Abstract
What is GlobalComms?
GlobalComms is TeleGeography's regularly updated online database of wireline,
wireless and broadband competition. No other telecommunications market
research service rivals its geographic scope and depth of coverage.
Content Highlights
- Wireline, wireless and broadband market coverage
- Continuously updated analysis of more than 160 countries, 1,200+ telecoms
companies and 65+ multinational operators
- Key operator data: subscribers, market shares, revenues, EBITDA, ARPU and
many more
- Country profiles: succinct market commentary, regulations and main player
profiles
- All data is searchable and exportable. All country and company profiles
are downloadable as PDFs.
What is covered in GlobalComms?
Country Coverage
GlobalComms provides comprehensive coverage of regulatory and market
developments in more than 160 countries worldwide.Each country profile
provides:
Background Data
- Population
- GDP
- Political profile
- Economic development summary
Regulatory Information
- Regulatory agencies and roles
- Dates of market liberalisation
- Key wireline, wireless and broadband legislation and regulations
- Details of VoIP, WiMAX and local loop unbundling regulation
Market Data
- Fixed line, wireless and broadband subscribers, by provider
- Fixed line, wireless and broadband networks by technology
- Wireless networks: generation, platform, frequencies, launch date and
population coverage
- Broadband networks: platform, launch date, coverage
- Quarterly updates of wireless and broadband subscribers, market shares and
market penetration
- 3G licences: type, price, frequencies
- Broadband tariffs by provider
- Summary profiles of all principal fixed line, wireless and broadband
service providers
Countries Covered
Afghanistan,Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Anguilla,Argentina,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahamas,Bahrain,Bangladesh,Belarus,Belgium,Belize,Benin,Bermuda,Bhutan,Bolivia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,Brazil,Bulgaria,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Canada,Chad,Chile,China,Cocos (Keeling) Islands,Colombia,Comoros,Congo, Dem. Rep.,Congo, Rep.,Cook Islands,Costa Rica,Cote d'Ivoire,Croatia,Cuba,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Denmark,Djibouti,Dominican Republic,Ecuador,Egypt,El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Fiji,Finland,France,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Greece,Guadeloupe,Guatemala,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Hong Kong,Hungary,Iceland,India,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Jamaica,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kiribati,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Lebanon,Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia (FYROM),Madagascar,Malawi,Malaysia,Mali,Mauritius,Mexico,Moldova,Monaco,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands,New Zealand,Nicaragua,Nigeria,North Korea,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palestinian Territory,Panama,Paraguay,Peru,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Puerto Rico,Qatar,Romania,Russia,Rwanda,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Seychelles,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia,South Africa,South Korea,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,United States,Uruguay,Uzbekistan,Venezuela,Vietnam,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zimbabwe.
Company Coverage
1200+ National Operator Profiles
Profiles of more than 1,200 fixed line, wireless and broadband service
providers around the world.
Profiles include:
- Continuously updated summary of domestic operations
- Licences held and technologies deployed
- Operational data including subscribers/customers, 3G subscribers,
pre-paid/post-paid split, APRU, churn, MoU, broadband subscriptions and more
- Ownership structure and major investments
- Daily updates of major company news
- Financial data
65+ Multinational Operator Profiles
In-depth data for more than 65 multinational telecom service providers.
- Group overview
- At least five years of financial data: revenue, EBITDA, CAPEX, assets and
more
- A minimum of six years of wireline/wireless/broadband subscriber data
- Subsidiaries and ownership interests
- Directory of company addresses
CommsUpdate News Service
TeleGeography's daily CommsUpdate email summarises all the key international
telecom stories of the day. All of these stories are archived in GlobalComms,
indexed by country and by operator, and can be accessed via full text search.
A daily feed of CommsUpdate is available free when you sign up.
How does the GlobalComms database work?
Database Features
GlobalComms is a true database, allowing users to search for key operator and
country data by year and by quarter. All data can easily be exported into
Excel, for further analysis.
Company Search
Results & Export
Country Search
What questions can I answer with Global Comms?
Sample Searches
Which countries in Asia have the highest broadband penetration rate?
Singapore, where penetration reached 35.4% of population in Q1 2008- up from
only 18.1% at the end of Q1 2007. Singapore is followed by South Korea (31%),
Hong Kong (30.5%) Australia (27.3%) and New Zealand (22.8%).
Which five Western European cellcos counted the highest number of 3G subscribers at the start of 2007?
3 Italia (8.4 million), Orange France (8.2 million), Vodafone Germany (5.8
million), Vodafone Spain (5.3 million), and SFR (4.3 million).
What are the three fastest growing Latin American wireless operators?
Nextel Chile, which grew 100% between Q1 2007 and Q1 2008 to 20,000
subscribers; Honducel, which grew 53.3%, to 23,000 subscribers; and Nextel de
Mexico, which grew 22.9% to 2.6 million subscribers.
Which country is experiencing the most rapid decline in fixed lines?
Finland, where fixed lines dropped 8.9 percent between year-end 2006 and 2007,
from 1.9 million to 1.7 million. Fixed line penetration in Finland now stands
at 33% of population, compared with 55% in 2000
* All answers drawn from GlobalComms as of July 2008.
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