Global Implications of COVID-19 on the Telecoms Market - Accelerated Trends in Remote Work, Virtual Meetings and Electronic Collaboration

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May 27, 2020, 18:30 ET

DUBLIN, May 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Impact of COVID-19 on Telecoms" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

COVID-19 has massively disrupted businesses in a short period of time. The lost economic output measured in GDP worldwide could be as high as USD 12 Trillion.

China was the first country affected and industrial production fell 13.5% in the first two months of the year according to China National Bureau of Statistics. The United States just passed a $2.2 Trillion relief bill. Unemployment claims filed in the U.S. for the week ending March 20, 2019 were 3.3 Million, four times the worst weekly data reported in the 2009 financial collapse.

The world's economy could grow at its slowest rate since 2009 this year due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). However, we should recognize that the events that led to this differ dramatically from 2009. COVID-19 is akin to the Spanish Flu but the economy today is more globally connected unlike 1917.

Current OECD estimates for global growth are 1.5%. The speed of COVID-19 has created an urgency for policy makers to act quickly to protect the public and avoid overwhelming hospitals. Business leaders will be equally challenged to quickly prepare for business interruption. This includes rapid changes in workforce logistics to encourage physical distancing, consumer demand shock, and supply chain disruptions.

Expect both forecasted GDP and CAPEX models to be frequently revised downward based on:

The infection rates of COVID-19 and ability of governments to bend the curve
Extent and duration of governments to lift lockdowns around the world
The effectiveness of governments in financially backing the key segments of the economy most impacted by extreme falloff in demand imposed by government shut down orders

The publisher believes that there will be changes to the communications industry, as a result of COVID-19.

Face to face meetings, conferences and office workspaces will not disappear. However, COVID-19 will accelerate trends in remote/distributed work, virtual meetings and electronic collaboration. In essence, electronic collaboration will substitute for some of the spending historically in travel and hospitality. As a result, the shift toward widely available broadband, the shift of enterprise workloads to cloud and SaaS and the importance of broadband wireless (5G) will gain extra importance. The publisher thinks we will see a shift of 5-10% of people will change their behaviour to primarily work remotely. Predominantly this will be about a change in management behaviour and the development of trust of in distributed working.

The telecommunication sector will be moderately impacted by COVID-19.

Some CSPs will increase capital spending to support increases in broadband access driven by consumer demand. Data collected by Nokia Deepfield demonstrates that the network has held up far better under this enormous shift in traffic origination than might have been expected. However, this explosion in bandwidth demand has exhausted the overhead built into the network to guarantee reliability.

The post COVID-19 era will fundamentally change work force behavior.

More employers will enact policies to encourage remote work practices in the future. Some suppliers will experience supply chain disruptions, but we think for the most part this will not be serious. Most suppliers implemented risk mitigation strategies ahead of COVID-19 to gain more control of key components related to infrastructure equipment.

In this short primer, the publisher attempts to set the scene for how the disruption from COVID-19 will impact telecoms. We recognize that at this time everybody's focus should be on keeping healthy, acting on clear factual information and ensuring that we have the basics of life. Telecoms will, for now, be a key enabler/foundation for all three of these. However, in the long term the current emergency is both a challenge and an opportunity to our industry. Our intent in producing this paper is to allow us to rise to the challenges and to maximize the opportunities.

Key Topics Covered

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2. MACRO LEVEL IMPACT

3. CAPEX INVESTMENT

Access
Policy and QoS in the Access Network
Last Mile Investment
Core
Edge
5G

4. SUPPLY CHAIN

5. ENTERPRISE DEMAND

6. GREEN SHOOTS

Working from Home (WFH)
Health Monitoring

7. SUMMARY

Companies Mentioned

BT
Netflix
Nokia
Telstra
Verizon
Zoom

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