The telecom services market is shifting from traditional fixed voice and data services to new mobile, IP, and converged services. IDC's Worldwide Telecom Services Database tracks the telecom services transformation to this next-generation business model in one consolidated product to assist our customers with their business planning and market analysis. This product provides a worldwide overview with regional and country-level detail. It quantifies the market size and forecast for the entire telecom services market according to spending, subscriptions, and traffic usage. This database is updated and delivered twice a year.

This product covers the following segments of the worldwide telecom market:

• Telecommunications network services
• Market forecasts to 2015
• 6 geographic regions and 88 countries
• Regional coverage: seven network service areas, consumer and business breakouts, end-user spending, traffic, and subscriptions
• Country-level coverage: total fixed voice and data and total wireless voice and data

Throughout the year, this product will address the following topics:

• Fixed line voice
• Voice over IP
• Broadband
• Core data services
• IP data services
• Mobile voice
• Mobile data
• Total telecom market

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. At what rate is mobile data growing?
2. At what rate is IP voice growing?
3. How large is the global telecom market opportunity?
4. How are fixed data services evolving?
5. What is the addressable market for a specific service provider?
6. What are the key growth areas with sustainable revenue streams?

IDC's Worldwide Telecom Services Database quantifies the market size and forecast for the worldwide telecommunications network service market. This is a one-stop-shop product for total global telecom services market sizings and forecasts, including fixed voice and data as well as wireless voice and data. In addition to providing regional coverage, this tool delivers data for the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, and Vietnam.

Throughout the year, this product will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the market.

This easy-to-use query tool is based on Excel pivot tables. The tool enables users to quickly generate market data to a particular specification — the main options include product area, access type, type of measurement, and type of user.