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Chile Telecommunications Report Q3 2009Product Type: Market Research ReportPublished by: Business Monitor International Published: June 2009 Product Code: R302-6486 Description As the most developed telecoms market in Latin America, Chile has often followed the trends seen inmore developed regions, with mobile growth eventually leading to falling demand for fixed-line services.Indeed, its 21% fixed-line penetration rate had been the highest in Latin America, but strong growth frommarkets such as Venezuela and the already high rate seen in Costa Rica mean that its status had beenfalling as interest in fixed-line services did decline. However, the fixed-line market has staged somethingof a comeback with slow, cautious increases in the number of lines in service. Given that the mobilemarket is well on its way to 100% penetration, this has come as something of a surprise. BMI hasupgraded our forecasts accordingly, but we do anticipate the overall impact will be of decline, seeinglower than 20% penetration by the end of our forecast period in 2013. The strong competition in themarket and expansion of bundled services and alternative call packages will do much to increase theinterest in fixed lines maintaining the market in the short term. A faster growing area of the market should be the broadband market, but end of year figures from Subtelwere disappointing, seeing lower than 10% growth. There does not appear to be any major reason behindthis although previous fast growth could mean that major cities are reaching saturation point and moreremote areas have yet to be reached by broadband infrastructure. The Chilean government awarded atender to Inverca Telecom to work on this with its rural broadband programme set to bring services toaround 3mn rural Chileans. The company won the tender in March 2009 and does not anticipate usingany of the subsidy offered by the government to fund the roll-out. It is expected that the company will useWiMAX to expand broadband infrastructure given Inverca’s partnership with Malaysia’s Packet One, aWiMAX operator. Given our focus on the mobile market in our last update, we have left the mobile market data analysissection unchanged this quarter although the mobile market overview and operator data tables have beenfully updated. Mobile forecasts have also been revised to reflect the latest data. In this quarter’s report, wehave focused our attention on the developments in the fixed-line and broadband markets, with newservices and companies covered as well as analysing the competition present. A review of some majordevelopments in the fixed-line and broadband markets includes the abolition of tariff ceilings in the fixedlinemarket and the introduction of fibre-optic services in Santiago. Table of Contents
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