The Report
This Country Report provides a comprehensive overview of the key telecoms market indicators and the socioeconomic situation in Saudi Arabia. It also analyses the strategies of key players in the country's fixed and mobile telecoms markets. In addition, the Report includes a market outlook that focuses on the following key trends and emerging opportunities.
- Despite regulatory efforts, effective fixed-line competition in Saudi is still very limited.
- It is unlikely that FTTH will be deployed on a large scale without significant government investment.
- Weakness in LTE readiness.
- The expected arrival of unified licensing will have a limited impact in Saudi Arabia.
- Saudi Arabia’s lack of an Internet exchange is affecting its international competitiveness.
The data annex
Analysys Mason's country report data annexes provide a range of key metrics for each country's telecoms market. Figures are supplied for each year since 2007. Metrics include the following.
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Fixed telecoms market
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Mobile telecoms market
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Connections
- voice
- broadband (split by access technology: DSL and BFWA)
- dial-up Internet.
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Connections
- total and penetration
- split by prepaid and contract; handset and broadband; and 2G.
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Revenue
- service revenue: total, as a percentage of GDP and per capita per month
- retail revenue ('spend') – for DSL and BFWA.
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Revenue
- service revenue, total and split by: prepaid and contract; as a percentage of GDP; per capita per month; voice, non-voice, P2P messaging, and content and data (for handset-based service revenue); and mobile broadband
- ARPU, total and split by: prepaid and contract; and handset voice and non-voice services
- data revenue (and as a percentage of service revenue).
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Traffic
- fixed-originated minutes of use per active connection per month.
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Traffic
- mobile-originated minutes
- mobile-originated minutes of use per active connection per month.
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Operator-level metrics/market share
- broadband subscribers by major broadband operator (and associated market shares and year-on-year changes).
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Operator-level metrics/market share
- active subscribers (and associated market shares and year-on-year changes).
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