Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its latest Convergent Charging Software and Services market share, market size, and forecast report.

ANALYST NOTE

“Comverse narrowly regained the revenue lead in the fast-growing and hyper-competitive convergent charging market, with Huawei and Ericsson close behind, and Amdocs ramping up its market share over the past year,” reports Shira Levine, directing analyst for next gen OSS and policy at Infonetics Research.

Levine adds: “We expect operators to spend a cumulative $14 billion over the next 5 years on convergent charging software and services, and the vendors in this space are jockeying to position themselves to capture that opportunity. Many are integrating their solution portfolios with policy management capabilities to enable flexible service bundles that better tie the amount of bandwidth consumed to the price charged.”

CONVERGENT CHARGING MARKET HIGHLIGHTS

• The global convergent charging market, including software and services, is forecast by Infonetics to grow to $3.9 billion by 2016
• Asia Pacific and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) are the leading regions for convergent charging activity, together accounting for over 80% of total revenue in 2011
• Network upgrades such as LTE are driving investment in convergent charging, as operators seek to monetize their technology investments
• Some operators in fast-growing regions are purchasing “out-of-the-box” solutions that will likely run into scalability issues as subscriber growth and transaction volumes ramp up, leading to a wave of convergent charging replacement activity in the future

CONVERGENT CHARGING REPORT SYNOPSIS

Infonetics’ biannual Convergent Charging Software and Services report provides worldwide market share, worldwide and regional market size, in-depth analysis, and forecasts for convergent charging software and services. The report includes a comprehensive convergent charging product roadmap and strategic outlook. Vendors tracked include Alcatel-Lucent, Amdocs, Comverse, Convergys, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Huawei, Nokia Siemens, Openet, Oracle, Orga Systems, Telcordia, and others. To buy the report, contact Infonetics sales: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp.

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UPCOMING RESEARCH

Download Infonetics report highlights, prospectuses, etc. at http://www.infonetics.com/login (see Next Gen OSS and Policy), or download the Infonetics Research Publication Calendar at http://bit.ly/zwjcRs.

• Convergent Charging Deployment Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey
• Policy Management Software Market Share and Forecasts
• Service Delivery Platform Software and Services Market Share and Forecasts
• Service Provider Deep Packet Inspection Products Market Share and Forecasts

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Europe, Middle East, Africa: George Stojsavljevic, [email protected], +44-755-488-1623

Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp

Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com) is an international market research and consulting firm serving the communications industry since 1990. A leader in defining and tracking emerging and established technologies in all world regions, Infonetics helps clients plan, strategize, and compete effectively.

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