AI and data platforms: worldwide market shares 2025
10 November 2026 | Research
Market share report | PPTX and PDF; Excel | AI and Data Platforms
"In 2025, telecoms operators increased their spend on AI and data platforms by 23.6% to USD7 billion, allowing them to accelerate AI developments and deployments."
This report provides market share data for telecoms operator spending on AI and data platforms and related services for 2025. It contains details of how the spending varied by delivery model (that is, products and services), vendor and region. This is a highly fragmented market with participating players increasing as AI technologies evolve. In this report, we include profiles of the leading vendors in the market.
Questions answered in this report
- What was the overall size of the market for AI and data platforms for the telecoms industry and what drove this spending among telecoms operators?
- Who are the major vendors and what is their share of revenue in the AI and data platforms market?
- What are the different drivers and growth rates of operator spending on related products and professional services?
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Author
Adaora Okeleke
Principal Analyst, expert in AI and data managementRelated items
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