The Voice over Mobile Broadband (VOMBB) market consists of some of the biggest telecom operators such as AT&T Mobility, MetroPCS, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, LG Uplus, and StarHub. But with the increase in penetration by smartphones and the increase in mobile data traffic, a number of small players are entering into the marketplace. With the deployment of HSPA and LTE networks, it is expected that some new telecom operators will also enter the market.
The global market is witnessing increased mergers and acquisitions. For instance, in 2014, Taqua acquired Kineto Wireless, a pioneer in providing VoWi-Fi services. Competition is cutthroat among big players such as AT&T and Verizon Wireless to provide voice services. Verizon provides a 4G LTE network, which cover almost 97 percent of the US and which is 10 times faster than the older 3G network. Verizon and AT&T have 103 million and 85 million total wireless subscribers, respectively.
Hence, initiatives to grab more and more customers have led to price wars between the two players. Initially, T-Mobile slashed prices and added 1.5 million new customers; subsequently, Verizon Wireless also followed the same strategy and added 1.5 million post-paid subscribers.
Some players form strategic partnerships with each other to gain a competitive advantage. For instance, Chinese vendor ZTE cooperated with German mobile network provider E-Plus in the deployment of IP multimedia services-based core network infrastructure. Some new players are also preparing to launch their own VoLTE network. For instance, Du, a leading telecom operator in the UAE, is preparing to launch a VoLTE network by the end of this year.
TechNavio has identified the top companies in the VOMBB Market expected to help fuel market growth at a CAGR of 101.23 percent for the 2014-2018 period:
AT&T Mobility LLC
AT&T is the leading provider of telecommunications services to consumers and businesses in the US and other countries. Currently, the company has 117 million subscribers worldwide. The company has a wide product portfolio. Its Wireless segment provides various wireless voice, data, text, and other services. It also provides local wireless communication services, long-distance services, and roaming services.
Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless is the leading telecommunications provider in the US. It provides wireless communication services across wireless networks in the US. The company had about 102.8 million mobile subscribers worldwide in 2013. The company is a leading competitor for AT&T. There is cutthroat competition between the two players. Both players slashed their prices to increase their subscriber base. The company operates both 3G wireless broadband networks and 4G LTE networks. It also provides prepaid and post-paid voice services. It markets cellphones, smartphones, tablets, mobile hotspots, USB modems, voice and data plans, and accessories.
T-Mobile US (MetroPCS Communications)
T-Mobile is a global telecommunications provider. It provides services under the GoSmart and MetroPCS brands in the US. The company offers post-paid and prepaid wireless voice services, messaging, data services, and wholesale wireless services. It also provides wireless handsets and accessories including LTE smartphones and wireless-enabled computers such as notebooks, tablets, and data cards. The company had 50 million subscribers worldwide in 2013, and this is expected to increase rapidly in the near future.
SK Telecom Co. Ltd.
SK Telecom is a leading South Korean mobile operator that has almost 10 million LTE subscribers worldwide. The company is forecasting about 16 million LTE subscribers by the end of 2014. The company has 33 LTE devices, which include 25 smartphones, 5 tablet PCs, 2 USB modems, and 1 LTE capable camera. It offers cellular voice services including wireless voice transmission, related value-added services, wireless global roaming services, and interconnection services to connect its network to fixed-line and other wireless networks.
LG Uplus Corp.
LG Uplus is a leading Korean mobile telecommunications provider. It had about 6.54 million consumers worldwide in 2013. It offers a wide product portfolio, which incudes mobile telecommunications, broadband internet, IPTV, and triple play services. The company also offers VoIP services to corporate customers and also provides LTE routers.
StarHub Ltd.
StarHub is a leading telecommunications, media, and entertainment provider in Singapore. The company offers a wide range of services to its consumers, which include mobile services, wireless broadband services, and IDD services. Its business solutions include business voice and IDD services such as StarHub IDD 018, StarHub IDD 008, international ISDN SIP trunking, business voice services, and internet and IP solutions. The company had 2.80 million subscribers worldwide in 2013.
A1 Telekom
A1 has around 5.7 million mobile customers and 2.3 million fixed lines, Austria’s leading communications provider. Customers benefit from a broad range of options from a single source, consisting of voice telephony, Internet access, digital cable TV, data and IT solutions, value-added services, wholesale services and mobile business and payment solutions. The brands A1, bob and Red Bull MOBILE and Yesss! stand for the highest quality and smart services.
Bell Mobility
BCE Inc. is Canada’s largest communications company, providing a comprehensive and innovative suite of broadband communications and content services to consumer, residential business and government customers in Canada.
Powered by industry-leading investments in advanced networks and media content, Bell communications services are offered under the Bell Canada and Bell Aliant brands. These include fibre-based IPTV and high-speed Internet services, 4G LTE wireless, home phone and business network and communications services, including data hosting and cloud computing.
Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 4 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers.
In India, the company’s product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed DSL broadband, IPTV, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had nearly 287 million customers across its operations at the end of Dec 2013.
Bouygues Telecom
Bouygues Telecom wants the benefit of its 11 million mobile customers and 2.3 million fixed broadband customers (including more than 1.6 million business customers) recent digital developments. In January 2014, Bouygues Telecom and SFR entered into a mutual agreement of part of their networks Mobile in sparsely populated areas in particular to improve network coverage and quality for our customers.
For the benefit of the greatest service, Our Mobile network covers 99% of the population in 2G, 3G + 96%. Bouygues Telecom is also engaged in the development of its high-speed broadband infrastructure and Mobile launched October 1, 2013 a national 4G network now covers 71% of the population in France.
Celcom Axiata
Axiata is one of the largest Asian telecommunications group. Axiata has controlling interests in mobile operators in Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Cambodia with significant strategic stakes in India and Singapore. In addition, the Malaysian grown holding company has a stake in non-mobile telecommunication operations in Pakistan.
Axiata’s vision is to be a regional champion by 2015 by piecing together the best throughout the region in connectivity, technology and talent, uniting them towards a single goal: Advancing Asia.
Chess Telecom
Established in 1993, Chess is one of the UK’s largest suppliers of business voice and data solutions providing businesses with broadband, phone lines, calls, mobiles, data, VoIP and telephone systems. We are currently one of the ‘Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For’ and one of the UK’s best companies to be a customer of having won both the ‘Institute of Customer Service – Quality Service Provider of the Year award’ and the ‘Customer First Award’.
Chunghwa Telecom
Chunghwa Telecom is Taiwan’s largest integrated telecommunications services company that provides fixed-line, mobile, broadband, and internet services. The Company also provides information and communication technology services to corporate customers and is expanding its cloud computing services. In recent years, Chunghwa has been actively involved in corporate social responsibility and has won domestic and international awards and recognition.
Deutsche TeleKom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with over 142 million mobile customers, 31 million fixed-network lines and more than 17 million broadband lines (as of December 31, 2013). The Group provides fixed-network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers.
Deutsche Telekom is present in around 50 countries and has approximately 229,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 60.1 billion in the 2013 financial year – more than half of it outside Germany.
Dialogic
Dialogic, the Network Fuel® company, inspires the world’s leading service providers and application developers to elevate the performance of media-rich communications across the most advanced networks. We boost the reliability of any-to-any network connections, supercharge the impact of applications and amplify the capacity of congested networks. Forty-eight of the world’s top 50 mobile operators and nearly 3,000 application developers rely on Dialogic to redefine the possible and exceed user expectations.
DTAC
DTAC’s objective is to develop Thailand’s telecommunications industry to progress. Government policy to allow the private sector to participate in the service. Under the concession agreement, which is in the form. Build – Transfer – perform or Built-Transfer-Operate (BTO) from the state in which the two parties have converged. Is a public company, TOT Public Company Limited (TOT) (formerly TOT Corporation Public Company Limited (TOT.)) And CAT Telecom Public Company Limited (CAT).
Du Telecom (EITC)
du is an integrated telecom service provider, dedicated to providing customers the best in choice, quality, innovation and pricing. Based in the UAE, our commitment to the country extends beyond mere communications services as we strive to contribute towards a positive national transformation in both the Emirates’ people and environment.
Our services include fixed and mobile telephony, broadband connectivity and IPTV services, which we offer to individuals, homes and businesses. Through International Carrier Relations, our international facing business division, we strengthen and extend our presence and performance by selling wholesale products and services to licensed telecom operators, service providers and resellers.
Huawei
Huawei is a global leader of ICT solutions. Continuously innovating based on customer needs, we are committed to enhancing customer experiences and creating maximum value for telecom carriers, enterprises, and consumers. Our telecom network equipment, IT products and solutions, and smart devices are used in 170 countries and regions. With annual sales revenue of USD39.6 billion in 2013, Huawei ranked 285th on the Global Fortune 500.
We invest over 10% of our annual sales revenue into R&D and more than 45% of our 150,000 employees engage in R&D. Leveraging our experience and expertise in the ICT sector, we help bridge the digital divide and promote high-quality broadband connectivity for all.
Kcell
Currently, Kcell is the cellular operator rendering services of GSM-900/1800 and UMTS/WCDMA 2100 MH standard. The mission of the Company is development in entering new markets, creating new products and services to satisfy existing and new customer needs in exciting ways. Bring the benefits and make people’s lives more comfortable through innovative services based on our skills in information and communication technologies.
