DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f2eac3/nigeria_mobile_m) has announced the addition of the "Nigeria - Mobile Market - Overview, Statistics and Forecasts" report to their offering.
Nigeria has overtaken South Africa to become the continent's largest mobile market with now over 85 million subscribers, and yet market penetration stands at only around 55% in early 2011. Subscriber growth had slowed significantly during 2009, partly as a result of the global economic crisis. Much of the remaining addressable market is in the country's rural areas where network rollouts and operations are expensive. This in combination with declining ARPU levels is forcing the networks to streamline their operations and to develop new revenue streams from services such as third generation mobile broadband, mobile payments/banking, and others. At the same time the operators are rolling out national fibre backbone networks to support the ever increasing demand for bandwidth.
This report contains a market overview and analysis, key statistics, regulatory issues, profiles of major players - MTN, Globacom, Bharti Airtel (formerly Zain), Visafone, EMTS, M-Tel, Multi-Links, Starcomms, Reliance, M-Tel, Intercellular - including financial results where available, and two scenario forecasts for the mobile market in 2012 and 2016.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Synopsis
2. Overview of Nigeria's mobile market 2.1 Mobile statistics
3. Regulatory issues 3.1 GSM licence terms 3.2 Interconnection 3.3 Mobile tariffs 3.3.1 Per-second billing (PSB) 3.4 International gateways 3.5 Unified licensing regime brings new competition 3.6 Universal service 3.7 Mobile number portability 3.8 Central equipment identity register 3.9 Poor quality of service 3.10 Registration of subscriber details 3.11 Foreign ownership
4. Major mobile operators 4.1 MTN Nigeria 4.1.1 Financial results 2009 4.1.2 Network infrastructure and coverage 4.1.3 National backbone network 4.1.4 Services 4.1.5 Average revenue per user (ARPU) 4.1.6 Major acquisitions 4.2 Bharti Airtel (formerly Zain/Celtel Nigeria) 4.2.1 Financial results 2009 4.2.2 Network infrastructure and coverage 4.2.3 National backbone network 4.2.4 Services 4.2.5 ARPU 4.3 Globacom 4.3.1 Network infrastructure and coverage 4.3.2 Fibre optic backbone network 4.3.3 Services 4.4 M-Tel 4.5 Unified service licensees 4.5.1 Multi-Links Telkom 4.5.2 Reliance Telecommunications Ltd (Reltel, Zoom) 4.5.3 Starcomms Ltd 4.5.4 Intercellular Nigeria Ltd 4.5.5 Visafone 4.5.6 EMTS (Mubadala, Etisalat)
5. Mobile data services 5.1 SMS 5.1.1 Premium-rate SMS, interactive TV (iTV) 5.2 MMS 5.3 GPRS, EDGE 5.4 WAP 5.5 CDMA2000 1x 5.6 BlackBerry 5.7 Mobile money transfer, m-banking
6. Mobile TV
7. 3G 7.1 Licensing 7.2 Globacom 7.3 Zain 7.4 MTN 7.5 CDMA EV-DO
8. Satellite mobile 9. Forecasts - mobile subscribers - 2012; 2016 9.1 Notes on scenario forecasts
10. Related reports
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