Kazakhstan - Telecoms Market Overview, Statistics & Forecasts

Synopsis

Kazakhstan has a booming telecoms market. New legislation adopted in 2004 opened the floodgates for the liberalisation of the telecom sector and ended Kazakhtelecom’s monopoly. By April 2005, four companies had been licensed to provide international and long-distance services in competition with the incumbent. By year-end, over 1,000 licences had been issued for the provision of a range of telecom services. Rapid growth in the mobile market has seen subscriber numbers surge from 260,000 in 2000 to around 12 million in early 2008. Internet penetration remains low, but there is increasing interest in going online. This report looks at the telecom market in Kazakhstan, including some pertinent market statistics and forecasts.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Key statistics
  
• 3. Telecommunications market
  
  • 3.1 Overview of Kazakhstan’s telecom market
    
• 4. Regulatory environment
  
  • 4.1 Regulatory authority
    
  • 4.2 Liberalisation and regulatory development
    
  • 4.3 Privatisation
    
• 5. Fixed network operators in Kazakhstan
  
  • 5.1 Astel
    
  • 5.2 Ducat (formerly Kazintel)
    
  • 5.3 Kazakhtelecom
    
  • 5.4 KazInformTelecom (KIT)
    
• 6. Telecommunications infrastructure
  
  • 6.1 National
    
    • 6.1.1 National fibre optic cable network
      
    • 6.1.2 Wireless Local Loop (WLL)
      
  • 6.2 International infrastructure
    
    • 6.2.1 Trans Asia-Europe (TAE)
      
    • 6.2.2 Satellite networks
      
• 7. Internet market
  
  • 7.1 Overview
    
    • 7.1.1 Kazakh Network Information Centre (KazNIC)
      
    • 7.1.2 Ashyk Alem Project
      
  • 7.2 ISP market
    
    • 7.2.1 Kazakhstan Online
      
    • 7.2.2 Nursat
      
  • 7.3 Internet Protocol TV (IPTV)
    
• 8. Mobile communications
  
  • 8.1 Overview of Kazakhstan’s mobile market
    
    • 8.1.1 Mobile statistics
      
  • 8.2 Mobile technologies
    
    • 8.2.1 Third Generation (3G)
      
    • 8.2.2 Trunk Mobile Radio (TMR)
      
  • 8.3 Major mobile operators
    
    • 8.3.1 Altel
      
    • 8.3.2 GSM-Kazakhstan (K’Cell)
      
    • 8.3.3 Kar-Tel (K-Mobile)
      
    • 8.3.4 Mobile Telecom Service (NeoTelecom)
      
• 9. Forecasts
  
  • 9.1 Overview
    
  • 9.2 Forecasts – fixed-line market to 2017
    
  • 9.3 Forecasts – Internet services to 2017
    
  • 9.4 Forecasts – mobile market to 2017
    
  • 9.5 Notes on forecasting
    
• 10. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Country statistics Kazakhstan – 2008
• Table 2 – Telephone network statistics – 2007
• Table 3 – Internet user statistics – 2007
• Table 4 – Mobile statistics – March 2008
• Table 5 – National telecommunications authorities
• Table 6 – Kazakhtelecom urban and rural fixed-line subscribers – August 2006
• Table 7 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1995 - 2008
• Table 8 – Internet bandwidth capacity – 2002; 2005 - 2006
• Table 9 – Internet users – 1996 - 2008
• Table 10 – Estimated Internet subscribers – 1996 - 2007
• Table 11 – Broadband subscribers – 2003 - 2007
• Table 12 – Mobile operators, subscribers and annual change – March 2008
• Table 13 – Mobile subscribers and annual change – 1996 - 2008
• Table 14 – Forecast fixed line growth – lower forecast – 2007; 2012; 2017
• Table 15 – Forecast fixed line growth – upper forecast – 2007; 2012; 2017
• Table 16 – Forecast Internet growth – lower forecast – 2007; 2012; 2017
• Table 17 – Forecast Internet growth – upper forecast – 2007; 2012; 2017
• Table 18 – Forecast mobile growth – lower forecast – 2007; 2012; 2017
• Table 19 – Forecast mobile growth – upper forecast – 2007; 2012; 2017

• Exhibit 1 – Kazakhtelecom’s modernisation program for telecommunications – 2004 - 2007
• Exhibit 2 – Construction of the National Information Highway (NIH) backbone