International Wholesale Carriers - Ecosystem Players’ Evolution - Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Initiatives, and Potential New Entrants in the Digital Transformation Era
International Wholesale Carriers - Ecosystem Players’ Evolution: Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Initiatives, and Potential New Entrants in the Digital Transformation Era
Summary
"International Wholesale Carriers - Ecosystem Players’ Evolution: Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Initiatives, and Potential New Entrants in the Digital Transformation Era", a thematic research report by GlobalData, lays out key strategies wholesale providers and major Internet players have been harnessing to meet the changing requirements of the wholesale market in the digital transformation era.
Global wholesale carriers are under pressure to accelerate the rollout of new services, reduce exposure to voice and migrate to new agile business models. Alongside traditional international wholesale players, global Internet players (including cloud and content providers) are also experiencing rising international bandwidth requirements for their services.
In this report, we explore three key strategies international wholesale providers and global Internet players are deploying to meet the rapidly evolving marketplace - M&As, open ecosystem initiatives and global Internet players turning into their own wholesale providers.
Wholesale ecosystem players are racing to cut exposure to wholesale voice, expand services portfolio and serve new forms of demand. These market requirements are prompting wholesale ecosystem players to evolve, harnessing a set of strategies ranging from M&As to open ecosystem initiatives and Internet companies investing in their own international capacity.
The report is structured as follows -
- Section 1: Market Context; an overview of the main transformative trends shaping the international wholesale market and prompting the transformation of the wholesale players' ecosystem.
- Section 2: The Evolving Global Wholesale Player Ecosystem; an analysis of three key strategies wholesale ecosystem players are harnessing to meet the marketplace's evolving requirements - M&As, open ecosystems and global Internet players turning into their own wholesale providers.
- Section 3: Case Studies; provides four international wholesale providers M&A case studies and one case study of a major Internet player having invested substantially in its own undersea cable capacity. This section analyses the key drivers and rationale behind these moves and how these can help wholesale players meet the requirements of the wholesaler of the future.
- Section 4: Findings and recommendations; we conclude the report with a set of key findings and recommendations for international wholesale ecosystem players to help them evolve and meet the requirements of the digital transformation era.
Scope
- M&As can help global wholesalers expand the depth of their product portfolio, the reach of their networks and most critically their addressable markets.
- Open platforms can be used as a strategy to lower the barrier to entry and time-to-market of developing a new digital service or capability.
- Given their scale, global Internet players can increasingly consider the opportunity of fully/partially investing in their own undersea cables and cloud connectivity capabilities to better control the QoS and margins of the services they render to end users.
Reasons to buy
- This Thematic report provides a comprehensive examination of three key international wholesale ecosystem players' evolution strategies to meet the requirements of the digital transformation era. The report objective is to help industry executives fully understand the drivers, benefits and implications of each strategy - M&As, joining open ecosystem platforms and global Internet players investing in their own undersea cables capacity.
- Five case studies illustrate the findings of the report, providing insights into the key international wholesale ecosystem players' evolution strategies; this will help industry executives understand the drivers, benefits/implications of industry M&As and global Internet players investing in their own undersea cable capacity and how these can be leveraged to meet the evolving market requirements.
- The report analyses the concrete drivers & benefits of each evolution strategy in terms of elements such as services portfolio expansion, gaining access to new digital capabilities, customers base strengthening, increased value chain control and costs/sales synergies.
- With more than 15 exhibits, the report is designed for an executive-level audience, to help them understand and determine the adequate evolution strategies for their global wholesale business.
