Last updated: 14 Oct 2008 Update History
Report Status: Archived
Report Pages: 138
Analyst: Stephen McNamara
Publication Overview
This report covers Russia and the neighbouring countries of Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. Trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, Internet, broadband, digital TV and converging media including VoIP, VoD and IPTV developments. Subjects include:
Researcher:- Paul Kwon
Current publication date:- October 2008 (7th Edition)
Next publication date:- October 2009
Executive Summary
BuddeComm’s annual publication 2008
This report is essential reading for those seeking a succinct overview of the telecom markets of
· Broadband continues to gain popularity on the back of competition. Poor regulatory access regimes in all four countries have resulted in alternative operators deploying their own access networks, focusing predominantly on Fibre-to-the-Building, cable and wireless technologies. With incumbents in all four countries still majority state-owned, this scenario is unlikely to change in 2009.
· Broadband connections exceed dial-up in
· In
· Moving to take advantage of the underserved broadband market are the region’s CDMA mobile operators, all of which are minor players in increasingly saturated mobile voice markets. Such operators in
· In
· Moldova’s two dominant GSM operators launched WCDMA 3G/HSDPA networks in late-2008, leaving Belarus as the only country yet to launch WCDMA 3G services. Competing 3G services availability is expected to drive down mobile broadband rates that, coupled with increasingly sophisticated handsets, will expand the market for mobile content and applications. This will particularly be the case for countries with saturated mobile voice markets, such as
·
· Across the region IPTV is becoming commonplace, with launches undertaken in
Country |
Subscribers (million) |
Penetration |
|
7.5 |
72.5% |
|
1.9 |
42.7% |
|
168.7 |
118.8% |
|
54.9 |
118.6% |
(Source: BuddeComm based on ITU and Global Mobile data)
Data in this report is the latest available at the time of preparation and may not be for the current year.
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