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Intelligence in RAN: Reshaping Innovation, Efficiency, and Sustainability for 5G-A

Swathi Arunaa — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note examines the Huawei IntelligentRAN solution, which addresses communications SPs' challenges with rising network complexity, sustainability objectives, and operational challenges. The solution aims to enable communications SPs in optimizing user experience, improving energy efficiency, and advancing automated operations as they transition to 5G–Advanced (5G-A).

SMB Communications Services Survey, 2025: Mobility

Jason Blackwell — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey provides a summary of results from IDC's SMB Communications Services Survey, an online survey of United States–based small and medium-sized businesses fielded in September 2025. This portion of the survey explores key issues related to mobility services adoption and implementation by businesses with 1–499 employees.

国内法人／産業向け5G市場予測、2025年～2029年：産業分野別、テクノロジー別

Yoko Ono — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、5G（パブリック5Gおよびローカル5G）のテクノロジー別、産業分野別の市場予測を提供するものである。

「数年前に、産業現場に無線LANなど、より安価な通信技術を導入した企業におけるローカル5Gへの関心が高まっている。これらの導入経験で無線のメリットとデメリットをすでに学習した企業の一部が、アプリケーションの高度化に伴い、より高品質、高性能の無線技術を求めている。ローカル5Gは、そうした企業をターゲットにすべきである」とIDC Japan、Infrastructure & Devicesのリサーチマネージャーである小野陽子は提言している。

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."