Companies Mentioned in the Report
Altice
Amazon
CenturyLink
Console Connect
DT ICSS
Gtt
iBasis
Interoute
Level 3
Liquid Telecom
Microsoft
Neotel
Neural Path
Optic Zoo Networks
PCCW
Raha
RTX
Singtel
TI Sparkle
Tofane
Twilio
Vodafone Carrier Services
Zayo
Table of contents 3
List of exhibits 5
Executive summary 6
Section 1: Market context 7
Winds of change in the global wholesale market 8
Section 2: The evolving global wholesale player ecosystem 9
Three key trends 10
M&As 11
Open ecosystems 12
Internet players 13
Section 3: Case studies 14
Liquid Telecom’s acquisition of Neotel and Raha 15
Tofane’s acquisition of iBasis and Altice 17
CenturyLink’s acquisition of Level 3 19
PCCW’s acquisition of Console Connect 21
Google’s investments in undersea cables 23
Section 4: Key takeaways and recommendations 25
Appendix 27
Acronyms and definitions 28
Companies mentioned 30
About the authors 31
Related research 33
Contact information 34 List of Figures
Exhibit 1: Wholesale player landscape’s selected macro trends and key drivers 10
Exhibit 2: Sample wholesale players’ strategic positioning and M&A activity 11
Exhibit 3: Sample open ecosystem platforms 12
Exhibit 4: Internet players’ sample consortium investments in undersea cables coming on stream from 2018 13
Exhibit 5: Liquid Telecom, Neotel, and Raha company profiles 15
Exhibit 6: Liquid Telecom’s South Africa network map 16
Exhibit 7: Tofane, iBasis, and Altice company profiles 17
Exhibit 8: iBasis’ key financials 18
Exhibit 9: iBasis’ global MPLS map 18
Exhibit 10: CenturyLink and Level 3 company profiles 19
Exhibit 11: Level 3’s fiber network 20
Exhibit 12: CenturyLink IP MPLS map 20
Exhibit 13: Console Connect and PCCW Global company profiles 21
Exhibit 14: Console Connect Platform snapshot 22
Exhibit 15: Google’s undersea network 23
Exhibit 16: Google’s cloud platform regions 23
Exhibit 17: Google’s undersea cable network offers speed, reliability, and security to Google cloud 24
Research Methodology
The research study released with title "International Wholesale Carriers - Ecosystem Players’ Evolution - Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Initiatives, and Potential New Entrants in the Digital Transformation Era" involved the extensive usage of both primary and secondary data sources. The research process involved the study of various factors affecting the industry, including the government policy, market environment, competitive landscape, historical data, present trends in the market, technological innovation, upcoming technologies and the technical progress in related industry, and market risks, opportunities, market barriers and challenges. The following illustrative figure shows the market research methodology applied in this report.Key Executives Interviewed
Research Programs/Design
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Top-down and bottom-up approaches are used to validate and estimate the global/regional market size by manufacturers, regional splits, product segments and application.
To establish Research coverage of the study with most relevant & functional players HTF MI follows industry standards such as NAICS/SIC/ICB/TRCB, furthermore the sorted list of companies is validated using Product Mapping and business activities and shortlisted by industry perspective.
HTF MI select experienced analyst and associate that are specialized in the domain for conducting research. They prepare a list of companies by region that helps to understand players penetration rate in the market. This companies are further analyses in what segment or application they serve in our market. The list of product and applications are evaluated for each companies dealing in the International Wholesale Carriers Ecosystem Players Evolution. The market study is conducted on basis of more than 200 companies dealing in the market regional as well as global areas with purpose to understand company’s positioning regarding market value, volume and their market share for regional as well as global. Further to bring relevance specific to any niche market we set and apply number of criteria like Geographic Footprints, Regional Segments of Revenue, Operational Centres, etc. The next step is to finalize a team (In-House + Data Online) who then starts collecting C & D level executives and profiles, Industry experts, Opinion leaders etc from International Wholesale Carriers Ecosystem Players Evolution who then work towards appointment generation.
Primary Data Collection
The primary research is performed by taking the interviews of executives of various companies dealing in the International Wholesale Carriers Ecosystem Players Evolution as well as using the survey reports, research institute, and latest research reports. Meanwhile, analyst team keeps preparing set of questionnaires and relevant list of appointee or target primary respondents; the target audience are then tapped and segregated with various mediums and channels that are feasible for making connection that includes email communication, telephonic, skype, LinkedIn Group & In Mail, Community Forums, Open Survey, SurveyMonkey etc.
Secondary Sources
The secondary resources considered in the International Wholesale Carriers Ecosystem Players Evolution study includes company annual reports, press releases, published articles of organizations and associations, and the survey taken through different mediums such as online website and forums, survey monkey, LinkedIn, etc. In addition, the valuable strategic information obtained from industry association, paid database, and investor presentations are also good tool for information to make appropriate iterative validation are used to modify market models and cross-verify primary research and insights.
Market Breakdown and Data Triangulation
To make market engineering data complete; extensive primary research is conducted to gather information and validate the critical numbers derived to be used for calculations of market statistics; market size estimations; forecasting; breakdown; and data triangulation. Both top-down and bottom-up approaches were applied, along with several data triangulation methods, to perform market estimation and market forecasting for the overall market segments and sub-segments listed in this report. Furthermore qualitative and further quantitative analysis is also done for all the numbers arrived at in the market estimation process to list relevant information in the final deliverable report "International Wholesale Carriers - Ecosystem Players’ Evolution - Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Initiatives, and Potential New Entrants in the Digital Transformation Era" .
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