Forecasting the Commercial Impact of Wireless VoIP in the USA and Western Europe 

Published by Analysys Mason (August 2006)

 

Dr Alastair Brydon, CEO of Sound Partners Dr Alastair Brydon
CEO of Sound Partners

Dr Mark Heath
Director of Research, Sound Partners

 

  “This report cuts through the hype surrounding wireless VoIP to quantify its real impact on the overall voice market. After a slow start, we expect wireless VoIP to overtake fixed VoIP in terms of both traffic volumes and revenue.”  
 

Product overview

There is growing interest in delivering VoIP services over a range of wireless technologies (including 3G, WLAN and WiMAX). However, there is still uncertainty over the extent to which it will be adopted and the impact it will have on the usage and revenue of voice services in general. Such services offer significant opportunities and risks for network operators, equipment vendors and a number of other organisations. The central question addressed by this report is: what will be the impact of wireless VoIP on the overall voice market, and when? The report provides detailed forecasts of traffic volumes, revenues and ARPU for mobile and fixed voice services for the period 2006–15, segmented by wireless technology type (cellular, WLAN and BWA), and by circuit-switched and VoIP services.  

  

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This report answers your key questions

Forecasting the Commercial Impact of Wireless VoIP in the USA and Western Europe answers your key questions:

  • What are the barriers to the adoption of wireless VoIP services? How and when will these barriers be overcome, and what will drive adoption?

  • What contribution will wireless VoIP make to the total (fixed and mobile) voice market, in terms of traffic volume and revenues?

  • What will be the relative contributions of VoIP over 3G, WLAN and BWA?

  • How will wireless VoIP usage and revenues compare to fixed voice services?

  • How will the evolution of 3G networks affect the migration from circuit-switched voice services to VoIP?

  • What actions should operators, service providers, vendors and VoIP software providers take to seize the opportunities that wireless VoIP presents and overcome the risks?