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Global Mobile Roaming Market 2025-2029: Full Research Suite

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Length 183 Pages
Publisher Juniper Research
Published Date January, 2025
SKU JNRH19997507

Our Mobile Roaming research suite provides a detailed and insightful analysis of a market set for significant change over the next five years. It enables stakeholders, from mobile roaming vendors and mobile operators, to better understand how both the wholesale and retail roaming markets will evolve, assessing the extent to which travel eSIMs, 5G roaming and Internet of Things (IoT) device roaming will impact the market.

The mobile roaming market suite includes several different options that can be purchased separately, including data mapping of the traffic and future revenue potential of mobile roaming. Additionally, it includes an insightful study uncovering key trends and future opportunities within the market, as well as an extensive analysis of 23 leading vendors in the mobile roaming space. The coverage can also be purchased as a full research suite, which contains all these elements and includes a substantial discount.

Collectively, they provide a critical tool for understanding this ever-changing market, allowing mobile roaming vendors and operators to capitalise on trends and shape their future strategy. This research suite’s unparalleled coverage makes it an incredibly useful resource for projecting the future of such an unpredictable market.

Key Features
Market Dynamics: Insights into key trends and market opportunities resulting from changes within the mobile roaming market. This research addresses key growth opportunities for mobile roaming vendors and mobile operators, including 5G roaming, IoT roaming and travel eSIM adoption. This research then considers challenges posed by legacy network sunsetting and fraudulent activity, providing recommendations for how these must be navigated. Moreover, it includes a regional market growth rate analysis on the current development and future growth of mobile roaming across 60 key countries, identifying key focus markets.

Key Takeaways & Strategic Recommendations: In-depth analysis of key development opportunities and findings within the mobile roaming market, accompanied by key strategic recommendations for mobile roaming vendors and mobile operators.

Benchmark Industry Forecasts: Five-year forecast databases are provided for wholesale and retail roaming, providing user, traffic and revenue splits for each sector. These sector splits include consumer wholesale roaming, IoT wholesale roaming, 4G smartphone roaming, 5G smartphone roaming, roaming devices and cruise roaming.

Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard: Key player capability and capacity assessment for 23 mobile roaming vendors via the Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard; scoring these vendors on criteria such as market performance, revenue and future business prospects.

