Venezuela - Telecom Market Trends, Key Statistics & Regulatory Overview

Synopsis

While Venezuela’s economy contracted in 2009, its telecommunications industry registered a 10% growth, performing better than any other sector. The telecom market outlook is reasonably promising for 2010; the ICT sector, in particular, has a huge potential for growth. Venezuela’s GDP per capita is the highest in Latin America bar a few Caribbean islands and yet, though poverty and income inequality have decreased substantially since 2002, still about one fourth of the population is poor. The government has made it a priority to provide phones and ICT services to the country’s underprivileged. This report provides an overview of Venezuela’s telecom sector and regulatory environment, accompanied by statistical data, analyses, and outlook.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Key statistics
  
• 3. Telecommunications market
  
  • 3.1 Country overview
    
    • 3.1.1 General outlook
      
  • 3.2 Overview of Venezuela’s telecom market
    
  • 3.3 Market analysis – 2010
    
• 4. Regulatory environment
  
  • 4.1 Background
    
  • 4.2 Regulatory authority
    
    • 4.2.1 Conatel
      
  • 4.3 Privatisation of CANTV
    
  • 4.4 Telecom sector liberalisation in Venezuela
    
  • 4.5 Renationalisation of CANTV
    
  • 4.6 Interconnect
    
  • 4.7 Fixed-line tariffs
    
• 5. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Country statistics – 2009
• Table 2 – Telephone network statistics – 2009
• Table 3 – Internet user statistics – 2009
• Table 4 – Broadband statistics – 2009
• Table 5 – Mobile statistics – 2009
• Table 6 – National telecommunications authority
• Table 7 – Evolution of GDP in Venezuela – 2000 - 2010
• Table 8 – Telecom revenues and investments (private sector) – 2001 - 2009
• Table 9 – Telecom revenue by segment – 2008 - 2009