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ISSN: 1750-7685
BMIs monthly market intelligence, trend analysis and forecasts for the telecommunications industry across Asia Pacific
INSIGHT
January 2010
Issue 45
CONTENTS
Regional Focus/Sri Lanka/Brunei/Cambodia/China/Hong Kong
Huaweis Meteoric Rise Continues ......................................................................... 2 Asia Mobile Handsets Market Set For Shake Up....................................................... 3 GSMA Awards Mobile Money Grants To Six Operators .............................................. 4 Sri Lanka Telekom Plans US$6.55mn Investment .................................................... 4 Brunei Prepares Ambitious Broadband Project ........................................................ 5 Minister Calling For More Infrastructure Sharing ..................................................... 5 Quarterly Results Signal Strong Chinese 3G Market ................................................. 6 OFTA Sells More Spectrum As Mobile Data Usage Rises ........................................... 7
INDUSTRY PROJECTIONS
Selected 802.16e Deployments In Asia
Country Bangladesh Japan Malaysia Operator Augere Wireless Broadband BanglaLion Communications Reinan Cable UQ Communications Redtone Y-Max AsiaSpace DotCom Green Packet Pakistan Wi-Tribe Mobilink Wateen Telecom Philippines Taiwan Innove Communications Globe Telecom Fitel Global Mobile Tatung Far EasTone
Source: WiMAX Forum
Equipment Suppliers Huawei NA Huawei Fujitsu, Samsung Motorola NA Huawei Alcatel Lucent, ZTE Motorola Huawei Huawei, Motorola Huawei Huawei Motorola NA Alcatel Lucent, NEC Alcatel Lucent, Motorola, Nortel
Indonesia/Bangladesh/Japan/Malaysia/Pakistan
BlackBerry Offer Competes With Local Brand.......................................................... 7 Indonesian WiMAX Deployment Accelerates ........................................................... 8 Regulator Planning To Rate Operators Performance ................................................ 9 Second WiMAX Launch For Bangladesh .................................................................. 9 Softbank Introducing Android Phone.....................................................................10 DiGi To Invest MYR400mn Annually In 3G Expansion .............................................10 Higher Import Duties Blunt Mobile Growth In 2008/09 ...........................................11 Pakistan Government Enforces Broadband Competition ..........................................11
South Korea/Singapore/Australia/Taiwan/India
ONSE Telecom Looks To Mobiles As Finances Pick Up .............................................12 SingTel Starts LTE Trials, NTT DoCoMo Sees LTE In 2010 .......................................12 Vodafone, Chunghwa Telecom Partner On Mobile ..................................................13 500mn Subscribers In India, One Year Early ..........................................................14 India 3G, Wireless Broadband Auctions Delayed Again ...........................................15 US$3.5bn Investment Planned By Sistema Shyam..................................................16
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Bangladesh is a highly competitive mobile market. With six active mobile operators, this suggests that the market could be ripe for consolidation. With SIM registration and an increase in SIM taxation both having recently squeezed market growth, operators need to be competitive on many fronts in order to attract the reduced number of new subscribers available on the market. Price competition is of course very important in a generally low-income market like Bangladesh, but with prices already driven almost as low as they can go, other factors come into play more significantly. These include network quality issues, such as the quality of the
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spectrum is available, whatever capacity is available will be allocated; again, however, one block will be reserved for the incumbent.
active circles of Mumbai, Delhi and category A areas, the EMD will be INR400mn (US$8.6mn). In Kolkata and Category B circles, the EMD requirement is INR200mn (US$4.3mn). In the rural and sparsely populated Category C circles, the EMD will be INR75mn (US$1.6mn). In order to bid across all 22 3G circles in the first round of the auction, an EMD of INR5,050mn (US$108mn) will be required. Twenty-five percent of the final bid will be payable within five days from the close of the auction. The balance will be payable within the following 10 days. Only then will the spectrum and licence be issued to the successful bidder. This tight deadline could prove a major hurdle as foreign investors in particular will need to have properly established their locally domiciled operations in full and assigned finance accordingly. BMI recalls the original GSM licence auctions of the 1990s when many foreign and local investors fell afoul of last-minute changes to the terms and conditions of the auction. It is to be hoped that similar problems do not occur this time round.
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