Infonetics Research says that the growth in wireline and mobile services outside of the US is helping the sales of telecom equipment. They forecast a 5% growth for 2006 to $203.1 billion versus $192.8 billion in 2005. The highest growth has been in Europe where France Telecom, British Telecom and DT are the big spenders. In Asia Pacific, KDDI, Telstra and KT are the big spenders.