As the most developed telecoms market in Latin America, Chile has often followed the trends seen in more developed regions, with mobile growth eventually leading to falling demand for fixed-line services. Indeed, its 21% fixed-line penetration rate had been the highest in Latin America, but strong growth from markets such as Venezuela and the already high rate seen in Costa Rica mean that its status had been falling as interest in fixed-line services did decline. However, the fixed-line market has staged something of a comeback with slow, cautious increases in the number of lines in service. Given that the mobile market is well on its way to 100% penetration, this has come as something of a surprise. BMI has upgraded our forecasts accordingly, but we do anticipate the overall impact will be of decline, seeing lower than 20% penetration by the end of our forecast period in 2013. The strong competition in the market and expansion of bundled services and alternative call packages will do much to increase the interest in fixed lines maintaining the market in the short term. A faster growing area of the market should be the broadband market, but end of year figures from Subtel were disappointing, seeing lower than 10% growth. There does not appear to be any major reason behind this although previous fast growth could mean that major cities are reaching saturation point and more remote areas have yet to be reached by broadband infrastructure. The Chilean government awarded a tender to Inverca Telecom to work on this with its rural broadband programme set to bring services to around 3mn rural Chileans. The company won the tender in March 2009 and does not anticipate using any of the subsidy offered by the government to fund the roll-out. It is expected that the company will use WiMAX to expand broadband infrastructure given Inverca's partnership with Malaysia's Packet One, a WiMAX operator. Given our focus on the mobile market in our last update, we have left the mobile market data analysis section unchanged this quarter although the mobile market overview and operator data tables have been fully updated. Mobile forecasts have also been revised to reflect the latest data. In this quarter's report, we have focused our attention on the developments in the fixed-line and broadband markets, with new services and companies covered as well as analysing the competition present. A review of some major developments in the fixed-line and broadband markets includes the abolition of tariff ceilings in the fixedline market and the introduction of fibre-optic services in Santiago.
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Executive Summary
- SWOT Analysis
- Chile Mobile Business Environment SWOT
- Chile Wireline Business Environment SWOT
- Chile Political SWOT
- Chile Economic SWOT
- Chile Business Environment SWOT
- Business Environment Rankings
- Latin America Business Environment Rankings
- Chile
Table: BMI Telecommunications Business Environment Ratings
- Industry Forecast Scenario
- Mobile
Table: Chilean Telecoms Sector - Mobiles - Historical Data & Forecasts
- Fixed Line
Table: Chilean Telecoms Sector - Fixed Line - Historical Data & Forecasts
- Internet
Table: Chilean Telecoms Sector - Internet - Historical Data & Forecasts
- Market Data Analysis
- Mobile
Table: Chile Mobile Market, Q209
Table: Chile Wireless Market, Net Additions
- 3G
Table: Mobile Internet Connections By Speed (‘000)
- Mobile Contract Wins
Table: Mobile Contract Wins
- Mobile Content
- Regional Overview
- Country Outlook
- Value-Added Services Timeline
Table: Value Added Services Timeline
- Mobile Operator Data
- Mobile Operator Data
Table: Chile Mobile Market Overview
- Movistar (TEM Chile)
- Entel PCS
- Claro (ex Smartcom)
- Fixed Line
- Telefó
Table: Chile Local Access Market, March 2009
- Chile Fixed-Line Market By Region, 2008 (‘000)
- National Long-Distance Traffic
- Internet
Table: Chilean Broadband Market, December 2008
- Broadband Technologies
- Wireline Developments
- Regulatory Developments
- Division Of Regulatory Responsibilities In Chile
- Chile: Regulatory Bodies And Their Responsibilities
- Background And Regulatory Bodies
- Regulatory Issues
- Competition
- Industry Developments
- Competitive Landscape
- Key Players
Table: Key Companies: Chile Telecommunications Sector
Table: Selected Operators Financial Indicators
- Company Monitor
Table: Alcatel-Lucent Q309 Results EURmn
Table: Contracts
- Company Profiles
- Telefó
- Entel
- Telefó
- VTR GlobalCom
- Claro Chile
- Appendix
- Regional Telecommunications Penetration Overview
- Fixed Line
Table: Regional Fixed-Line Penetration Overview
- Internet/Broadband
Table: Regional Internet Penetration Overview
Table: Regional Broadband Penetration Overview
- Mobile
Table: Regional Mobile Penetration Overview
- Country Snapshot: Chile Demographic Data
- Sect
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