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Infonetics Reports Convergent Charging Software and Services Report [Professional Services Close - Up](Professional Services Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Infonetics Research released excerpts from its latest Convergent Charging Software and Services report. "Much of the recent growth in the convergent charging market has been in expansion of existing deals, with operators buying license capacity and related services to support additional subscribers and new lines of business," said Shira Levine, directing analyst for service enablement and subscriber intelligence at Infonetics Research, in a release. "There is a lot of momentum in Asia Pacific, driven by interest in monetizing LTE in China and other more developed countries, as well as intelligent network replacement activity and rapid subscriber growth in emerging markets. We expect Asia to continue to dominate the market for at least the next five years." Highlights: _The global convergent charging market totaled $2.3 billion in 2013, and is forecast by Infonetics to grow to $5.3 billion in 2018 _Asia Pacific's share of the global convergent charging market passed the 50 percent mark in 2013, and by 2018, Infonetics expects more will be spent on convergent charging in Asia than in all the other world regions combined _Convergent charging allows operators to offer service tiers, location-based pricing, over-the-top content packages, shared data plans, and sponsored data _Operators looking to capitalize on opportunities in the enterprise market are investing in convergent charging as a way to expand the range of services and features available to their business customers _Increasingly being sought out by operators are convergent charging solutions that can be deployed in a network functions virtualization (NFV) environment, though few are actually doing so at this point Infonetics' annual convergent charging report provides worldwide and regional market size, market share, forecasts through 2018, analysis, and trends for convergent charging software and services, and includes a convergent charging product roadmap and strategic outlook. Vendors tracked: AsiaInfo-Linkage, Alcatel-Lucent, Amdocs, Comverse, CSG Systems, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Huawei, NetCracker/ Convergys, Openet, Oracle, Orga Systems, and RedKnee. Excerpts _Data brokering is next frontier for subscriber data management _China Mobile, AT&T, and Vodafone among world's top M2M service providers _Huawei and Ericsson top policy management scorecard; Oracle and Amdocs in hot pursuit _Operators look to embed deep packet inspection in apps; Market growing to $2B by 2018 _Operators internalizing API development, name Huawei and Oracle top SDP vendors _Policy management now a $1 billion market, with mobile leading the way _APIs and M2M gold rush drive big spending in SDP market Infonetics is a market research and consulting firm. Report information: infonetics.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |