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 Bulgaria

The Bulgarian telecoms market demonstrated some impressive growth trends in 2006, and based on newly available data, BMI has revised its growth forecasts for the country's fixed-line, broadband and mobile markets, as well as extending those forecasts to cover the five year period ending in 2011. Mobile growth was especially prominent in 2006, reflecting the impact of a price war initiated by third mobile operator Vivatel, following its entry into the market at the end of 2005. 2006 also saw the first signs of real growth in the uptake of broadband internet services, following the late introduction of DSL by incumbent telco BTC in February 2004.

Despite healthy levels of competition in the mobile market, with the two largest operators Mobiltel (MTel) and GloBul fighting to retain market share against newcomer Vivatel, in Bulgaria's fixed-line and internet services market, it is quite a different picture. BTC retains a virtual monopoly in fixed-line service provision, operating around 99% of the country's traditional fixed lines. Furthermore, the Bulgarian broadband sector lacks an effective wholesale DSL market, and this means that for the time being, BTC also has a monopoly in DSL service provision. The country does have numerous smaller alternative providers, including triple play cable operators such as CableTEL, Evrotur Sat TV, and Eurocom. However, the extent of their competition in the residential market has been limited, with CableTEL, the largest of the cable operators, still in the process of rolling out its network. The presence of a reasonable number of cable operators in Bulgaria means that cable has tended to occupy a dominant position in the broadband internet access market. However, the sector is also characterised by numerous local area network (LAN) providers such as Powernet, Megalan and Sofia Online, and IP service providers such as Orbitel, Nexcom and Eastern Telecommunication Company (ETC), which are also major providers of voice over IP (VoIP) services. These alternative operators have seen gains in the business sector, especially in the supply of data services. Their provision of VoIP services has also contributed to the decline in traditional fixed-line services.

Bulgaria remains at 12th position in our regional Business Environment Rankings table, although slightly increasing its own composite score, a change which mainly reflects the impact of mobile growth on the country's market maturity weighting.