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1. Key Takeaways & Strategic Recommendations
1.1 Key Takeaways and Strategic Recommendations
2. Future Market Outlook – Wholesale Roaming
2.1 Introduction to Wholesale Roaming
Figure 2.1: Mobile Roaming Structure
Figure 2.2: Total Wholesale Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
2.2 2G and 3G Sunsetting
i. VoLTE Roaming
2.3 5G Roaming
i. Network Slicing
ii. Infrastructure Sharing
iii. Bundled Services
iv. VoLTE as 5G SA Fallback
v. 5G Roaming Security
2.4 6G Roaming
2.5 Cloud-based Roaming Services
2.6 Travel eSIMs
2.7 Evolution of Billing and Charging Evolution (BCE)
Figure 2.3: Data Flow in BCE Process
Figure 2.4: High-level Reporting Exchange Flow
2.8 APIs
2.9 IoT Roaming Devices
Figure 2.5: Total Number of IoT Connections that are Roaming (m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
Figure 2.6: Total IoT Wholesale Roaming Revenue
Figure 2.7: IoT Use Cases
2.10 Fraudulent Roaming Activity
3. Future Market Outlook – Retail Roaming
3.1 Introduction to Retail Roaming
Figure 3.1: Total Retail Roaming Revenue Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024
3.2 Travel SIMs and Travel eSIMs
Figure 3.2: Total Roaming Spend Lost to Travel SIMs/eSIMs ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2023-2028
3.2.1 Travel SIMs
3.2.2 Travel eSIMs
Figure 3.3: Total Number of Smartphones that have eSIMs (m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2026
3.3 Regulatory
3.4 Cloud-based Roaming Services
3.5 5G and 6G Roaming
3.6 Consumer Device Roaming
3.7 Cruise and In-flight Roaming
3.7.1 Cruise Roaming
Figure 3.4: Infographic Showing the Process of Cruise Roaming
Figure 3.5: Total Cruise Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
3.7.2 In-flight Roaming
4. Country Readiness Index
4.1 Introduction to Country Readiness Index
Figure 4.1: Mobile Roaming Country Readiness Index Regional Definitions
Table 4.2: Juniper Research Country Readiness Index Scoring Criteria: Mobile Roaming
Figure 4.3: Juniper Research Country Readiness Index: Mobile Roaming
Table 4.4: Mobile Roaming Country Readiness Index: Market Segments
4.2 Focus Markets
Figure 4.5: Total Retail Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by 20 Focus Markets, 2024
4.2.1 RLAH
Figure 4.6: Total Active Outbound Mobile Roaming Subscribers (m), Split by Focus Markets in West Europe, 2024
4.2.2 The GCC
Figure 4.7: Total Retail Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, 2024-2029
4.2.3 The Nordic Roaming Initiative
Figure 4.8: Total Retail Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by Sweden, Denmark and Norway, 2024-2029
4.2.4 North America
Figure 4.9: Total Outbound Travellers (m), Split by US and Canada, 2024-2029
4.2.5 Far East & Asia
4.3 Growth Markets
4.3.1 India
Figure 4.10: GDP per Capita ($), 2024-2029, India
4.3.2 Belgium
4.4 Saturated Markets
4.5 Developing Markets
Figure 4.11: Total Retail Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by Developing Markets, 2024
4.5.1 Roaming Initiatives in Africa
4.5.2 Roaming Initiatives in Latin America
Table 4.12: Juniper Research’s Country Readiness Index Heatmap: North America
Table 4.13: Juniper Research’s Country Readiness Index Heatmap: Latin America
Table 4.14: Juniper Research’s Country Readiness Index Heatmap: West Europe
Table 4.15: Juniper Research’s Country Readiness Index Heatmap: Central & East Europe
Table 4.16: Juniper Research’s Country Readiness Index Heatmap: Far East & China
Table 4.17: Juniper Research’s Country Readiness Index Heatmap: Indian Subcontinent
Table 4.18: Juniper Research’s Country Readiness Index Heatmap: Rest of Asia Pacific
Table 4.19: Juniper Research’s Country Readiness Index Heatmap: Africa & Middle East
1. Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard
1.1 Why Read This Report
Mobile Operators Must Embrace Travel eSIMs as a New Revenue Opportunity, Rather Than View as a Threat
5G and VoLTE Roaming to Accelerate 2G and 3G Roaming Network Sunsetting
Table 1.1: Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard: Vendors & Product Portfolio (1 of 2)
Table 1.2: Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard: Vendors & Product Portfolio (2 of 2)
Figure 1.3: Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard: Mobile Roaming
Table 1.4: Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard: Vendors
Table 1.5: Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard Heatmap: Mobile Roaming Vendors (1 of 2)
Table 1.6: Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard Heatmap: Mobile Roaming Vendors (2 of 2)
2. Vendor Profiles
2.1 Mobile Roaming Vendor Profiles
2.1.1 A1 Telekom Austria Group
i. Corporate Information
Figure 2.1: A1 Group Select Financial Information, 2021-2023
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.2 Amplitiv
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.3 BICS
i. Corporate Information
Table 2.2: BICS’ Select Financial Information (€m), 2022 & 2023
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.4 BroadForward
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
Figure 2.3: BroadForward’s SEPP
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.5 Cellusys
i. Corporate Information
Figure 2.4: Cellusys Portfolio
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
Figure 2.5: Cellusys Roaming Platform
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.6 Comfone
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
Figure 2.6: Comfone’s Portfolio
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.7 CSG
i. Corporate Information
Table 2.7: CSG’s Select Financial Information ($m), 2021-2023
Table 2.8: CSG’s Acquisitions
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.8 Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.9 Etisalat
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.10 iBASIS
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
Figure 2.9: iBASIS’ Global Customer Connections
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.11 Mobileum
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
Figure 2.10: Mobileum’s Roaming Management Suite
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.12 Nextgen Clearing
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.13 Orange Wholesale
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
Figure 2.11: Orange Operations Map
