Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Singapore - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband" report to their offering. This report looks at Singapore, one of the outstanding telecommunications markets in Asia. At the same time as building its sophisticated telecoms infrastructure, Singapore has successfully promoted itself an IT hub and a place of excellence when it comes to all things to do with IT and telecommunications. It is determined to maintain its status and in the process it continues to embark on new and innovative telecom and IT projects.
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the trends and developments in telecommunications and digital media markets in Singapore. Subjects covered include:
- Key statistics
- Markets, industry overviews and analysis
- Regulatory environment
- Major telecom operators (mobile, fixed, broadband)
- Infrastructure
- Mobile voice and data markets
- Internet, VoIP, IPTV
- Broadband (DSL, cable, FttH, wireless)
- Digital media
Singapore powers on with the rollout of its National Broadband Network - showing the world how it can be done.
With strong leadership from its government and good support from its telecom service providers, Singapore is both a regional leader and a global player in telecommunications. The island-state certainly generates a positive outlook in its local telecommunications sector. The country has built what is widely seen as a high quality and extremely progressive telecommunications regulatory regime that has, in turn, resulted in a richly competitive market. All restrictions on direct and indirect foreign ownership within the country's telecom sector have been lifted. In such a progressive commercial environment, over 100%' of homes have fixed-line telephone connections, according to the telecom regulator. More than 20% of homes have two fixed-line services.
Market Highlights:
- Singapore's overall mobile telephone penetration is now heading for 150% mark (145% in January 2011);
- The country's 3G market is booming: there were around 4.7 million 3G subscribers at the start of 2011; this meant that two thirds of all mobile subscribers were 3G;
- Effectively 100% of Singapore's households now have some form of high-speed broadband internet access;
- The Singapore government has initiated a large-scale project to build an island-wide broadband network called the Next Generation National Infocomm Infrastructure;
- This network has been structured to ensure an open system' with access being available to all operators;
- The Infocomm Development Authority reports that the rollout of this broadband network was running to schedule and would deliver universal coverage by 2013.
- Against the trend observed in most other markets around the world, fixed-line telephone services in Singapore remain remarkably resilient with what the Infocomm Development Authority describes as more than 100% of households connected to the fixed network.
Note: In 2007 the Infocomm Development Authority changed its methodology to include not just fixed broadband services but all forms of wireless broadband resulting in a significantly larger total broadband subscriber base.
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