Worldwide Telecommunications Capex FY21: Overview of Top Global Service Providers

PUBLISHED: May 11, 2022

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This IDC Market Perspective presents an overview of strategy for investment in capital expenditure (capex) for top 10 global service providers and discusses in brief the factors influencing the overall telecommunications service provider industry capex."The consolidated capex numbers for operators worldwide swiftly recovered in 2021, seeing growth of 3.4% breaching the $300-billion mark since 2018 (CY21: $304.2 billion). The major telecom operators continued to augment their network architecture to capture growth beyond basic voice and data offerings." - Venkatesh Mahale, research manager, Worldwide Telecommunications Research at IDC

Product Code: US49004021

Executive Snapshot

New Market Developments and Dynamics

Top Carrier Groups' Capex Spending Review
- United States
  - AT&T: Continued Investments in Fiber and 5G-Related Products and Services
  - Verizon: Capital Spending Fueled by Continued 5G Midband and mmWave and Fiber Deployments
  - Comcast: Continued Investments in Scalable Infrastructure and Streaming Services
  - Europe (Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe)
  - Telefonica: Investments Driven by NGN (Fiber and 5G) Deployments
  - Orange: Increased Capital Spending Due to Massive FTTH Rollouts in France Coupled with 5G Rollouts in Six European Countries
  - Deutsche Telekom: Capex Driven by Continued 5G Network Rollouts in the United States and in Germany; Spending Also Supported by Fiber Deployments Across Europe
    - Germany
    - United States
    - Europe (Excluding Germany and the Netherlands)
  - Vodafone: Capital Programs Driven by 5G and Gigabit Investments; 5G Live in 10 European Countries
- Japan: Race for Deploying Network on the Cloud Continues
  - NTT: Enhance Competitiveness in Global Business, ONE NTT Global Growth Strategy
  - KDDI: Integrating 5G with Life Design
- Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) (APEJ): Telcos Striving to Accommodate Growing Data Traffic and Venture into Noncore, Non-Telco Services
  - China Mobile: Driving Digital Innovation to Transform Networks, Products, and Operations
  - China Unicom: Priority Shifts to Building Premium Networks with Focus on Customer Experience, High Degree of Intelligence, and Low-Carbon Emission
  - China Telecom: Industrial Digitalization Fuels Network and Technology Innovation
- Capex Plans for Other Operators in LATAM and the Middle East and Africa Region
  - Latin America
  - America Movil: Capex Recovers from COVID-19 Shock; 5G Plans Limited to Only Two Countries for Now
  - The Middle East and Africa: The Middle Eastern Countries Set Ambitious 5G Goals, Ably Backed by Government Support