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Malaysia Telecommunications Report Q3 2009Product Type: Market Research ReportPublished by: Business Monitor International Published: July 2009 Product Code: R302-7813 Description BMI has expanded its fixed-line and broadband coverage this quarter, following additions to our mobilemarket data analysis section in the previous report. This quarter has witnessed significant developments inMalaysia’s broadband market brought about by the decline in fixed line and increased maturity of the mobilemarkets. Broadband represents the only significant sector offering real potential for growth.We have revisited our forecasts for broadband, which showed that our earlier estimates were only slightlyabove end of year figures for 2008. Ending with 1.714mn broadband subscribers, the market expanded by25.2% during the year, the result of demand from ADSL-based services, up by 28.2%, according to figuresreleased by the telecommunications regulatory authority, MCMC. Growth of broadband in 2009 and 2010should actually rise above that experienced in 2008, on the back of both public and private initiatives. Having selected Telekom Malaysia to run its 10-year national high-speed broadband (HSBB) project thegovernment announced that wholesale services were due to be offered by the end of June 2009, which wouldallow alternative internet service providers (ISPs) to offer services, thereby opening up the market. At present,Telekom Malaysia retains a virtual monopoly in the broadband market, and the government hopes its actionswill bring about greater service take-up. At the same time, mobile operators have increasingly been offeringmobile broadband services over their 3G networks, forming part of plans to encourage customers to spend asthey face falling ARPU rates from low tariffs. Fixed-line services, meanwhile, are showing themselves to be in decline, after a varied 2007 which saw growthand losses in some quarters. At the end of 2008, the MCMC reported a total fixed-line base of 4.292mn,representing a penetration rate of 15.9%. This was not far off BMI’s own estimate of 4.243mn, and for thisreason we have retained our existing outlook. Contributing to the fall in fixed-line has been the affordabilityfactor of mobile, with cheap price plans, together with increasing access to broadband services helped by theaforementioned initiatives. This has also been compounded by the dominance of Telekom Malaysia, whichwithout real competition has kept prices higher than they should have been and hence the contributed to theattraction of mobile. Table of Contents
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