Juniper Research via its recently released report Mobile Roaming: Regulations, Opportunities & In-flight Strategies 2014-2018 expects revenues from the mobile roaming to reach close to $90 billion by 2018, an increase of nearly 90% from 2013, driven by increase in data usages due to reduction in the roaming rates. According to the report, the mobile data roaming revenues in 2013 stands at 36% out of the total mobile roaming revenues, which is expected to reach over $42 billion by 2018. The report notes both the challenges and opportunities from the 'silent roamers' which represent a non-user segment of the roaming services and how the 4G/LTE will enable operators to tap these dormant users with better charging and service offerings.
Report author Nitin Bhas added: “This is costing the industry billions each year in lost revenue opportunity, given the millions of inbound and outbound roamers as well as the expansion of data traffic over flattening voice usage”.
