Venezuela - Mobile Market - Overview, Statistics & Forecasts

Synopsis

Venezuela’s mobile penetration is one of the highest in the region, with mobile subscribers still growing strongly even while preparing to cross the 100% penetration barrier. The country remains one of the last bastions of CDMA in Latin America, but the two leading mobile operators, Movilnet and Movistar, are finally turning to GSM. In fact, the launch of a GSM network by Movilnet in December 2008 should help to buoy the market despite the economic downturn. Venezuela is a regional leader in terms of SMS traffic, the number of text messages surpassing the number of minutes the average Venezuelan talks on a mobile phone. Accompanied by key market statistics and analyses, this report provides an overview of the market and a brief profile of mobile operators. The report also contains scenario forecasts for the years 2013 and 2018.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Overview of Venezuela’s mobile market
  
  • 2.1 Mobile statistics
    
• 3. Regulatory issues
  
  • 3.1 Spectrum auctions
    
• 4. Mobile technologies
  
  • 4.1 Digital
    
    • 4.1.1 CDMA
      
    • 4.1.2 GSM
      
  • 4.2 Third Generation (3G) mobile
    
• 5. Major mobile operators
  
  • 5.1 Movilnet (CANTV)
    
  • 5.2 Movistar (Telefónica)
    
  • 5.3 Digitel GSM
    
• 6. Mobile voice services
  
  • 6.1 Prepaid services
    
  • 6.2 Satellite mobile
    
• 7. Mobile data services
  
  • 7.1 Short Message Service (SMS)
    
  • 7.2 High capacity mobile voice/data services (CDMA2000 1x)
    
  • 7.3 Broadband wireless data service (1x EV-DO)
    
  • 7.4 BlackBerry
    
  • 7.5 iPhone 3G
    
• 8. Forecasts – mobile market to 2018
  
  • 8.1 Scenario 1 – higher mobile market growth
    
  • 8.2 Scenario 2 – lower mobile market growth
    
  • 8.3 Notes on scenario forecasts
    
• 9. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Mobile subscribers by operator and technology – December 2008
• Table 2 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate - 1997 - 2009
• Table 3 – Market share by mobile operators – 2001 - 2009
• Table 4 – Evolution of mobile ARPU in Venezuela – major operators – 2006 - 2008
• Table 5 – Market share of mobile market by technology – 2004 - 2008
• Table 6 – Movilnet - mobile subscribers - 2000 - 2009
• Table 7 – Movistar subscribers - 2000 - 2009
• Table 8 – Digitel subscribers - 2003 - 2008
• Table 9 – Mobile prepaid/postpaid ratio - 1997 - 2008
• Table 10 – SMS messages sent - 2002 - 2008
• Table 11 – Forecast mobile subscribers – higher growth scenario – 2008; 2013; 2018
• Table 12 – Forecast mobile subscribers – lower growth scenario – 2008; 2013; 2018

• Exhibit 1 – Mobile telephony in Venezuela – historical overview – 1991 - 2000
• Exhibit 2 – Mobile telephony in Venezuela – licensing regions
• Exhibit 3 – Movistar – company history
• Exhibit 4 – Digitel – historical
• Exhibit 5 – Infonet – historical
• Exhibit 6 – Digicel – historical