A new International Data Corp. (IDC) report said the Americas will have 1% growth in revenue from telecommunications and Pay TV this year.
The firm found that worldwide spending will reach $1.532 trillion.
In the Americas, revenues will jump from $568 billion to $574 billion between 2024 and this year. It is tied for the slowest gains of the three worldwide regions tracked by the company. Asia/Pacific also clocked in at 1%, though it was smaller with $476 billion last year and $481 billion in 2025.
Europe, the Middle East, and Asia (EMEA) grew the fastest at 3.2%. It grew from $462 billion last year to $477 billion in 2025.
Overall, the sector grew from $1.507 trillion last year to $1.532 in 2025.
The report said that, while the Pay TV segment is projected to decrease somewhat because of video-on-demand platforms, Pay TV will still be a key element of global bundle offerings.
“In the Americas, expectations for the northern part remain largely unchanged, with slight upward revisions in major Latin American markets,” Kresimir Alic, IDC’s research director for Worldwide Telecom Services, said in a press release about the pay-TV and telecommunications report.
Alic said that mobile continued to dominate and offset losses in traditional voice and messaging revenues. Fixed data services are said to be likely to grow due to demand for high bandwidth connectivity. Fixed voice services will continue to decline because losses in legacy TDM services are fully compensated for by gains in IP voice.
IDC predicts that the market will have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.5% during the next five years. The market will be characterized by greater protectionism and economic uncertainty in some areas.
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