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 Poland

P4, Poland's latest mobile operator to launch commercially, can be said to have had at best a steady start attracting 172,000 subscribers by the end of June 2007. This means that in three months it has picked up a 0.4% market share. Now compare this with Slovakia's Telefónica O2, which three months into its commercial service had a 7% share of Slovakia's saturated mobile market. The key difference to Poland's and Slovakia's mobile markets lies in the extent of competition. Whilst Telefónica O2 was only the third operator to enter Slovakia, Poland already had three very well-established mobile operators, and P4 is about to face even more competition from CenterNet, which has just become Poland's fifth mobile operator, and is due to launch its services in the first quarter of 2008. Furthermore, the regulator is keen that a sixth mobile national operator takes the second frequency that CenterNet actually rejected. And with several MVNOs also in the picture, Poland's mobile market is almost certainly the most competitive in the region.

With fewer than 900,000 net additions in the last three months, Poland's mobile market is facing a slowdown. This means there were just 2mn new mobile subscribers in the first six months of the year, as compared to more than 3.2mn during the first half of 2006. Mobile penetration is now over 100%, and BMI estimates that teledensity could exceed 120% by the end of 2011.

Fixed-line traffic is still in decline, affected by mobile substitution and competition from emerging technologies, such as VoIP, high-speed internet access and WiMAX. The data transmission market is the fastest growing segment of Poland's telecommunications market, and BMI projects the broadband market will thrive over the coming five years, with the number of broadband subscribers set to double from 2.5mn at the end of 2006 to just over 5mn at the end of 2011. Aside from increased competition from alternative operators including Dialog and Netia, we note the increasing significance of cable operators, such as UPC and Multimedia Polska.

This quarter, BMI launches its new methodology for its Telecommunications Business Environment Rankings. The ratings assess the operational dangers to companies operating in Poland's telecoms industry, identify key issues and trends, and monitor economic and political developments. Poland still comfortably sits in the top half of our rankings table, benefiting from a competitive and well-regulated telecoms market.