Abstract
Overview
This report covers trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile,
Internet, broadband, digital TV and converging media including VoIP and IPTV
developments.
Subjects include:
- Market and industry analyses, trends and developments;
- Facts, figures and statistics;
- Industry and regulatory issues;
- Infrastructure;
- Major Players, Revenues, Subscribers, ARPU, MOU;
- Internet, VoIP, IPTV;
- Mobile Voice and Data Markets;
- Broadband (FttH, DSL, cable TV, wireless);
- Convergence and Digital Media;
- Telecom market forecasts for selective years to 2018.
Key highlights:
- Broadband represents the majority of Internet subscriptions, with DSL the
broadband platform of choice although its dominance is fading as other
platforms gain prominence; fibre is expected to play a greater role in future
broadband access given a string of FTTx platforms deployments, including a
extensive deployment by mobile operator Orange with over 280,000 households
passed in three years, representing over 10% of Slovakia' s total households.
Slovak Telecom has embarked on a similar project, with over 200,000 households
already passed.
- Building on greater broadband penetration and internet usage is
development of online applications and services that form the Internet
society; an e-government development strategy until 2013 has been approved and
a project is underway to define an integrated IT architecture for the public
administration to support delivery of e-government services.
- Slovakian e-health developments are guided by a government approved
e-health national strategy for 2009-2013. One of its key strategic goals is to
establish ICT infrastructure within Slovakia' s health care sector, including
introduction of an e-health smart card, which should be assisted by the fact
that computerisation rates among general practitioners is above the EU27
average.
- Digital TV availability is expanding following the a successful tender to
select a digital terrestrial TV multiplex operator in August 2009. The
successful bidder plans to launch the first multiplex in early 2010,
broadcasting using both the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standard. Digital TV in standard
definition and high definition is already widely available via IPTV, cable and
satellite.
- Competition is shaking up a previously cosy duopoly in the mobile market;
incumbent operators T-Mobile and Orange and both focused on retaining existing
subscribers and fostering loyalty while new market entrant Telefonica 02 has
aggressively acquired subscribers through price competition.
- Mobile broadband represents a new revenue growth opportunity for all three
mobile networks, given existing low mobile broadband penetration.
Competitively-priced mobile broadband access services have been launched,
bundling generous prepaid amounts of data.
The following notes provide some background to our scenario forecasting methodology:
- This report includes what we term scenario forecasts. By describing
long-range scenarios we identify a band within which we expect market growth
to occur. The associated text describes what we see as the most likely growth
trend within this band.
- The projections shown in the tables in this report are based on our own
historical information, as well as on telecommunication sector statistics from
official and non-official, national and international sources. We assume a
possible deviation of 15-20% around this data.
- All statistics for GDP, revenue, etc are shown in US$, in order to
maintain consistency within and between markets. At the same time we
acknowledge that this can introduce some irregularities.
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