Operators have spent $ 57 billion on outsourcing
Fri, 08/29/2008 - 14:16 — admin
Operators in the world in 2007 spent U.S. $ 57 billion in outsourcing services, including network integration services, monitoring, network design and other services provided by IT companies and equipment suppliers, such as Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, IBM , Microsoft, Motorola, NEC, Nokia Siemens, Nortel.
Revenue from providing professional services for operators in the world in 2007 grew by 25% compared to 2006, and expected to grow by 49% over five years from 2007 to 2011, operating cost carriers, on the assessment of analysts have reached 1 U.S. $ trillion in 2006, while the share of the costs of professional services suppliers of equipment amounted to just 4.5% of this amount, which demonstrates the great potential of development of this direction.
Major suppliers of equipment took the lion's share of the market of professional services provided by operators - about 83% in 2007 Need for rapid introduction of new services and reduce operating costs contributed to the fact that operators prefer to outsourcing some of its functions to ensure the network.