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.14 Roamability
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
Figure 2.12: Roamability’s DMI Solution Snapshot
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.15 Syniverse
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
Figure 2.13: Syniverse’s Clearing and Settlement Services
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.16 Tata Communications
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.17 Tele2 International Wholesale
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.18 Telefonica Global Solutions
i. Corporate Information
Figure 2.14: Telefónica’s Select Financial Information (€m), 2020-2022
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
Figure 2.15: Telefónica’s 5G Roaming Suite
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.19 Telenor Linx
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.20 Telna
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.21 TNS
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.22 TOMIA
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.1.23 Vodafone Roaming Services
i. Corporate Information
ii. Geographical Spread
iii. Key Clients & Strategic Partnerships
iv. High-level View of Offering
Table 2.16: Vodafone’s Global Signalling & IPX Connectivity
v. Juniper Research’s View: Key Strengths & Strategic Opportunities
2.2 Juniper Research Leaderboard Methodology
2.3 Limitations & Interpretations
Table 2.17: Juniper Research Competitor Leaderboard Scoring Criteria: Mobile Roaming Vendors
1. Market Forecast & Key Takeaways
1.1 Introduction to Mobile Roaming Forecasts
Figure 1.1: Total Outbound Travellers (m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
1.1.1 Total Inbound Roaming Connections
Figure & Table 1.2: Total Inbound Roaming Connections (m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
1.1.2 Total Inbound Roaming Revenue
Figure & Table 1.3: Total Inbound Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
Table 1.4: Total Inbound Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by Consumer and IoT, 2024-2029
1.1.3 Total Outbound Roaming Subscribers
Figure & Table 1.5: Total Outbound Roaming Subscribers (m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
1.1.4 Total Outbound Retail Roaming Revenue
Figure & Table 1.6: Total Outbound Retail Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
2. Wholesale Roaming Consumer Voice, SMS and Data Forecasts
2.1 Wholesale Roaming Consumer Voice, SMS and Data Usage
Figure 2.1: Total Wholesale Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by SMS, Voice and Data Roaming, 2024
2.1.1 Data Roaming Forecast Methodology
2.1.2 Voice Roaming Forecast Methodology
2.1.3 SMS Roaming Forecast Methodology
Figure 2.2: Consumer Wholesale Roaming Forecast Methodology
2.1.4 Total Inbound Mobile Subscribers
Figure & Table 2.3: Total Inbound Mobile Subscribers (m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
2.1.5 Inbound Roaming Subscribers: SMS Revenue
Figure & Table 2.4: Total Inbound SMS Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
2.1.6 Inbound Roaming Subscribers: Voice Revenue
Figure & Table 2.5: Total Inbound Voice Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
2.1.7 Inbound Roaming Subscribers: Data Revenue
Figure & Table 2.6: Total Inbound Data Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
3. IoT Wholesale Roaming
3.1 Wholesale Roaming – IoT Devices and Sensors
Figure 3.1: Total Cellular IoT Connections (m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
3.1.1 Forecast Methodology & Assumptions
Figure 3.2: IoT Wholesale Roaming Forecast Methodology
3.1.2 Total Inbound Roaming IoT Connections
Figure & Table 3.3: Total Inbound Roaming Cellular IoT Connections (m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
3.1.3 Total IoT Wholesale Roaming Revenue
Figure & Table 3.4: Total Inbound Data Roaming Revenue from Cellular IoT Connections ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
4. Retail Voice, SMS and Data Roaming Forecasts
4.1 Introduction to Voice, SMS and Data Retail Roaming Forecasts
Figure 4.1: Total Retail Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by Data, Voice, and SMS, 2024
4.1.1 Data Roaming Forecast Methodology
4.1.2 Voice Roaming Forecast Methodology
4.1.3 SMS Roaming Forecast Methodology
Figure 4.2: Retail Roaming (Data, SMS, and Voice) Forecast Methodology
4.1.4 Outbound SMS Roaming Revenue
Figure & Table 4.3: Total Outbound SMS Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
4.1.5 Outbound Voice Roaming Revenue
Figure & Table 4.4: Total Outbound Voice Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
4.1.6 Outbound Data Roaming Revenue
Figure & Table 4.5: Total Outbound Data Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
5. 4G Retail Roaming
5.1 4G Roaming Forecast Methodology
5.1.1 Forecast Methodology & Assumptions
Figure 5.1: 4G Retail Roaming Forecast Methodology
5.1.2 Total Outbound 4G Roaming Subscribers
Figure & Table 5.2: Total Outbound 4G Roaming Subscribers (m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
5.1.3 Total Outbound 4G Voice, SMS & Data Roaming Revenue
Figure & Table 5.3: Total Outbound 4G Voice, SMS & Data Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
6. 5G Retail Roaming
6.1 5G Roaming Forecast Methodology
6.1.1 Forecast Methodology & Assumptions
Figure 6.1: 5G Retail Roaming Forecast Methodology
6.1.2 Total Outbound 5G Roaming Subscribers
Figure & Table 6.2: Total Outbound 5G Roaming Subscribers (m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
6.1.3 Total Outbound 5G Voice, SMS & Data Roaming Revenue
Figure & Table 6.3: Total Outbound 5G Voice, SMS & Data Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
7. Consumer Devices
7.1 Consumer Device Forecast Methodology
7.1.1 Forecast Methodology & Assumptions
Figure 7.1: Consumer Device Forecast Methodology
7.1.2 Total Roaming Revenue from Roaming Devices
Figure & Table 7.2: Total Roaming Revenue from Roaming Devices ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029
8. Cruise Roaming
8.1 Cruise Roaming Forecast & Methodology
8.1.1 Forecast Methodology & Assumptions
Figure 8.1: Cruise Roaming Forecast Methodology
8.1.2 Total Cruise Roaming Revenue
Figure & Table 8.2: Total Cruise Roaming Revenue ($m), Split by 8 Key Regions, 2024-2029 50

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