Recently released market study: Central America Telecommunications Report Q2 2011

April 7, 2011 - PRLog -- Competition in Central America has certainly been a driving force behind the region's strong telecoms growth rates. This is particularly clear when looking at the mobile markets of the seven countries covered in our Central America Telecommunications Report. Strong competition has driven growth across several markets, leaving those with limited competition behind. In fact, upcoming competition in Costa Rica has seen incumbent Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) introduce a range of new services which had a hugely positive impact on the market's growth rate in 2010. The threat of competition saw ICE make huge improvements to the types of services on offer, bringing prepay and 3G services to the market for the first time.

Panama too benefitted from the introduction of two new operators in 2008 and 2009, boosting growth significantly. At the end of 2010, it had by far the highest penetration rate in Latin America at 185%. Again, the threat of new competition saw existing operators +movil (Cable & Wireless) and Movistar (Telefonica) introduce new products in an attempt to hold on to their subscribers. The effect was exceptional growth in 2009 and into 2010. While BMI believes this has led to a significant number of inactive subscribers, which will need to be discounted in future, it highlights the importance of competition in these markets.

Belize and Nicaragua have caught BMI's eye as markets that would benefit from additional competition. Both count on two mobile operators, but growth has been slow. The sale of shares in Belizean incumbent Belize TeleMedia Ltd (BTL) has not yet resolved the issue of ownership as there are still questions over the legality of the renationalisation. BMI believes this uncertainty is bad news for the operator, preventing it from fully focusing on moving forward and introducing new services to Belize.

Data from Millicom International Cellular, whose Tigo service operates in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, show that around 7% of the company's subscribers in the region were using 3G services at the end of 2010. BMI believes this proportion will continue to grow with mobile broadband helping to boost the rate of subscriber take up. Improving ARPU figures back this view and suggest that mobile content will become an ever greater proportion of revenues in future.

Although BMI believes broadband will provide the strongest growth rates over our forecast period, the mobile market will remain the key driver of telecoms revenues and many operators will benefit from offering wireless broadband services that will attract more connections on their networks.

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Report Table of Contents:

SWOT Analysis
- Central America Telecommunications SWOT
Business Environment Overview
- Latin America Telecommunications Business Environment Ratings
- Central America
- Table: Q211 Business Environment Rankings
Industry Forecast Scenario
- Mobile
- Table: Central America - Mobile Sector, 2008-2015
- Fixed Line
- Table: Central America - Fixed-Line Sector, 2008-2015
- Internet
- Table: Central America - Internet Sector, 2008-2015
Market Data Analysis
- Mobile
- Belize
- Table: Belize Telemedia Ltd Subscribers ('000)
- Table: Belize - Mobile Market, December 2010
- Costa Rica
- Table: Costa Rica - Mobile Market, December 2010
- El Salvador
- Table: El Salvador - Mobile Market, December 2010
- Guatemala
- Table: Guatemala - Mobile Market, December 2010
- Honduras
- Table: Honduras - Mobile Market, December 2010
- Nicaragua
- Table: Nicaragua - Mobile Market, December 2010
- Panama
- Table: Panama -- Mobile Market, December 2010
- 3G
- Mobile Contract Wins
- Table: Mobile Contract Wins
- Fixed Line
- Belize
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Table: Guatemala's Fixed-Line Market, 2009
- Honduras
- Table: Honduras' Telecoms Usage, Minutes, 2001-2009 (mn)
- Table: Honduras' Fixed Lines In Service, Q408-Q409 ('000)
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Table: Panama's Fixed-Line Market, 2005-2009 ('000)
- Internet
- Belize
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Table: Honduras' Internet Market 2004-2009
- Nicaragua
- Table: Nicaragua's Internet Subscriber Types, 2004-2006 (%)
- Panama
Regulatory Developments
- Regulatory Environment And Industry Developments
- Table: Central America's Telecoms Regulators
- Belize
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
- Panama
Company Monitor
- Motorola: A New Beginning And A Fresh Focus Could Revive Latin American Prospects
- Table: Motorola Financial Results (US$mn)
- Table: Motorola: Key Latin American Contracts
Company Profiles
- Regional Profile: Millicom International Cellular
- Millicom SWOT Analysis
- Table: Millicom International Cellular Subscribers
- Regional Profile: America Movil
- America Movil SWOT Analysis
- Table: America Movil Central America Subscribers ('000)
- Table: America Movil Mobile Data, 2008-2010
Market Overview
- Mobile
- Table: Regional Mobile Penetration Overview
- Fixed Line
- Table: Regional Fixed-Line Penetration Overview
- Broadband
- Table: Regional Broadband Penetration Overview
Glossary Of Terms
- Table: Glossary Of Terms
BMI Methodology
- How We Generate Our Industry Forecasts
- Table: Key Indicators For Telecommunications Industry Forecasts
- Telecoms Business Environment Ratings
- Table: Ratings Indicators
- Weighting
- Table: Weighting Of Indicators
- Sources

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