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Will Mobile VoIP Dip Before a VoLTE Boom?

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August 28, 2014

Will Mobile VoIP Dip Before a VoLTE Boom?

By David Delony, Contributing Writer


Research firm  Infonetics (News - Alert) has released a new report that forecasts the IMS equipment and VoIP would correct itself as more carriers prepare to deploy VoLTE networks nationwide.


“At the end of 2013, we projected the IMS equipment market would slow in 2014 as large operators in North America and Asia Pacific commercially launch VoLTE services and capacity begins to be utilized, and this is indeed happening,” Diane Myers, principal analyst for VoIP, UC, and IMS at Infonetics Research (News - Alert), said.  “We don’t view this as a cause for alarm, but rather the ship righting itself after a build-up of inventory for nationwide launches.”

The global service provider VoIP and IMS market was down in the second quarter of 2014 by six percent over the same period in 2013 and down by twelve percent sequentially.

Infonetics appears to see the bad news as evidence of more future growth in VoLTE networks. So far, nationwide launches of VoLTE have only been in smaller countries and city states in East Asia, such as South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, but the firm sees that changing in the near future.

Infonetics expects operators in other places to start launching more VoLTE networks in North America and Japan toward the end of the year. Operators in Europe, Canada and other parts of Asia will fuel a growth in IMS equipment in 2015. The total value of the market was $878 million.

Home subscriber servers (HSSs), voice application servers (VASs), and media gateway control function (MGCF) were the only types of VoIP and IMS equipment that saw year-over-year growth in the second quarter of 2014.

Most of the this growth came from outside of the U.S., especially in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) and the Asia Pacific regions. The top vendors were emblematic of this international growth, with Huawei (News - Alert), based in China and Metaswitch, based in the United Kingdom, dominating the market.

International markets have been some of the earliest adopters of mobile technology. Text messaging took off in Japan and Europe before it did in the U.S.

Even though the North American market declined, a number of companies, such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Nokia (News - Alert) are also benefitting from VoLTE-related activities.




Edited by Stefania Viscusi







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