Global Wholesale Roaming Market: 2023-2028

The 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, the 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, the publisher 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

Key Statistics

• 2.9bn - Total inbound roaming connections in 2023
• 6.3bn - Total inbound roaming connections in 2028
• 17% - 2023 to 2028 CAGR growth
• 2023-2028 - Forecast period

Key Features

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

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 the publisher's view on each company's innovation and future business prospects. The companies included in the 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 KoreaIndian 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

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.