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Bahrain Telecommunications Report Q1 2008Product Type: Market Research ReportPublished by: Business Monitor International Published: December 2007 Product Code: R302-1846 Description Batelco may still control a large part of Bahrain’s telecoms industry but it is slowly beginning to lose itsgrip. Determined to create a more competitive sector, regulator the TRA has liberalised the country’sinternet market and is now about to open bidding for a third mobile operator. All this forms part of theregulator’s plan to make Bahrain a telecoms hub for the region, and part of the government’s plan toensure that the country’s economy is not so reliant on oil revenues.Illustrating the journey on which Bahrain’s telecoms market is undergoing is the emergence of MenaTelecom. Not only does the alternative carrier expect to roll out its WiMAX network in May 2008, but italso hopes to win the bidding for Bahrain’s third mobile licence, probably sometime in 2008. Ifsuccessful, it would offer a fully integrated telecoms service, and by doing so pose a very serious threat toincumbent operator Batelco and to its main rival Zain. Bahrain’s second largest mobile operator Zain with its 30% market share has also just become a fullyintegrated telecoms player on the back of its own national WiMAX network, which will challengeBatelco’s enhanced ADSL network, in which it has just completed US$57mn of investment. Bahrain isbecoming more significant to Zain as it has decided to move its international headquarters away fromKuwait and to Manama, attracted by a more competitive telecoms market run by an independentregulator. Table of Contents
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