{"id":82029,"date":"2012-11-20T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mobile-data-sector-enjoys-21-percent-annual-roaming-revenue-growth-rate\/"},"modified":"2012-11-20T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T12:07:00","slug":"mobile-data-sector-enjoys-21-percent-annual-roaming-revenue-growth-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mobile-data-sector-enjoys-21-percent-annual-roaming-revenue-growth-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Data Sector Enjoys 21 Percent Annual Roaming Revenue Growth Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-20-12] Mobile data roaming revenues will grow by 21 percent per year between 2012 and 2017, reaching over $35 billion in 2017, according to a new report published Nov. 20 by <strong>Juniper Research<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tIn the report, titled \u201cThe new report, Mobile Roaming: Challenges, Opportunities &amp; Market Forecasts 2012-2017,\u201d the analysis firm said that the mobile data growth would be driven by an increasing number of active data roamers using data services while abroad.<br \/>\n\tIn recent years, satellite operators and service providers have leveraged opportunities in the healthy mobile data sector. While Juniper Research analysts feel just as optimistic about the future of mobile data, its newest report also notes that the number of silent data roamers not actively using any data services still fear what they call \u201cbill shock,\u201d as this continues to be markedly higher when compared to silent voice roamers. &nbsp;<br \/>\n\tJuniper Research Analyst and Report Author Nitin Bhas said that silent roamers exercise caution or do not use voice and data services while roaming and represent a non-user segment.<br \/>\n\t\u201cData roaming is the next big growth driver,\u201d Bhas wrote in the report, \u201cPowered by the proliferation in smartphones and a dramatic growth in data usage, data roaming is being seen as a key growth driver for operators, albeit with cost-effective packages coupled with subscriber control over usage.\u201d<br \/>\n\tThe report found that the majority of mobile customers were using voice services when roaming abroad, but this offered network operators little opportunity to add value or enhance services. \u201cData roaming, on the other hand, provided operators with the opportunity to convert \u2018non data\u2019 roamers to become active data roamers by the introduction of data bundles and roaming plans,\u201d said Bhas.<br \/>\n\tJuniper Research forecasts that SMS roaming revenues would remain a modest proportion of the sector\u2019s growth. \u201cAs data roaming costs are further reduced and smartphone owners find so-called Over-the-Top (OTT) services \u2013 such as eBuddy and Whatsapp \u2013 a cheaper alternative, the average spend per SMS roaming will decline over the forecast period,\u201d Bhas added.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-20-12] Mobile data roaming revenues will grow by 21 percent per year between 2012 and 2017, reaching over $35 billion in 2017, according to a new report published Nov. 20 by Juniper Research.&nbsp; In the report, titled \u201cThe new report, Mobile Roaming: Challenges, Opportunities &amp; Market Forecasts 2012-2017,\u201d the analysis firm said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}