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 the Czech Republic

The number of Czech mobile subscribers grew by just 1.1% in Q207; this was just slightly higher than the 0.8% growth rate seen in the previous quarter. Overall subscriber growth for the first half of 2007 amounted to 1.9%, which is quite a bit lower than the 2.8% growth which was seen in the first half of 2006. These trends appear to confirm our general belief that growth in the sector is finally slowing down.

Despite this, BMI still expects to see faster growth in the third and fourth quarters, as has tended to be the norm in the Czech mobile sector. We continue to be optimistic that our anticipated 5% growth rate for 2007 will be met. In the second quarter of 2007, Vodafone continued to gain vis-à-vis its market rivals, acquiring another 50,000 subscribers, 29,000 of which were postpaid; Vodafone's share of the market consequently increased to 20.1%. In contrast, Telefónica O2's market share remained unchanged at 39% while T-Mobile's share dropped to 40.9%. Meanwhile, in Q207, O2 reported a meagre 1% increase in 3G subscribers, although the operator did announce that it had crossed the 100,000 3G subscriber mark. O2's postpaid ARPU remained constant in the second quarter, at EUR32.2, while the other two operators reported an increase in postpaid service ARPU which amounted to at least 3%. At this stage, it is uncertain whether this Q207 marks the start of a new trend in postpaid ARPU (possibly reflecting the impact of increased data service usage) or whether it is simply a temporary adjustment.

In this latest update on the Czech telecoms sector, we have made some revisions to our forecast for the development of the country's broadband sector. Based on the most recent data available, we believe that the sector had around 1.087mn broadband connections at the end of 2006, and a penetration rate of 10.7%. BMI estimates that, by mid-year 2007, Czech broadband subscribers numbered 1.276mn. The Czech broadband sector has become ever more competitive in recent months, with a growing number of providers entering the market and offering both ADSL services and fixed wireless access (FWA).

Although the number of Telefónica O2 wholesale ADSL access lines decreased in the second quarter of 2007, it appears that this decline is related to the growing use of local loop unbundling as the preferred means by which alternative operators deliver ADSL services. Although it has not disclosed actual figures Telefónica O2 suggests that the number of ADSL access lines provided by other operators using LLU is growing. BMI's most recent predictions for the growth of the Czech broadband sector envisage a growth rate of 34.8% for 2007. We anticipate the number of subscribers rising to 1.465mn by the end of the year; this will result in the country having a broadband penetration rate of 14.4%.

In other news, the Czech telecoms sector saw the arrival of yet another new operator in Q207, following the announcement that Telekom Austria subsidiaries, eTel and Volný would merge to form a new company, Telekom Austria Czech Republic. As separate companies, both eTel and Volný have evolved over the past few months into powerful challengers to Telefónica O2's market dominance. The consolidation of their service portfolios under the leadership and brand of their parent company suggests a new intensification of Telekom Austria's own competitive strategy within the Czech Republic.