The Report
This Country Report provides a comprehensive overview of the key telecoms market indicators and the socioeconomic situation in South Africa. 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.
- Telkom has returned to the mobile market to help offset threats to its fixed-line business.
- Mobile broadband will extend its lead over fixed broadband, thanks to network upgrades.
- Regulators are acting to improve the affordability and availability of telecoms services.
- Several recent developments should help to reduce broadband prices
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, BFWA and other)
- dial-up Internet.
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Connections
- total and penetration
- split by prepaid and contract; handset and broadband; and 2G and 3G.
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Revenue
- service revenue: total, as a percentage of GDP and per capita per month
- retail revenue ('spend') – for voice, dial-up Internet, broadband, DSL, BFWA, other fixed broadband and business network services.
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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
- 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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