Key Statistics
Total inbound roaming connections in 2023
Total inbound roaming connections in 2028
2023 to 2028 CAGR growth
Forecast period
'Juniper Research Reveals Top 5 Countries for Roaming in 2024; Accounting for 40% of Global Inbound Roaming Connections'
Overview
Our 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
• Blockchain
• Impact of eSIMs
• Roam Like at Home
• Silent Roaming
• Wholesale Roaming Fraud
This research suite includes:
• Market Trends & Strategies (PDF)
• Competitor Leaderboard (PDF)
• Data & Forecasting (PDF)
• 5-year Market Sizing & Forecast Spreadsheet (Excel)
• 12 Months' Access to harvest Online Data Platform
All report content is delivered in the English language.
- 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
- 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
- Central & East Europe:
- Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
- Far East & China:
- China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea
Indian Subcontinent:
Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan
- China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea
- Rest of Asia Pacific:
- Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
- Africa & Middle East:
- Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Kenya, Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates
- North America:
Research Deliverables
Market Data & Forecasting Report
The numbers tell you what's happening, but our written report details why, alongside the methodologies.
Interactive Forecast Excel
Full 5-year forecasts for every available market metric provided in Excel format, with interactive 'What If' and scenario tools.
harvest Online Data Platform
Access the very latest data in our exclusive online data platform, harvest. All the data from Excel, with frequent updates and a more user-friendly interface.
Market Trends & Strategies Report
A comprehensive analysis of the current market landscape, alongside strategic recommendations.
Competitor Leaderboard Report
Provides a visual representation of the competitive positioning of the leaders within the market.
Our market-leading Wholesale Roaming forecast suite offers a global view of the wholesale roaming market by assessing the deployment and status of wholesale roaming activities across 60 key countries.
This will allow both operators and wholesale roaming vendors to identify key future growth opportunities, by providing in-depth benchmark data and forecast splits for the following:
- 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
- Total Inbound Data Roaming Revenue from Cellular IoT Connections
- Total Inbound Mobile Subscribers, split by:
There are also regional splits for our 8 key forecast regions, as well as 60 country-level data splits for:
- 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
- Central & East Europe:
- Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
- Far East & China:
- China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea
- Indian Subcontinent:
- Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan
- Rest of Asia Pacific:
- Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
- Africa & Middle East:
- Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Kenya, Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates
Juniper Research’s Wholesale Roaming research suite provides a comprehensive assessment of the evolving nature of this established market, including an analysis of the technologies and trends influencing the value proposition of the wholesale roaming market. These include the deployment of eSIMs, 5G data roaming, silent roamers, cellular IoT roaming, VoLTE roaming agreements, TAP/BCE, blockchain and wholesale roaming fraud.
Additionally, the report includes a comprehensive regional analysis which highlights the key future opportunities for growth in this market. This regional analysis is complemented by the use of thorough in-house forecast data spanning 60 countries across 8 key regions. These datasets assess a range of criteria, including rate of users, traffic and revenue. The research also includes:
- Key Takeaways & Strategic Recommendations: Juniper Research provides recommendations and strategic analysis aligned to future strategies for operators and wholesale roaming vendors.
- Future Market Outlook: The report provides bespoke recommendations to secure a return of investment. These strategies include:
- 5G Roaming Agreements
- BCE and TAP pricing and clearing
- Blockchain
- Impact of eSIMs
- Roam Like at Home
- Silent Roamers
- Wholesale Roaming Fraud
- Regional Analysis: A thorough assessment of the future use of wholesale roaming technologies and active operator roaming agreements. It also analyses the potential factors encouraging or limiting the adoption of this technology across 8 key regions.
Juniper Research’s Competitor Leaderboard for the Wholesale Roaming market assesses 15 leading roaming vendors; positioning them as either an established leader, leading challenger, or disruptor and challenger.
Our Competitor Leaderboard scores these companies on their size of operations in this space, their extent and breadth of market partnerships, the sophistication of their platforms, and Juniper Research's view on each company's innovation and future business prospects:
- 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
Our Competitor Leaderboard enables stakeholders to view their position in the market, which companies have the highest market prospects, and what strategies successful players are implementing to be positioned as an established leader. The Competitor Leaderboard is backed by a robust and comprehensive scoring methodology; enabling readers to gain greater independent insight into leading market players.
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