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 Pakistan

‘Pakistan continues to amaze us.' These are the words of Orascom CEO Naguib Sawiris when discussing the performance of the operator's Pakistan unit Mobilink. What Sawiris finds amazing is the continued growth of Pakistan's mobile market, which is becoming as notable as its neighbour India for its fast growth and its potential for further stellar rises. Indeed, BMI has amended our mobile forecasts for the rest of the decade directly as a result of record growth. In October 2006, Pakistan's mobile market was home to 2.89mn net additions to its overall cellular subscriber base. This record figure took the number of mobile subscribers to in excess of 44mn. Our projections now suggest that by the end of the year Pakistan will have just over 49mn wireless customers.

From there growth should continue to be rapid. Indeed, BMI expects Pakistan to join the small band of countries with more than 100mn mobile subscribers during 2008. And what is driving this growth? Tremendous consumer demand, high levels of competition and a government that is ready to welcome inward investment. This latter point is seen particularly clearly in Pakistan's telecoms market, where the analyst can clearly see the footmarks of strategic investors such as Orascom, Etisalat, Telenor and Abu Dhabi Group's Warid Telecom. It is the success of these investors that has caused the avalanche of growth. However, the introduction of mobile number portability (MNP) should ensure that competition in Pakistan's wireless market remains stiff. Pakistan's telecoms regulator, the PTA, will need to monitor the situation very closely as it does not want to see price wars breaking out across Pakistan, with the likely consequence of a deterioration in the quality of the operators' network services caused by traffic congestion.

Pakistan's fixed-line and internet markets are slow moving in comparison, The deregulation of Pakistan's fixed sector has, however, allowed the emergence of alternative operators, many of whom operate using CDMA WLL networks. TeleCard is pushing PTCL particularly closely here.

For the first time since BMI has started to produce Business Environment Rankings, comparing 14 Asia Pacific markets in terms of competitiveness and investor friendliness, Pakistan has fought its way out of the bottom two. It now lies in equal ninth position (with Indonesia), still ahead of Vietnam, but also above Thailand, China and the Philippines. This rise is due to the high levels of competition in Pakistan's telecoms industry, its immense growth potential and a government that is prepared to encourage FDI. If the PTA launches its 3G licensing programme in 2007, as we expect it to do, we could yet see Pakistan move further up the table. However, any signs of the consumer being compromised by a decline in network standards as a result of traffic congestion, and Pakistan could return into the bottom three. However, we class Pakistan's telecoms sector, and in particular its mobile market, as being a buoyant industry, and we expect to see further growth, aided by continued consumer demand and government support.