Juniper Research's latest “Wholesale Roaming” market research provides an expansive overview of the technologies impacting the wholesale roaming & travel mobility market. It includes strategic recommendations for roaming providers and network operators, as well as comprehensive 5-year forecasts for roaming traffic and revenue for operator revenue from inbound roaming activities. Additionally, these 5-year forecasts provide key market splits for SMS, voice and data usage across a range of key use cases.
Furthermore, Juniper Research's Competitor Leaderboard, featuring an in depth evaluation of 15 major wholesale roaming vendors, positions key market stakeholders seeking to understand the competitive landscape in the highly complex wholesale roaming market. It uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative scoring criteria to provide vendor positioning for the market's leading players.
In addition, Juniper Research also comprises an assessment of the most effective future strategies impacting the return on investment for wholesale roaming vendors.
These include:
5G Roaming Agreements
BCE (Billing & Charging Evolution) and TAP (Transferred Account Procedures) Pricing and Clearing
Market Dynamics: The report provides a comprehensive market assessment discussing key market trends impacting the effectiveness and value proposition of the wholesale roaming market. Specifically, it focuses on the following strategies:
5G Roaming Agreements
BCE and TAP Pricing and Clearing
Blockchain
Impact of eSIMs
Roam Like at Home
Silent Roamers
Wholesale Roaming Fraud
Regional Analysis: Comprehensive evaluation featuring regional-level market analysis on the future of the market and the potential for wholesale roaming adoption; supplemented with 5 year forecast data and split by 8 key regions including;
North America
Latin America
West Europe
Central & East Europe
Far East & China
Indian Subcontinent
Rest of Asia Pacific
Africa & Middle East
Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard: This competitive landscape will provide key player capability and capacity assessment for 15 wholesale roaming service providers; positioning them as either an established leader, leading challenger, or disruptor and challenger. Our Competitor Leaderboard scores these companies on a number of criteria, including their size of operations in the space, their extent and breadth of market partnerships, sophistication of their platforms, and Juniper Research's view on each company's innovation and future business prospects. The companies included in Juniper Research's Wholesale Roaming Competitor Leaderboard are:
A1 Telekom Austria Group
BICS
Cellusys
Comfone
CSG
iBASIS
Mobileum
Orange Wholesale
Roamability
Syniverse
Tata Communications
Telefónica Global Solutions
TOMIA
Transaction Network Services
Vodafone Roaming Services
Benchmark Industry Forecasts: Provides 5-year forecasts for wholesale roaming activities including traffic and revenue across roaming services including data, SMS and voice. The forecast also provides market splits of wholesale roaming for usage across consumer and IoT use cases. Metrics are split by our 8 key forecast regions and the 60 countries listed below:
North America:
Canada, US
Latin America:
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay
West Europe:
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK
Our comprehensive data and interactive forecasts provide readers with market-leading analysis on the future of the wholesale roaming ecosystem. It assesses the impact of the use of inbound roaming across a number of key use cases including:
Wholesale Roaming Market, including:
Total Inbound Roaming Connections
Average Inbound Roaming Revenue per Connection
Total Inbound Roaming Revenue
Consumer Wholesale Roaming, split by use cases including:
Total Inbound Mobile Subscribers, split by:
Total Inbound Subscribers That Use Data Roaming
Total Data Usage per Inbound Mobile Subscriber
Total Inbound Data Roaming Revenue
Total Inbound Mobile Subscribers That Use Voice Roaming
Total Inbound Voice Roaming Revenue
Total Inbound Mobile Subscribers That Use SMS Roaming
Total Inbound SMS Roaming Revenue from Roaming Mobile Subscribers
Total Inbound Voice, SMS & Data Retail Roaming Revenue
IoT Wholesale Roaming
Total Inbound Roaming Cellular IoT Connections
Total Inbound Data Usage per Inbound Roaming Cellular Connection
Tota Inbound Data Roaming Revenue from Cellular IoT Connections
Geographical splits: 60 countries
Number of tables: 29 tables
Number of datapoints: Over 13,220 datapoints
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FORECAST SUMMARY
Juniper Research, the foremost experts in the global roaming market, predicts that there will be over 1.5 billion inbound roaming connections in 2024, which are expected to rise to 2.4 billion by 2028.
