtzman, resear ... Read More
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Telco CPaaS Strategies in Europe
Telco CPaaS Strategies in Europe This IDC Market Perspective looks at how CPaaS is deployed within European telco enterprise communications strategies as well as its role in telco operators' digital marketplaces, network monetization, and unlocking new customer market communities."As 5G market deman ... Read More
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The Future of Meeting Rooms — Delivering Equitable Experiences
The Future of Meeting Rooms — Delivering Equitable Experiences This IDC Market Perspective discusses how meeting room technologies are evolving with vendor-led innovation and the buyers' perspective on why they would be willing to spend on these technologies. "The establishment of hybrid working as ... Read More
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Worldwide Smartphone Forecast Update, 2023–2027: December 2023
Worldwide Smartphone Forecast Update, 2023–2027: December 2023 This IDC study presents the updated five-year forecast for smartphone shipments worldwide by operating system. The smartphone market will reach 1.16 billion units shipped in 2023, down 3.5% from the 1.20 billion units shipped in 2022. Fr ... Read More
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