Argentina - Mobile Communications and Mobile Data Market
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Argentina’s mobile market is the third largest in Latin America, after Brazil and Mexico. In terms of penetration, Argentina is the regional leader, bar a few Caribbean islands, having overtaken Chile in June 2007. Three operators, Movistar, Claro, and Telecom Personal, run a close competition for market share. All three companies launched 3G services over HSDPA networks in 2007. Besides the three main cellular providers, Nextel operates an iDEN network with a small but profitable slice of the market. GSM is the main technology in Argentina, with TDMA and CDMA slated to disappear after June 2008. This report provides an overview of Argentina’s mobile market, together with brief profiles of the mobile operators, and statistical data.
- 1. Synopsis
- 2. Mobile communications
- 2.1 Overview of Argentina’s mobile market
- 2.2 Regulatory issues
- 2.2.1 Calling Party Pays (CPP)
- 2.2.2 PCS auctions 1999
- 2.2.3 Number Portability (NP)
- 2.2.4 Returned spectrum allocation
- 2.3 Mobile technologies
- 2.3.1 Digital
- 2.3.2 Third Generation mobile
- 2.4 Major mobile operators
- 2.4.1 Movistar Argentina
- 2.4.2 Claro (CTI Móvil)
- 2.4.3 Telecom Personal
- 2.4.4 Nextel Argentina
- 2.4.5 Fecotel and Fecosur
- 2.5 Mobile voice services
- 2.5.1 Prepaid
- 2.5.2 Satellite mobile
- 2.6 Mobile data services
- 2.6.1 Short Message Service (SMS)
- 2.6.2 Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
- 2.6.3 Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
- 2.6.4 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
- 2.6.5 Push-to-Talk (PTT)
- 2.6.6 Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution (EDGE)
- 2.6.7 BlackBerry
- 2.6.8 Mobile TV
- 2.7 Mobile content and applications
- 3. Related reports
- Table 1 – Mobile subscribers by operator and technology – December 2007
- Table 2 – Mobile subscribers and penetration - 1997 - 2008
- Table 3 – Mobile operators’ market share - 1999 - 2007
- Table 4 – Evolution of ARPU in Argentina – major operators – 2005 - 2007
- Table 5 – Movistar – mobile subscribers – 1999 - 2007
- Table 6 – Claro – mobile subscribers – 1999 - 2008
- Table 7 – Telecom Personal – mobile subscribers – 1999 - 2007
- Table 8 – Nextel Argentina – mobile subscribers – 2002 - 2007
- Table 9 – Prepaid/postpaid ratio - 1999 - 2008
- Exhibit 1 – PCS auctions – 1999
- Exhibit 2 – Movicom BellSouth – history
- Exhibit 3 – Telefónica Comunicaciones Personales, trading as Unifón – history
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