
A2P & Business Messaging Market 2025-2030: Market Trends and Strategies
Description
This market study examines the A2P & Business Messaging landscape in detail; assessing how disruption within the market will impact the future growth in operator revenue from business messaging; providing insight into where future growth in business messaging traffic will be, and key use cases driving this growth. The report offers in-depth analysis of the strategic opportunities for operators; addressing key partnership and monetisation opportunities.
It evaluates industry-level opportunities for A2P messaging growth; summarising the forecasted growth in traffic across A2P SMS, RCS business messaging, and OTT business messaging for each industry. The research provides an understanding of each industry’s needs from business messaging, and how these needs will drive the shift in business messaging channel preferences for different industry use cases over the next few years.
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It evaluates industry-level opportunities for A2P messaging growth; summarising the forecasted growth in traffic across A2P SMS, RCS business messaging, and OTT business messaging for each industry. The research provides an understanding of each industry’s needs from business messaging, and how these needs will drive the shift in business messaging channel preferences for different industry use cases over the next few years.
Please note: the online download version of this report is for a global site license.
Table of Contents
37 Pages
- 1. Key Takeaways & Strategic Recommendations
- 1.1 Key Takeaways
- 1.2 Strategic Recommendations
- 2. Future Market Outlook
- 2.1 Introduction: A2P Messaging Market
- 2.2 Future Outlook: A2P Messaging Market
- Figure 2.1: Total A2P Messaging Traffic (m) Split by Channel: A2P SMS, RCS Business Messaging, OTT Business Messaging, 2025-2030
- 2.2.1 Key Trends Driving A2P Messaging Revenue Growth
- i. SME Adoption
- ii. Increased Demand for Conversational Messaging
- iii. Apple Launch of RCS and Roll-out
- Figure 2.2: Proportion of Mobile Subscribers That Are RCS-capable, in 8 Key Regions in 2025 (%)
- iv. Technological Advancements
- Figure 2.3: Example of Agentic AI in Customer Support
- 2.3 A2P SMS
- 2.3.1 Future Outlook: A2P SMS
- Figure 2.4: Total Revenue from A2P SMS ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2025-2030
- i. Key Regulation Changes
- Table 2.5: China’s Regulations on A2P SMS
- Figure 2.6: A2P SMS Traffic in China (m), 2024-2025
- Table 2.7: Ireland’s Sender ID Registration
- 2.3.2 Operator Recommendations to Respond to A2P SMS Decline
- 2.4 RCS Business Messaging
- 2.4.1 Future Outlook: RCS Business Messaging
- Figure 2.8: Total Number of A2P RCS Messages Received per annum (m), 2022-2030
- Figure 2.9: RCS Business Messaging Traffic in India (m), 2024-2030
- Figure 2.10: RCS Business Messaging Traffic in the US (m), 2024-2030
- Figure 2.11: RCS Business Messaging Traffic in West Europe (m), 2024-2030
- Table 2.12: T-Mobile Penalties for RCS Business Messaging Traffic Violating Code of Conduct
- i. Monetisation of RCS
- 2.4.2 RCS Business Messaging: Market Challenges
- i. Differences in Compliance
- Table 2.13: Details of RCS Business Messaging Compliance in Select Markets in 2025
- ii. Pricing Models
- iii. P2P RCS Fraud
- 2.5 OTT Business Messaging
- 2.5.1 Future Outlook: OTT Business Messaging
- i. Trend Towards Superapps
- ii. Impact of WhatsApp Per-message Pricing Model Change
- Figure 2.14: SMS vs WhatsApp Authentication Pricing ($), as of July 2025, in Key WhatsApp Markets
- 2.5.2 Operator Response to OTT Business Messaging
- 3. Shifting Industry Demand for Business Messaging
- 3.1 Key Use Cases & Industries for Business Messaging
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