Wholesale Telecom Services

The Current Analysis Wholesale Telecom Services module incorporates analytical coverage of major national and international wholesale service providers, their markets and competition. Companies include the wholesale divisions of regional, national and international service providers, dedicated wholesale-only service providers, and alternative carriers that offer wholesale services.

Geographic coverage currently encompasses North America, including the U.S., Mexico and Canada, and Europe, including UK/Ireland, Southern Europe (Spain, France, Portugal, and Italy), Nordics (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland), Central Europe (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland), Benelux as well as a Pan-European overview.

Coverage within the module includes Voice Services (local, long distance, VoIP, wireless, termination, etc.), Transport Services (SDH, SONET, DWDM, Ethernet, ATM/Frame Relay), IP Services, and Managed Services.

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The Runaway Train of Mobile Backhaul – Opportunity or Threat for Wholesale Carriers?

Joel Stradling
Senior Analyst, Telecom Services Europe
March 30, 2007

Mobile backhaul capacity demands and associated costs are set to rise exponentially in the immediate future. Mobile operators have relied to a large extent on fixed-line wholesale carrier services to backhaul mobile voice and data from the mobile base stations onto a backbone via leased lines and, where available, direct fibre.

However, with the increasing demand from clients for converged services, including bandwidth-hungry rich media content on 3G networks to mobile handsets, mobile operators are beginning to see that their business models are simply not going to scale, especially with ARPU growth lower than backhaul expenditure growth. This problem is certainly not going to go away, as business and residential customers look for more mobile media and interactive communications, such as live TV streaming to a mobile device. Future wireless platforms, such as 4G, HSDPA, and LTE, will cause backhaul requirements to shoot up yet more.

At the same time, mobile operators cannot expect traditional mobile telephony charged per-minute to provide a way out of this problem, especially as more dual-mode handsets and services enter the market, allowing clients to conduct VoIP calls and other mobile data services (e.g., SMS and chat) from home WiFi areas or public hotspots. With mobile service providers considering alternative solutions to their backhaul problems, such as self-build or switching vendors, what should the fixed-line players be doing to make sure that their mobile customers remain on board?

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