Central and Eastern Europe Telephony Services 2005–2010 Forecast Update

This IDC study analyzes and forecasts the telephony market in eleven Central and Eastern European countries from 2005 through 2010. The countries covered are Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Services covered include PSTN and ISDN telephony access connections segmented by business and residential segments. Traffic is segmented by call destination and by market segment. Spending is segmented by call destination, connection and subscription, and market segment.

The study answers the following questions:

What are the trends in the telephony markets in Central and Eastern Europe? Which market segments and services are going to grow, and which ones are going to decline over the forecast period? How will expansion of the mobile markets and VoIP affect the fixed-line telephony markets?

"Fixed-line telephony services in Central and Eastern Europe are continuing to decline. VoIP is expected to have a negative impact on spending and volume of traffic of fixed-line voice services in addition to the ever-present mobile substitution. With declining prices and heightened competition, the fixed-line telephony business is moving more towards the low-profit utility model with other telecoms services accounting for most of the growth in the industry." – Emir Halilovic, Senior Analyst, IDC CEMA