Israel Telecoms and Mobile Communications Services Forecast 2004-2009

This IDC study sizes, analyzes, and forecasts the markets for telephony services, mobile communications services, managed data network services, and leased circuits in Israel. The study segments telephony services connections by business and residential. Telephony traffic and spending is segmented by type of service and outgoing calls, including connection and subscription fees, local calls, Internet calls, national calls, fixed-to-mobile calls, and international calls. Mobile subscriptions are segmented by contract versus prepaid, as well as by technology. Mobile spending is segmented by voice, SMS, MMS, data, and other mobile services. Managed data network services covers X.25, frame relay and ATM, IP VPN, and other MDNS, while leased circuits are segmented by bandwidth.

This study addresses the following questions:

What is the current size of the telephony, mobile, MDNS, and leased circuit market and how will it grow over the next five years? What types of services will fuel growth in each one of these markets, and what market inhibitors do service providers need to be aware of? What are the likely market strategies to be implemented by incumbents and new entrants in each one of these markets?

"The year 2004 marked a watershed in the Israeli telecoms arena as all markets were opened to full commercial competition and began offering a plethora of new technologies and services. Given this rapid introduction of both novel services and heightened competition, consolidation pressures will soon be felt across this industry as business viability and user preferences will point to large wide-service portfolio companies rather than a multitude of limited service entities." – Gideon Lopez, Research Director, IDC Israel