Morocco: broadband services via 3g, 4g, adsl and fiber will drive telecom market growth The telecom market in Morocco will grow at a CAGR of 5.0% over the period 2015-2020 reaching $4.3bn by 2020. Morocco’s telecom services will generate total revenue of $3.4bn in 2015. Morocco will record one of the highest mobile penetration rates in the North African region of 132.6% in 2015. Broadband is set to be… Read More »
Mobile broadband in southeast asia: adoption and usage trends and operator strategy Mobile broadband traffic will grow rapidly in continental SE Asia, driven by the expansion of 3G and 4G networks and the proliferation of cheap smartphones; the fastest growth will come in the less developed markets. The region’s 3G markets have had time to mature prior to the 4G launches, but 2G networks will give way… Read More »
Kenya: rapid growth in mobile data revenue driven by mobile money services Kenya is one of the largest telecom service markets in East Africa, with estimated revenue of $2.3bn in 2015, a 4.4% increase on the previous year. Mobile data is a major growth driver and will generate $946m or 41.7% of total revenue in 2015, boosted by increased mobile Internet access and the expansion of mobile… Read More »
Iraq: 3g rollout to drive telecom market Pyramid Research estimates that total telecom services revenue in Iraq will be $4.4bn in 2015. Over the next five years, we expect Iraq’s total market revenue to grow at a CAGR of 3.1% to reach $5.1bn in 2020. The Iraqi market is smaller than other regional markets such as Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt, primarily… Read More »
Hong kong: operators work to promote 4g migration and compete on customer experience In 2015, Hong Kong will be the one of the most sophisticated telecom services market in the Asia-Pacific region, with estimated revenue of US$6.4bn or 2.1% of GDP. Mobile data services will be the most important growth driver, generating $155m more revenue in 2015 than in 2014, owing to focus on bundled services offerings, diversified… Read More »
Enterprise cloud services in the middle east: seven factors that will impact adoption The report titled ‘Enterprise Cloud Services in the Middle East: Seven Factors that Will Impact Adoption’ studies the growth prospects for SaaS, IaaS and PaaS in the major markets of the Middle East. This includes the countries where adoption is the highest: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Turkey and Israel. The Insider Report first defines cloud… Read More »
Egypt: mobile and fixed data will drive growth as new licenses expected in 2016 The Egyptian telecom market will generate an estimated US$5.0bn of service revenue in 2015 and will grow at a CAGR of 3.4% over 2015-2020, driven by growth in mobile and fixed broadband. Proliferation of smartphones coupled with the operators’ focus on network enhancement will spur growth in the data segment. Telecom Egypt’s focus on expansion… Read More »
Czech Republic: market to return to revenue growth in 2018 as lte service adoption drives up mobile revenue In 2015, the Czech Republic will be the fourth-largest telecom services market in Central and Eastern Europe after Russia, Poland and Romania, with estimated revenue of $3.5bn (Kc85.7bn), or 1.9% of nominal GDP, a 2.3% decrease in local currency compared with the previous year. This revenue decline is mostly driven by the mobile market as… Read More »
Colombia: the telecoms and pay-tv services markets continue to show resiliency despite economic headwinds Among major currencies in the region, the Colombian peso, together with the Brazilian real, sharply depreciated during 2015. Largely as a result of the depreciation, Pyramid Research expects the Colombian telecom services market to decrease by over 21% in 2015 in US dollar terms, one of the highest revenue contractions in Latin America. Colombia will… Read More »
5g wireless: technology evolution & service provider strategies Although many operators are still ramping their 4G LTE deployments, 5G has become a major topic of conversation and planning for cellular operators, with a broad expectation of initial standards and product availability in the 2020 timeframe. As 5G standardization progresses, initial 5G definitions have centered on use cases and market requirements that 5G networks… Read More »
