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IPX revenue to grow by 55.6% over the next 4 years
Isabelle Paradis
January 2012
As
a result of the exponential growth of mobile data
services anticipated over the next 5 years, a majority
of the IPX revenue increase is expected to come from
IPX data services.
IPX
is increasingly popular with Wholesale operators as
it opens up opportunities for voice carriers to move
away from the minutes-based model and towards alternative
methods of charging. Carriers with IPX hubs will have
the opportunity to provide and charge for services
such as routing transparency, low latency and number
portability, or roll this into a subscription fee
for using its IPX platform. At this point in time
however, no single player is able to provide complete
global IPX coverage using its own network. Even the
largest IPX players such as TATA, BICS, BT, iBasis/KPN
and DT ICSS must interconnect with others.
It
is likely that in the medium term, most IPX providers
will ultimately deliver IPX platforms that are interconnected.
However, this will take considerable time and in the
interim, there will be more bilateral couplings such
as the TI Sparkle/iBasis relationship.