The top 5 countries for inbound roaming subscribers in 2024 are identified as:
1. US (164 million)
2. France (147 million)
3. China (136 million)
4. Spain (70 million)
5. Mexico (66 million)
Together, these countries will account for over 583 million inbound roamingconnections; representing 40% of the global market share next year. Factors suchas strong tourist markets, and established and comprehensive roamingagreements are key to ensuring the high numbers of inbound roamingconnections in these five countries. Specifically, VoLTE roaming readiness andcontingencies for 5G and IoT connections will prove critical in maximising thereturn on investment for wholesale roaming revenue.
As roaming networks become increasingly complex, operators must invest inidentification tools to ensure they can accommodate the predicted influx ofinbound roaming connections over the next five years, especially as the travelindustry is expected to exceed pre-pandemic levels for the first time in 2024.
The global wholesale roaming revenue will rise from $7.1 billion in 2023 to $27.6billion by 2028. Specifically, this growth of 286% over the next five years will bedriven by the proliferation in the demand for data-centric use cases, including IoTover VoLTE and 5G networks.
Operators are urged to invest in strong network analytics and device identificationtools either in-house or via third-party roaming providers to enable the detectionof data-intensive roaming connections to provide accurate billing settlements;maximising wholesale roaming revenue.
Table of Contents
Market Trends & Strategies
1. Key Takeaways & Strategic Recommendations
1.1 Key Takeaways
1.2. & Strategic Recommendations
2. Current Market Outlook & Future Impacts
2.1. Introduction and Definitions
Figure 2.1: Total Inbound Voice, SMS & Data Retail Roaming Revenue in 2023 ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions
Figure 2.2: The Wholesale Roaming Market Structure
Figure 2.3: Total Inbound Roaming Connections (m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2019-2028
2.2. Wholesale Roaming Future Market Outlook
2.2.1. RLAH
Figure 2.4: Total Inbound Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by Roaming Technology, 2023-2028
i. Impact of RLAH on Operator Revenue
Figure 2.5: Average Inbound Roaming Spend per Mobile Roaming Subscriber West Europe ($), Split by Roaming Technology, 2023-2028
2.2.2. Impact of Travel Mobility Enabled by eSIMs
Figure 2.6: Total Number of Connected Consumer Devices with eSIMs Leveraging eSIMs for Connectivity (m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2022 & 2027
2.2.3. VoLTE Roaming & Interoperability Agreements
Figure 2.7: Market Share of SIM Technology (%), Split by 4 Network Types, 2020-2028
2.2.4. 5G Data Roaming
Figure 2.8: 5G Commercial Launches, 2023
2.2.5. Silent Roamers
2.2.6. Cellular IoT and Roaming
Figure 2.9: Total Inbound Data Roaming Revenue from Cellular IoT Connections ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2023-2028
Table 3.3: Juniper Research Wholesale Roaming Regional Analysis Heatmap: North America
Table 3.4: Juniper Research Wholesale Roaming Regional Analysis Heatmap: Latin America
Table 3.5: Juniper Research Wholesale Roaming Regional Analysis Heatmap: West Europe
Table 3.6: Juniper Research Wholesale Roaming Regional Analysis Heatmap: Central & East Europe
Table 3.7: Juniper Research Wholesale Roaming Regional Analysis Heatmap: Far East & China
Table 3.8: Juniper Research Wholesale Roaming Regional Analysis Heatmap: Indian Subcontinent
Table 3.9: Juniper Research Wholesale Roaming Regional Analysis Heatmap: Rest of Asia Pacific
Table 3.10: Juniper Research Wholesale Roaming Regional Analysis Heatmap: Africa & Middle East
3.1.1. North America
Figure 3.11: Total Wholesale Roaming Connections in North America (m), Split by Connection Type, 2019-2028
i. Consumer Roaming
Figure 3.12: Total Inbound Voice, SMS & Data Retail Roaming Revenue in North America ($m), Split by 3 Technologies, 2023-2028
ii. IoT Roaming
3.1.2. Latin America
Figure 3.13: Inbound Mobile Subscribers in Latin America (m), Split by 8 Key Countries, 2019-2028
i. Consumer Roaming
Figure 3.14: Proportion of Inbound Roaming Subscribers Using Data, Voice & SMS Roaming Services in Latin America (%), 2023-2028
