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 Australia - 2nd-tier Telcos - Analysis, Revenue & Market Shares
Synopsis
The second-tier market is on the verge of massive changes which will occur over the next few years. The critical factors are what changes to the regulatory environment will occur, and even more importantly, how the National Broadband Network develops. Second-tier companies are likely to have to reposition themselves. Second-tier firms in Australia are usually virtual service providers to the mass market which purchase services on a wholesale basis from network operators. A number of second-tier firms are infrastructure operators of networks serving niche markets. Several second-tier firms offer a range of telephony services such as mobile and landlines, as well as internet access. A second group consists of firms which offer only one type of telephony service such as Vodafone or 3 with mobile voice and data services. Four of the second-tier players: AAPT, Commander, Vodafone and Hutchison now have annual revenues exceeding the $1 billion mark. This report provides an analysis of the current outlook for the major second-tier firms as well as statistics relating to revenues and market shares. The second-tier segment is very interesting in terms of mergers and acquisitions in Australia. In 2009 Vodafone and Hutchison (3) in Australia, the third and fourth largest mobile network operators merged their operations. M2 acquired People Telecom in mid-2009 to create the largest firm without significant infrastructure assets, and further consolidation is expected over the period to 2011.
Last Update: 23 Oct 2009 Number of Pages: 12
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Australia - Analysis - Telecommunications Pricing
Telstra has been successful in maintaining its grip on the fixed market; it still reaps 75% of its profitable revenues from access and voice services. However, voice has become a commodity service and is now under threat from resale competition, VoIP and mobile substitution. In reaction to that Telstra has been rebalancing its services and has significantly increased its line rentals, causing a 15% increase in residential charges. Price caps, bundling and soon triple play are having a massive effect on the pricing of new telecoms services.
Last Update: 8 Jan 2007 Number of Pages: 11
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Australia - Broadband - DSL Market Overview and Statistics
While the resale of DSL based services using Telstra's Unbundled Local Loop (ULL) service was economically unviable for voice services, it did enable platform based competition to provide broadband services. Many firms have installed their own DSLAM infrastructure enabling them to provide fairly high speed Internet services via ADSL2+. This regulatory framework related to ULL has encouraged investment and the number of broadband users with access to services has increased. However a key concern moving forward is the impact on investment in DSLAM infrastructure may become obsolete once Fibre to the Premises (FttP) networks are built. The Governments proposal to build a National Broadband Network (NBN) may invoke changes in the regulatory environment relating to DSL based broadband services. As such the existing regulatory regime will need to be balanced against the emerging regime relating to the fibre network.
Last Update: 18 May 2009 Number of Pages: 10
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Australia - Broadband - DSL Market, Overview, Statistics and Providers
Synopsis
Though there are more than 600 Internet Service Providers in Australia, the retail fixed broadband market is dominated by a small number of firms. Telstra provides nearly 43% of services and has more than four times as many retail subscribers as the second largest player, Optus, with around 11% of the market. iiNet and TPG each holds around 8% of the market, and Primus holds an estimated 6%. The remaining 24% of the market is shared between the remaining 600-plus small and medium-sized providers.
Consolidation in the retail ISP market has occurred with a number of mergers in the last two years. The most notable of these deals was between iiNet and Westnet, between TPG, Soul and Chariot Internet along with TPG and Pipe Networks and, in early 2010, iiNet also acquired Melbourne-based ISP Netspace.
Of critical importance to ISPs is whether to further invest in DSLAM infrastructure as the fibre optic-based national broadband network is built. A flattening of the investments started to occur in late 2009, early 2010. In the longer term, the NBN may render this investment obsolete as subscribers are migrated to the fibre network.
Last Update: 18 May 2010 Number of Pages: 13
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Australia - Broadband - HFC Cable Networks
Synopsis
Hybrid Fibre Coax networks are communications networks that use a combination of optical fibres and coaxial cable. HFC networks support voice, data, and TV services. Network operators are upgrading their networks to stay competitive in the broadband market by offering very high bandwidth data services. There are two HFC network operators in Australia, Telstra and Optus, both serving customers in the large major metropolitan centres.
The phasing out of dial-up internet connections in Australia has continued with nearly 90% of internet connections now being non dial-up. At the end of 2009 there were 935,000 cable broadband subscribers, a penetration rate of around 15% of the total broadband market in Australia. Telstra has indicated it will seek to expand the number of services it provides over its HFC network to compete with fibre-based services provided on a wholesale basis by a National Broadband Network operator. At the end of 2009 Telstra launched very high-speed Internet services in Melbourne. However, if the price of fibre-based services provided by the NBN operator is attractive to Telstra relative to the cost of servicing subscribers through an upgraded HFC network, then we may see Telstra abandon a strategy to upgrade the HFC in other major centres.
Last Update: 22 Apr 2010 Number of Pages: 8
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