The telecom services market is in transition from being a traditional voice-centric industry toward data and mobile focused. Twice a year, IDC's Latin America Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker® provides detailed market size and market share data on a number of key telecom services markets, segmented into business and residential spending and forecast for five years. The tracker also includes other key metrics such as the number of connections and subscribers.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

This tracker provides total market size and vendor share for the following technology areas and segmentations. Measurement for this tracker is in lines, connections, subscriptions, end-user revenue, and voice traffic.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• Fixed voice
• IP voice
• Fixed broadband
• Mobile voice
• Mobile data
• Connections and spending for all services
• Traffic (voice services)
• Penetration over population and households

Segmentations:

• Market share
• Technology
• Type of customer: Consumer and business

Geographic Scope

• Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and the rest of Latin America)

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts for this tracker are updated semiannually and include six years of historical data and five years of annual market projections. Forecasts are available at the regional and country levels. Examples of the segmentations being forecast in this tracker include:

• Technology
• Type of customer: Consumer and business
• Type of contract (prepaid/contract) for mobile voice

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a semiannual basis with tools such as pivot tables. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Historical and forecast data: April (year-end data) and October (first-half update)