Synopsis
The New Zealand telecommunications market is going to change considerably during the next five to ten years. These far-reaching changes will be driven by the fibre backbone that is being deployed under the Ultra-fast broadband network and the Rural Broadband Initiative. Together with government policies and industry cooperation the telecoms industry infrastructure will assist with economic reform across the country.
The fibre-backbone network will become the predominant infrastructure and it will provide its services to the other market sectors including energy, manufacturing, healthcare, education, as well as the rural sector. With these sectors involved we will see the telco businesses morph from the traditional telephony access provider to content service providers. Telcos, ISPs and the other service providers will have an opportunity to become the ICT providers to these market sectors.
The larger sectors, in particular, will create a large demand for value-added infrastructure services. All of this will assist the industry to double its size to around $14 billion by 2020. In this report we provide scenario-based forecast for the mobile sector as well as some market forecasts and background information on the other markets in the economy.
