Mobile broadband will be the best opportunity for operator revenue...
Mobile broadband will be the best opportunity for operator revenue growth until 2016, research firm Ovum said Thursday in a report. Mobile broadband sales will grow 19.2 percent annually through 2016, generating $122 billion in incremental revenue over that period,…
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Ovum predicted. Other telecom segments are also set for double-digit growth, including public cloud, enterprise Ethernet, IPTV and IP voice. As the telecom industry continues to face risk from the ongoing global financial crisis, “both fixed and mobile operators will face the same fundamental challenge: to increase new sources of revenue fast enough to offset the decline in mature services,” said John Lively, Ovum’s chief forecaster, in a news release. Vendors can grow revenue faster than the industry average in the coming years by positioning themselves in high-potential product segments -- converged packet optical, reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers, 40G/100G networking gear, carrier Wi-Fi and network-related services, Ovum said. Component makers will face far more volatility, but can mitigate this by partnering with infrastructure vendors and winning a share of 40G and 100G business, Lively said (http://xrl.us/bn828m).