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Telecom Operations and Monetization Outlook for 2026

Chris Silberberg — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation presents IDC's outlook for the telecom operations and monetization market in 2026. It provides six key expectations, assessing the impact of major trends such as AI, autonomous networks, customer experience, omni-service monetization, IT consolidation, and vendor expectations.

2026 Expectations for Enterprise Wireless Infrastructure Investment Growth Segmented by Technology

Paul Hughes — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight examines the data sourced from IDC's Enterprise Connectivity Infrastructure and Services Survey, with 758 respondents with either influence or decision-making capabilities from across 19 countries and 15 vertical industries.

Over 40% of enterprises expect to increase investment in wireless connectivity over the next year, with over 60% increasing investment in wireless WAN and private mobile infrastructure, with more than 25% increasing investment by more than 10%. Wi-Fi investment growth ranked third with 59% of enterprises increasing investment; however, spending increases were mostly under 10%.

T-Mobile's 3Q25 Earnings: Remarkable Growth Fueled by UScellular Deal Close and the Start of a Fiber Journey

Jason Leigh — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note examines T-Mobile's 3Q25 earnings results. The company announced market-leading and best-ever results across a number of metrics and the closure of its recent deals involving Metronet and UScellular.

U.S. Business Use Smartphone Forecast Update, 2025–2029

Bryan Bassett — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast for the U.S. business use smartphone market and delivers insight into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

"Corporate device refresh rates continue to incrementally increase as businesses look for ways to reduce mobility spending," said Bryan Bassett, research manager with IDC's Enterprise Mobility Workspace and Deployment Strategies. "The upshot is that mobile technology is essential to businesses, and choosing not to invest in new mobile hardware to keep up with refresh cycles is not really an option for businesses looking to grow or stay competitive, especially considering the growing demand for new AI devices."

Worldwide Business Use Smartphone Forecast Update, 2025–2029

Bryan Bassett — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides the five-year forecast update for the worldwide business use smartphone market and delivers insight into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

"Mobile AI has become pervasive in the business use smartphone market," said Bryan Bassett, research manager with IDC's Enterprise Mobility Workspaces and Deployment Strategies. "Hardware manufactures, platform providers, and service providers continue to improve the quality and capability of AI-driven hardware and software solutions targeted for enterprise users."

Worldwide Mobile Phone Forecast Update, 2025–2029: CY 4Q25

Ramon T. Llamas — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation analyzes the worldwide mobile phone market, including shipments, average selling prices (ASPs), and shipments by region. It also includes a comparison against our most recently published forecast from September 2025.

"The worldwide mobile phone market will remain essentially flat in the years ahead. However, underpinning this market is a constant shift away from feature phones toward smartphones, as well as a general trend toward 5G handsets at the expense of legacy devices. This forecast will allow vendors to see the timing of these developments and how best to position themselves for success in the future." — Ramon T. Llamas, research director, IDC's Mobile Devices and AR/VR team

Worldwide Smartphone Forecast Update, 2025–2029: CY 4Q25

Ramon T. Llamas — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation analyzes the future of smartphone shipments worldwide with special attention toward operating systems, average selling prices (ASPs), regional breakdowns, and a comparison against our most recently published worldwide smartphone forecast in September 2025.

"The worldwide smartphone market will take slow but sure steps toward maturity," said Ramon T. Llamas, research director, Mobile Devices and AR/VR. "Underpinning the market is a shifting operating system landscape, with Google's Android slowing down, Apple's iOS gaining salience, and Huawei's HarmonyOS finally arriving to market and establishing itself. Moreover, average selling prices for operating systems will remain mostly stable but will maintain at different levels per each OS."

Worldwide Wireless Private Network Infrastructure Forecast, 2025–2029

Paul Hughes — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation examines the worldwide private LTE/5G wireless infrastructure market for 2025–2029. While prior years continued to highlight consistent growth across the three private networks subsegments (e.g., critical communications, industrial, and enterprise), 2025 headwinds in the United States have brought a more cautionary approach for the short term. While 5G is the focus for many verticals within the industrial domain, particularly in verticals such as manufacturing and logistics, others, such as utilities, are choosing 4G/LTE because of the relatively lower costs associated with both infrastructure and devices.

"As economic headwinds hit the U.S. market, the private 4G/LTE market is expected to remain resilient over the next few years, particularly in verticals (e.g., utilities) where the use cases can be served by lower-cost 4G and 5G upgrades that require only software update to support a 5G non-standalone environment," said Paul Hughes, research director, Future Enterprise Connectivity Strategies, IDC. "5G will continue to gain share of the market for the next five years however, with most industrial deployments moving to 5G for its use of midband spectrum and longer innovation pipeline."

Are European Businesses Allowing the Use of Generative AI Apps on Mobile Devices in Enterprise Environments?

Alejandro Cadenas, Daniela Rao — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight explores the use of generative AI (GenAI) tools and applications on mobile devices (handsets and tablets) in enterprise environments across Europe.

The data presented in this study comes from IDC's European Enterprise Mobility IT Decision-Makers Survey, 2025, which questioned IT decision-makers about the type, level, and frequency of use of different technologies within their organizations, including GenAI tools and applications, eSIMs, managed mobility frameworks, and other domains that are highly relevant for European enterprises.

Connected World KSA 2025 — Infrastructure Trends, Network Evolution, and Wholesale Outlook

Jawairia Asif — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC study examines the discussions that took place at Connected World KSA 2025, which took place on November 18–19 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The event highlighted ongoing developments across Saudi Arabia’s digital infrastructure ecosystem, with discussions centered on network modernization, interconnection, and cloud-aligned wholesale models. The event showcased progress in national broadband coverage, the growth of domestic IXPs, and rising investment in hyperscale and AI-ready datacenters. Updates on subsea cables and future systems emphasized the kingdom’s role in regional transit and global connectivity. Panels explored 5G-Advanced evolution, ORAN adoption, small cell deployment, and optical transport upgrades. Together, these initiatives reflect Saudi Arabia’s continued shift toward scalable, efficient, and interconnected infrastructure designed to support emerging digital and AI-driven services.

“Saudi Arabia is transitioning into a new chapter of digital infrastructure where fiber expansion, small-cell densification, 5G-Advanced evolution, multi-route subsea systems, hybrid subsea-terrestrial corridors, and expanding IXP and edge footprints form a unified, high-capacity backbone. This shift signals a move toward intelligent, cloud-optimized, and AI-ready networks built for accelerating data growth.” — Jawairia Asif, senior research analyst, telecom & IoT services, IDC