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Kazakhstan - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts - 2012 |
| Source: |
finance.yahoo.com |
| Source Date: |
Friday, March 23, 2012 |
| Focus: |
ICT for MDGs
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| Country: |
Kazakhstan |
| Created: |
Mar 26, 2012 |
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With a GDP per capita almost equal to Russia, Kazakhstan has a booming telecom market.
Although growth slowed significantly in 2009, Kazakhstan has continued to experience a booming telecom market that included a mobile penetration of 130% by early 2011. This has come about on the back of a growing economy and a program of positive regulatory reform in the telecom sector. Legislation adopted in 2004 largely laid the foundation for liberalisation and development of the telecom sector and put an end to the monopoly enjoyed by Kazakhtelecom, the state-controlled telecom operator.
The key drivers in the telecom sector included:
•The deployment of Kazakhtelecom's fully-digital national telecom network based on local and long-distance switches and fibre optic lines linking all major cities in the country;
•Efforts to improve international connectivity and increase both mobile and fixed-line subscribers; the continuing digitalisation of exchanges;
•The further reform of telecommunications legislation;
•Of special note has been the recent healthy growth in internet activity in Kazakhstan, with the move to broadband access in particular taking place at a rapid rate. Fixed broadband subscribers as a proportion of the population had reached a healthy 6% by 2011, with the market likely to continue its current rapid expansion.
Major highlights:
•After a decade of strong growth in Kazakhstan's mobile market, there was a slowing in the market;
•With mobile penetration around 130% in early 2012, the market was continuing to grow but was expected to start saturating in the next year or so;
•Broadband internet was quickly expanding on top of a general upturn in demand for internet services;
•There had been a significant shift to broadband access in 2009 as the proportion of internet subscribers using broadband shifted from 43% to 76% in that twelve-month period;
•Kazakhstan, despite the considerable presence of incumbent Kazakhtelecom across the market, was continuing to benefit from a diversified market that offered an energetic and competitive environment, especially in the mobile market;
•On the economic front, after an eight-year period in which GDP had been growing at an annual rate in excess of 8%, 2008 saw a major slowdown in the Kazakhstan economy with GDP growth falling to 3%; 2009 saw growth fall even further (to around 1%) as the full impact of the global financial crisis hit.
•At least a modest recovery in the local economy was evident in the short term with possible even more achievable; GDP growth of around 7% was estimated/expected by the IMF for 2010 and 2011.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Executive summary
2. Key statistics
3. Telecommunications market
4. Regulatory environment
5. Fixed-network operators in Kazakhstan
6. Telecommunications infrastructure
7. Internet market
8. Mobile communications
9. Notes on forecasting
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/14a8de12/kazakhstan_telec
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