KPN Telecom
KPN is the largest telecom and IT service provider in the Netherlands. Our network is Dutch to the core. We have a clear mission – to help the Netherlands move forward through that network.
We believe in a society in which communication technology makes life richer, easier and fuller. KPN wants to be the unifier of that society, for people and companies. At home, at work and on the move. We have the resources, and the technology and the reliable fixed and mobile networks.
KT
Expanding 4.5 million fixed lines to 20 million in just 12 years, kt introduced universal telephone service to every citizen of Korea, leading the development and advancement of communications services. More recently, kt established an advanced broadband network for the first time in Asia, and launched Korea’s first communication satellite ‘Mugunghwa (Sharon’s Rose)’, contributing to making Korea one of the most advanced countries in information and communications.
Magyar Telecom
Magyar Telekom, Hungary ‘s leading ICT provider in connection, binds to several million customers lives. The company has products for Phone, Internet, TV and IT in all areas of quality, reliable and exceptionally wide range of services. We strive to provide innovative solutions not only be seen, but also shaping the market. Our goal is to make it easy for our services , our customers’ lives easier and enrich the experience, to earn their trust over and over again. Observe the changing needs of our customers and potential that every day more and more able to provide for them, create the future digital home and place colorful diverse products and services in the future.
Mavenir Systems
Mavenir Systems (NYSE: MVNR) provides software-based networking solutions that enable mobile service providers to deliver next generation services over 4G LTE networks. Mavenir™ has a fully virtualized end to end portfolio of Voice/Video, Messaging and Mobile Core products that include IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and Session Border Controller (SBC). Mavenir’s solutions, based on the award-winning mOne® software platform, leverage NFV and SDN technologies for deployments on cloud-based infrastructure.
Mobile TeleSystems
Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (“MTS”) is the leading telecommunications group in Russia and the CIS, offering mobile and fixed voice, broadband, pay TV as well as content and entertainment services in one of the world’s fastest growing regions. Including its subsidiaries, as of September 30, 2014, the Group serviced over 100 million mobile subscribers in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Turkmenistan and Belarus, a region that boasts a total population of more than 200 million. The Group’s fixed business, as of September 30, 2014, had a total of 12.471 million households passed and 7.185 million residential subscribers.
NetCom
NetCom is a Norwegian mobile phone operator. Founded in 1993, it is the second largest mobile phone operator in Norway. The company has over 3 million subscribers, and the company headquarters are located in Nydalen in Oslo. It is owned by the Swedish and Finnish company TeliaSonera.
Orange Business Services
Orange Business Services is a global IT and communications services provider, with services available in 220 countries and a local presence in more than 160. We help companies collaborate more effectively, operate more efficiently and engage better with their customers – connecting their people, sites and machines securely and reliably. See how we can change your business for the better.
Rogers Wireless
Rogers is a leading diversified Canadian communications and media company. We are Canada’s largest provider of wireless voice and data communications services and one of Canada’s leading providers of cable television, high-speed Internet and telephony services to consumers and businesses. Through Rogers Media we are engaged in radio and television broadcasting, televised shopping, magazines and trade publications, and sports entertainment.
Saudi Telecom Company
STC is the leading national provider of telecommunication services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The company is working continuously to fulfill and satisfy the market requirements, keeping pace with the emerging technologies in the telecommunications sector and satisfying its customer’s needs. STC has put in its consideration that, this is the way to reinforce its position and identity in view of a changing world where the role and usage of telecommunications became more significant.
SFR
A full-service operator, Numericable-SFR enjoys strong positions in every segment of the French telecom market – consumers, businesses, local government and wholesale. Thanks to its complementary brands, the group offers multiplay packages including Internet access, fixed and mobile telephony, and content services. Numericable-SFR has 28 million customers – including 6.3 million multiplay subscribers. In the consumer segment, it operates through the Numericable, SFR and Virgin Mobile brands. In the B2B segment, the SFR Business Team, Completel and Telindus serve more than 170,000 businesses.
Si.Mobil
Today, Si.mobil between users identified as an operator that offers quality services worth their price. Users first in Slovenia presented and offered services GPRS, WAP and MMS. As the first Slovenian operator and among the first in Europe to enable fast data transfer via EDGE , later it also offered mobile broadband internet via its own UMTS / HSDPA. In 2012 Si.mobil first in Slovenia to offer services in LTE network by the end of 2014 and will cover the LTE technology is already75% of the Slovenian population.
Smart Communications
Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) is the Philippines’ leading wireless services provider with 55.4 million subscribers on its GSM network as of end-March 2014.
Smart has the most extensive and modern digital communications GSM network and infrastructure in the country–operating 10,379 cell sites and 24,424 broadband base stations (21,281 cellular/mobile broadband base stations and 3,143 fixed wireless broadband base stations), of which 10,338 are 4G-capable, as of end-June 2014.
