Telecoms operator business and IT services for large businesses: worldwide forecast 2025–2030

16 April 2026 | Research and Insights

Catherine Hammond

Forecast report | PPTX and PDF | Enterprise Services


"Opportunities from core telecoms services are limited in most regions, but there are some pockets of growth available for those willing to invest."

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This report provides an outlook on the worldwide telecoms and IT services market for large businesses (with at least 250 employees). It contains global and regional forecasts for fixed and mobile voice and data network services, as well as IT services such as security, co-location and hosting, unified communications (UC) and cloud services. It also presents insights from our mobile private networks, SD-WAN, network API and GPUaaS forecasts.

This report provides:

  • forecasts for operator services to large businesses, including fixed and mobile voice and data services, IoT connectivity services and IT services such as security, UC and cloud services
  • a worldwide forecast and eight regional breakdowns
  • quantification of revenue, the number of connections or users and ARPU for each service
  • an estimate of the total market for IT services that is addressable by operators and the share that they are likely to achieve for seven service categories
  • demographic data on the number of employees, businesses and sites (note that we include entities in the government and public sectors).

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Coverage

Geographical coverage

 

Services

Regions modelled

  • North America
  • Latin America
  • Western Europe
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Developed Asia–Pacific
  • Emerging Asia–Pacific excluding China
  • China
 

Mobile

  • Mobile handset
  • Mobile broadband
  • IoT connectivity 

Fixed

  • Narrowband voice
  • VoBB
  • ADSL/SDSL, vDSL, FTTP/B, cable, FWA, satellite, other fixed broadband
  • Dedicated connections: below 100Mbit/s, 100Mbit/s and up to 1Gbit/s, and at least 1Gbit/s
 

IT

  • Co-location and hosting
  • Infrastructure as a service and platform as a service (IaaS/PaaS)
  • Software as a service (SaaS)
  • Security
  • Enterprise mobilitiy
  • Unified communications (UC) and hosted voice

Business size segment

  • Large (250+ employees)

 

 

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Author

Catherine Hammond

Research Director