Research and Markets Adds Report: Latin America Enterprise Telephony Solutions Market 2009

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Latin America Enterprise Telephony Solutions Market 2009" to its offerings.

In a release, Research and Markets noted that report highlights include:

Latin America Enterprise Telephony Market has reached U$ 791.0 million in 2008. Compared to 2007, total growth for 2008 has reached 8.4 percent. Most of this growth has come from regions such as Brazil and Andean Countries (mostly coming from Colombia).

-The Latin American enterprise telephony solutions market reached millions in 2008, growing when compared to the previous year.

-The impacts of the global economic crisis were felt mainly during the last quarter of 2008, with participants struggling to increase sales and reach their annual targets.

-Even though most parts of the world are still under the effects of the crisis, countries such as Brazil and Colombia have shown recovery and, in 2009 are expected to grow, however at timid rates.

-The perspective is that, in Latin America, this market would not grow as it had grown in the previous years, thereby, showing flat rates for 2009, however, reaching a turning point by the second semester of 2009 and having better growth rates for 2010.

-Nevertheless, it is also likely that for the next few years, with great pressure to reduce costs and maintain high competitiveness, companies will invest even more of their resources in IP telephony and services solutions.

-As in recent years, IP lines continue to grow penetration in total lines shipment in Latin America. In fact, many of the total lines shipped were IP hybrid in 2008. If total IP lines sold were considered (including both converged and pure), the number would reach more of the total.

-Latin America is at a stage of large migration from traditional PBX to IP lines. The evolution will be sustained in the next few years due to innumerous factors, including reliability in IP technology and the necessity to reduce telephony costs. Integration with other applications and technologies, such as Unified Communications, will also help the migration.

-IP phones represented a large percent of the total revenues, and their sales are expected to increase due to the sales of IP lines and an increasing usage of soft phones.

-On a regional level, Brazil is still the largest participant in both lines and revenues for the Latin American enterprise telephony solutions market.

-Mexico was the second largest country. However, it was one of the countries with a greater decline from the previous years. Reasons for this decline included poor performance of fabricants, who were previously responsible for high sales in the country, and the higher impact of the global economic crisis on the country.

-The Southern Cone (SC) came in third representing.

-The Andean countries and CACAR completed the list. Countries, such as Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela, in the Andean countries, represent most of the destinations for TDM and IP lines. In Caribbean and Central America (CACAR), countries such as Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, and Panama are also large participants.

Report information:

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dc8091/latin_america_ente.

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