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 Singapore

Fittingly, the performance and the apparent strategy of incumbent SingTel sum up Singapore's telecoms industry rather well. Dominant in the country's stagnant fixed-line sector with a 97% market share, the operator is attempting to offset declining fixed voice revenues with increasing broadband revenues, an ever growing prepaid mobile and 3G customer base and a foothold in the country's lucrative pay-TV market. Aware of the limitations of growth in such a small domestic market, integral to SingTel's strategy remains its operations in India, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, where it continues to prosper. Indeed, the operator does not want to stop here, and with the potential subscriber growth becoming limited in South East Asia also, it is monitoring prospects in Central Asia and Africa.

Unsurprisingly, our projections for fixed-line services make dismal reading. Penetration is likely to fall below the 40% level in 2010. The decline will be slow and drawn out, as illustrated by SingTel's 7% y-oy fall in fixed revenues for its most recently reported quarter (September 2006). The mobile sector is a different matter, and despite reaching saturation levels is proving remarkably resilient. 3G mobile telephony is growing in popularity and is behind much of the subscriber growth, as is the increase of the prepaid market, across all three mobile operators. BMI projects that there will be over 5mn subscribers in 2008, with penetration peaking at around 117% in 2009. By the end of 2011, we estimate a total of 5.35mn mobile customers in Singapore. Encouraging this growth also is the stiff competition in Singapore's market, with StarHub pushing SingTel closely, whilst M1's 3G network is proving remarkably popular.

Broadband continues to be a key growth driver in Singapore's telecoms sector. Again, this sector is dominated by SingTel with a 54% market share, but StarHub's own subscriber base is growing, and at the last count was around 43%. We expect a total of 1.3mn broadband subscribers by 2011 with an average annual growth rate of 15% over the next five years. Helping push this growth will be M1, which launched its broadband service in December 2006.

Singapore continues to be an investor friendly market, with little political or economic risk and good potential as a manufacturing base. In fifth position in BMI's Business Environment Rankings, Singapore's telecoms market is mature and well developed. Yes, the size of the market does limit growth potential, but it still attracts inward investment, as witnessed by Qtel's recent US$635mn investment in ST Telemedia unit Asia Mobile Holdings (AMH). It appears that Qatar's state incumbent will use Singapore as its hub before looking to invest elsewhere in South East Asia. However, it will also have a stake in StarHub, Singapore's only fully integrated telecoms company. Interestingly, it is to the likes of StarHub that SingTel must look to in diversifying its product range as it continues to offset disappointing fixed revenues and faces up to mobile saturation.