• Spending on telecommunications equipment to increase from 5.4 percent in 2004 to high single-digit rates through 2007. For the 2004-07 period, equipment spending in the five regions will expand at an estimated 7.4 percent CAGR, rising from $260.1 billion in 2004 to $328.1 billion in 2007.
• At $197.6 billion in 2005, the markets are anticipated to reach $446.9 billion by 2010. The top ten telecommunications equipment provider were worth $166 billion in 2004 and are forecast to reach $381 billion by 2010.
• Worldwide revenue from next-generation voice equipment rose 36 percent between 2003 and 2004 to reach a total of $1.71 billion
• Sales should continue to grow at a rate of 36 percent annually over the next five years to hit $5.9 billion.
• North America is the biggest consumer of equipment with 48 percent of the market and 1.1 million residential and SOHO customers subscribing to VoIP services. This number will grow to 17.4 million by 2008.
• Asia is next in line with 28 percent of revenues for next-gen voice equipment in 2004.
• Many fixed-line telephone companies in Western Europe are not embracing new technologies such as VoIP.
• Sonus was named the US market share leader for media gateways in 2004 with Cisco coming in second. Nortel led the way for the softswitch market.
• International telecommunications market expected to grow at double-digit rates reaching $2 trillion in 2007
• The landline market will continue to grow at low single-digit rates, averaging 3.2 percent CAGR as the migration from wireline to wireless continues. The landline market will increase from $440.6 billion in 2004 to $484.2 billion in 2007. The transport services market, as a whole, will expand from $828 billion in 2004 to $1.1 trillion in 2007, an 8.8 percent CAGR increase.
• International hotspot count is set to reach 145,000 by 2007.

Source: Infonetics Research, IDC, and V&D estimates