2006 拉丁美洲电信，移动和宽带市场研究报告

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【报告名称】 2006 拉丁美洲电信，移动和宽带市场研究报告
【出版日期】 2006年5月 
【报告页码】 560页
【报告格式】 印刷版/PDF
【报告价格】 全英文版本印刷版2420美元/电子版2150美元  	 

报告概述：

报告通过560页的研究，按照市场划分，对2006年拉丁美洲电信，移动和宽带产业
及其涵盖的公司进行了综合分析

报告分为一下卷册：
第一卷：拉丁美洲数字汇聚，宽带和因特网市场
第二卷：拉丁美洲电信市场
第三卷：拉丁美洲移动通信和移动数据市场第五卷：拉丁美洲电信，移动和宽带市
场--整体概述

Executive Summary

The Latin American and Caribbean economy grew by 4.5% in 2005, and 
the region's per capita GDP is estimated to have risen by about 3%. 
All Latin American countries recorded positive growth rates, ranging 
from 1.8% in Haiti to 9.3% in Venezuela. 

Economic expansion is expected to continue unabated in 2006, and 
ease slightly in 2007. GDP growth for Latin America and the Caribbean 
is projected to be 4.6% in 2006, and 4.1% in 2007. 

The drive towards consolidation, witnessed in 2004, continued in 
2005-2006, with Amrica Mvil buying mobile operations in Chile, 
Peru, and Paraguay; Telecom Italia divesting its investments in Chile, 
Peru, and Venezuela; and Verizon deciding to pull out of the region 
altogether. In April 2006, Verizon agreed to sell Verizon Dominicana 
(Dominican Republic), Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico, and CANTV 
(Venezuela) to Amrica Mvil and Telmex. 

Despite a low 17% average teledensity in the whole Latin American 
and Caribbean region, fixed-line growth continued to stagnate in 2005. 
Telecom infrastructure varies greatly from country to country and from 
urban to rural areas. 

There is a marked trend towards the use of alternative systems in 
fixed-line telephony, especially Wireless Local Loop (WLL) and Voice 
over internet Protocol (VoIP). 

Broadband grew at an annual rate of around 75% in 2005, making Latin
America one of the world's fastest growing regions in terms of 
broadband uptake. However, IT still accounts for only 3.9% of the 
world's broadband pie. 

Latin America's Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) 
subscriber numbers continued to soar in 2005, growing by 88%, while 
cable modems and other broadband technologies grew at the more modest 
rate of 50%.
 
The Latin American broadband leaders are Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, 
and Chile, and in early 2006, these four countries accounted for about 
90% of all broadband subscribers in the region. 

In 2005, Latin America was only second to Asia in rolling out WiMAX 
networks. By April 2006, WiMAX systems were operating in Argentina, 
Brazil, the Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican 
Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. 

In March 2005, Chile's VTR was the first company in Latin America 
to launch Broadband Powerline (BPL) services commercially, for its 
residential clients. 

2005 was a big year for triple play in Latin America, with several 
countries seeing this strategy for the first time. By early 2006, 
triple play services had either been launched, or were planned, in the 
following markets: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, 
Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and 
Uruguay. 

Latin American cable TV grew about 8% during 2005; the best 
performers were Mexico (+14%), Brazil (+13%), and Colombia (+12%). 

Latin America may see the first deployments of IPTV in 2006, with 
Brazil, Chile, and Argentina at the forefront. Broadband penetration 
in the region, however, is still low, and broadband TV is unlikely to 
become a reality in Latin America until 2007. 

In mid-2005, Brazil's Telemar conducted a trial of triple play 
services that included IPTV. Telemar stated that it would make IP-based
television available to its customers in the course of 2006. Brasil Te
lecom also announced that it planned to launch IPTV before the end of 
2006. A few Chilean telecom operators are carrying out preliminary IPTV
tests. 

TV companies in Mexico began to offer Latin America's first 
High-Definition TV (HDTV) services in 2005, following the government's
formal approval of the ATSC standard for Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) 
in July 2004. 

In January 2006, the government of Brazil announced plans to conduct
DTT tests in June 2006, and launch commercial transmissions in the 
following September. Brazil signed an agreement with Japan, in April 
2006, for the adoption of the Japanese ISDB standard for DTT. Argentina
is likely to adopt the same DTT standard as Brazil, and may begin 
digital TV services in late 2006. 

While fixed lines stagnate, the mobile market continues to grow. In 
early 2006, there were around 241 million mobile phones in Latin 
America compared with approximately 96 million fixed-line phones. 
Paraguay leads the trend, with five times more mobile than fixed-line 
subscribers.

Mobile telephony has become one of the fastest growing industries in
Latin America, surging by 42% in 2004 and by 38% in 2005. 

Regional mobile penetration stood at around 43% in early 2006, but 
varies greatly from country to country, with Jamaica, Chile, and 
Argentina recording the highest rates (apart from the small Caribbean 
islands)at around 93%, 70%, and 54% respectively, while Haiti and Cuba 
languish at 5% and 1% respectively. Some of the Caribbean islands have 
mobile penetration rates of over 100%, the highest of all being Turks &
Caicos at 230%. 

In early 2006, three multinational operators served about 77% of 
Latin America's mobile market: America Mvil, Telefonica Mviles, 
and Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM). 

In April 2005, Telefnica Mviles adopted the Movistar brandname 
for all of its operations (except for Brazil, where the Vivo brand was 
retained) in order to create a unified image internationally. The 
company manages companies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, 
Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, 
Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. 

TDMA, traditionally the leading mobile technology in Latin America, 
was overtaken by GSM in March 2005, and by CDMA in late 2005. 
The number of TDMA subscribers in the region has been falling since 
2004. 

In 2005, TDMA subscribers decreased by 21%, CDMA subscribers increas
ed by 41%, and GSM subscribers soared by 133%. 

At end-2005, the number of GSM subscriber was more than double the 
number of CDMA subscribers. Every country in Latin America and the 
Caribbean (except Haiti) enjoys GSM-based mobile services. In terms of 
GSM subscriber numbers, Latin America was one of the fastest growing 
regions in the world in 2005. 

In early 2006, EDGE technology was being rolled out or was already 
in service in approximately 30 Latin American and Caribbean countries, 
including Argentina, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador
,Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago, and Uruguay. 

In early 2006, Latin America had 39% of the world's CDMA 2000 
1xEV-DO networks. Countries with commercially operating cellular 
1xEV-DO services included Bermuda, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Puerto Rico,
 
Mexico, Guatemala, and Venezuela. In Argentina and Brazil, 450MHz CDMA 
2000 1x and 1xEV-DO networks have been rolled out for WLL. 

In August 2005, the Brazilian telecom regulator announced that it 
would publish the bidding rules for the sale of 3G licences by the 
middle of 2006, and would start the auction after the October 2006 
General Elections. It stated that 3G services would most likely become 
available in Brazil by late 2008 or early 2009. In September 2005, 
Uruguay's state-owned incumbent, Antel, began to trial a 3G (UMTS) 
service,with the aim of launching it commercially before the end of 200
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