ii. IoT Roaming
Figure 3.15: Total Inbound Roaming Cellular IoT Connections in Latin America (m), Split by 8 Key Countries, 2023-2028
iii. Revenue
3.1.3. West Europe
Figure 3.16: Total Inbound Voice, SMS & Data Retail Roaming Revenue in West Europe ($m), Split by Top 8 Countries, 2024
Figure 3.17: Average Inbound Roaming Revenue per Connection ($), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2023-2028
i. Wholesale IoT Roaming
Figure 3.18: Cellular IoT Connections & Inbound Roaming Cellular Connections in West Europe (m), 2023-2028
ii. Revenue
3.1.4. Central & East Europe
Figure 3.19: Total Inbound Roaming Revenue in Central & East Europe ($m), Split by 8 Key Countries, 2023-2028
i. Consumer Roaming
ii. IoT Roaming
Figure 3.20: Total Inbound Mobile Subscribers That Use Data Roaming Services in Central & East Europe (m), Split by 8 Key Countries, 2023-2028
3.1.5. Far East & China
Figure 3.21: Inbound Mobile Subscribers in Far East & China (m), Split by 4 Key Countries, 2019-2028
i. Consumer Roaming
ii. IoT Roaming
Figure 3.22: Total Inbound Data Roaming Revenue from Cellular IoT Connections in Far East & China ($m), Split by 4 key Countries, 2023-2028
3.1.6. Indian Subcontinent
Figure 3.23: Inbound Mobile Subscribers in Indian Subcontinent (m), Split by 4 Key Countries, 2019-2028
Figure 3.24: Sim Penetration in Indian Subcontinent (%), Split by 4 Key Countries, 2023-2028
3.1.7. Rest of Asia Pacific
Figure 3.25: Average Inbound Data Cost per MB Generated by Inbound Roaming Cellular IoT Connections in Rest of Asia Pacific ($), Split by 8 Key Countries, 2023-2028
3.1.8. Africa & Middle East
Figure 3.26: Total Inbound Voice, SMS & Data Retail Roaming Revenue in Africa & Middle East in 2028
Figure 3.27: Tota Inbound Data Roaming Revenue from Cellular IoT Connections in Africa & Middle East ($m), Split by 10 Key Countries, 2023-2028
Competitor Leaderboard
1. Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard
1.1. Why Read This Report
Table 1.1: Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard: Wholesale Roaming Vendors Included & Product Portfolio
Figure 1.2: Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard: Wholesale Roaming
Table 1.3: Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard: Vendors & Positioning
Table 1.4: Juiper Research Competitor Leaderboard Heatmap: Wholesale Roaming Vendors
2. Vendor Profiles
2.1. Wholesale Roaming Vendor Profiles
2.1.1. A1 Telekom
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offerings
v. Juniper Research's View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.2. BICS
i. Corporate
Table 2.1: BICS' Select Financial Information ($m), 2021-2022
ii. Geographical Coverage
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research's View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.3. Cellusys
i. Corporate
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offerings
v. Juniper Research's View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.4. Comfone
i. Corporate
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offerings
v. Juniper Research's View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.5. CSG
i. Corporate information
Table 2.3: CSG's Select Financial Information ($m), 2019-2022
Table 2.4: CSG's Acquisitions in 2021
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offerings
v. Juniper Research's View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.6. iBASIS
i. Corporate
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Recommendations
iv. High-level View of Offerings
v. Juniper Research's View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.7. Mobileum
i. Corporate Profile
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. Juniper Research's High-level View of Offerings
v. Juniper Research's View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.8. Orange Wholesale
i. Corporate Profile
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research's View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.9. Roamability
i. Corporate Profile
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offerings
Figure 2.6: Roamability DMI Solution Snapshot
v. Juniper Research's View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities