Original telecommunications market research and telecommunications sector trend analysis for the national telecommunications industry.

Competitive intelligence, regional telecommunications company rankings and SWOT analyses on international and domestic telecommunications companies.

The Report provides industry professionals and researchers, operators, equipment suppliers and vendors, corporate and financial services analysts and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on the national telecommunications industry.

" The Asia Telecommunications Report is used for benchmarking industry views against BMI's independent forecasts; for market research and analysis of industry trends. It also provides competitive intelligence on leading companies. "
Chi-Wen Tsai, Managing Director, ROHDE & SCHWARZ Taiwan Ltd

Key Benefits of Report

-Benchmark BMI's Independent 5-Year Telecommunications Industry Forecast to test other views - a key input for successful budgeting and strategic business planning in the national telecommunications market.
-Target Business Opportunities & Risks in the Telecommunications Sector through our reviews of latest industry trends, regulatory changes, and major deals, projects and investments.
-Exploit Latest Competitive Telecommunications Intelligence & company SWOTS on your competitors and peers through company rankings by sales, market share, investments and leading products and services.

Executive Summary
Summary of BMI's key industry forecasts and trend analysis, covering ICT, fixed-line, mobile and internet markets, and headline news of key industry events from the latest quarter.

Market Overview
At-a-glance outlook of the structure, size and value of the industry, including an overview of key players and a snapshot of regional penetration rates for fixed-line, mobile and internet markets.

Business Environment Rankings
BMI provides a cross-border analysis of telecoms regulatory systems across regional markets, and their investor prospects, discussing the merits and downfalls of each country's business environment, and ranking them in order of competitiveness. The rankings take into account industry factors, such as Market Maturity, Growth Potential, Competitive Environment and Licensing Framework in addition to BMI's political and economic risk ratings.

BMI 5-Year Industry Forecast
Historic data series and 5-year forecasts to end-2012 for all key industry indicators (see list below), supported by explicit assumptions, plus analysis of key downside risks to the main forecast.

Fixed-Line Telephony - Telephone Lines ('000); Telephone Lines/100 Inhabitants;
Cellular Telephony - Phone Subscribers ('000); Mobile Phone Subscribers/ 100 Inhabitants; Mobile Phone Subscribers/100 Fixed Line Subscribers;
Internet Markets - Internet Users ('000); Internet Users/100 Inhabitants; Broadband Internet Subscribers ('000); Broadband Internet Subscribers/100 Inhabitants;
Multimedia Markets - PCs ('000); PCs/100 Inhabitants; TV households ('000s); Pay-TV subscribers ('000s); Pay-TV subscribers/100 inhabitants; Cable TV subscribers ('000s); Direct-to-Home Subscribers ('000s)
BMI 5-Year Macroeconomic Forecast
BMI forecasts for all headline macroeconomic indicators, including real GDP growth, inflation, fiscal balance, trade balance, current account and external debt.

Competitive Landscape & Rankings
Commentary on key operators highlighting ownership structures, latest available revenue figures, market share analysis and ARPU counts.

Company Profiles & SWOTS
Company profiles, including SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analyses, fully researched senior executives and contact details, business activity, leading products and services, and a record of all recent foreign direct investments and projects.

The Sector At A Glance

Key Insights On The Telecomunications Sector of Indonesia

The arrival of an increasing number of CDMA operators to Indonesia's telecoms market has impacted on the fixed-line and mobile sectors. Aside from the entrance of Mobile-8 and Bakrie Telecom, in 2007, Hutchison Telecom launched its brand '3', while Smart Telecom also announced its intentions to commence services commercially by the end of 2007. Hutchison Telecom began its services during the first half of 2007, to end with a strong mobile subscriber base of a little over 1mn. This exceeded the market and the operator's expectations, given how growth has been slow in the mobile sector thanks to high tariffs. Perhaps on the basis of Hutchison Telecom's positive customer growth, Smart Telecom has announced a target subscriber base of 1.4mn by YE07.

Growth in the mobile sector has largely been driven not only by new competition, but also through the aggressive network expansion plans of recent operators to Indonesia. Now with some seven mobile operators, in the first six months of 2007, there were 13.4mn net additions, representing growth of 20.4%. However, with the country still retaining one of the highest tariffs in the world, it would also appear that mobile growth is being driven by fixed wireless services, ideally suited to CDMA networks. Indeed, Bakrie Telecom's fixed wireless access (FWA) service Esia reported annual subscriber growth of 127.6% y-o-y, while the FWA services of Telkom and Indosat enjoyed subscriber growth of 57% y-o-y and 132.2% y-o-y respectively.

With this level of growth in FWA, it is not surprising that this the fixed-line market has reported increases, although these are not as strong as in the mobile sector. According to the ITU, the latest figures we have for 2006 reveal growth of 12.5% during the year. However, Telkom, which dominates the fixedline sector having experienced a 5.7% y-o-y (or IDR301.9bn) increase to fixed-line revenues of IDR5.639trn, reported that this was on account of the rise in its wireless production by 77.2% y-o-y. Similarly, Indosat announced that operating revenues from its fixed voice service have increased by 41.1% y-o-y to IDR774.4bn, on the back of an increase to its international direct dialling (IDD) call revenues and fixed wireless service revenues.

Bakrie Telecom is to become the third operator behind Telkom and Indosat to offer IDD services. The operator will begin to build its infrastructure for an international network in the coming three years. Of the operator's licence win, beating Excelcomindo and Natrindo Telepon Selular, a spokesman at the Ministry of Telecommunications said 'the principal licence will be issued for a month, once the licence has been issued they can start operations. But the problem is Bakrie has not developed the infrastructure, so they have three years to do it.'