Posts in month: September, 2007

It is continuously considering and evaluating ways to further intensify competition in the UAE telecom market.

Penetration in the mobile market surpassed 166% in 2007, leaving less room for operators to further take advantage of the market. But this is not the end of growth; future growth in mobile subscriptions will come from growing population and increasing number of expatriates, says RNCOS in its new research report, “Booming UAE Telecom Sector”. Moreover, operators are now looking at Value Added Services (VAS) to derive revenues from saturated mobile market.

However, the fixed-line sector remains underdeveloped, with fixed-line penetration standing at just over 30% in 2007. Various factors, such as high tariffs and absence of fixed-line networks, have been hindering the growth of the country’s fixed-line market. But the recent announcement by the TRA to allow Carrier Pre-Selection (CPS) in the country could bring fruitful results in this sector.

In line with the increasing education and business in the region, the demand for Internet services has also increased in recent years. Although dial-up subscriptions currently dominates the Internet market, we project broadband subscribers to account for nearly 65% of Internet subscribers in coming few years.

Developments in all the sectors of ICT industry has heated up the competition in the region. So operators are seeking new sources of growth to capitalize on their share of the market. This is resulting into introduction of new technologies such as IPTV, VoIP, Mobile TV, etc. Operators in the region are aggressively pushing the deployment of network infrastructure suitable for these technologies.

“Booming UAE Telecom Sector” provides in-depth analysis of the telecommunication market in the UAE. It gives an insight into the current market trends dominating the market. This research report also gives industry forecast on various telecom segments based on feasible telecom industry environment in the UAE. These include telecommunication industry, fixed-line, mobile subscribers, Internet subscribers, broadband subscribers and 3G subscribers.

The research presents thorough analysis on the current and potential outlook of various emerging technologies, such as IPTV and Mobile TV in the UAE.

As the telecom market remains duopoly of Etisalat and du, the report, keeping in mind importance of these two players in the success of UAE telecom market, offers rational analysis on both these operators. This includes in-depth research and extensive analysis on their business activities, recent developments and SWOT analysis in regard to the UAE telecom industry.

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For the entire 20th Century and for some years before, the world’s fixed line telecommunications networks, public and private, were built using technologies designed for voice communications, referred to as telephony.

In the 1960s, the use of computers grew rapidly and heralded the era of digital communications to the present day, during which time data communications in all its guises has become the dominant use of telecommunications networks certainly in terms of expenditure.

The history of mobile (cellular) networks has followed a similar pattern, but over a much compressed timescale of just 20 years.

Telephony-based telecommunications is far from ideal when it comes to data communications, resulting in much compromise, the necessity of additional equipment (and, hence, expenditure) and the inefficient use of telecommunications resources generally.

Starting in the 1970s, the data communications industry, driven by the computer industry, developed its own communications technologies and standards that have stood the test of time. These include Ethernet and IP (Internet Protocol). They have continued to be developed right up to the present day to match the explosive demand for speed and bandwidth required not just by computer applications and particularly the Internet, but increasingly video communications including broadcast TV.

In parallel, the telecommunications industry has been developing new high speed access technologies to its networks including DSL (commonly known as “broadband”). Wireless broadband is also now becoming available to access the mobile networks in support of “triple play” applications delivered to a single end-user device (telephone, Internet and TV).

All these developments are often collectively referred to as “convergence” with Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) being one of the most significant commercial developments in the industry at this time.

Medium and larger commercial and public organisations have typically built their own private communications networks over the years to complement the services of public networks. These have invariably been separate voice and data networks, albeit sharing common basic resources where possible.

We are now witnessing the final major piece of the convergence jigsaw. This is the re-engineering of core infrastructures of public and private telecommunications networks to support real time multimedia communications (voice, data & video) natively. This is being achieved through the deployment of pure IP switching and routing over very high speed optical, “copper” and radio transmission systems that are application independent (transparent).

These new fully converged networks are referred to as “Next Generation Networks” (NGNs). They require substantial investment. Between 2005 and 2015 national public network operators will be spending up to $40 billion each (typically $5bn-$15bn) and larger corporations up to $20 million each (typically $5m-$10m).

Rarely will such change be implemented as a one-shot project. For most, migration over several years is the only practical approach to achieve a “pure IP” communications infrastructure.

However, once achieved, the benefits to all are considerable and centred around corporate efficiencies, business agility and customer responsiveness through the:

lowering the overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of communications up to 50% annual savings on a like-for-like basis;

introduction of flexible working for the entire workforce as required;

rationalisation and consolidation of premises anywhere and everywhere;

improvement in customer service by enabling all staff (and customers themselves) to access any type of information or undertake any form of transaction from wherever they are at any time;

facilitation of fundamental process re-design and optimisation including “right shoring”; and

optimisation of supply chain / demand chain management.

If one were to distil all the above down to, say, just two crucial enablers, they would be:

the use of IP (and its associated standards) for all types of communications; and

the advent of true mobility (the “Martini effect”: any service, any time, any where).

It is clear then that supply side businesses in the communications marketplace, with the skills, technologies, products and services that address the needs of migration to convergent communications solutions, especially in the areas of IP and wireless, have

every possibility of becoming highly successful over the coming decade.