Summary
2017 was a year of change in the global telecom services market, compared to previous years.
While, in the United States, mobile revenue is losing steam but fixed internet services are still enjoying tremendous growth, over in Europe the mobile market is finally back on an upwards swing.
Growth is also back on the table in Latin America, while Asia-Pacific is still home to massive short-term growth potential, and the Africa-Middle East region is expected to enjoy strong and steady growth in the medium term for a mobile services market that already serves 1.6 billion subscribers.
This study provides an overview of the market and includes two deliverables:
1. A report (ppt format) providing readers with the current status and 5-year forecasts of the telecom services market, along with analyses of global trends and growth dynamics by technology and by markets. It also provides a profile of the world’s top telcos.
2. A dataset dedicated to service revenues and usage with data and forecasts up to 2021 for 26 countries, five regions & aggregate world figures.
Table of contents
1. Executive Summary
1.1. Key trends
1.2. Telecom markets vs. the economy as a whole
1.3. What is driving telecom market growth?
1.4. United States, the world’s biggest telecom services market. Asia/Pacific, the biggest regional market
1.5. Germany: number one market in Europe, ahead of the UK – and a widening gap with France, in third place
2. Markets by segment
2.1. Mobile’s share of the market increasing steadily
2.2. Wireline telephony losing ground across the board
2.3. Mobile dominates worldwide
2.4. Mobile services revenue growth
2.5. The rise of LTE
2.6. Fixed data services continue to grow
3. Markets by region
3.1. Growth now concentrated in emerging markets
3.2. North America
3.3. Europe
3.4. Asia/Pacific
3.5. Latin America
3.6. Africa/Middle East
4. The world’s top telcos
4.1. The world leaders
4.2. EBITDA margins that continue to vary between 20% and 50%…
4.3. … and Capex to sales ratios of between 10% and 35%
5. Methodology
5.1. List of indicators by country
5.2. Definitions
5.3. Segmentation of certains services
5.4. Sources
List of tables and figures
1. Executive Summary
- Compared growth rates for telecom services revenue worldwide and global GDP, 2012-2021
- Compared growth rates for regional telecom services revenue and GDP, 2012-2021
- Average annual telecom services market growth, 2012-2021
- How the different segments contribute to global telecom services revenue growth, 2012-2021
- Breakdown of regional telecom services revenue worldwide, by segment, in 2016
- Breakdown of telecom services turnover in the main European countries in 2016
2. Markets by segment
- Change in the breakdown of telecom services revenue, by segment, between 2016 and 2021
- Comparison of the decrease in traditional fixed telephone lines and revenue per-line, 2012-2021
- Evolution of regional wireline telephony revenue, 2012-2021
- Mobile subscriber growth worldwide, 2012-2021
- Breakdown of the global mobile subscriber base in 2016
- Growth of mobile services revenue by region, 2012-2021
- Evolution of mobile ARPU (excl. M2M) by region, 2011-2017
- Top 10 LTE markets, as of December 2016
- Estimated breakdown of LTE subscribers around the world, 2012-2021
- Growth of fixed data traffic and internet access revenue, by region, 2011-2021
- Evolution of global fixed broadband customer numbers, 2012-2021
3. Markets by region
- Telecom services revenue growth between 2016 and 2021
- Breakdown of telecom services revenue in North America, 2016-2021
- Evolution of fixed broadband subscriber numbers in North America, 2012-2021
- Breakdown of telecom services revenue in Europe, 2016-2021
- Change prepaid vs. postpaid subscriber ratio in Europe, 2011-2021
- Breakdown of telecom services revenue in Asia/Pacific, 2016-2021
- Mobile and LTE subscriber growth in Asia/Pacific, 2012-2021
- Breakdown of telecom services revenue in Latin America, 2016-2021
- Mobile subscriber growth in Latin America, 2012-2021
- Breakdown of telecom services revenue in Africa/Middle East, 2016-2021
- Mobile subscriber growth in Africa/the Middle East, in 2016
4. The world’s top telcos
- Top 30 telecom operators based on turnover in 2016
- How the world’s top telcos’ EBITDA margin (EBITDA : revenue) has evolved, 2011-2016
- Evolution of the rate of investment (CapEx to sales ratio) for the globe’s top telcos, 2011-2016
DataSet Scope
Access indicators
• Number of traditional landlines
• Number of mobile customers, of LTE customers
• Number of postpaid mobile customers
• Number of M2M SIM-cards
• Number of fixed broadband subscribers ((total and by access technology)
• Market share of the leading mobile operators
• Market share of the leading broadband Internet access providers
Revenue indicators
• Revenues from fixed telephony
• Mobile services turnover, mobile voice turnover, mobile data turnover
• Revenues from fixed Internet services
• Revenues from data transmission
Socio-economic data
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP): annual 2011-2021
• Population
Type of data
• Historical data 2011-2016
• Forecasts 2017-2021
Geographical coverage
• The global market for telecom services has been divided into five main zones: Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia/Pacific and Africa/Middle East.
• The countries below are detailed within each zone.
• Regional consolidations take into account all the countries of the zone.
Geographic area
- Australia
- China
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- South Korea
- Belgium
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Russia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Nigeria
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa
- Canada
- United States
Players
- AT&T
- America Móvil
- BCE
- Bharti Airtel
- BT
- Century Link
- Charter
- China Mobile
- China Telecom
- China Unicom
- Comcast
- Deutsche Telekom
- Etisalat
- KDDI
- KT
- Liberty Global
- MTN
- NTT
- Orange
- SFR
- SingTel
- SK Telecom
- Softbank
- Swisscom
- Telecom Italia
- Telefónica
- Telenor
- Telstra
- Verizon
- Vodafone
Other details
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- Languages available: French, English
- Tags: Broadband subscribers, corporate data, fixed data, Fixed Internet, Fixed telephony, Internet access, LTE, M2M cards, Mobile services, Mobile subscribers, telecom markets, telecom players, Telecom Services, Wireline
