Telecom Market Revenue in New Zealand Expected to Increase Less than 1% for 2007-08, says New Report

PRLog (Press Release) – Dec 19, 2007 – Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has now added a new report showing that after modest growth of 1.1% last financial year, New Zealand's telecoms market is set to slow further with revenues expected to increase less than 1% for 2007-08

“2008 New Zealand - Telecoms Overview and Analysis” (http://www.reportbuyer.com/go/BUD00214) reports that the biggest culprit for the slow-down is fixed voice, with revenues tipped to fall 4% next financial year, which comes on top of the 2% drop for 2006-07. As phone call prices and volumes continue to slip, more people will give up their traditional home phone line and move to alternative access networks, such as mobile and Voice over IP, as well as products using data and IP-based solutions

Authors of the report say revenue from mobiles is expected to pick up, jumping 3.2% in the coming financial year, following a paltry 0.4% lift this year. This, they note, was despite unusually high growth of 11.6% in subscribers for 2006-07. However, growth subscribers, is forecast to fall sharply next year to 2.9% and 2.3% the year after.

The report shows that while growth is expected to be flat over the next 12 months, the telecoms market is forecast to pick up in 2008-09, with market revenue anticipated to surge by 2.8 percent. This will primarily be driven by data, internet and value-added services and pay TV.

According to the authors, over time, the new environment such as value-added infrastructure opportunities such as data centres, content hosting and network management, will open up lots of new opportunities. But equally a range of innovative customer services can be built on the new wholesale products, and open networks will create a new environment for digital media, e-health, tele-education and smart grid applications.

In addition, the authors note that the introduction of ADSL2+ services will increasingly deliver, in time, VoIP and IPTV and a host of other digital media services. When Telecom’s next-generation network is completed by 2012, the carrier is expected to deliver a range of services including VoIP, video calling, converged fixed-mobile offerings, interactive television and Video on Demand.

“2008 New Zealand - Telecoms Overview and Analysis” is available from Report Buyer. For more information go to:  http://www.reportbuyer.com/telecoms/country_overviews_te ...

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