IDC's Worldwide Telecom Black Book service offers comprehensive views (both detailed and consolidated) of the $1 trillion global telecom market and of growth opportunities for network equipment vendors and network service providers in national and global telecommunications markets. These comprehensive views highlight voice and data services spending, fixed and mobile network operator revenue, network operator infrastructure spending, and enterprise and consumer spending on network equipment. Market size and forecast details are provided at the country level, with aggregations to the regional and global levels.

This service covers the following segments of the telecommunications market:

• Telecommunications services
• Telecommunications equipment

Throughout the year, this service will address the following topics:

• Voice and data wireline revenue
• Voice and data wireless revenue
• Network equipment sold to service providers
• Network equipment sold to enterprises
• Network equipment sold to consumers
• Wireless network equipment revenue
• Hardware sold to network service providers
• Software sold to network service providers
• Services sold to network service providers
• Internet households
• Broadband households
• Fixed access lines and wireless subscribers

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. What is the relationship between wireless and wireline services?
2. How do growth trends for IP solutions compare with growth in traditional data services?
3. What are the size and growth rates of equipment sold to enterprises and service providers?
4. Which regions represent the fastest-growing market opportunities?

IDC's Worldwide Telecom Black Book service examines how leading providers are positioning themselves to compete in the telecommunications market. This service reviews strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several providers in the telecommunications market, including:

Alcatel, AT&T, Avaya, Bell Canada, BellSouth, BT, Cable & Wireless, China Mobile, China Netcom, China Telecom, Cisco, DT, Ericsson, FT, Huawei, KDDI, Lucent, Marconi, MCI, Mitel, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel, NTT, PCCW, QUALCOMM, Qwest, Reliance Infocomm, Siemens, SingTel, SK Telecom, Softbank/Japan Telecom, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, TelMex, Telstra, Telus, UTStarcom, Verizon, Vodafone, and VSNL.

This service will provide the following quarterly deliverable:

This interactive tool is delivered on CD-ROM and includes communications spending data across all countries and major market segments.

IDC offers a complete market intelligence solution customized to meet your business requirements. The array of products and services available to you includes:

• The opportunity to have your specific questions answered through personal interaction with industry experts who cover the topics and markets in your service
• Around-the-clock access to our market intelligence on idc.com, IDC's personalized Web experience
• A view of the market's future with 12 months of continuous intelligence about its direction and the reasons behind it, along with actionable advice for taking advantage of existing and emerging opportunities
• Special client discount pricing on purchases of research from other services
• Complimentary admission to IDC's annual Directions conference, where you'll hear our latest forecasts and network with IDC analysts and other industry professionals
• Complimentary invitations to monthly executive telebriefings, interactive forums designed to provide you with insights about research and strategies directly from IDC analysts

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