Key Statistics
Total end user spend via carrier billing in 2024
Total end user spend via carrier billing in 2029
Forecast datapoints
Forecast period
Overview
Our new Carrier Billing research suite provides an in-depth analysis on how this payment technology is developing in both mature and evolving markets. Its utility across key market verticals, including digital content (music, video, games, lifestyle, and ePublishing), is quantified in our accompanying market forecasts. Additionally, emerging market opportunities across developing verticals, including digital ticketing, gambling, and physical goods, are also discussed.
The report assesses how other established payment methods, including digital wallets, credit cards, BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later), and A2A (Account-to-Account) payments, are impacting the penetration of carrier billing across multiple markets. Furthermore, Juniper Research leverages its expertise to hypothesise the impact of the anticipated PSD3 (Payment Service Directory 3) on carrier billing payments.
The carrier billing research reports provide a detailed analysis on how evolving technologies, including the standardisation of APIs, will impact the future of carrier billing; enabling stakeholders from networks operators, merchants, regulators and aggregators to understand the major factors, trends and investment opportunities available. The carrier billing market growth research also features a comprehensive forecast suite, with total carrier billing users, spend and operator-billed revenue split by:
- Device:
- Featurephones
- Smartphones
- Tablets
- Market Vertical:
- Digital Content
- Digital Games
- Digital Videos
- Digital Music
- Digital Lifestyle
- ePublishing
- Physical Goods
- Gambling
- Ticketing
This report provides in-depth forecasts on how carrier billing adoption is impacting the payments market in 60 key countries over the next five years and leverages interviews with key carrier billing aggregators to quantify this growth.
All report content is delivered in the English language.
- Key Takeaways & Strategic Recommendations: An in-depth analysis of key development opportunities and findings within the carrier billing market, accompanied by strategic recommendations for mobile network operators and carrier billing aggregators on which regions, markets and services to target and how.
- Future Growth Opportunities: Not only does this report suite assess the future growth strategies of carrier billing via market vertical, (digital games, digital video, digital music, digital lifestyle content, charity donations, digital ticketing, and physical goods), but it also evaluates the payments, security and API landscape to uncover how factors such as fraud, fintech and increased ecosystem interoperability will impact the carrier billing market over the next five years.
- Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard: As the carrier billing market undergoes consolidation, our Competitor Leaderboard assesses key players’ capabilities and capacity for 12 leading carrier billing aggregators.
- Benchmark Industry Forecasts: 5-year forecasts are provided for total carrier billing users, total end-user spend via carrier billing, and total operator-billing revenue from carrier billing transactions. These forecasts are split by three key devices (smartphones, featurephones and tablets) and eight key markets (digital games, music, video, lifestyle, ePublishing, and physical goods, gambling and ticketing).
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.
The market-leading research suite for the carrier billing market includes access to the full set of forecast data of 75 tables and over 34,000 datapoints. Key metrics in the research suite include:
- Total Carrier Billing Users
- Total Carrier Billing Spend
- Total Operator-billed Revenue from Carrier Billing
Additionally, this forecast splits total end-user spend via carrier billing and operator-billed revenue by:
- Device:
- Featurephones
- Smartphones
- Tablets
- Market Vertical:
- Digital Content
- Digital Games
- Digital Videos
- Digital Music
- Digital Lifestyle
- ePublishing
- Physical Goods
- Gambling
- Ticketing
Juniper Research’s Interactive Forecast Excel contains the following functionality:
- Statistics Analysis: Users benefit from the ability to search for specific metrics; displayed for all regions and countries across the data period. Graphs are easily modified and can be exported to the clipboard.
- Country Data Tool: This tool lets users explore metrics for all regions and countries in the forecast period. Users can refine the metrics displayed via a search bar.
- Country Comparison Tool: Users can select and compare specific countries. The ability to export graphs is included in this tool.
- What-if Analysis: Here, users can compare forecast metrics against their own assumptions, featuring five interactive scenarios.
This report thoroughly examines the carrier billing market landscape in detail; assessing key market trends, industries, and factors shaping its evolution. Additionally, this research report provides an assessment on the impact of fraud, APIs and the wider fintech landscape in the carrier billing market over the next five years, leveraging expertise from leading carrier billing aggregators.
The report delivers a comprehensive analysis on the future trends impacting this market, including the subscription economy, super bundling, rich messaging, content distribution channels, the regulation landscape, and challenges including payment limitations, high transaction fees and merchant adoption.
The Competitor Leaderboard report provides a detailed evaluation and market positioning for 12 leading vendors in the carrier billing space. The following vendors are positioned as established leaders, leading challengers, or disruptors and challengers, based on capacity and capability assessments:
- Allopass
- Bango
- Boku
- Degica
- Digital Virgo
- DIMOCO Payments
- Fonix
- Infomedia
- NHT Mobile
- PM Connect
- SLA Digital
- Telecoming
This report is centred around the Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard; a vendor positioning tool that provides an at-a-glance view of the competitive landscape in a specific market, backed by a robust methodology.
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