Singapore Telecommunications Report Q3 2011

Wednesday Sep 14

Singapore Telecommunications Report Q3 2011

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/1e34d5/singapore_telecomm) has announced the addition of the "Singapore Telecommunications Report Q3 2011" report to their offering.

The Singapore Telecommunications Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, telecommunication associations, government departments and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on Singapore's telecommunications industry.

The 3G sector continued to account for the majority of the Singapore's mobile industry growth momentum due to robust demand for sophisticated smartphones and tablet computers bundled with attractively priced data plans. However, with the number of 3G subscribers reaching about 5mn in March 2011, we believe that operators will step up efforts to boost their revenue-generating ability by introducing value-added services in order to hedge against slowdown in 3G subscriber growth.

There were only minor changes to our expectations for Singapore's mobile, fixed-line, broadband ARPU forecast scenarios between 2011 and 2015. We continue to expect the number of fixed lines in Singapore to increase to a high of 2.099mn in 2013 due to operators' bundling strategy. Although the number of fixed-lines is increasing, we doubt that subscribers are using the service as much as operators would like to. Meanwhile, we expect the number of mobile subscribers to cross the 8mn mark in 2015, but we envisage the annual growth rate to decline to 1% in 2015 from 4% in 2011. The number of broadband subscribers is forecasts to reach 9.949mn, and the main driver will be wireless broadband technology such as LTE.

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