DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Philippines - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Digital Media" report to their offering.
This report provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in the Philippines telecommunications market. The report analyses the Telecoms Infrastructure, mobile, fixed broadband, Digital Media and Digital Economy sectors.
Over the last five years the Philippines mobile subscriber base has seen a moderate growth rate with a gradual easing of growth due to a maturing market.
A feature of the Philippines mobile market has been the near duopoly with Smart together with Globe Telecom maintaining a tight hold on the industry. Smart, in particular, as a subsidiary of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLDT) has a dominating presence in the market place. However Globe Telecom has bridged the gap significantly over the past two years.
The mobile networks provide more than 99% coverage of population. The local market has started to focus on value added services as a comparatively cautious rollout of 3G took place followed by the start of 4G/LTE network rollouts.
The two leaders in the mobile market, Smart Communications and Globe Telecom continued to compete vigorously in the marketplace; they were steadily improving their service quality in order to be even more competitive. The introduction of mobile broadband services was starting to provide more opportunities for expanding the sector.
Subjects include:
- Market and industry analyses, trends and developments;
- Facts, figures and statistics;
- Industry and regulatory issues;
- Infrastructure;
- Major players, revenues, subscribers, ARPU;
- Broadband, VoIP, IPTV;
- Mobile voice and data markets;
- Broadband (FttH, DSL, wireless);
- Digital Economy and Digital Media sectors eg e-Commerce and e-Payments;
- Mobile and fixed broadband forecasts to 2021.
Key developments:
- PLDT introduced a quad-play service, bundling a mobile package with its voice, data and fibre services.
- Globe Telecoms uccessfully integrated its recently-acquired Bayan Telecommunications (Bayantel) subsidiary into its operations.
- NTC approved a network sharing deal between Globe Telecom and ABS-CBN Corp.
- the deal was part of ABS-CBN Corp's plan to become the country's third telecom player;'
- BellTel was making a move to become the Philippines' fourth mobile operator after PLDT, Globe and ABS-CBN Mobile.
- continuing growth in mobile broadband usage.
- both Smart and Globe were pushing on with development of cloud computing platforms.
- the Philippines was moving to legislate on the issue of minimum broadband speeds.
- Smart was leading the deployment of 4G LTE mobile services across the country, with its 4G network covering more than 85% of the population.
- PLDT's strong market position has slipped to some extent
- Globe has been notably successful in its push to increase market share.
Companies Mentioned
- ABS-CBN Corp.
- Bayantel
- Bell Telecom (BellTel)
- Digitel
- Eastern Telecom (ETPI)
- Globe Telecom
- Innove (Globe)
- Liberty Telecom
- PLDT
- PT&T
- Smart Communications
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