3G and VoIP services take toll on fixed-voice revenues

November 29, 2004

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. She 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?