With penetration increasing to 50% across the region, and surpassing 100% in a number of countries, Central and Eastern Europe still offers scope for growth in both emerging and developed markets. The success of national operators has been attracting the interest of local and regional players and global operators, keen to exploit the region's potential. Moreover, the region's leading operators are looking to expand beyond their national markets as they seek further growth opportunities in the region and beyond.
As 3G licenses are introduced and new networks rolled out, new data and SMS services are increasingly offered across the region - with successful operators' data revenues set to increase. Regulatory and business challenges remain, but the region's huge potential has encouraged investors despite these challenges, with strong growth still expected for the foreseeable future.
Central and Eastern Europe Mobile Opportunities contains 12 detailed country profiles, each comprehensively analyzing the practices that have contributed to the growth of individual countries and the region as a whole. Each profile also analyses new and existing players - allowing you to learn from the experiences of your major competitors - and provides expert commentary on likely future developments. This unique business intelligence will allow you to gain a clear, detailed understanding of the status of each market and the revenue opportunities it presents.
Key coverage includes:
- Comprehensive regional summary - providing an invaluable insight into the current status and likely future developments of Central and Eastern European mobile markets
- 12 in-depth country profiles - supplying a status update of each key market, including significant technology, licence and investment developments, subscriber numbers and forecasts and operator market share
- Details of new license awards and technology developments - reviewing all the latest developments and planned launches in the region
- Expert commentary from industry analysts - putting the figures and forecast in to context whilst identifying key trends and explaining their significance to the market
- Forecasts to 2010 - unique subscriber forecasts to 2010 for each country profiled, allowing you to assess the future development of each country market and the region as a whole.
Countries profiled:
- Belarus
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Georgia
- Hungary
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- Ukraine
Each country profile offers a complete guide to the market covering:
- Market overview
- Subscriber growth to end-June 2005
- Subscriber growth forecasts to 2010
- Historical subscriber numbers per operator between Q104 and Q205
- Operator market share
- Licensing opportunities available in the region
- Technology launches and status (GPRS, MMS, UMTS)
- Other significant developments - including mergers and acquisitions, branding, market segmentation and local content development.
Who should buy this report?
- Investment analysts - review the new developments and investment opportunities in this region
- Eastern European mobile operators - analyse the status of the Eastern European mobile market with in-depth profiles and forecasts
- Regulators - monitor what has been done to support or hinder the industry's growth
- Global mobile operators with potential acquisition goals - analyse existing ventures and identify potential competitors and business partners
- Applications providers, infrastructure suppliers and vendors - discover what strategies operators are implementing and how you can match their requirements.