Swisscom
Swisscom is Switzerland’s leading telecom provider with its headquarters in Ittigen, close to the capital city, Berne. With over 21,000 employees it generated turnover of CHF 8.6 billion in the first nine months of 2014. Swisscom is one of the most sustainable companies in Switzerland and Europe.
Swisscom offers mobile communications, fixed networks, Internet and digital TV to corporate and residential customers. We are also one of Swizerland’s largest providers of IT services. We build and maintain the mobile and fixed-network infrastructure, transmit broadcast signals and own shares in media companies.
TDC
TDC is the leading provider of communications and pay-TV and holds market leadership across all segments in the domestic market. In all other Nordic countries, TDC is the business market.
TDC has maintained or increased its market share across all product categories in the domestic market. These include the result of a shift from a single-brand to a multi-brand strategy to exploit the full potential of all brands and renewal of distribution channels. In addition, TDC has launched innovative products such as the music service TDC Play, multi-play package HomeTrio and YouSee Plus, which includes video-on-demand, HDTV and film archive.
Telekom Austria
Telekom Austria AG is a leading communications provider in the CEE region, with around 23 million customers in eight countries.The total market of the eight countries covers about 41 million inhabitants. The group employs approximately 16,000 employees at December 31, 2013, and generated sales of EUR 4.2 billion in the 2013 financial year. The broad portfolio of products and services of voice telephony, broadband Internet, multimedia services, data and IT solutions, wholesale and payment solutions.
Telenor
Since 2006, when the present on the Serbian market, Telenor Serbia has become the largest mobile operator in the country, with more than 3 million users from all walks of private life. To date, Telenor has remained the largest foreign investor in Serbia, which is continuously investing in the local economy, society, culture and the environment.
Telstra
Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company with its international operations headquartered in Hong Kong. We provide top-tier international customers across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Americas, Middle East and Africa with a full breadth of holistic and end-to-end solutions including managed network services, global connectivity, data, voice, satellite solutions, collaboration and cloud.
We have licenses internationally and facilitate access to more than 2,000 PoPs in 230 countries and territories. Our extended reach provides our customers with smarter technology solutions to support sustainable business growth.
TELUS
TELUS is Canada’s fastest-growing national telecommunications company, with $11.8 billion of annual revenue and 13.5 million customer connections, including 8.0 million wireless subscribers, 3.2 million wireline network access lines, 1.45 million Internet subscribers and 888,000 TELUS TV customers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services, including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment and video, and is Canada’s largest healthcare IT provider.
TIM
To provide even more benefits to its customers and expand its infrastructure, TIM bought in 2009, Intelig, which provided the acceleration of the operator’s 3G network expansion and the approach of new voice and data markets, both residential as business. Today, all the solutions offered by TIM Intelig are integrated. In addition, offered a new concept in telecommunications – TIM Intelligence platform with fixed-line, mobile and data transmission tailored for medium and large companies and government institutions, national and international coverage.
Turkcell
GSM-based mobile communication in Turkey began when Turkcell commenced operations in February 1994. Turkcell then signed a 25-year GSM license contract with the Ministry of Transportation on April 27, 1998. Since then, it has continuously increased the variety of its services based on mobile audio and data communication, as well as on its quality levels and as a result, its number of subscribers. Turkcell is a regional leader by being the market leader in five countries out of nine it operates in.
VIPNet
Vipnet was the first private mobile operator in Croatia. In September 1998, Vipnet was granted a concession for the second GSM network in Croatia and started its commercial operations on July 1st, 1999. At the time when Vipnet entered the market, the penetration rate in Croatia represented just 4.6%, while it reached 117.5% by the end of 2011.
By entering the Croatian telecommunications market, Vipnet introduced competition into mobile telephony. Prices were cut down by half and the quality of services was raised to the highest possible level. Due to its great success compared with the existing operator, Vipnet is known for having the best market entrance of a second GSM operator in Europe ever.
Vodafone Group
Today, more than 400 million customers around the world choose us to look after their communications needs. In 30 years, a small mobile operator in Newbury has grown into a global business and one of the most valuable brands in the world. We now operate in around 30 countries and partner with networks in over 50 more.
In an increasingly connected world, it’s no longer just about being able to talk and text. Our network allows people to share images and videos as soon as they’re captured; to share thoughts and feelings as soon as they’re created. And because we now do more than just mobile in many markets, more customers look to Vodafone for great value in their fixed line and broadband services too.
WIND Mobile
Wind Mobile is a Canadian wireless telecommunications provider operated by Globalive Communications. The company initially launched mobile data and voice services in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Ontario on December 16, 2009 and two days later in Calgary, Alberta. As of December 2014, Wind Mobile is Canada’s fourth largest mobile operator with 800,000 active subscribers.
