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WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING GROWING RAPIDLY,
SAYS INSIGHT RESEARCH
PARSIPPANY, NJ. May 6, 2002: The global market for wireless operations support systems (PRWEB) May 5, 2002 --the IT infrastructure that performs customer care, provisioning, and management functions in wireless networks--will exceed $12.4 billion this year, says a new research study by INSIGHT Research. Wireless network operators are investing in new software in order to support continued strong subscriber growth and to ready their networks to support high-speed wireless data services.
According to Wireless Operations Support Systems 2002-2007", wireless network operators will increase their investment in OSSes at a compounded annual rate of 20 percent over the next five years. That investment is being made to accommodate strong subscriber growth in several regions around the world and to fund the upgrades needed to make the leap from voice-oriented 2G networks to data-intensive 2.5G and 3G networks. Before subscribers can begin ordering wireless instant messaging, location-based services, or wireless conferencing services, upgrades must be made to billing, provisioning, network management, planning and engineering, and other OSSes, the report says.
Wireless operators recognize that investments in infrastructure must be made well in advance of deployment of the next generation of wireless services. In order for the industry to create a market for these services, investments in new billing, provisioning, and network management systems cannot be postponed," says INSIGHT president Robert Rosenberg. Therefore, the IT infrastructure elements needed to enable wireless data networks are still being bought, even in the face of industry-wide spending cutbacks," concluded Rosenberg.
Wireless Operations Support Systems 2002-2007" forecasts global IT infrastructure spending for 2G, 2.5G, and 3G networks by OSS type (customer care/call center operations, billing mediation, bill rendering, planning and engineering, provisioning and inventory management, trouble repair/service assurance, network management, fraud management, business management, workforce management, and wireless number portability applications) and by geographical region (North America; Europe/Middle East/Africa; Asia-Pacific; and Latin America/Caribbean).
A free report excerpt, table of contents, and ordering information is online at http://www.insight-corp.com/woss.html. This 245-page report is available immediately for $5,395 (hard copy). Adobe Acrobat (PDF) report licenses are also offered; visit the Web page above or call (973) 605-1400 for details.
For more information, please contact:
Christopher Delloiacono, Director of Marketing
The Insight Research Corporation
E-mail: chrisd@insight-corp.com
Phone: (973) 605-1400, Fax: (973) 605-1440
Parsippany, NJ 07054 USA
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