Bahrain - Telecoms Market Overview, Statistics & Forecasts
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Number of Pages: 21
This report provides an overview of the communications market in Bahrain. Bahrain was earlier to start liberalising its telecom market than most countries in the region and a significant number of alternative operators have been licensed. Bahrain has very high mobile penetration but Internet and broadband penetration will benefit from greater competition. The lack of new subscriber acquisition opportunities in the mobile market caused the second mobile operator to focus on mobile data services and advanced infrastructure. These developments are outlined, together with appropriate statistics.
1. Synopsis
2. Key statistics
3. Telecommunications market
3.1 Overview of Bahrain’s telecom market
4. Regulatory environment
4.1 Background
4.2 Regulatory authority
4.3 Telecom sector liberalisation in Bahrain
4.3.1 Spectrum policy
4.3.2 Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) licences
4.4 Interconnect
4.5 Access
4.5.1 Random Access Offer (RAO)
4.5.2 Batelco’s RAO
4.6 Number portability
4.7 Carrier preselection
5. Fixed network operators in Bahrain
5.1 Bahrain telecommunications company (Batelco)
5.2 Alternative operators
5.2.1 Mena Telecom
5.2.2 Lightspeed Communications
6. Telecommunications infrastructure
6.1 National telecom network
6.1.1 Next Generation Networks (NGNs)
6.2 International infrastructure
6.2.1 Submarine cable networks
6.2.2 Satellite networks
6.2.3 Alternative operators
7. Broadband and Internet market
7.1 Internet overview
7.1.1 Bahrain’s ISP market
7.1.2 Internet Exchange
7.2 Broadband overview
7.3 ADSL
7.4 Wireless broadband
7.4.1 WiFi
7.4.2 Internet via satellite
7.5 Internet economy
8. Convergence
8.1 Overview of media convergence
8.2 VoIP
8.3 Triple play
8.4 Broadcasting market overview
8.4.1 Satellite TV
9. Mobile communications
9.1 Overview of Bahrain’s mobile market
9.1.1 Mobile statistics
9.2 Regulatory issues
9.2.1 Second mobile licence
9.3 Mobile technologies
9.3.1 Analogue
9.3.2 Digital
9.3.3 Third Generation (3G)
9.4 Major mobile operators
9.4.1 Batelco
9.4.2 MTC-Vodafone
9.5 Mobile voice services
9.5.1 Prepaid
9.6 Mobile data services
9.6.1 Multimedia messaging service (MMS)
9.6.2 Enhanced data for GSM evolution (EDGE)
9.6.3 HSDPA
9.6.4 BlackBerry
9.6.5 Mobile TV
9.7 Mobile content
9.7.1 Batelco
9.7.2 MTC Vodafone
10. Related reports
Table 1 - Country statistics - 2004
Table 2 - Telephone network statistics - Oct 2004
Table 3 - Internet user statistics - 2004
Table 4 - Broadband statistics
Table 5 - Mobile statistics - 2004
Table 6 - National telecommunications authority
Table 7 - Batelco revenue, profit and group mobile subscribers - 2003 - 2004
Table 8 - Batelco revenue by division - 2003 - 2004
Table 9 - Fixed lines in service and teledensity - 1993 - 2004
Table 10 - Internet user and penetration estimates - 1993 - 2004
Table 11 - Internet subscribers - 1997 - 2004
Table 12 - Batelco broadband subscribers - 2002 - 2004
Table 13 - Mobile subscribers and penetration - 1993 - 2004
Table 14 - Mobile subscribers and annual change by operator - December 2004
Table 15 - MTC-Vodafone Bahrain: Revenue, ARPU - 2003 - 2004
Table 16 - Prepaid mobile subscribers - 1997 - 2004
Table 17 - MTC prepaid subscribers - 2002 - 2004
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