Research and Markets: What's on the Horizon for the Voice Market As 3G and VoIP Take

Research and Markets has announced the addition of The Business Case for Carrier Migration to VoIP to their offering.

This report paints a picture of the future of the voice market as 3G and VoIP services take their toll on fixed-voice revenues. It looks at the potential for cost savings from migration to VoIP in the core and access networks and calculates the business cases for these compared with maintaining a TDM network. It also examines the ways in which the benefits of such migration might be eroded by requirements to provide competitors with regulated access, or by a new outbreak of price war in the voice market. The report assesses the new possibilities for enhanced voice services that network migration can bring and calculates the potential benefits of these. The strategic consequences of network migration are analysed from the points of view of the incumbent operators, competing operators and mobile operators.

The report includes forecasts of the overall market sizes for both fixed and mobile voice and compares the business case for maintaining a traditional voice network with those for


- Migrating a core Class 4 voice network to VoIP and IP multi-protocol
label switching (MPLS)

- Migrating a full incumbent network, including Class 5 exchanges and line
cards, to VoIP

- Using new enhanced services to slow the decline in fixed voice

The Business Case for Carrier Migration to VoIP answers your key questions:


- How fast is the voice market declining?

- Is there a cost saving to be made by migrating to a VoIP network?

- What will be the effect on voice prices of VoIP and 3G voice?

- How will regulators react to the introduction of VoIP technology?

- When will migration make sense for a particular operator?

- Will there be any additional benefits from enhanced voice services?

- What impact will this have on the overall voice market?

Who should read this report?

- Incumbent telecoms operators: who are examining the issues and timing
for migrating their networks to VoIP

- Mobile operators: who need to understand how the overall voice market is
evolving

- Other licensed operators: who need to understand the impact of
incumbents' VoIP networks on their voice business

- Telecom equipment vendors: who want to encourage the replacement of
voice networks with new technology

- Investors and analysts: who need to understand the implications of new
technology and a declining market for big fixed telecom operators.

- Regulators: who need to understand the impact of VoIP on regulated voice
services

The contents of this report are as follows:

Summary
The voice market is changing
Cost savings from VoIP are much hyped but not yet proven
Operators may not get all the benefits
VoIP networks bring a number of strategic benefits
Optimum migration speed varies between operators
Actions

For more information visit
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c15400

Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
press@researchandmarkets.com
Fax: +353 1 4100 980




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