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WiseGuyReports.com “ Serbia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses ” report has been added to its Research Database. Scope of the Report: Serbia Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband Market 2019-2025 Serbia’s telecom sector revenue returns to growth. Following an economically and politically turbulent period during the 1990s, Serbia started the first decade of the new millennium with strong GDP growth until the economic crisis of 2008. GDP growth soon recovered but more recently it has been stymied by the poor performance of Serbia’s principal trading markets, including Italy and Greece. Economic difficulties prompted the government to adopt a range of fiscal measures to raise revenue, including a short-term imposition of a 10% tax on telecom services. Similarly, the economic difficulties, compounded by a range of regulatory measures, saw a steady fall in telecom market revenue for a number of years although not all markets were affected equally. Telecom se...

WiseGuyReports.com  “Paraguay - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses”  report has been added to its Research Database. Scope of the Report: Paraguay - Telecoms Paraguay’s regulator to auction 700MHz at end-2017The state-owned incumbent, Corporación Paraguaya de Comunicaciones (Copaco) retains a monopoly on all fixed-line voice services, including local telephony, international long distance telephony, and VoIP. In the mobile market, however, there has been competition since 1998. The internet market is also open to competition, and there are over a dozen ISPs offering services. Copaco lost its monopoly over the international backbone for internet connectivity in early 2009. Growth in the number of mobile subscribers has been helped by the poor condition of much of the country’s fixed-line infrastructure. Underinvestment in infrastructure by Copaco has meant that lift Paraguay’s teledensity remains very low for the region. There is little expectation ...

WiseGuyReports.com  “Switzerland - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses”  report has been added to its Research Database. Scope of the Report: Switzerland - Telecoms Switzerland’s Federal Council passes Telecommunication Act reform. Switzerland has a sophisticated telecom sector and enjoys the highest broadband penetration rate in the OECD. Its competitive mobile market is served by three network operators and a small number of MVNOs while the broadband market is dominated by Swisscom and UPC Switzerland, though there are a large number of smaller players in the market. UPC has gained scale in recent years by acquiring a number of its partner networks and by signing deals to use third-party networks. The mobile market has undergone a number of changes in recent years, with the operator Salt (formerly Orange Switzerland) having been acquired by NJJ Capital in February 2015, and with Sunrise having been acquired by the private equity firm CVC Capital P...

WiseGuyReports.com “ Saudi Arabia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses ” report has been added to its Research Database. Scope of the Report: Saudi Arabia - Telecoms Supporting digital technologies is a key component of Saudi Arabia’s future strategySaudi Arabia entered 2018 on a positive note with the government announcement of its largest financial budget ever which will support the country’s expansion and diversification plans as part of its Vision 2030 program. Generally speaking; the strategy will implement changes relating to improving the kingdom’s economy through increases in taxes and fuel prices as well as encouraging investment and diversification away from its reliance on oil. It will also support the use of digital technologies for such uses as cloud computing and e-commerce as well as encouraging ICT development, including investments in broadband infrastructure. Broadband is widely available in Saudi Arabia via ADSL, fibre, and wire...

WiseGuyReports.com  “Sri Lanka - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses”  report has been added to its Research Database. Scope of the Report: Sri Lanka - Telecoms Sri Lanka’s makes significant progress in its IoT ventures. In 2018 the government’s Board of Investment of Sri Lanka formally approved a significant investment for network expansion and upgrade work on 4G mobile and fixed broadband services. Fixed broadband penetration in Sri Lanka remains very low mainly due to the dominance of the mobile platform and the limited and declining number of fixed lines is restricting more widespread development of fixed broadband. However, the market has grown strongly over the past five years from a very small base. Over the next five years to 2023 strong growth is expected to continue. Sri Lanka’s mobile market has experienced strong growth over the last six years. Slow growth is predicted over the next five years to 2023. The market will be constrained fro...

WiseGuyReports.com  “Namibia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses”  report has been added to its Research Database. Scope of the Report: Namibia Telecoms Namibia’s telecom regulator approves government ownership of MTCAlthough Namibia was slow to introduce competition in the mobile market, with a second operator not licensed until 2006, the market has since seen penetration rates rise to well above the regional average. A new player, Paratus Telecom, has launched LTE services to compete with those offered by MTC, while in late 2017 the regulator licensed Demshi Investment and MTN to provide mobile voice and data services and MVNOs. MTC in late 2017 launched a major infrastructure program aimed at delivering national population coverage by October 2019. Fixed-line services are still a monopoly of Telecom Namibia, but as a member of the WTO the government plans to open the telecom sector to full competition. As part of this process the government...

WiseGuyReports.com  “Morocco - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses”  report has been added to its Research Database. Scope of the Report: Morocco - Telecoms Morocco seeing benefits from the Maroc Digital 2020 strategy. Morocco retains one of the most advanced telecommunications markets in Africa. The part-privatised incumbent telco Maroc Telecom remains the dominant player in the fixed-line sector though has effective competition in the mobile sector. A key regional player, Orange Group, entered the market through the acquisition of a major stake in the telco Médi Telecom (Méditel), which has since been rebranded as Orange Morocco. The country has some of the lowest prices for broadband internet access, despite there being relatively little competition in the fixed-line broadband sector. Competition in the provision of DSL services is slight since despite the launch of services by Inwi and Orange Morocco, and of regulatory efforts to enforce LLU and ...