Philippines - Key Statistics, Telecom Market and Regulatory Overviews

Synopsis

While the telecom sector in the Philippines has witnessed considerable investment and activity since deregulation in 1993, the market has fallen short of its potential. However, there are strong signs that this is changing. While the mobile market has been energetic for some years now, the fixed-line market has started to move again and, most significantly, the broadband Internet sector is finally building a healthy subscriber base. The global financial problems were, however, introducing some uncertainty into the local market coming into 2009. This report provides a statistical overview of the Philippines telecoms market. The difficulty in obtaining accurate statistical information on the market is noted; for some indicators official figures are only available to 2006.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Key statistics
  
• 3. Telecommunications market
  
  • 3.1 Overview of the Philippines’ telecom market
    
    • 3.1.1 Background to development
      
    • 3.1.2 Domination of mobile telephony
      
• 4. Regulatory environment
  
  • 4.1 Regulatory authorities
    
    • 4.1.1 Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT)
      
  • 4.2 Regulatory developments
    
    • 4.2.1 Pricing
      
    • 4.2.2 International traffic pricing dispute
      
    • 4.2.3 Billing
      
    • 4.2.4 Taxation issues
      
    • 4.2.5 Monitoring of performance
      
    • 4.2.6 Access charge dispute
      
    • 4.2.7 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services
      
    • 4.2.8 Interconnection arrangements
      
    • 4.2.9 Mobile registration fee
      
    • 4.2.10 Consumer protection
      
    • 4.2.11 Service coverage
      
    • 4.2.12 Mobile subscriber ‘poaching’
      
  • 4.3 Telecom sector liberalisation
    
  • 4.4 Alternative Communications Program
    
• 5. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Country statistics – 2009
• Table 2 – Telecom revenue and investment statistics – 2006
• Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – 2008
• Table 4 – Internet user statistics – 2008
• Table 5 – Broadband statistics – 2008
• Table 6 – Mobile statistics – 2009
• Table 7 – National telecommunications authorities