Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: August 2009
Product Code: R464-1487Description It is almost two years since the consumer 'credit crunch' took hold in financial markets, so it is timely to assess how multinational corporations have reacted to the economic downturn.Table of Contents - Executive summary
- In a nutshell
- Ovum view
- The impact of tight financial conditions on MNC communications priorities
- Ovum’s top ten strategies for service providers to succeed with MNCs during the credit crunch
- The pre-crunch MNC communications budget
- Migration from fixed to mobile, and from voice to data
- The new MNC spending profile
- Meeting the budget challenge
- High-reward projects
- Headcount reduction
- Capex reduction
- Rising demand for bill auditing
- Telepresence — accelerated demand
- Service value projects
- WAN and access pricing pressure
- Focus on mobility — spending
- Focus on mobility: usage
- Focus on mobility: managed service
- Fixed/mobile supplier consolidation unlikely for the majority
- IP telephony migration maintains its pace
- Lower-reward projects
- Limited integration of UC services
- No immediate prospects for ‘the cloud’
- Little promise for FMC
- Limited focus on improving commercial terms
- Green ICT initiatives
- The service provider role
- Closer cooperation with MNCs needed
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: The extent of ICT spending cutbacks
- Figure 2: MNC telecommunication budget profile prior to September 2008
- Figure 3: What MNCs are doing to reduce costs
- Figure 4: The expected reward and ease of implementation of cost reduction initiatives
- Figure 5: Changes in opex and capex
- Figure 6: Decline in average mobile termination charges of selected countries, 2Q08-2Q09
- Figure 7: Types of mobile contract currently in place
- Figure 8: The perceived benefits of IP telephony and network convergence
- Figure 9: Unified communications applications
- Figure 10: Unified communications integration projects
- Figure 11: The service provider role
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